Philosophy: aesthetics Books
Fordham University Press The Form of Love
Book SynopsisThe Form of Love explores what poetry can articulate about love that philosophy cannot. Reading seven poems, this book shows how figures ranging from Donne to Dickinson use poetic form to transform philosophy’s concern to convey truth about love into the concern to create a virtual experience of love.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Form of Love: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Closeness of Loving Reading | 1 1. Disjunctive Love: Philosophical Project and Poetic Experience in Donne’s “The Ecstasy” | 29 2. Obscure Love: Virtual Masochisms in Philips’s “Friendship’s Mysterys” | 56 3. Forgetting to Love: Problems of Praise in Herbert’s “The Flower” | 78 4. Loving Rhyme: Reading Mastery in Crashaw’s “The Flaming Heart” | 98 5. Green Love: Lost in Marvell’s “The Garden” | 117 6. Love and/or Lyric: Dickinson’s “I cannot live with You -” | 145 Acknowledgments | 171 Notes | 173 Index | 209
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Fordham University Press The Form of Love
Book SynopsisThe Form of Love explores what poetry can articulate about love that philosophy cannot. Reading seven poems, this book shows how figures ranging from Donne to Dickinson use poetic form to transform philosophy’s concern to convey truth about love into the concern to create a virtual experience of love.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Form of Love: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Closeness of Loving Reading | 1 1. Disjunctive Love: Philosophical Project and Poetic Experience in Donne’s “The Ecstasy” | 29 2. Obscure Love: Virtual Masochisms in Philips’s “Friendship’s Mysterys” | 56 3. Forgetting to Love: Problems of Praise in Herbert’s “The Flower” | 78 4. Loving Rhyme: Reading Mastery in Crashaw’s “The Flaming Heart” | 98 5. Green Love: Lost in Marvell’s “The Garden” | 117 6. Love and/or Lyric: Dickinson’s “I cannot live with You -” | 145 Acknowledgments | 171 Notes | 173 Index | 209
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Fordham University Press Inceptions Literary Beginnings and Contingencies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsExordium | 1 Part I: Potentiality and Gesture 1 Revision, Origin, and the Courage of Truth: Henry James’s New York Edition Prefaces | 23 2 “First Love”: Gesture and the Emergence of Desire in Eudora Welty | 50 Part II: Novels and the Beginnings of Character 3 Robinson Crusoe and the Inception of Speech | 73 4 The Clock Finger at Nought: Daniel Deronda and the Positing of Perspective | 91 5 Proto-Reading and the Positing of Character in Our Mutual Friend | 103 Part III: Our Stony Ancestry 6 Ovid and Orpheus | 127 7 Wallace Stevens and the Temporalities of Inception and Embodiment | 148 Part IV: Solitude and Queer Origins 8 “Epitaph, the Idiom of Man”: Imaginings of the Beginning | 177 9 Etiology, Solitude, and Queer Incipience | 199 Acknowledgments | 223 Notes | 227 Index | 283
£27.90
Fordham University Press Shattering Biopolitics Militant Listening and
Book SynopsisFailures to listen or mishearings can be a matter of life and death. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates the intimate and complex relation between life and sound in philosophy, political theory, and sound-art.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations | ix Prologue | 1 1 Shatter | 7 Excursus 1: Calculation and Stricture in Mendi + Keith Obadike’s Numbers Station | 38 2 The Rhythm of Life | 49 Excursus 2: Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Phonetic Border-Crossings | 91 3 Mouth(piece) | 100 Excursus 3: Sharon Hayes’s Addresses | 145 4 A Use of Ears | 158 Excursus 4: The Drive to Listen in Ultra-red’s Militant Sound Investigations | 191 Acknowledgments | 207 Notes | 209 Selected Bibliography | 233 Index | 243
£85.50
University of Hawaii Press The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition
Book SynopsisAn introduction to philosophy of Li Zezhou, one of the contemporary China's foremost intellectuals. It presents Li's synthesis of Chinese aesthetic thought, from ancient times to the early modern period, incorporating pre-Confucian and Confucian ideas, Daoism, Chan Buddhism, and the influence of Western philosophy during the late-imperial period.
£37.46
University of Hawai'i Press Mishima Aesthetic Terrorist
Book SynopsisHalf a century after his samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima remains a controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers, he has often been scorned by scholars, who view him as a frivolous figure. Andrew Rankin sets out to challenge this perception by demonstrating the intelligence and seriousness of Mishima's work.
£35.96
Getty Trust Publications The Intelligent Eye Learning to Think by Looking
Book SynopsisAttentive observation of art provides an excellent opportunity for better thinking, for the cultivation of the art of intelligence. The arts are important in an educational setting, therefore, because they can cultivate important thinking strategies in children and adults alike. With carefully chosen illustrations, Perkins demonstrates how the reflective approach to art can develop broader, more adventurous, and clearer avenues of thought.
£18.04
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Possibility of Culture
Book SynopsisThe Possibility of Culture: Pleasure and Moral Development in Kant's Aesthetics presents an in-depth exploration and deconstruction of Kant's depiction of the ways in which aesthetic pursuits can promote personal moral development. Presents an in-depth exploration of the connection between Kant's aesthetics and his views on moral development Reveals the links between Kant's aesthetics and his anthropology and moral psychology Explores Kant's notion of genius and his views on the connections between the social aspects of taste and moral development Addresses aspects of Kant's ethical theory that will interest scholars working in ethics and moral psychology Table of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Note on Citations ix Introduction 1 1 Aesthetics and Culture in Context 13 2 Beauty and Love 31 3 Beauty and Disinterestedness 46 4 Art, Genius, and Abstraction 66 5 Sublimity and Esteem 84 6 Choosing Culture Over Happiness 105 7 Conclusion 122 Bibliography 138 Index 143
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature
