{"title":"Philosophy: aesthetics Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"unto-this-last-and-other-writings-9780140432114","title":"Unto This Last and Other Writings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had a considerable influence on the British socialist movement. And in making his powerful moral and aesthetic case against the dangers of unhindered industrialization he was strangely prophetic. This volume shows the astounding range and depth of Ruskin''s work, and in an illuminating introduction the editor reveals the consistency of Ruskin''s philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. In Ruskin''s words, ''There is no Wealth but Life.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdited with an Introduction and Notes by Clive Wilmer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe King of the Golden River\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Stones of Venice, Volume II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Nature of Gothic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Two Paths\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Work of Iron, in Nature, Art, and Policy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Modern Painters, Volume V\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Two Boyhoods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnto This Last\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eEssay I: The Roots of Honour\u003cbr\u003eEssay II: The Veins of Wealth\u003cbr\u003eEssay III: Qui Judicatis Terram\u003cbr\u003eEssay IV: Ad Valorem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Crown of Wild Olive\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraffic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Sesame and Lilies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf Kings' Treasuries\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Fors Clavigera\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLetter 7: Charitas\u003cbr\u003eLetter 10: The Baron's Gate\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732364046679,"sku":"9780140432114","price":12.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140432114.jpg?v=1719996567"},{"product_id":"a-philosophical-enquiry-into-the-sublime-and-beautiful-9780140436259","title":"A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspired by fear and awe, the second an expression of pleasure and serenity. Eloquent and profound, A Philosophical Enquiry is an involving account of our sensory, imaginative and judgmental processes and their relation to artistic appreciation. Burke''s work was hugely influential on his contemporaries and also admired by later writers such as Matthew Arnold and William Wordsworth. This volume also contains several of his early political works on subjects including natural society, government and the American colonies, which illustrate his liberal, humane views.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eA Chronology of Edmund Burke\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Texts\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Vindication of Natural Society\u003c\/i\u003e (1756; second edition, 1757)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e (1757; second edition, 1759)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e (1770; third edition, 1770)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeech on American Taxation\u003c\/i\u003e (1774; third edition, 1775)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeech on Conciliation with the Colonies\u003c\/i\u003e(1775; third edition, 1775)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLetter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the Affairs of America\u003c\/i\u003e (1777; third edition, 1777)\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBiographica","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732367880535,"sku":"9780140436259","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140436259.jpg?v=1719996581"},{"product_id":"on-art-and-life-9780141018959","title":"On Art and Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Ruskin was born in London in 1819. He became a towering literary figure in the nineteenth century, known for his writings on both art and on political economy. He became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University in 1869. 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This book examines a number of questions about the arts (broadly defined to include all of the arts). Some of these questions come from philosophy. Examples include: What makes something art?  Can anything be art?  Do we experience real emotions from the arts?  Why do we seek out and even cherish sorrow and fear from art when we go out of our way to avoid these very emotions in real life?  How do we decide what is good art? Do aesthetic judgments have any objective truth value?  Why do we devalue fakes even if we -- indeed, even the experts--- can''t tell them apart from originals?  Does fiction enhance our empathy and understanding of others? Is art-making therapeutic? Others are common sense questions that laypersons wonder about. Examples include: Does learning to play music raise a child''s IQ?  Is modern art something my kid could do?  Is talent a matter of nature or nurture? This book examines puzzles about the arts wherever their provenance - as long as there is empirical research using the methods of social science (interviews, experimentation, data collection, statistical analysis) that can shed light on these questions. The examined research reveals how ordinary people think about these questions, and why they think the way they do - an inquiry referred to as intuitive aesthetics. The book shows how psychological research on the arts has shed light on and often offered surprising answers to such questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis shift from philosophical analysis to a robust empirical approach of experiment and observation is the starting point of this book, which is a fascinating account of social scientists' investigations of art through interviews, experiments, data collection, and statistical analysis. Winner touches on a variety of topics ranging from music and emotion, fiction and empathy, the Mozart effect, and perfect fakes and forgeries, to Hockney's theory of optical aids, effort bias, artistic prodigies, deliberate practice and talent, and our curious enjoyment of negative emotions. Recommended for all readers. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eIn this thoughtful, judicious, and fascinating book, you'll find our best current answers to all the questions that thinking people ask about art, including what it is, what makes it great, whether it is universal, why we make and enjoy it, and whether it is good for us. How Art Works will be the place to look for knowledge on how art works for years to come. * Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works and Enlightenment Now *\u003cbr\u003eNever have the links between the world of the arts and the sciences of the mind been so  carefully and fruitfully drawn as they are in Winner's new book. * David Olson, University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents Acknowledgments I. INTRODUCTION 1. Perennial Questions 2. Can This Be Art? II. ART AND EMOTION 3. Wordless Sounds: Hearing Emotion in Music 4. Feeling Like Crying: Emotions in the Music Listener 5. Color and Form: Emotional Connotations of Visual Art 6. Emotions in the Art Museum: Why Don't We Feel Like Crying? 7. Drawn to Pain: The Paradoxical Enjoyment of Negative Emotion in Art III. ART AND JUDGMENT 8. Is It Good-Or Just Familiar? 9. Too Easy to Be Good? The Effort Bias 10. Identical! What's Wrong with a Perfect Fake? 11. \"But My Kid Could Have Done That!\" IV. WHAT ART DOES - AND DOES NOT - DO FOR US 12. Silver Bullets: Does Art Make Us Smarter? 13. The Lives of Others: Fiction and Empathy 14. Does Making Art Improve Well-Being? V. MAKING ART 15. Who Makes Art and Why? VI. CONCLUSION 16. How Art Works Notes References Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732545909079,"sku":"9780190863357","price":35.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190863357.jpg?v=1719997366"},{"product_id":"learning-to-look-9780190928216","title":"Learning to Look","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLearning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art - and the ways it can transform us, if we let it. Author of Infinite Baseball, Alva Noë, presents a collection of short, stimulating essays that explore how we experience art and what it means to be an observer. Experiencing art - letting it do its work on us - takes thought, attention, and focus. It requires creation, even from the beholder. And it is in this process of confrontation and reorganization that artworks can lead us to remake ourselves.   