Aesthetics category: 1179 books

The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture brings together a respected team of philosophers and architecture scholars to ask what impact architecture has over today's culture and society. For three decades critical philosophy has been in discourse with architecture. Yet following...

"Walter Pater, best known as the author of The Renaissance (1873) and as Oscar Wildes tutor and friend, was a leading figure in European aestheticism and British fin-de-siecle culture. Despite this, he has received only limited critical attention, and has tended to be read conservatively. Drawing...

Coccia is a leading younger figure in European thought, working between contemporary art and culture and a vast modern and premodern body of philosophical work.

Throughout modernity there has been a clear divide between art and commerce. Objects could either be consumed as commerce or contemplated as art. Today, as museums are facing increasing financial pressure and as stores have become inventive locations for new modes of display, this clear divide has...

What is utopia if not a perfect impossible world? Anahid Nersessian reveals the basic misunderstanding of that ideal. Applying the lessons of art to the rigors of life on an imperiled planet, she enlists the Romantics to redefine utopia as an investment in limitation—not a perfect world but one where we get less than we hoped but more than we had.

Good business feng shui is too important to ignore it. A harmonious room design influences the persons in it. A pleasant atmosphere in business premises not only has a positive impact on how employees work together, but also on relationships with customers, clients, guests or patients. In her guides,...

The notion of beauty as a point of transit between the sensuous and the ideal is well-established in the history of Western philosophy. Describing this transition and seeking to rethink the ways in which humans understand the things they find beautiful in life, Harry Underwood’s The Experience of...

This notable collection provides an interdisciplinary platform for prominent thinkers who have all made significant recent contributions to exploring the nexus of philosophy and narrative. It includes the latest assessments of several key positions in the current philosophical debate. These perspectives...

A rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as to discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological, and aesthetic conditions. If philosophy has always understood its relation to the world according to the model...

Although various sections of this work have been published separately in various journals and volumes their separate publication is wholly attributable to the exigencies of life in academia: the work was devised as and is supposed to constitute something of an organic unity. Part II of 'The Cow with...

Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and student of Plato who stunningly changed the course of Western philosophy. He has gone down in history as one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, once called his writing style "a river of gold;"...

Diese Sammlung wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 - 1781) war ein bedeutender Dichter der deutschen Aufklärung. Lessing ist der erste deutsche Dramatiker, dessen Werk bis heute ununterbrochen in den Theatern aufgeführt wird. Inhalt:...

Die fachwissenschaftlichen Interpretationen zur Laokoonepisode bei Vergil sind zahlreich und sehr verschieden. Zu den einflussreichen modernen Interpretationen gehören Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Beiträge in dessen Werk Laokoon.

Il 30 ottobre 1921, pochi giorni dopo l’inaugurazione della controversa mostra «5×5=25», Nikolaj Tarabukin, annuncia in una conferenza all’Istituto di Cultura Artistica che è stato dipinto «l’ultimo quadro», ovvero che il Costruttivismo ha portato a esaurimento una vieta tradizione di...