Book SynopsisThis volume in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series focuses on the main themes and topics in the philosophy of literature. It is composed of all newly commissioned essays, written by the top scholars in the field. Note: I received a lot of advice on this project over several iterations.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost Part I Relations between Philosophy and Literature 5 1 Philosophy as Literature and More than Literature 7 Richard Shusterman 2 Philosophy and Literature: Friends of the Earth? 22 Roger A. Shiner 3 Philosophy and Literature – and Rhetoric: Adventures in Polytopia 38 Walter Jost 4 Philosophy and/as/of Literature 52 Arthur C. Danto Part II Emotional Engagement and the Experience of Reading 69 5 Emotion and the Understanding of Narrative 71 Jenefer Robinson 6 Feeling Fictions 93 Roger Scruton 7 The Experience of Reading 106 Peter Kivy 8 Self-Defining Reading: Literature and the Constitution of Personhood 120 Garry L. Hagberg Part III Philosophy, Tragedy, and Literary Form 159 9 Tragedy and Philosophy 161 Anthony J. Cascardi 10 Iago’s Elenchus: Shakespeare, Othello, and the Platonic Inheritance 174 M. W. Rowe 11 Catharsis 193 Jonathan Lear 12 Passion, Counter-Passion, Catharsis: Flaubert (and Beckett) on Feeling Nothing 218 Joshua Landy Part IV Literature and the Moral Life 239 13 Perceptive Equilibrium: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory 241 Martha C. Nussbaum 14 Henry James, Moral Philosophers, Moralism 268 Cora Diamond 15 Literature and the Idea of Morality 285 Eileen John 16 Styles of Self-Absorption 300 Daniel Brudney Part V Narrative and the Question of Literary Truth 329 17 Narration, Imitation, and Point of View 331 Gregory Currie 18 How and What We Can Learn from Fiction 350 Mitchell Green 19 Literature and Truth 367 Peter Lamarque 20 Truth in Poetry: Particulars and Universals 385 Richard Eldridge Part VI Intention and Biography in Criticism 399 21 Authorial Intention and the Varieties of Intentionalism 401 Paisley Livingston 22 Art as Techne, or, The Intentional Fallacy and the Unfinished Project of Formalism 420 Henry Staten 23 Biography in Literary Criticism 436 Stein Haugom Olsen 24 Getting Inside Heisenberg’s Head 453 Ray Monk Part VII On Literary Language 465 25 Wittgenstein and Literary Language 467 Jon Cook and Rupert Read 26 Exemplification and Expression 491 Charles Altieri 27 At Play in the Fields of Metaphor 507 Ted Cohen 28 Macbeth Appalled 521 Stanley Cavell Index 541
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Four Arts of Photography
Book SynopsisFour Arts of Photography explores the history of photography through the lens of philosophy and proposes a new scholarly understanding of the art form for the 21st century.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Notes on Author and Contributors xii Preface xiii Wonderment to Puzzlement 1 How to Do Things with Theory 17 To Possess Other Eyes: The First Art 36 Thinking Through Photographs: The Second Art 48 A New Theory of Photography 65 Lyricism: The Third Art 87 The Knowing Eye 105 Abstraction: The Fourth Art 114 Crosscurrents and Boundary Conditions 125 Appendix: The Skeptic’s Argument 133 Comments Doing Justice to the Art in Photography 135Diarmuid Costello Four Thoughts about Four Arts of Photography 147Cynthia A. Freeland Notes 157 Index 174
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Philosophy of Literature
Book SynopsisEssential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology. Contains forty-five substantial and carefully chosen essays and extracts Provides a balanced and coherent overview of developments in the field during the past thirty years, including influential work on fiction, interpretation, metaphor, literary value, and the definition and ontology of literature Includes an additional historical section featuring generous selections of the writings of early pioneers such as Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, and Hume Serves as an ideal introduction to the philosophy of literature or the philosophy of art, as well as a handy compilation of contributions to the field by its leading figures Trade Review"This collection provides an ideal introduction to the issues that draw analytic philosophers to literature. It brings together an extraordinary array of the most vital, influential, and sophisticated essays published by philosophers of literature in the past three decades." Stephen Davies, University of Auckland "These essays, taken together, constitute a serious and probing exploration of several of the most fundamental philosophical puzzles about literature. They are also accessible, engaging, and frequently a lot of fun. A superb collection!" Kendall Walton, University of MichiganTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Preface. Part I: Classic Sources. Introduction. 1. Republic: Plato. 2. Poetics: Aristotle. 3. Of Tragedy: David Hume. 4. The Birth of Tragedy: Friedrich Nietzsche. 5. Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming: Sigmund Freud. Part II: Definition of Literature. Introduction. 6. Spazio: Arrigo Lora-Totino. 7. What Isn't Literature?: E. D. Hirsch, Jr. 8. The Concept of Literature: Monroe Beardsley. 9. Literary Practice: Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen. 10. What Is Literature?: Robert Stecker. Part III: Ontology of Literature. Introduction. 11. Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote: Jorge Luis Borges. 12. Literary Works as Types: Richard Wollheim. 13. Literature: J. O. Urmson. 14. Can the Work Survive the World?: Nelson Goodman and Catherine Elgin. 15. Work and Text: Gregory Currie. Part IV: Fiction. Introduction. 16. Doonesbury: Garry Trudeau. 17. The Logical Status of Fictional Discourse: John Searle. 18. Truth in Fiction: David Lewis. 19. What Is Fiction?: Gregory Currie. 20. Fiction and Nonfiction: Kendall Walton. 21. Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts: Amie Thomasson. 22. Logic and Criticism: Peter Lamarque. Part V: Emotion. Introduction. 23. Applicant: Harold Pinter. 24. How Can We Be Moved by the Fate of Anna Karenina?: Colin Radford. 25. Fearing Fictionally: Kendall Walton. 26. The Pleasures of Tragedy: Susan Feagin. 27. Tragedy and the Community of Sentiment: Flint Schier. Part VI: Metaphor. Introduction. 28. Essay on What I Think about Most: Anne Carson. 29. Metaphor: Max Black. 30. What Metaphors Mean: Donald Davidson. 31. Metaphor and Feeling: Ted Cohen. 32. Metaphor and Prop Oriented Make-Believe: Kendall Walton. Part VII: Interpretation. Introduction. 33. Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, And for What?: Wayne C. Booth. 34. Criticism as Retrieval: Richard Wollheim. 35. The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal: Alexander Nehamas. 36. Art Interpretation: Robert Stecker. 37. Art, Intention, and Conversation: Noël Carroll. 38. Intention and Interpretation: Jerrold Levinson. 39. Style and Personality in the Literary Work: Jenefer Robinson. Part VIII: Literary Values. Introduction. 40. Xingu: Edith Wharton. 41. On the Cognitive Triviality of Art: Jerome Stolnitz. 42. Literature and Knowledge: Catherine Wilson. 43. Finely Aware and Richly Responsible: Martha Nussbaum. 44. Literature, Truth, and Philosophy: Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen. 45. The Ethical Criticism of Art: Berys Gaut. Index
£34.15
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Philosophy of Literature