Ranging far and wide, from Pina Bausch to Robocop, from Bob Dylan to Vermeer, Noë uses encounters with specific artworks to gain entry into a world of fascinating issues - like how philosophy and science are represented in film; what evolutionary biology says about art; or the role of relics, fakes, and copies in our experience of a work. The essays in Learning to Look are short, accessible, and personal. Each one arises out of an art encounter - in a museum, listening to records, or going to a concert. Each essay stands on its own, but taken together, they form an intimate picture of our relationship with art. Carefully articulating the experience of each of these encounters, Noë proposes that, like philosophy, art is a sort of technology for understanding ourselves. 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Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life. Butler considers several aspects of modernism including some modernist works; movements and notions of the avant garde; and the idea of ''progress'' in art. Butler looks at modernist ideas of the self, subjectivity, irrationalism, people and machines, and political definitions of modernism as a whole. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. 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Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, alongside the latest research on the brain''s role in perceiving art. This clear, provocative book engages with the big debates surrounding our responses to art and is an invaluable introduction to anyone interested in thinking about art. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMouthwatering design-compact, colorful, sturdy. 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Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, along with the latest research on the brain''s role in perceiving art.  This clear, provocative book engages with the big debates surrounding our responses to art and is an invaluable introduction to anyone interested in thinking about art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview from previous edition So many of the questions that define us as a culture have been raised through and by the art of recent decades, that without coming to terms with our art, we can scarcely understand ourselves. Cynthia Freeland has written a very smart book, in which high philosophical intelligence is applied to difficult questions raised by real works of art. It immediately situates the reader where thought and action meet, and since the issues are inescapable, it should be required reading for everyone.   'I know of no work that moves so swiftly and with so sure a footing through the battle zones of art and society today.' * Arthur C. Danto, Columbia University, author of After the end of art *\u003cbr\u003eThis pocket potboiler provides some answers, a lot of questions and plenty of entertainment along the way * TNT Magazine 25\/03\/2002 *\u003cbr\u003ethis is a pacy and readable introduction to art history * Independent on Sunday 10\/03\/2002 *\u003cbr\u003eadmirable for its scope, compactness and exceptional clarity. Reader-friendly and thought-provoking * The Independent, 23\/02\/2002 *\u003cbr\u003ea book of simplicity and clarity that may well come to rival John Berger's Ways of Seeing as a reader's digest of the rubric of theories that make up contemporary art criticism . . . 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The volume consists of essays from foundational researchers whose empirical work launched the field. Each essay is anchored to an original, peer-reviewed paper from the short history of this new and burgeoning subdiscipline of cognitive neuroscience. Authors of each essay were asked three questions: 1) What motivated the original paper? 2) What were the main findings or theoretical claims made? and, 3) How do those findings or claims fit with the current state and anticipated near future of neuroaesthetics? Together, these essays establish the territory and current boundaries of neuroaesthetics and identify its most promising future directions. Topics include models of neuroaesthetics, and discussions of beauty, art, dance, music, literature, and architecture. 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Each chapter is a gem-a brief and highly readable commentary on a pioneering article in which the author(s) of the article explain their motivating hypotheses and reflect on where the field was then, where it is going, and where it should be going. * Ellen Winner, Professor Emerita, Boston College, and author of How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration (OUP, 2019) and An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse: Art Education from Colonial Times to a Promising Future (OUP, 2022) *\u003cbr\u003eA landmark publication for a burgeoning, new discipline, Brain, Beauty, and Art offers much of interest for the scholar, scientist, and general reader on a subject of enduring fascination to us all. Edited by pioneers in the field of neuroaesthetics, this comprehensive volume brings together the most important and consequential research while also providing a compelling account of why the love of beauty in all of the forms is an essential part of what it means to be human. * Daniel H Weiss, President and CEO, The Metropolitan Museum of Art *\u003cbr\u003eDr. Chatterjee is a pioneer in neuroaesthetics - not only because of his enduring and cutting-edge body of academic research, but also because of his ability to bring together experts from disparate fields, build on their own findings and insights, and weave a cohesive and compelling narrative on the field. His latest book, Brain, Beauty, and Art, offers the world's most comprehensive view on this burgeoning field, including what it is, how it affects human behavior, and why it matters. After reading his book, I'm sure you'll agree it matters now more than ever! * Pauline Brown, Former Chair of LVMH North America \u0026amp; Author of Aesthetic Intelligence *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword.  Where have we been and where are now? A Chatterjee, E Cardlillo     Frameworks  1. An early framework for a cognitive neuroscience of visual aesthetics. A Chatterjee  2. Bringing it all together: neurological and neuroimaging evidence of the neural underpinnings of visual aesthetic. M Nadal, CJ Cela-Conde  3. But, what actually happens when we engage with art? M Pelowski, H Leder  4. Naturalizing aesthetics. Steven Brown  5. Moving towards emotions in the aesthetic experience. C Di Dio and V Gallese  6. The aesthetic triad. O Vartanian and A Chatterjee  7. How neuroimaging is transforming our understanding of aesthetic taste. M Skov  8. The cognitive neuroscience of aesthetic experience. M Nadal and M Pearce    Beauty  9. Facial beauty and the medial orbitofrontal cortex. JP O'Doherty,  RJ. Dolan   10. Beautiful people in the brain of the beholder. A Chatterjee  11. The mark of villainy: the connection between appearance and perceived morality. F Hartung  12. A quest for beauty. T Jacobsen   13. Scene preferences, aesthetic appeal and curiosity: revisiting the neurobiology of the infovore. EA Vessel, X Yue, I Biederman  14. Kinds of beauty and the prefrontal cortex. T Pegors  15. Expertise and aesthetic liking. M Skov \u0026amp; U Kirk  16. Social meaning brings beauty: neural response to the beauty of abstract Chinese characters. X He and W Zhang    Art  17. The contributions of emotion and reward to aesthetic judgment of visual art. O Vartanian  18. Embodiment and the aesthetic experience of images. V Gallese, D Freedberg, M Alessandra Umiltà  19. The role of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortices in aesthetic valuation. E Munar \u0026amp; CJ Cela-Conde  20. The role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in aesthetic appreciation. M Nadal, Z Cattaneo, and CJ Cela-Conde   21. Is artistic composition in abstract art detected automatically? C Menzel, G Kovács, GU Hayn-Leichsenring, C Redies  22. The contribution of visual area V5 to the perception of implied motion in art and its appreciation. M Nadal and Z Cattaneo  23. Art Is Its own reward. S Lacey, K Sathian  24. Imaging the subjective. EA Vessel, GG Starr  25. Cultural neuroaesthetics of delicate sadness induced by Noh masks. N Osaka   26. Towards a computational understanding of neuroaesthetics. K Iigaya and JP O'Doherty  27. Artists, artworks, aesthetics, cognition. WP Seeley  28. Aesthetic liking is not only driven by object properties, but also by your expectations. M Skov, U Kirk  29. Finding mutual interest between neuroscience and aesthetics: a brush with reality? AJ Parker  30. What can we learn about art from people with neurological disease? A Chatterjee    Music  31. Chills, Bets, And Dopamine: a journey Into music reward. L Ferreri, J Riba, R Zatorre, A Rodriguez-Fornells  32. Why does music evoke strong emotions?  