Aesthetics category: 1179 books

"How To Solve A Noise Problem In New York City" is a true story about solving a 'quality of life' problem with a noisy neighbor. The neighbor is a group of veterans from an American Legion post. It's about conflict resolution, anger management, gun control and how to get things done when battling arrogance, detached government and neighborhood fascism.

Can capital be seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question offered by artists, film-makers, writers and theorists over the past few decades. It zones in on the crises of representation that have accompanied the enduring crisis of capitalism, foregrounding the production...

The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott, edited by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, and Nancy Kang, brings together eighteen critical essays that illuminate a nearly comprehensive selection of the director’s feature films from cutting-edge multidisciplinary and comparative perspectives. Chapters...

Building on the growing recognition and critical acclaim of volumes 1 and 2 of Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, this third volume in the seriesshowcases the most groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research in mimetic theory, with a focus on well-known films, television series, and other media. Mimesis,...

The Animal Catalyst deals with the 'question' of 'what is an animal' and also in some instances, 'what is a human'? It pushes critical animal studies in important new directions; it re-examines basic assumptions, suggests new paradigms for how we can live and function ecologically, in a world that...

(a5, 126 p.) - Ser (tudo) o que se pode ser” traduz-se no desenvolvimento da humanização e/ou da autonomia intelectual, estando estas fundamentadas, entre outras coisas, na capacidade do indivíduo de ser, coletiva e individual: Politicamente participativo; Socialmente equitativo; Moral...

It’s Only Natural is a collection of poetry delving into the many emotions, facets, and perceptions that connect the human experience to the world of nature. Humans have for years attempted to control, and contain the natural world, only to find that it is uncontainable. Nature has, and must always;...

This book reflects on the phenomenon of biotechnology and how it affects the body and discusses a number of related issues, including visualization, mediation, and epistemology. The author offers a compelling thesis, arguing that the exploration of the human body has one ultimate aim: to gain...

Estética reúne ocho ensayos sobre temas cruciales de estética filosófica, escritos por prestigiosos investigadores españoles y británicos que repasan el estado de la cuestión y ofrecen puntos de vista originales sobre las cuestiones centrales de la disciplina en la actualidad. Son temas del...

Pese a la diversidad proyectada por la complejidad de estas relaciones, esta producción pareciera oponerse a todo imperativo de carácter trascendentalmente puritano; reniega de cualquier formalismo que resalte la pureza de los medios por sobre la crudeza del objeto denotado o connotado; en síntesis,...

El propósito de este libro es pensar las implicancias filosóficas de la desmaterialización del soporte fotográfico y las resonancias metafísicas del paso de la imagen análoga a la digital o numérico-binaria. Para ello, la fotografía será vista como imagen, en general, en el pensamiento filosófico,...

Distinto del acto artístico, científico y discursivo, el acto estético tiene un lugar esencial en la creación, pero también en el conocimiento y en el diálogo. El acto estético poetiza el mundo, lo musicaliza, hace de él un jardín, una coreografía y vuelve a darle forma. En definitiva, salvaguarda...

Ideas gain legitimacy as they are put to some practical use. A study of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) supports this pragmatism as a way of thinking about truth and meaning. Architecture has a strong pragmatic strand, not least as we think of building users, architecture as a practice, the practical...

In the Critique of Judgment, Kant argues that feeling is part of the system of the mind. Judgments of taste based on feeling are a unique kind of judgment, and the feeling that is their foundation forms an independent third power of the mind. Feeling has a special role within this system in that it...