Book SynopsisEssential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology. Contains forty-five substantial and carefully chosen essays and extracts Provides a balanced and coherent overview of developments in the field during the past thirty years, including influential work on fiction, interpretation, metaphor, literary value, and the definition and ontology of literature Includes an additional historical section featuring generous selections of the writings of early pioneers such as Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, and Hume Serves as an ideal introduction to the philosophy of literature or the philosophy of art, as well as a handy compilation of contributions to the field by its leading figures Trade Review"This collection provides an ideal introduction to the issues that draw analytic philosophers to literature. It brings together an extraordinary array of the most vital, influential, and sophisticated essays published by philosophers of literature in the past three decades." Stephen Davies, University of Auckland "These essays, taken together, constitute a serious and probing exploration of several of the most fundamental philosophical puzzles about literature. They are also accessible, engaging, and frequently a lot of fun. A superb collection!" Kendall Walton, University of MichiganTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Preface. Part I: Classic Sources:. Introduction. 1. Republic: Plato. 2. Poetics: Aristotle. 3. Of Tragedy: David Hume. 4. The Birth of Tragedy: Friedrich Nietzsche. 5. Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming: Sigmund Freud. Part II: Definition of Literature:. Introduction. 6. Spazio: Arrigo Lora-Totino. 7. What Isn’t Literature?: E. D. Hirsch, Jr. 8. The Concept of Literature: Monroe Beardsley. 9. Literary Practice: Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen. 10. What Is Literature?: Robert Stecker. Part III: Ontology of Literature:. Introduction. 11. Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote: Jorge Luis Borges. 12. Literary Works as Types: Richard Wollheim. 13. Literature: J. O. Urmson. 14. Can the Work Survive the World?: Nelson Goodman and Catherine Elgin. 15. Work and Text: Gregory Currie. Part IV: Fiction:. Introduction. 16. Doonesbury: Garry Trudeau. 17. The Logical Status of Fictional Discourse: John Searle. 18. Truth in Fiction: David Lewis. 19. What Is Fiction?: Gregory Currie. 20. Fiction and Nonfiction: Kendall Walton. 21. Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts: Amie Thomasson. 22. Logic and Criticism: Peter Lamarque. Part V: Emotion:. Introduction. 23. Applicant: Harold Pinter. 24. How Can We Be Moved by the Fate of Anna Karenina?: Colin Radford. 25. Fearing Fictionally: Kendall Walton. 26. The Pleasures of Tragedy: Susan Feagin. 27. Tragedy and the Community of Sentiment: Flint Schier. Part VI: Metaphor:. Introduction. 28. Essay on What I Think about Most: Anne Carson. 29. Metaphor: Max Black. 30. What Metaphors Mean: Donald Davidson. 31. Metaphor and Feeling: Ted Cohen. 32. Metaphor and Prop Oriented Make-Believe: Kendall Walton. Part VII: Interpretation:. Introduction. 33. Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, And for What?: Wayne C. Booth. 34. Criticism as Retrieval: Richard Wollheim. 35. The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal: Alexander Nehamas. 36. Art Interpretation: Robert Stecker. 37. Art, Intention, and Conversation: Noël Carroll. 38. Intention and Interpretation: Jerrold Levinson. 39. Style and Personality in the Literary Work: Jenefer Robinson. Part VIII: Literary Values:. Introduction. 40. Xingu: Edith Wharton. 41. On the Cognitive Triviality of Art: Jerome Stolnitz. 42. Literature and Knowledge: Catherine Wilson. 43. Finely Aware and Richly Responsible: Martha Nussbaum. 44. Literature, Truth, and Philosophy: Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen. 45. The Ethical Criticism of Art: Berys Gaut. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Psychoanalysis and the Image
Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation. Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values, debates and controversies that have been hallmarks of visual representation in the modern and contemporary periods Covers topics including melancholia, sex, and pathology to the body, and parent-child relations Advances theoretical debates in art history while offering substantive analyses of significant bodies of twentieth century art Edited by internationally renowned art historian Griselda Pollock. Trade Review"With greater clarity than ever, this book articulates the relevance of psychoanalysis for art historical interpretation. The result is a work that must necessarily figure in method and theory courses from now on." Keith Moxey, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures. Notes on Contributers. Series Editor's Preface. Preface. 1. The Image in Psychoanalysis and the Archaeological Metaphor. (Griselda Pollock). 2. Dreaming Art. (Mieke Bal). 3. Fascinance and the Girl-to-m/Other Matrixial Feminine Difference. (Brache L. Ettinger). 4. Melancholia and Cezanne's Portraits: Faces beyond the Mirror. (Young-Paik Chun). 5. Yayoi Kusama between Abstraction and Pathology. (Izumi Nakajime). 6. Diaspora without Resistance? Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE and the Law of Genre. (Karyne Ball). 7. Fragment(s) of an Analysis: Chantal Akerman's News from Home (or a Mother-Daughter Tale of Two Cities). (Adriana Cerne). Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Psychoanalysis and the Image
Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation. Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values, debates and controversies that have been hallmarks of visual representation in the modern and contemporary periods Covers topics including melancholia, sex, and pathology to the body, and parent-child relations Advances theoretical debates in art history while offering substantive analyses of significant bodies of twentieth century art Edited by internationally renowned art historian Griselda Pollock. Trade Review"With greater clarity than ever, this book articulates the relevance of psychoanalysis for art historical interpretation. The result is a work that must necessarily figure in method and theory courses from now on." Keith Moxey, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures. Notes on Contributers. Series Editor's Preface. Preface. 1. The Image in Psychoanalysis and the Archaeological Metaphor. (Griselda Pollock). 2. Dreaming Art. (Mieke Bal). 3. Fascinance and the Girl-to-m/Other Matrixial Feminine Difference. (Brache L. Ettinger). 4. Melancholia and Cezanne's Portraits: Faces beyond the Mirror. (Young-Paik Chun). 5. Yayoi Kusama between Abstraction and Pathology. (Izumi Nakajime). 6. Diaspora without Resistance? Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE and the Law of Genre. (Karyne Ball). 7. Fragment(s) of an Analysis: Chantal Akerman's News from Home (or a Mother-Daughter Tale of Two Cities). (Adriana Cerne). Bibliography. Index.
£37.95
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature
Book SynopsisThis volume in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series focuses on the main themes and topics in the philosophy of literature. It is composed of all newly commissioned essays, written by the top scholars in the field. Note: I received a lot of advice on this project over several iterations.Trade Review"Recommended. Library collections supporting upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers." (Choice, 1 March 2011) "It can be firmly recommended for the library of any university or college that has courses in either literature or philosophy". (Reference Reviews, 1 December 2010)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost Part I Relations between Philosophy and Literature 5 1 Philosophy as Literature and More than Literature 7Richard Shusterman 2 Philosophy and Literature: Friends of the Earth? 