Testing the endogenous opioid hypothesis. DJ Levitin and LA Fleming  33. Music in all its beauty: adopting the naturalistic paradigm to uncover brain processes during the aesthetic musical experience. E Brattico and V Alluri   34. Investigating musical emotions in people with unilateral brain damage. AM Belfi, A Pralus, C Hirel, D Tranel, B Tillmann*,  A Caclin*     Language and Literature  35. The neurocognitive poetics model of literary reading 10 years after. AM  Jacobs  36. The power of poetry. E Wassiliwizky, W Menninghaus  37. Pictograph portrays what it is: neural response to the beauty of concrete Chinese characters. X He and W Zhang    Dance  38. Movement, synchronization, and partnering in dance. S Brown  39. Dance, expertise and sensorimotor aesthetics. B Calvo-Merino  40. An eye for the impossible: exploring the attraction of physically impressive dance movements. ES Cross  41. The mind, the brain and the moving body: dance as a topic in cognitive neuroscience. B Blaesing, B Calvo-Merino  42. Training effects on affective perception of body movements. LP Kirsch, ES Cross    Architecture  43. The neuroaesthetics of architecture. O Vartanian  44. Architectural styles as subordinate scene categories. DB Walther  45. Architectural affordances: linking action, perception, and cognition. Z Djebbara, K Gramann  46. Architectural design and the mind. A Coburn    Afterword. Where are we now and where are we going? 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Finally Glaveanu focuses on the future of creativity and creativity research, reflecting on technological development, the evolution of society and, ultimately, on our place in a world populated by creative beings, ideas, and encounters. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1: Creativity: what is it? 2: The who of creativity 3: The what of creativity 4: The how of creativity 5: The when and where of creativity 6: The why of creativity 7: Creativity: where to? 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Harrington's goal of providing the reader with a complete and well-structured collection of the most important Simmel essays on art and aesthetics in just one book is fully achieved.\" * Simmel Studies *","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732913533271,"sku":"9780226621098","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226621098.jpg?v=1719998926"},{"product_id":"a-defense-of-judgment-9780226770154","title":"A Defense of Judgment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTeachersof literature make judgments about value.Theytelltheirstudentswhichworks are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange,orinsightfuland thus,whichare more worthy oftime and attention than others. Yetthe field of literary studieshaslargely disavowed judgments of artistic value on the grounds that they are inevitablyrootedin prejudice or entangled in problems of social status.For several decades now, professors havecalledtheirwork value-neutral,simplya means for students to gain cultural, political, or historical knowledge. ?Michael W. Clune's provocative book challenges these objections to judgment and offers a positive account of literary studies as an institution of aesthetic education.It is impossible, Clune argues, toseparatejudgments about literary value from the practices of interpretation and analysis that constitute any viable model of literary expertise.Clune envisions a progressive politics freed from the strictures of dogmatic equality and enlivened by education in aesthetic judgment,transcendingconsumer culture and market preferences.Drawing on psychological and philosophical theories ofknowledge andperception,Cluneadvocates forthe cultivation of whatJohnKeats called negative capability, the capacity to place existing criteria in doubtand to discover new concepts and new values in artworks.Moving from theory to practice, Clune takes up works byKeats,Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Samuel Beckett, and Thomas Bernhard, showing how close readingthe profession's traditional key skillharnesses judgment to open new modes of perception.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Clune's \u003ci\u003eA Defense of Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e [attempts] to revivify a version of what Northrop Frye called 'literary experience' as the basis on which judgments of value can be made. His timing is propitious: the scholarly landscape is more favorable to the aesthetic than it has been in decades. . . . In a way that much academic criticism is not, \u003ci\u003e[A Defense of Judgment] \u003c\/i\u003eis refreshingly alive to the necessity of helping people learn how to appreciate works of art.\" -- V. Joshua Adams * Chicago Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"We need to admit—embrace—that our role as literary critics, and educators, is to provide expert judgment; Clune argues that it’s what most of us are already doing anyway.\" -- Kasia Bartoszynska * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e “What makes \u003ci\u003eA Defense of Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e surprising and sometimes even thrilling is how Clune relates his critique to a progressive, anti-capitalist politics.” -- Nate Klug * Commonweal *\u003cbr\u003e“This work should be taken seriously by anyone who thinks that criticism matters, whether it’s conducted in an online forum, a publication, or in a classroom.” -- Brice Ezell * PopMatters *\u003cbr\u003e\"Clune’s\u003ci\u003e A Defense of Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e is a forceful polemic calling for English professors to defend themselves as experts. . . . Clune’s theory of literary appreciation does justice to the specificity of literary experience.\" -- Patrick Fessenbecker * Public Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"An ambitious attempt to justify the work of judging 'value' in humanistic study. Clune’s frame of reference is specific—he writes as a scholar of literature—but his arguments have broad implications for the humanities.\" -- Matthew Mutter * Hedgehog Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Clune argues that everyone can learn how to make better artistic judgments—judgments typically based on one's own aesthetics, class, biases, education, and background. . . . Clune wants to convince the reader that making up one's mind about the worth of a play, a painting, or a book requires understanding the country in which one lives, for example, a country dived by race, class, and religion—not one nation under God, but many different peoples. Since people bring to art their own personal and collective histories, education is needed; people come from their own artistic country and thus need to learn how to see and hear well to make good judgments.