22Roger A. Shiner 3 Philosophy and Literature – and Rhetoric: Adventures in Polytopia 38Walter Jost 4 Philosophy and/as/of Literature 52Arthur C. Danto Part II Emotional Engagement and the Experience of Reading 69 5 Emotion and the Understanding of Narrative 71Jenefer Robinson 6 Feeling Fictions 93Roger Scruton 7 The Experience of Reading 106Peter Kivy 8 Self-Defining Reading: Literature and the Constitution of Personhood 120Garry L. Hagberg Part III Philosophy, Tragedy, and Literary Form 159 9 Tragedy and Philosophy 161Anthony J. Cascardi 10 Iago’s Elenchus: Shakespeare, Othello, and the Platonic Inheritance 174M. W. Rowe 11 Catharsis 193Jonathan Lear 12 Passion, Counter-Passion, Catharsis: Flaubert (and Beckett) on Feeling Nothing 218Joshua Landy Part IV Literature and the Moral Life 239 13 Perceptive Equilibrium: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory 241Martha C. Nussbaum 14 Henry James, Moral Philosophers, Moralism 268Cora Diamond 15 Literature and the Idea of Morality 285Eileen John 16 Styles of Self-Absorption 300Daniel Brudney Part V Narrative and the Question of Literary Truth 329 17 Narration, Imitation, and Point of View 331Gregory Currie 18 How and What We Can Learn from Fiction 350Mitchell Green 19 Literature and Truth 367Peter Lamarque 20 Truth in Poetry: Particulars and Universals 385Richard Eldridge Part VI Intention and Biography in Criticism 399 21 Authorial Intention and the Varieties of Intentionalism 401Paisley Livingston 22 Art as Techne, or, The Intentional Fallacy and the Unfinished Project of Formalism 420Henry Staten 23 Biography in Literary Criticism 436Stein Haugom Olsen 24 Getting Inside Heisenberg’s Head 453Ray Monk Part VII On Literary Language 465 25 Wittgenstein and Literary Language 467Jon Cook and Rupert Read 26 Exemplification and Expression 491Charles Altieri 27 At Play in the Fields of Metaphor 507Ted Cohen 28 Macbeth Appalled 521Stanley Cavell Index 541
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Black is Beautiful A Philosophy of Black
Book SynopsisBlack is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended philosophical treatment of this crucial subject.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii 1 Assembly, Not Birth 1 1 Introduction 1 2 Inquiry and Assembly 3 3 On Blackness 6 4 On the Black Aesthetic Tradition 12 5 Black Aesthetics as/and Philosophy 19 6 Conclusion 26 2 No Negroes in Connecticut: Seers, Seen 32 1 Introduction 33 2 Setting the Stage: Blacking Up Zoe 35 3 Theorizing the (In)visible 36 4 Theorizing Visuality 43 5 Two Varieties of Black Invisibility: Presence and Personhood 48 6 From Persons to Characters: A Detour 51 7 Two More Varieties of Black Invisibility: Perspectives and Plurality 58 8 Unseeing Nina Simone 63 9 Conclusion: Phronesis and Power 69 3 Beauty to Set the World Right: The Politics of Black Aesthetics 77 1 Introduction 77 2 Blackness and the Political 80 3 Politics and Aesthetics 83 4 The Politics–Aesthetics Nexus in Black; or, "The Black Nation: A Garvey Production" 85 5 Autonomy and Separatism 87 6 Propaganda, Truth, and Art 88 7 What is Life but Life? Reading Du Bois 91 8 Apostles of Truth and Right 94 9 On "Propaganda" 98 10 Conclusion 99 4 Dark Lovely Yet And; Or, How To Love Black Bodies While Hating Black People 104 1 Introduction 105 2 Circumscribing the Topic: Definitions and Distinctions 107 3 Circumscribing the Topic, cont'd: Context and Scope 109 4 The Cases 110 5 Reading the Cases 115 6 Conclusion 129 5 Roots and Routes: Disarming Authenticity 132 1 Introduction 132 2 An Easy Case: The Germans in Yorubaland 134 3 A Harder Case: Kente Capers 136 4 Varieties of Authenticity 138 5 From Exegesis to Ethics 144 6 The Kente Case, Revisited 151 6 Make It Funky; Or, Music's Cognitive Travels and the Despotism of Rhythm 155 1 Introduction 156 2 Beyond the How]Possible: Kivy's Questions 157 3 Stimulus, Culture, Race 159 4 Preliminaries: Rhythm, Brains, and Race Music 162 5 The Flaw in the Funk 168 6 (Soul) Power to the People 172 7 Funky White Boys and Honorary Soul Sisters 174 8 Conclusion 177 7 Conclusion: "It Sucks That I Robbed You"; Or, Ambivalence, Appropriation, Joy, Pain 182 Index 186
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Aesthetics
Book SynopsisA COMPANION TO AESTHETICS This second edition of A Companion to Aesthetics examines questions that were among the earliest discussed by ancient philosophers, such as the nature of beauty and the relation between morality and art, while also addressing a host of new issues prompted by recent developments in the arts and in philosophy, including coverage of non-Western art traditions and of everyday and environmental aesthetics. The volume also canvases debates regarding the nature of representation, the relation between art and truth, and the criteria for interpretation, which are among the most hotly discussed topics in contemporary philosophy. In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in aesthetics. Major additions include historical overviews from the prehistoric to the present and a section on the individual arts. A Companion to Aesthetics will servTrade Review"If one is looking for a good single-volume reference work on the history and concepts of predominantly Western aesthetics, then this is the one to get." (CHOICE, 2009) "The range is phenomenal, the erudition daunting and the index rigorous. It is an essential purchase for all but the most tough-minded of academic reference collections and it would grace the shelves of many a public or personal library." (Reference Reviews) "It provides very handy encyclopedic coverage of all main contemporary issues and figures in contemporary aesthetics.... It really must be bought by libraries as a reference text..." (British Society of Aesthetics Newsletter)Table of ContentsContributors xi Preface xv Historical Overviews 1 art of the Paleolithic Gregory Currie 1 aesthetics in antiquity Stephen Halliwell 10 medieval and renaissance aesthetics John Marenbon 22 eighteenth-century aesthetics Paul Guyer 32 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Continental aesthetics Robert Wicks 51 twentieth-century Anglo-American aesthetics Stephen Davies & Robert Stecker 61 The Arts 74 architecture Edward Winters 74 dance Julie Van Camp 76 drama James Hamilton 78 drawing, painting, and printmaking Patrick Maynard 82 literature David Davies 85 motion pictures Noël Carroll 88 music and song John Andrew Fisher and Stephen Davies 91 opera Paul Thom 95 photography Patrick Maynard 98 poetry Anna Christina Ribeiro 101 sculpture Erik Koed 104 A 107 abstraction Robert Hopkins 107 Adorno, Theodor W(iesengrund) Paul Mattick 109 aesthetic attitude David E. Cooper 111 aesthetic education Pradeep A. Dhillon 114 aesthetic judgment Andrew Ward 117 aesthetic pleasure Jerrold Levinson 121 aesthetic properties Alan H. Goldman 124 aestheticism David Whewell 128 aesthetics of food and drink Carolyn Korsmeyer 131 aesthetics of the environment Allen Carlson 134 aesthetics of the everyday Sherri Irvin 136 African aesthetics John Ayotunde (Tunde) Isola Bewaji 139 Amerindian aesthetics Anthony K. Webster 142 Aquinas, Thomas John Haldane 145 Aristotle Stephen Halliwell 147 art history David Carrier 149 artifact, art as George Dickie & Robert Stecker 152 “artworld” Anita Silvers 155 authenticity and art Theodore Gracyk 156 B 160 Barthes, Roland Mary Bittner Wiseman 160 Baumgarten, Alexander G(ottlieb) Nicholas Davey 162 Beardsley, Monroe C(urtis) Donald Callen 163 beauty Mary Mothersill 166 Bell, (Arthur) Clive (Heward) Ronald W. Hepburn 172 Benjamin, Walter Martin Donougho 174 Burke, Edmund Patrick Gardiner 177 C 179 canon Stein Haugom Olsen 179 catharsis Stephen Halliwell 182 Cavell, Stanley Timothy Gould 183 censorship Bernard Williams 185 Chinese aesthetics Marthe Chandler 188 cognitive science and art William P. Seeley 191 cognitive value of art Matthew Kieran 194 Collingwood, R(obin) G(eorge) Michael Krausz 197 comedy Noël Carroll 199 conceptual art Peter Goldie 202 conservation and restoration David Carrier 205 creativity Berys Gaut 207 critical monism and pluralism Robert Kraut 211 criticism Michael Weston 215 Croce, Benedetto Douglas R. Anderson 219 cultural appropriation James O. Young 222 D 226 Danto, Arthur C(oleman) David Novitz & Stephen Davies 226 deconstruction Stuart Sim 229 definition of “art” Kathleen Stock 231 Deleuze, Gilles Nicholas Davey 234 depiction Katerina Bantinaki 238 Derrida, Jacques Mary Bittner Wiseman 241 Dewey, John Thomas M. Alexander 244 Dickie, George Noël Carroll 247 Dufrenne, Mikel Wojciech Chojna & Irena Kocol 249 E 252 emotion Malcolm Budd 252 erotic art and obscenity Matthew Kieran 256 evolution, art, and aesthetics Stephen Davies 259 expression Derek Matravers 261 expression theory Derek Matravers 264 F 267 feminist aesthetics Peg Zeglin Brand 267 feminist criticism Renée Lorraine & Peg Zeglin Brand 269 feminist standpoint aesthetics A. W. Eaton 272 fiction, nature of Robert Stecker 275 fiction, the paradox of responding to Alex Neill 278 fiction, truth in Paisley Livingston 281 fictional entities Diane Proudfoot 284 forgery Robert Hopkins 287 formalism Nick Zangwill 290 Foucault, Michel Robert Wicks 293 function of art David Novitz 297 G 302 Gadamer, Hans-Georg Robert Bernasconi 302 gardens David E. Cooper 304 genre Andrew Harrison 306 Gombrich, Sir Ernst (Hans Josef) David E. Cooper 308 Goodman, Nelson Catherine Z. Elgin 311 H 314 Hanslick, Eduard Malcolm Budd 314 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Gary Shapiro 315 Heidegger, Martin Robert Bernasconi 321 hermeneutics Joseph Margolis 324 horror Amy Coplan 328 Hume, David Theodore Gracyk 331 humor John Lippitt 334 Hutcheson, Francis Peter Kivy 338 I 341 iconoclasm and idolatry David Freedberg 341 illusion Robert Hopkins 343 imagination Roger Scruton 346 imaginative resistance Tamar Szabó Gendler 351 implied author Peter Lamarque 354 Indian aesthetics Kalyan Sen Gupta 356 ineffability David E. Cooper 360 Ingarden, Roman Wojciech Chojna 364 intention and interpretation Colin Lyas & Robert Stecker 366 “intentional fallacy” Colin Lyas & Robert Stecker 369 interpretation Joseph Margolis 371 interpretation, aims of David Davies 375 irony David E. Cooper 378 Islamic aesthetics Oliver Leaman 381 J 384 Japanese aesthetics Yuriko Saito 384 K 388 Kant, Immanuel David Whewell 388 Kierkegaard, Søren Ann Loades 392 kitsch Kathleen Marie Higgins 393 Kristeva, Julia Laura Marcus 396 L 400 Langer, Susanne Thomas M. Alexander 400 Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim Anthony Savile 402 Lewis, C(larence) I(rving) Paisley Livingston 405 Lukács, Georg Tom Rockmore 408 M 411 Margolis, Joseph Richard Shusterman 411 Marxism and art Tom Rockmore 412 mass art Noël Carroll 415 meaning constructivism Robert Stecker 418 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice John J. Compton 421 metaphor Samuel R. Levin 423 modernism and postmodernism Stuart Sim 425 morality and art Berys Gaut 428 museums Paul Mattick 431 N 435 narrative Stein Haugom Olsen 435 Nietzsche, Friedrich (Wilhelm) Julian Young 438 notations Stephen Davies 441 O 444 objectivity and realism in aesthetics Robert Hopkins 444 ontological contextualism Theodore Gracyk 449 ontology of artworks Nicholas Wolterstorff 453 originality George Bailey 457 P 460 performance Stephen Davies 460 performance art David Davies 462 perspective John Hyman 465 picture perception Katerina Bantinaki 469 Plato Stephen Halliwell 472 Plotinus John Haldane 474 popular art Richard Shusterman 476 pornography Bernard Williams 478 pragmatist aesthetics Richard Shusterman 480 psychoanalysis and art Kathleen Marie Higgins 484 R 489 race and aesthetics Monique Roelofs 489 rasa Kathleen Marie Higgins 492 realism John Hyman 495 relativism Nicholas Davey 498 religion and art Robert Grant 500 representation Robert Hopkins 504 Ruskin, John Michael Wheeler 508 S 511 Santayana, George Morris Grossman 511 Sartre, Jean-Paul John J. Compton 512 Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Andrew Bowie 514 Schiller, (Johann Christoph) Friedrich von Margaret Paton 517 Schlegel, August Wilhelm von Tom Rockmore 519 Schlegel, Friedrich von Tom Rockmore 520 Schopenhauer, Arthur Michael Tanner 522 science and art Anthony O’Hear 525 Scruton, Roger Anthony O’Hear 528 senses and art, the Robert Hopkins 530 sentimentality Deborah Knight 534 Shaftesbury, Lord Dabney Townsend 537 Sibley, Frank Noel Colin Lyas 538 structuralism and poststructuralism Stuart Sim 540 style Andrew Harrison 544 sublime Mary Mothersill 547 symbol Charles Molesworth 551 T 554 taste Robert Hopkins 554 technology and art John Andrew Fisher 556 testimony in aesthetics Robert Hopkins 560 text Richard Shusterman 562 theories of art Ronald W. Hepburn 565 Tolstoy, Leo David Whewell 570 tradition Anthony O’Hear 573 tragedy Susan L. Feagin 575 truth in art Eddy M. Zemach 578 U 581 universals in art Kathleen Marie Higgins 581 W 586 Wagner, Richard Michael Tanner 586 Walton, Kendall L(ewis) Alessandro Giovannelli 588 Wilde, Oscar David E. Cooper 591 Wittgenstein, Ludwig Malcolm Budd 593 Wollheim, Richard Malcolm Budd 596 Index 600
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Global Theories of the Arts and Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThis collection of papers focuses on theories and practices in relation to the arts around the globe, in particular, those that have been ignored or marginalized by analytic or Anglo-American aesthetics and philosophy of art. The intention is to explain specific ways that the concepts of the aesthetic and of the arts might be enriched and enhanced.Table of ContentsI Introduction, Susan L. Feagin . II The Sounding of theWorld: Aesthetic Reflections on Traditional Gong Music of Vietnam, Philip Alperson, Nguye n ChıBe´n, and to Ngoc Thanh. III Balinese Aesthetics, Stephen Davies. IV Aesthetic and Spiritual Correlations in Javanese Gamelan Music, Susan PrattWalton. V An Alchemy of Emotion: Rasa and Aesthetic Breakthroughs Kathleen Marie Higgins. VI Asian Ars Erotica and the Question of Sexual Aesthetics, Richard Shusterman. VII Islamic Aesthetics: An AlternativeWay to Knowledge, Jale Nejdet Erzen. VIII Shikinen Sengu and the Ontology of Architecture in Japan, Dominic Mciver Lopes. IX The Moral Dimension of Japanese Aesthetics, Yuriko Saito. X The Ethics of Confucian Artistry, Eric C. Mullis. XI Subversive Strategies in Chinese Avant-Garde Art, Mary BittnerWiseman. XII Embodied Meanings, Isotypes, and Aesthetical Ideas, Arthur C. Danto. XIII Art and Globalization: Then and Now, Noel Carroll
£34.15
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cultural Appropriation and the Arts