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Defense of Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e is a characteristically brilliant, strongly argued, intellectually accessible attempt to provide a template for rethinking the role of value judgments in teaching and writing (and thinking) about literature, and by implication the arts generally. Clune’s discussion is continually illuminating, as are the exemplary readings he offers of works by Dickinson, Brooks, and Thomas Bernhard.” * Michael Fried, Johns Hopkins University *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Defense of Judgment \u003c\/i\u003emounts a lucid and compelling argument for the centrality of judgment, and a polemical critique of the disciplinary pieties that assume questions of value can be bracketed off from our core business of engaging critically with texts. Clune takes on the difficult theoretical and political consequences of defending a practice of judgment grounded in expertise, in particular by developing a rigorous critique of the principle of equality.” * John Frow, University of Sydney *\u003cbr\u003e“Clune’s scholarship is positively entertaining. He never fails to produce surprises, particularly as he discovers connections between the question of aesthetic judgment and a constellation of seemingly far-flung topics, including neoclassical economic theories, contemporary philosophy, poetry and death, and contemporary race relations. \u003ci\u003eA Defense of Judgment \u003c\/i\u003eis remarkable for its acuity and its clarity. It takes on a question central to the future of literary studies and offers a forceful and persuasive answer, one that is likely to spark a lot of debate and almost certainly some controversy.” * Timothy Aubry, Baruch College, City University of New York *\u003cbr\u003e\"Why study literature? What do humanities professors teach? In taking on these and other topics, \u003ci\u003eA Defense of Judgment \u003c\/i\u003epresents the clearest and most forceful account of literary studies that has yet to emerge from our moment of constant disciplinary self-reflection, justification, and reinvention. 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Race Makes Class Visible\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732920381783,"sku":"9780226770154","price":22.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226770154.jpg?v=1719998952"},{"product_id":"seeing-silence-9780226820033","title":"Seeing Silence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As hard to pigeonhole as Taylor’s prolific and wide-ranging career, \u003ci\u003eSeeing Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is not exactly philosophy, or spiritual autobiography, or art theory. It is a textual antechamber leading into—or perhaps a frame surrounding—the sculpture in which the life-work of the philosopher-turned-artist lies exposed . . . Taylor leads us on a pilgrimage of revelatory encounters. . . Taylor combines the conceptual, perceptual, and affective with the concretely historical and factual, while offering something more than, and irreducible to, these aspects: a sense for the work as a moment, in each case unique, of silence becoming visible, and visible growing silent.” -- Anthony Curtis Adler * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"A glowing melange of philosophy, theology, and art criticism.\" -- Daniel Schwartz * On the Seawall *\u003cbr\u003e“Based on the synesthesia between seeing and hearing, \u003ci\u003eSeeing Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is an original and fascinating meditation on the origins of human experience, art, and language. Taylor argues eloquently for the significance of silence in the contemporary world, and he shows the value of reflecting on the work of artists and thinkers who have recognized this.”  -- Graham Parkes, University of Vienna\u003cbr\u003e“When we see silence we see the world without us. Yet \u003ci\u003eSeeing Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is not simply a book about death; it is also an invitation to rethink visual art as ‘words of silence.’ Taylor conducts us through a noiseless landscape, at once frightening and beautiful, in which Kierkegaard, Jabès, and Bergman, among so many others, are companions for the journey. Artists will delight in this new book as much as scholars will benefit from it.” -- Kevin Hart, University of Virginia\u003cbr\u003e“Taylor turns the cacophony of our environment, actual and virtual, toward redemptive moments of silence, all the more rich in implication for how rare they have become. Alongside deep learning in literature, philosophy, and theology, fresh attention to nonverbal cognates in architecture, painting, and sculpture carry the reader to unanticipated recognitions. From each nested instance to the next, intimations of the infinite, not to say the divine, emerge in the undisclosed, the unsayable, and the unsounded.” -- Thomas Crow, New York University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSeeing Silence\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds wonderfully. . . . Taylor’s case starts with the claim that seeing silence grants access to reality. This makes it something of a countercultural practice in noisy times like ours when reality is presented in unlimited streaming information, ongoing notifications, and always-available chatrooms. Taylor’s book stands apart for the originality of his vision, the particularity of his thesis, and, notably, the canon of authors and artists on which he draws.” -- Jeffrey L. Kosky, Washington and Lee University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSeeing Silence \u003c\/i\u003ebegins \u003ci\u003ein medias res\u003c\/i\u003e, in the way of an intellectual history, the narrative epic of a memoirist. What happens when there is no time outside of us, when we do not exist in time? Said another way, the book begins and finishes, but has no Origin and End, as both are swathed by an encompassing Silence that somehow manages to speak. Here Taylor is at his most admirable originality. . . . This book will be of great importance to academic specialists in philosophy of religion, theology, aesthetics, and other arts. But it is so charmingly written that it should appeal as well to the ‘public intellectual,’ and to all humanistically competent readers.” -- Ray L. Hart, Boston University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSeeing Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is indeed a book on the presence of God in art, silence being only one of the keys to understanding this presence. But going further, \u003ci\u003eSeeing Silence\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a comprehensive theology of art that uses silence to speak the name of God. . . . The book is less concerned with investigating silence as art or silence as an element in a work of art, but rather the question of what art–and the image in particular–can do to approach the elusive concept of silence.”\u003cbr\u003e   -- Vincent Debiais * Arts et Intelligences du Silence (Translated from French) *\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers interested in philosophical aesthetics, life writing, Continental hermeneutics, and negative or apophatic theology will find much to enjoy and ponder in \u003ci\u003eSeeing Silence\u003c\/i\u003e. Simply put, \u003ci\u003eSeeing Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative, enlightening, personal work that rewards careful reading and deep appreciation.\" * Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e0.\u003cbr\u003e 1. Without\u003cbr\u003e 2. 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The central claim of this invigorating book is not that a painting can show thought happening, as in depictions of melancholics musing, head on hand; nor that it can illustrate philosophical concepts. Nor does Hanneke Grootenboer want to argue that a painting is a way of working out a philosophical conundrum; nor even that it can prompt theorisation about the nature of reality, artifice and representation. She argues, instead, for something weirder–and more suggestive. . . . she asks: 'Do we, as viewers, find ourselves pondering these things, or is the painting as such pensive?' Grootenboer wants to affirm the latter.\" -- Kathryn Murphy * Apollo *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ideas in Grootenboer’s sense are arresting, Benjaminian, and, therefore, fit for the still medium of painting, where, in her beautiful examples, they crystallize into dangling ribbons, inverted flowers, sliding dewdrops, and teetering gooseberries. . . . Though this book is full of beauty and pleasure, the adjective “pensive” is not, finally, the happiest to attach to the thinking subject—a person or work of art. In Grootenboer’s own words, the pensive image gives rise to an 'uneasy and indeterminate state of openness that allows for the unthought to surface.' As such, the pensive image extends an invitation to take a hard look at things.\" -- Amy Knight Powell * CAA Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"This deeply thoughtful and compact book, like a self-aware image, also stimulates in its own right, prompting a reader toward unpredictable, wide-ranging pathways during engagement with it. Every sentence, every reference, gives pause, leading to other thoughts or thinkers about art, including contemporary art.