Book SynopsisNow, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise.Trade Review“Cultural Appropriation and the Arts, by James O. Young, provides an analytical, comprehensive overview of ethical and aesthetic issues concerning cultural appropriation.” (Journal of Cult Economy, 25 March 2011) “Young tackles an ambitious subject in this book. Culture, appropriation, and art, the keywords in the book's title, are all notoriously difficult to define. Young does not dedicate his book to defining these terms. Instead he clarifies family resemblances of these concepts, which he uses to make a case against cultural appropriation generally and the incorporation of cultural appropriation in the arts specifically. Recommended.” (Choice, November 2008) “The chief virtue of the book, [is] the conceptual clarifications Young brings to this diffuse topic, in particular the basic distinctions among types of appropriation.” (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews) "This book could only have come about through many years of travel and scholarly investigation. It is a valuable introduction for those not familiar with the literature on this interesting subject. Cultural Appropriation and the Arts will become the standard work in this field for many years to come, and undergraduates could gain every bit as much from its interesting examples and clear arguments as graduate students and professionals can." (Phil Jenkins, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 67, no.)Table of ContentsPreface. Chapter One: What is Cultural Appropriation?:. Art, Culture, and Appropriation. Types of Cultural Appropriation. What is a Culture?. Objections to Cultural Appropriation. In Praise of Cultural Appropriation. Chapter Two: The Aesthetics of Cultural Appropriation:. The Aesthetic Handicap Thesis. The Cultural Experience Argument. Aesthetic Properties and Cultural Context. Authenticity and Appropriation. Authentic Appropriation. Cultural Experience and Subject Appropriation. Appropriation and the Authentic Expression of a Culture. Chapter Three: Cultural Appropriation as Theft:. Harm by Theft. Possible Owners of Artworks. Cultures and Inheritance. Lost and Abandoned Property. Cultural Property and Traditional Law. Collective Knowledge and Collective Property. Ownership of Land and Ownership of Art. Property and Value to a Culture. Cultures and Intellectual Property. Some Conclusions about Ownership and Appropriation. The Rescue Argument. Chapter Four: Cultural Appropriation as Assault:. Other Forms of Harm. Cultural Appropriation and Harmful Misrepresentation. Harm and Accurate Representation. Cultural Appropriation and Economic Opportunity. Cultural Appropriation and Assimilation. Art, Insignia, and Cultural Identity. Cultural Appropriation and Privacy. Chapter Five: Profound Offence and Cultural Appropriation:. Harm, Offence, and Profound Offence. Examples of Offensive Cultural Appropriation. The Problem and the Key to its Solution. Social Value and Offensive Art. Freedom of Expression. The Sacred and the Offensive. Time and Place Restrictions. Toleration of Offensive Art. Reasonable and Unreasonable Offence. Conclusion: Responding to Cultural Appropriation. Summing Up. Supporting Minority Artists. Envoy. Bibliography of Works Cited and Consulted. Index
£65.66
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ideas About Art
Book SynopsisIdeas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics. It uses stories drawn from the experiences of individuals involved in the arts as a means of exposing readers to the philosophies, theories, and arguments that shape and drive visual art.Trade Review"This book will engage the serious reader of art theory with accessible language and interesting imagery and personal." (SchoolArts, 1 May 2014) "This book provides many refreshingly-new ideas about art from many people and areas of the world, as well as open-ended, non-dogmatic discussions on many topics." (Biz India, 10 December 2012) "This text offers art-interested students and general readers a sampling of ideas on a wide range of topics, in an accessible, non-intimidating manner." (Book News, 1 August 2011) "This book will engage the serious reader of art theory with accessible language and interesting imagery and personal stories." (School Arts, 1 May 2014)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. List of Illustrations. Preface. 1. Public Opinion/Public Art. 2. Non-Western Ideas. 3. Western Ideas. 4. Beauty. 5. Expression & Aesthetic Experience. 6. Art & Ethics. 7. Political Art, Censorship & Pornography. 8. Art & Economics. 9. Feminist Art, Aesthetics & Art Criticism. 10. Postmodern Art & Attitudes. 11. Photography & New Media. 12. (Re)Discovering Design. 13. Art & Aesthetic Education. 14. Artists, Art Critics, Art Historians, Curators, Museums & Viewers. References. Index.
£30.35
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ideas About Art
Book SynopsisIdeas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics. It uses stories drawn from the experiences of individuals involved in the arts as a means of exposing readers to the philosophies, theories, and arguments that shape and drive visual art.Trade Review"This book will engage the serious reader of art theory with accessible language and interesting imagery and personal." (SchoolArts, 1 May 2014) "This book provides many refreshingly-new ideas about art from many people and areas of the world, as well as open-ended, non-dogmatic discussions on many topics." (Biz India, 10 December 2012) "This text offers art-interested students and general readers a sampling of ideas on a wide range of topics, in an accessible, non-intimidating manner." (Book News, 1 August 2011) "This book will engage the serious reader of art theory with accessible language and interesting imagery and personal stories." (School Arts, 1 May 2014)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface x Acknowledgements xxii 1 Public Opinion/Public Art 1 I Don’t Know Anything About Art, But I Know What I Like! 2 Non-Western Ideas About What Art Is 15 Is Art Situational? Cultural? Biological? Universal? 3 Western Ideas About What Art Is 33 4 Beauty 52 Does Art Have to be Beautiful? 5 Expression and Aesthetic Experience 67 6 Art and Ethics 78 Morals and Religion 7 Political Art, Censorship, and Pornography 93 When Art Is Too Powerful, Cover It Up 8 Art and Economics 111 9 Feminist Art, Aesthetics, and Art Criticism 123 Where Were the Women in My Art History Books? 10 Postmodernist Art and Attitudes 142 11 Photography and New Media 156 12 (Re)Discovering Design 171 13 Art and Aesthetic Education 190 14 Artists, Art Critics, Art Historians, Curators, Museums, and Viewers 205 Making Art Ideas Your Own Bibliography 224 Illustration Credits 239 Index 241
£72.15
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Art of Videogames
Book SynopsisVideogames aren't just for children anymore. In fact, their fictional worlds now inspire us to judgments of perceptual beauty, involve us in interpretation, and arouse our emotions. Reflecting the increasing technical and moral sophistication of the genre, The Art of Videogames presents a unique philosophical approach to the art of videogaming.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. 1 The New Art of Videogames. 2 What Are Videogames Anyway? 3 Videogames and Fiction. 4 Stepping into Fictional Worlds. 5 Games through Fiction. 6 Videogames and Narrative. 7 Emotion in Videogaming. 8 The Morality of Videogames. 9 Videogames as Art. Glossary. References. Index.
£25.60
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Art of Videogames
Book SynopsisVideogames aren't just for children anymore. In fact, their fictional worlds now inspire us to judgments of perceptual beauty, involve us in interpretation, and arouse our emotions. Reflecting the increasing technical and moral sophistication of the genre, The Art of Videogames presents a unique philosophical approach to the art of videogaming.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. 1 The New Art of Videogames. 2 What Are Videogames Anyway? 3 Videogames and Fiction. 4 Stepping into Fictional Worlds. 5 Games through Fiction. 6 Videogames and Narrative. 7 Emotion in Videogaming. 8 The Morality of Videogames. 9 Videogames as Art. Glossary. References. Index.