\" -- Larry Silver * Sixteenth Century Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"Grootenboer opens up innumerable possible directions in which the reader’s mind could fruitfully err, juxtaposing different viewpoints and insights whose encounters incessantly ignite exciting intellectual sparks . . . one is then mesmerized by the exquisite profundity of some paintings, by the beauty of thinking crystallized into images and then 'melting' once again into a stream of contemplation, and by the lofty level of thinking attained through the collaboration, over centuries and continents, between a few brilliant artists and an attentive, insightful viewer who chose to work as an art historian, transforming visual thought into fine discursive language.\" -- Itay Sapir * Inquiries into Art, Art History, and the Visual *\u003cbr\u003e“Grootenboer’s book provides an accessible, clear, and innovating means of thinking about being by revealing a new philosophical subject: artworks.”\u003cbr\u003e   * Phenomenological Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e“Is there a kind of thinking that painting, or photography, can do, which ‘thinking in words’ cannot? What kind of realm do viewers enter when they \u003ci\u003ego somewhere\u003c\/i\u003e with an image? Are there pictures that are especially good to think with? These are the questions of Grootenboer’s unflinching, generous book, and her conclusion is pungent: ‘Philosophy . . . needs art to say what it cannot say.’” -- T. J. Clark, author of Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come\u003cbr\u003e“Thinking with Grootenboer is an unequivocal delight. \u003ci\u003eThe Pensive Image\u003c\/i\u003e recuperates the vibrant invitations to contemplate and reflect that lurk in the quiet corners of Dutch art. Grootenboer’s philosophical insight and deft eye for the unexamined detail meld in a book that is refreshingly original and truly engaging at every turn.” -- Marisa Bass, author of Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt\u003cbr\u003e“It’s wonderful to finally have this book. For nearly a century now, the history and philosophy of art have been gathering ideas about how pictures seem to embody thought, rather than simply announce narratives or messages. The literature on this subject is bewilderingly diverse, and this is the first book to bring together compatible insights from writers as diverse as Diderot, Winckelmann, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Damisch, Deleuze, Clark, Rancière, Marin, Mitchell, and Barthes. The result is a coherent account of the thought that sounds in ‘stilled images’ of all kinds.” -- James Elkins, coauthor of Visual Worlds: Looking, Images, Visual Disciplines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArt as a Form of Thinking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I | Defining the Pensive Image\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 | Theorizing Stillness\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 | Tracing the \u003ci\u003eDenkbild\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II | Painting as Philosophical Reflection\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 | Room for Reflection: Interior and Interiority\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 | The Profundity of Still Life\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 |Painting as a Space for Thought\u003cbr\u003e Painting’s Wonder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732932997463,"sku":"9780226829449","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226829449.jpg?v=1719999006"},{"product_id":"an-education-in-judgment-9780226829500","title":"An Education in Judgment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRodowick takes after the theories of Hannah Arendt and argues that thinking is an art we practice with and for each other in our communities.    In An Education in Judgment, philosopher D. N. Rodowick makes the definitive case for a philosophical humanistic education aimed at the cultivation of a life guided by both self-reflection and interpersonal exchange. Such a life is an education in judgment, the moral capacity to draw conclusions alone and with others, and letting one's own judgments be answerable to the potentially contrasting judgments of others. Thinking, for Rodowick, is an art we practice with and learn from each other on a daily basis.     In taking this approach, Rodowick follows the lead of Hannah Arendt, who made judgment the cornerstone of her conception of community. What is important for Rodowick, as for Arendt, is the cultivation of free relations, in which we allow our judgments to be affected and transformed by those of others, creating an ever-widening fabric of intersubjective moral consideration. That is a fragile fabric, certainly, but one that Rodowick argues is worth pursuing, caring for, and preserving. This original work thinks with and beyond Arendt about the importance of the humanities and what the humanities amounts to beyond the walls of the university.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eAn Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e, D.N. Rodowick draws on Hannah Arendt’s writings on judgment to make the case for a philosophy of the humanities grounded in self-reflection and interpersonal exchange. This innovative and plausible thesis of an education in judgment as the unifying element of the humanities will likely trigger fruitful debate.\"\u003cbr\u003e   * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“Arendt’s reflections on judgment, thinking, moral action, and political courage show that she was not a system builder and was not interested in offering axioms by which to rearrange the world. Yet in following her train of thought, we experience the illuminating force of her insights.” * New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“A fresh look at Arendt’s philosophy on thinking and judgment [applied] to the current ‘crisis’ in the humanities.” * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“The question of the value of education and research in the humanities is a perennial topic of academic debate . . . Few thinkers have done more to bring clarity to these debates than [Rodowick].\" * The Review of Politics *\u003cbr\u003e\"Convincing and illuminating. [Rodowick's] defense of the political importance of an education in the humanities is a beautifully written and insightful attestation to the lasting political relevance and remarkable fecundity of Hannah Arendt’s legacy.\" * Theory and Research in Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"Rodowick seeks to show that Arendt’s analysis of judgment is not only a highly original but also a plausible reading of Kant, which goes against the dominant view in scholarship that Arendt committed quite a radical interpretative violence on Kant’s writings. This is not simply a question about the 'correct' interpretation of Kant but about the connections between thinking, which is an activity done in solitude and is essentially a dialogue of the 'two-in-one' within the self; judgment, which involves 'visiting' in our imagination the standpoints from which others see the world; and deliberation and action in the public sphere, which is done with others. . . . What emerges from this reading is a broader project Arendt was engaged with: the attempt to offer an alternative potential relationship between philosophy and politics.\" * German Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e“In this elegantly crafted book, Rodowick offers a powerful defense of humanistic education. These pages resound both with Rodowick’s own voice and with the voice of his constant interlocutor, Hannah Arendt, as he works out, in spirited agreement and thoughtful disagreement with her, a philosophically rich account (which is also a model) of the conversations on which the human faculty of judgment depends.” * Patchen Markell, Cornell University *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAn Education in Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e is a challenging and substantial contribution to Arendt scholarship and a major new work of critical self-reflection on the humanities by one of the field’s leading proponents. Rodowick offers an illuminating reexamination of a cluster of texts written in the last decade of Arendt’s life, illustrating their interconnectedness, probing their difficulties, and arguing for their compelling contemporary relevance.” * Thomas Bartscherer, Bard College *\u003cbr\u003e“For readers familiar with now longstanding laments about the ‘crisis of the humanities’, \u003ci\u003eAn Education in Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e is a breath of fresh air. Drawing on Hannah Arendt's evocative writings on aesthetics and politics, Rodowick brilliantly charts a new way forward on well-travelled terrain. The fate of the humanities lies not in shoring up what is left of the canon but in developing wholly quotidian practices of critical thinking and judging. Rooted in the ordinary capacities of all citizens, the humanities become a world-building activity that takes account of plurality and different perspectives on a common world. Recognizing with Arendt the crucial importance of publicity, this book breaks free of narrow academic debates and offers a public vision of the humanities as an imaginative space for creating a new genre of the human, not as telos but as open-ended future.” * Linda M. G. 