£65.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Comic Relief
Book SynopsisWestern philosophy's traditional assessment of the nature and value of humor has not been kind, as the standard theories made humor look antisocial, irrational, and foolish. It wasn't until well into the 20th century that humor gained even a semblance of respect. Comic Relief goes a great way in ameliorating this injustice.Trade Review"As an intelligent treatment of what humor is and what it means, this work raises significant questions and proposes plausible answers." (CHOICE, September 2010) Table of ContentsForeword ixRobert Mankoff Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 No Laughing Matter: The Traditional Rejection of Humor and Traditional Theories of Humor 1 Humor, Anarchy, and Aggression 2 The Superiority Theory: Humor as Anti-social 4 The Incongruity Theory: Humor as Irrational 9 The Relief Theory: Humor as a Pressure Valve 15 The Minority Opinion of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas: Humor as Playful Relaxation 23 The Relaxation Theory of Robert Latta 24 2 Fight or Flight – or Laughter: The Psychology of Humor 27 Humor and Disengagement 28 Humor as Play 33 Laughter as a Play Signal 36 3 From Lucy to “I Love Lucy”: The Evolution of Humor 40 What Was First Funny? 41 The Basic Pattern in Humor: The Playful Enjoyment of a Cognitive Shift is Expressed in Laughter 49 The Worth of Mirth 64 4 That Mona Lisa Smile: The Aesthetics of Humor 69 Humor as Aesthetic Experience 70 Humor and Other Ways of Enjoying Cognitive Shifts: The Funny, Tragic, Grotesque, Macabre, Horrible, Bizarre, and Fantastic 73 Tragedy vs. Comedy: Is Heavy Better than Light? 75 Enough with the Jokes: Spontaneous vs. Prepared Humor 83 5 Laughing at the Wrong Time: The Negative Ethics of Humor 90 Eight Traditional Moral Objections 91 The Shortcomings in the Contemporary Ethics of Humor 98 A More Comprehensive Approach: The Ethics of Disengagement 101 First Harmful Effect: Irresponsibility 102 Second Harmful Effect: Blocking Compassion 103 Third Harmful Effect: Promoting Prejudice 105 6 Having a Good Laugh: The Positive Ethics of Humor 111 Intellectual Virtues Fostered by Humor 112 Moral Virtues Fostered by Humor 115 Humor during the Holocaust 119 7 Homo Sapiens and Homo Ridens: Philosophy and Comedy 125 Was Socrates the First Stand-up Comedian? 126 Humor and the Existentialists 129 The Laughing Buddha 133 8 The Glass is Half-Empty and Half-Full: Comic Wisdom 139 Notes 146 Bibliography 160 Index 179
£25.60
Johns Hopkins University Press Creativity
Book SynopsisA short but engaging exploration of our changing perception of creativity. Creativity was once seen as the mark of mad geniuses, troubled souls, and avant-garde eccentrics. Today, however, we expect to find the trait thriving in and around us. Why? In Creativity, Jan Løhmann Stephensen provides a historical and contemporary view of creativity and explains why it is not always the answer to every problem. From van Gogh to Springsteen, Løhmann Stephensen explores the creative process of artists in order to craft a new theory of creativitymarking it as a collective and dynamic process in flux, rather than a finished product with a set endpoint and sole creator. Finally, he warns, in the twenty-first century, the importance that employers place on creativity has warped the concept into a ubiquitous economic commodity. ReflectionsIn Reflections, a series copublished with Denmark's Aarhus University Press, scholars deliver 60-page reflections on a key concept that encapsulates their yearTable of ContentsChapter 1. From South-West Thailand to Northwest JutlandChapter 2. The History of CreativitiesChapter 3. Creating TechnologiesChapter 4. Madmen—And Mad WomenChapter 5. Against Society And In Its Service
£9.31
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Art and Ethical Criticism
Book Synopsis* Provides a timely and philosophically significant contribution to modern aesthetics * Features some of the best contemporary work in philosophical studies on literature, moral beliefs, and thinking in art * Reflects on the significance of a moral life of engagement with works of art .Trade Review"Hagberg draws together some of the top thinkers in aesthetics to consider the cross-impacts between these philosophical disciplines. The selections are widely representative of approaches to ethical criticism of artworks, and the ethical/aesthetic dimensions of the literary, visual, and auditory arts." (CHOICE) "Garry Hagberg's new anthology Art and Ethical Criticism consists of twelve new essays—ten by philosophers, one each by an art historian and a professor of French—together with a short foreword. The overall argument that emerges from these essays is that the first, broader topic (the powers and interest of art for human subjects) is more important than the second, narrower topic (the relation between artistic and moral value), and the essays are strongest exactly when they illuminate the powers and interest of art, precisely by not separating the artistic and ethical features of a work sharply from each other." (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Foreword xiGarry L. Hagberg Part I: Historical Foundations 1 1 Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective 3Paul Guyer Part II: Conceptions of Ethical Content 33 2 Narrative and the Ethical Life 35Noel Carroll 3 A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Improvement through Fiction 63Joshua Landy 4 Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach 95Mitchell Green Part III: Literature and Moral Responsibility 123 5 "Solid Objects," Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy 125Paisley Livingston 6 Disgrace: Bernard Williams and J. M. Coetzee 144Catherine Wilson 7 Facing Death Together: Camus's The Plague 163Robert C. Solomon Part IV: Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response 185 8 Staying in Touch 187Carolyn Korsmeyer 9 Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography 211David Davies 10 Ethical Judgments in Museums 229Ivan Gaskell Part V: Music and Moral Relations 243 11 Cosi's Canon Quartet 245Stephen Davies 12 Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections 259Garry L. Hagberg Index 286
£27.50
Duke University Press Autonomy
Book SynopsisNicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the realm of the commodity by showing how an artist's commitment to form and by demanding interpretive attention elude the logic of capital.Trade Review"In Autonomy, Brown revitalizes a modernist commitment to form and offers a compelling vision of the work of art in the age of its commodification." -- Adam Theron-Lee Rensch * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Brown's argument feels, in the end, surprisingly liberating.… No doubt, there are questions prompted by the book that we still might want to have answered.… But these queries are obviously presented less as a critique of Autonomy than a plea to scholars to take up related questions in future volumes. Autonomy inspires such questions because this is a book that unabashedly and provocatively makes demands of us, in the way the very best scholarship, like the very best manifestos and all art, does too." -- Lisa Siraganian * Modernism/modernity *"A thorough and valuable commentary on the contemporary position of art within capitalism. Autonomy is essential reading for researchers and students with an interest in contemporary art in relation to the market, and for those interested in Marxist approaches to contemporary aesthetic form." -- Oliver Haslam * New Formations *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. On Art and the Commodity Form 1 1. Photography as Film and Film as Photography 41 2. The Novel and the Ruse of the Work 79 3. Citation and Affect in Music 115 4. Modernism on TV 152 Epilogue. Taking Sides 178 Notes 183 Bibliography 207 Index 215
£103.70
Duke University Press Beyond the Sovereign Self
Book SynopsisGrant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater possibilities for critical practice.Trade Review“In a superlative demonstration of a hypothesis in action, Grant H. Kester’s definitive study Beyond the Sovereign Self effectively melts down, then reimagines our stagnated concepts of aesthetic autonomy and avant-gardism in a dauntless bid to retheorize the increasingly entangled, if not indistinguishable, realms of twenty-first-century social activism and art.” -- Gregory Sholette, author of * The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art *“With characteristic thoroughness, Grant H. Kester articulates the radical potential in challenging the cherished notion of art’s autonomy. Centering dialogic and activist art practices, he insightfully argues that the social labor of cultural resistance necessarily operates in generative forms of collectivity and dissensus.” -- Jennifer A. González, coeditor of * Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 I. Within and Beyond the Canon 1. The Incommensurablity of Socially Engaged Art 33 2. Escrache and Autonomy 54 II. From Object to Event 3. Dematerialization and Aesthetics in Real Time 85 4. The Aesthetic of Answerability 105 III. A Dialogical Aesthetic 5. Social Labor and Communicative Action 137 6. Our Pernicious Temporality 171 7. Being Human as Praxis 202 Conclusion. Beyond the White Wall 229 Notes 235 Works Cited 255 Index 271