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Nonverbal Narration    5. Absent and Effaced Narrators   6. Storytelling Narrators    7. Mediation    8. Points of View in Narrated Representations    PART 4: SEMANTICS AND ONTOLOGY    10. Doing without Fictitious Entities    1. The Problem    2. Speaking within and about Fictional Worlds    3. Ordinary Statements   4. Unofficial Games   5. Variations   6. Logical Form     11. Existence    1. Betrayal and Disavowal    2. 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Situated at the cusp of postcolonialism and world literature, it offers a multilingual, multicultural, and comparative account of how literature became one of the most powerful cultural expressions of modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In this magisterial book, Baidik Bhattacharya develops a surprising thesis: that the modern conception of literature as an autonomous, self-directed cultural form was the product of a highly political process – the efforts of colonial British administrators to extend their sway in India and beyond. This is a compelling, revisionary genealogy of the contemporary idea of culture, and a major contribution to debates on the intertwined origins of world literature and modern empire.' David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e'Baidik Bhattacharya's erudition in the fields of Indian and British literary history and his transdisciplinary approach to 'lettered sovereignty' as a catalyst of colonial modernity give us a fresh perspective on what Pascale Casanova famously dubbed the 'world republic of letters.' Philological legacies; questions of race, language, and translation; the formation and deformation of epistemic habits crucial to narratives of empire; comparatism in the colony (including the complex reception of European philosophies of aesthetic judgment and nationalist imagination within Indian education) – all receive fine-grained analysis, making Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters essential reading for scholars, critics, historians, and theorists committed to rethinking the postcolonial public sphere in the contemporary humanities.' 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That's where philosophy always begins.\u003ci\u003eIntroducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art\u003c\/i\u003e is written to introduce students to a broad array of questions that have occupied philosophers since antiquity, and which continue to bother us todayquestions like:    - Is there something special about something's being art? Can a mass-produced plastic bird have that special something?    - If someone likes plastic pink flamingos, does that mean they have bad taste? Is bad taste a bad thing?    - Do Featherstone's pink flamingos mean anything? If so, does that depend on what Featherstone meant in designing them?Each chapter opens using a real world example  such as Marcel Duchamp's signed urinal, \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroducing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the classic questions in the philosophy of art through provocative artworks. Written in a clear and fresh style, this comprehensive textbook provides an accessible and engaging entry point for students to the central philosophical issues in the arts. An excellent resource for students and academics alike. -- Sondra Bacharach, Senior Lecturer of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand\u003cbr\u003eThis is one of the best introductions to Philosophy of Art around. Hudson Hick judges the current vibe among students exceptionally well. Recent and contemporary examples of art, literature, music and film, prompt the kind of questions that lead naturally to the key concepts and theories presented in this book. Drawing mostly from analytic aesthetics, as well as continental philosophy on interpretation, the book provides a genuine opportunity to develop understanding of art and its reception. And while the level at which the text is pitched is appropriate for beginners, the dialectic occasions the kind of critical debate that will also engage the more advanced student. A timely new feature of this edition is the chapter on diversity which flags the burgeoning material on perspectivism. The final chapter completes the promise of the title, raising questions pertinent to the aesthetics of nature. -- Jennifer A. McMahon, Professor of Philosophy, The University of Adelaide, Australia\u003cbr\u003eDarren Hudson Hick’s \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a fresh, engaging take on both central and historically neglected topics in aesthetics. Hick presents complex debates in an accessible way and brings thinkers from different traditions and historical moments seamlessly into conversation. 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Bibliography   Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738577875287,"sku":"9781350008731","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350008731.jpg?v=1720049532"},{"product_id":"color-theory-9781350027305","title":"Color Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiving an overview of the history of color theory from ancient and classical cultures to contemporary contexts, this book explores important critical principles and provides practical guidance on the use of color in art and design.   Going beyond a simple recitation of what has historically been said about color, artist and educator Aaron Fine provides an intellectual history, critiquing prevailing Western ideas on the subject and challenging assumptions. He analyses colonialist and gendered attitudes, materialist and romanticist perspectives, spiritualist approaches to color, color in the age of reproduction, and modernist and post-modernist color strategies. Highlighted throughout are examples of the ways in which attitudes towards color have been impacted by the legacy of colonialism and are tied up with race, gender, and class.    Topics covered include color models, wheels and charts, color interaction and theories of perception, with over 150 images throughout. By placing under-e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlmost everyone sees color – but this might be the only general statement it is possible to make on the subject. When we begin to ask how color is seen and what it is seen to mean, what value colour has and to whom: then any notion of a consensus quickly falls apart. Aaron Fine’s rich and wide-ranging study discusses numerous theories of color, some intersecting and overlapping, others divergent and conflicting. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in how different cultures have interpreted the vibrant patterns of reflected light that almost all of us see. -- David Batchelor, artist and writer, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eColor Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is a superb book. With impeccable scholarship it spans centuries, regions and disciplines to give the reader a panoptic account of the many guises of colour in society, art and philosophy. Fine’s prose is clear and thought-provoking. Readers new to the theory of colour will have no better guide to the subject, and those already familiar will discover many new and intriguing things. -- Mazviita Chirimuuta, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK\u003cbr\u003eIf you are curious about learning color theory, I suggest that you experiment with some watercolor. If you are serious about color theory, I suggest you read Aaron Fine's book. This is the intelligent and active approach to the subject. Placed on a spectrum between John Gage's heady and densely academic, historical color books and the excellent ‘semester-minded’ color texts of the like of Pentak and Zelanski, Fine's book provides toothsome material for the advanced student with opportunities for practical application and testing of theory. While many color texts have slapped a ‘global color’ chapter at the last of the book, Fine squares the world and its people into the beginning perspectives in chapter 1 and works out from there. This is, I hope, the beginning of a new generation of color writing that embraces a thoughtful, world perspective -- Scott Betz, Professor of Art, Winston-Salem State University, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Images Acknowledgements Introduction  1. Natural Resources and Trade: Color Use in Traditional Cultures 2. Knowing at a Distance: Color Problems in Ancient Greek Thought 3. Stained Glass and Illuminations: European and Islamic Color Theory before Galileo 4. Prisms, Mirrors, and Lenses: The Newtonian Revolution 5. Romanticism and Chromophobia: The Creation of Color Theory in the 19th Century 6. The Science of the Invisible: Color Classification Systems and Spiritual Color 7. High Modern: Color Use at the Bauhaus and in Abstract Expressionism 8. 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Outlining five major approaches to understanding the aesthetic value of nature, this second edition explores the aesthetic appreciation of nature as it occurs in wilderness, in gardens, and in the context of appreciating environmental art. Now updated to cover recent developments in the field, it includes:                  A new chapter on the sublime, the picturesque, and the beautiful                  Expanded discussion of empirical and evolutionary accounts of nature appreciation, as well as the appreciation of the environment in non-Western cultures                  A new chapter on the aesthetic appreciation o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaving together ideas from an impressively wide range of authors, this volume will be of remarkable value to newcomers and experts alike, across the Environmental Humanities.  Glenn Parsons' writing is exceptionally clear and accessible, all while being precise and faithful to original sources.  If there were only one book I could suggest on the topic, it would be this one. * Levi Tenen, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kettering University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis text fills a critical omission in the discussion of aesthetics and nature. Parsons captures aesthetic approaches to nature and does so through an exhaustive list of genres such as painting, sculpture, film, literature and more. All the big names in the field are represented as well as movements and schools. The text is essential for scholars in the burgeoning field of literature and the environment, and groups such as the Association for Studies in Literature and the Environment. * Peter Quigley, \t Peter Quigley, Professor of English, retired, University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Introduction: Aesthetics and Nature from an Analytic Perspective  1.      \u003cb\u003eThe Conceptual Background: Nature\u003c\/b\u003e   1.1 The end of Nature? 1.2 Is Nature a Useful concept? 1.3 Some Alternatives: Wilderness, Landscape, Environment    \u003cb\u003e2.      \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Conceptual Background: Beauty and Aesthetic Value\u003c\/b\u003e   2.1 Beauty 2.2 The Sublime, the Picturesque and the Aesthetic 2.3 Two Questions About Aesthetic Value 2.4 Two Accounts of Aesthetic Value    3.      \u003cb\u003eImagination, Belief and Aesthetic Judgement\u003c\/b\u003e   3.1 From Ethics to Ice Cream 3.2 Thought Contents 3.3 Anything goes? 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Philosophical and Empirical Challenges\u003c\/b\u003e   Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738591310167,"sku":"9781350121591","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350121591.jpg?v=1720049579"},{"product_id":"adornment-9781350120983","title":"Adornment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations, hunter-foragers, and present-day industrial societies to tell a captivating story of hair, skin, and make-up practices across times and cultures.     From the decline of the hat, the function of jewelry and popularity of tattooing to the wealth of grave goods found in the Upper Paleolithic burials and body painting of the Nuba, we see that there is no one who does not adorn themselves, their possessions, or their environment. But what messages do these adornments send? Drawing on aesthetics, evolutionary history, archaeology, ethology, anthropology, psychology, cultural history, and gender studies, Stephen Davies brings together African, Australian and North and South American indigenous cultures and unites them around the theme of adornment. 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Bali: Sungir Writ Large Conclusion Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738591408471,"sku":"9781350120983","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350120983.jpg?v=1720049580"},{"product_id":"christopher-nolan-9781350139978","title":"Christopher Nolan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Knight\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Knight Rises\u003c\/i\u003e, and also of arthouse films like \u003ci\u003eMemento\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInception\u003c\/i\u003e.  Underlying his staggering commercial success however, is a darker sensibility that questions the veracity of human knowledge, the allure of appearance over reality and the latent disorder in contemporary society. This appreciation of the sinister owes a huge debt to philosophy and especially modern thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida. Taking a thematic approach to Nolan's oeuvre, Robbie Goh examines how the director's postmodern inclinations manifest themselves in non-linearity, causal agnosticism, the threat of social anarchy and the frequent use of the \u003ci\u003emise en abyme\u003c\/i\u003e, while running counter to these are narratives of heroism, moral responsibility and the dignity of human choice. For Goh, Nolan is a reluctant postmodernist'. His films reflect the c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA magisterial sweep over a multifold canvas. At once \u003ci\u003eauteur\u003c\/i\u003e, social critic, genie, and moralist, Goh’s Nolan is a layered and evolving medium for our times. 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Vrasidas Karalis has un-framed the director's cinematic language from traditional filmic reasoning and previously marked spatiotemporal ocular 'slowness', to reach the anti-rhetorical interpretation in terms of: visuality, aesthetics and logic towards Angelopoulos' art. * Grzegorz Pamrów, CEO, Speakers' Avenue, Educational Film Collective, Poland *\u003cbr\u003eVrasidas Karalis’s new book on the inexhaustible, profound and mysterious cinema of Theo Angelopoulos offers a bold and original argument. Can philosophical thinking occur purely through the work of images, without standard plots and characters? Karalis affirms and demonstrates this possibility in all its historical complexity. It’s an extraordinary achievement. * Adrian Martin, Adjunct Professor of Film and Media Studies, Monash University, Australia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.   Introduction: against the historicist imprisonment of art 2.    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In \u003ci\u003eUncurating Sound\u003c\/i\u003e, Voegelin invites us to listen along as she troubles and blurs static lines between knowledge and curation, writers and bodies, sound and the book, reading and performing. As she converses with works by such figures as Kara Walker, Kathy Acker, Adrian Piper, Kate Carr, Ellen Fullman and Manon de Boer, Voegelin reminds us vitally – especially as we continue to emerge from pandemic isolation and sustained distancing – that we are embodied. And questions like, \u003ci\u003eWho is the “I” and the ear that writes?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFor whom do we write and listen?\u003c\/i\u003e are vital to our collective flourishing. Compelling in its speculation and expansive in its sonic wanderings, \u003ci\u003eUncurating Sound\u003c\/i\u003e will interrupt our deep assumptions about sound and knowledge as it calls for us, in all our full embodiment, to listen. Where is your body tuned now? * Nicole Furlonge, Professor and Director of the Klingenstein Center, Columbia University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eWith detours and fuzzy paths, inhalations and exhalations, rivers and their volumes, \u003ci\u003eUncurating Sound\u003c\/i\u003e proposes the decolonial and transversal politics of sound is a matter not only for art institutions and their publics but also for a broader untethering from extractive histories and ways of knowing. * Sasha Engelmann, Senior Lecturer in GeoHumanities, Royal Holloway University of London, UK *\u003cbr\u003eSalomé Voegelin’s sensitive handling of sound topics as a post-colonial un-discipline is both observational and treatise-ish, caring and critical, and affirms the complex entanglement of curation, the cannon, the archive, and the body, and proposes a new traversing identity of sound studies. A Tour de Force. * Miya Masaoka, composer, artist and Associate Professor of Visual Art (Sound Art) and Director, Sound Art Program MFA, Columbia University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eSalomé is able to bring art work and theory into a real dialogue (instead of the art work being subordinated to the theoretical frame), which implies that there’s a win-win situation: on the one hand, Salomé invites the reader to encounter a sonic art work by offering an open theoretical frame; on the other hand, the theories are brought to another plane by confronting them with concrete art works that “speak back.” * Marcel Cobussen, Professor of Auditory Culture and Music Philosophy, Leiden University, Netherlands *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of figures\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePrologue: Sounding Gaps in Pavements\u003c\/i\u003e Introduction: Taking a breath together Breath 1 Curating politics in the gallery space Breath 2 The possibility of resistance and the performance of alternatives Performance score listen across to uncurate knowledge Breath 3 With voice and hands sound it IIIIIII Breath 4 Postnormal Performing Walls IX   \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eList of Works\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739784982871,"sku":"9781501345401","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501345401.jpg?v=1720053136"},{"product_id":"the-aesthetics-of-kinship-form-and-family-in-the-long-eighteenth-century-9781684484539","title":"The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of “family plots” in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents an alternative view of the eighteenth-century literary social world and its concomitant ideologies. Whereas Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment philosophy and political theory posit the nuclear family as a microcosm for the ideal modern nation-state, literature of the period offers a far more heterogeneous image of kinship structures, one that includes members of various classes and is not defined by blood. Through a radical re-reading of the multifarious kinship structures represented in literature of the long eighteenth century, \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e questions the inevitability of the dialectic of the Enlightenment and invokes alternative futures for conceptions of social and political life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Schlipphacke’s smart style brings the eighteenth-century tableau into vivid life. This wonderfully learned study expands our understanding of the eighteenth-century tableau beyond its immediate theatrical and painterly associations to show how it reframed models of family and kinship. Challenging the long standing presumption that the Bildungsroman coalesced around the nuclear family, Schlipphacke illuminates the tableau’s elastic depiction of porous social relations across an array of genres and media. Her queer, allegorical sensibility draws our attention away from the hermeneutic depths of the Romantic nuclear family onto the tableau’s surface alignments. \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly condenses eighteenth-century theories of spectatorship, theater, and the novel.”— Daniel Purdy, author of On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought\u003cbr\u003e “Schlipphacke demonstrates an active curiosity and adept intellect as she analyzes literary forms (such as unconventional endings and halted narrative progression) as challenges to the inward-focused, nuclear family as it begins to unfold into the nineteenth century. 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Schlipphacke’s fascinating turn to the period tableaux compellingly illustrates aesthetic experiments with diverse forms of relations, fruitfully challenging accounts of the rise of the nuclear family.”— Stefani Engelstein, author of Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1          Middle Class\/Bourgeois\/Bürger: The Idiosyncrasies of German Dramatic Realism\u003cbr\u003e 2          \u003ci\u003eTableau\u003c\/i\u003e\/\u003ci\u003eTableau Vivant:\u003c\/i\u003e German-French Dramatic Encounters\u003cbr\u003e 3          The German Dramatic \u003ci\u003eTableau\u003c\/i\u003e beyond Lessing\u003cbr\u003e 4          Against Interiority: Letters and Portraits as Dramatic Props\u003cbr\u003e 5          Material Kinship: The Economy of Props in G.E. Lessing’s \u003ci\u003eNathan der Weise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6          The \u003ci\u003eTableau\u003c\/i\u003e of Relations: Novels in Stillness and Motion\u003cbr\u003e 7          Kinship and Aesthetic Depth: The \u003ci\u003eTableau Vivant\u003c\/i\u003e in Goethe’s \u003ci\u003eWahlverwandtschaften\u003c\/i\u003e [\u003ci\u003eElective Affinities\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003cbr\u003e Concluding Reflections\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Bucknell University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48740872847703,"sku":"9781684484539","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781684484539.jpg?v=1720055884"},{"product_id":"gilles-deleuze-9781780237312","title":"Gilles Deleuze","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGilles Deleuze, the person and philosopher, was both singular and multifaceted. Frida Beckman traces Deleuze's remarkable intellectual journey, mapping the encounters from which his life and work emerged. She considers how his life and philosophical developments resonate with historical, political and philosophical events, from the Second World War to the student uprisings in the 1960s, the opening of the experimental University of Paris VIII and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although less of a public figure than many of his contemporaries, Deleuze's life and philosophy are bound up with his numerous friendships, collaborations and disputes with several of the period's most influential thinkers, as well as his connections with writers, artists and film scholars. Beckman considers the events, moods and intensities that were generated by this multiplicity of encounters throughout his life. 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Along the way, many of Deleuze's most important concepts are clarified and critically analyzed in a way that will make this Critical Life both a valuable resource for scholars and an excellent introduction to his life and work.' - Alan D. Schrift, F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College","brand":"Reaktion Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48740992516439,"sku":"9781780237312","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781780237312.jpg?v=1720056244"},{"product_id":"aesthetic-theory-9781780936598","title":"Aesthetic Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultural theory. \u003cem\u003eAesthetic Theory\u003c\/em\u003e is Adorno's posthumous magnum opus and the culmination of a lifetime's investigation. Analysing the sublime, the ugly and the beautiful, Adorno shows how such concepts frame and distil human experience and that it is human experience that ultimately underlies aesthetics. In Adorno's formulation ‘art is the sedimented history of human misery'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...the fact that they [Continuum] are putting low price tags on works once published in expensive academic editions is something of which we can all be glad..\" -Modern Painters, 2\/05\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Acknowledgement \\ Translator's Introduction \\ 1. Art, Society, Aesthetics \\ 2. Situation \\ 3. 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