£73.95
New York University Press For Pleasure
Book SynopsisArgues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racistdominationFor Pleasure proposes that experimental aesthetics shaped race in the twentieth-century United Statesby creating transformative scenes of pleasure. Rachel Jane Carroll explains how aesthetic pleasure isfundamental to the production and circulation of racial meaning in the United States through a study ofexperimental work by authors and artists of color.For Pleasure offers methods for reading experimental literature and art produced by racially minoritizedauthors and artists working in and around the US, including Isaac Julien, Nella Larsen, Yoko Ono, JackWhitten, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon, Zora Neale Hurston, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Cici Wu. Along theway, we learn what a racist joke has to do with the history of monochrome painting, if beauty has a partto play in social change, and whether whimTrade ReviewIn a world where the category of race too easily conjures up the ugliest aspects of social inequality, xenophobia, and racial violence, Rachel Carroll’s exquisite new book reminds us that racial difference can also be a site of extraordinary beauty, imagination, and communion. Through a meticulous and generous reading of twentieth-century experimental cultural forms, For Pleasure recovers a tradition of Black and Asian American artists refiguring race as an open invitation to ceaselessly play with and recombine the various facets of phenotypical difference. The artists Carroll assembles ultimately aim to wholly disorganize our sense of what counts as beautiful, opening up the field of pleasure to continual revision. -- Ramzi Fawaz, author of Queer FormsThrilling and inventive at every turn. Carroll seeks to recover aesthetic and erotic pleasure in literary, visual, and performative art, and she does so in unexpected ways and places. In arguing that aesthetic pleasure and innovation can undo the unfreedom of racism in which we find ourselves, this well-argued and stylistically sophisticated book reveals experimental art to be an undeniable vehicle of social theory. -- GerShun Avilez, University of Maryland
£62.90
New York University Press For Pleasure
Book SynopsisArgues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racistdominationFor Pleasure proposes that experimental aesthetics shaped race in the twentieth-century United Statesby creating transformative scenes of pleasure. Rachel Jane Carroll explains how aesthetic pleasure isfundamental to the production and circulation of racial meaning in the United States through a study ofexperimental work by authors and artists of color.For Pleasure offers methods for reading experimental literature and art produced by racially minoritizedauthors and artists working in and around the US, including Isaac Julien, Nella Larsen, Yoko Ono, JackWhitten, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon, Zora Neale Hurston, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Cici Wu. Along theway, we learn what a racist joke has to do with the history of monochrome painting, if beauty has a partto play in social change, and whether whimTrade ReviewIn a world where the category of race too easily conjures up the ugliest aspects of social inequality, xenophobia, and racial violence, Rachel Carroll’s exquisite new book reminds us that racial difference can also be a site of extraordinary beauty, imagination, and communion. Through a meticulous and generous reading of twentieth-century experimental cultural forms, For Pleasure recovers a tradition of Black and Asian American artists refiguring race as an open invitation to ceaselessly play with and recombine the various facets of phenotypical difference. The artists Carroll assembles ultimately aim to wholly disorganize our sense of what counts as beautiful, opening up the field of pleasure to continual revision. -- Ramzi Fawaz, author of Queer FormsThrilling and inventive at every turn. Carroll seeks to recover aesthetic and erotic pleasure in literary, visual, and performative art, and she does so in unexpected ways and places. In arguing that aesthetic pleasure and innovation can undo the unfreedom of racism in which we find ourselves, this well-argued and stylistically sophisticated book reveals experimental art to be an undeniable vehicle of social theory. -- GerShun Avilez, University of Maryland
£22.79
University of Toronto Press Wordsworth as Critic
Book SynopsisThis book is the first full-scale account of the growth of Wordsworth’s thinking about the theory of poetry. It draws mainly on his formal critical essays but also on unpublished material and personal statements about poetics and the growth and constitution of the poet’s mind in The Prelude, in other verse, and in letters. The foundation of the discussion is an account of the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, based on Professor Owen’s edition of that text published in 1957. The chapters on the Essays upon Epitaphs, the Preface or 1815, and the Essay, Supplementary to the Preface, trace a process of development in which the critic silently abandons the more embarrassingly controversial elements of his earliest argument (such as his advocacy of the language of rustics and the language of prose), confirms its more satisfactory features, and progresses to a subtle, intricate, and rewarding account of his psychology of literary creation and of the audience’s reaction t
£25.19
Cornell University Press The Arts of Cinema
Book SynopsisIn The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores film's connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise and elegantly written chapters, he explores the cinema's singular aesthetic potential and uses specific examples from a diverse range of filmsfrom Antonioni and Hitchcock to The Searchers and The Bourne Supremacyto demonstrate the many ways this potential can be realized. Seel's analysis provides both a new perspective on film as a comprehensive aesthetic experience and a nuanced understanding of what the medium does to us once we are in the cinema.Trade ReviewIn his tremendously stimulating aesthetics of cinema, Martin Seel writes that films absorb the presence of the spectator more than all other works of art.... One of the merits of his book is that it is informed by a wide spectrum of film history, from the Marx Brothers to Fassbinder. * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *In his stimulating volume, the philosopher Seel looks for the essence and especially the particularity of the cinema, tracing the roots of cinema in other arts. According to Seel, film takes up elements from all of these arts and realizes its unique potential. Films like Hitchcock's North by Northwest or Antonioni's Zabriskie Point explode the boundaries of space and draw all of the spectator’s senses into it. * Deutschlandfunk [German Public Radio] *An exciting work of ‘philosophy meets cinema’—intellectually sophisticated but written in a rich, playful style—this book is both impressive and delightful. * academicworld.net *Seel grounds his philosophical work in close textual analysis of a small selection of representative films, including Hollywood classics, such as The Searchers; art films, such as Caché; and more recent action films, such as The Bourne Supremacy. As a work of philosophy and film theory, the book is notable for its lively engagement with complex ideas and for its inviting prose. It will appeal primarily to those with a strong interest in film aesthetics. * Choice *Anyone who studies, watches, or appreciates films for their beauty and artistic value will enjoy Seel's musings in philosophy and art. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly (CBQ) *Table of ContentsOpening Credits: Affairs—The Site of the Cinema—"Film"—The Course of Things—The Film Program 1. Film as Architecture: A Beginning—Division of Space—Ambient Sound—Some Opening Credits—Landscapes—Two Extremes—An Ending—Spatial Imagination—More Opening Credits 2. Film as Music: A Prelude—Time Connections—Action (1)—Double Motion—Action (2)—Spaces of Time—Higher Rhythm—Explosion 3. Film as Image: People Waiting—Pictorial Appearing—Image and Movement—Photography and Film—Another Trip— The Promise of Photography—Image Analysis—The Promise of Film—Another Ending 4. Film as Spectacle: Anarchy—Division of Space, Again—Virtuality—Sculpturality— Actors—Voices—Theatricality—Attractionism—Ecstasy 5. Film as Narrative: Three Films—Abstinence—Narrative Disposition—Telling Stories—Perspectivity—Filmic Storytelling—Cinema's Temporal Form—The Present Past 6. Film as Exploration: In Baghdad—Urban Landscapes—Realities—Processes of Documentation—A Double Promise—Techniques of Fiction— Questions of Style—Loss of Control—References to the World—The End 7. Film as Imagination: At Bakersfield—An Illusionistic Interpretation—The Figure of the Illusionist—Illusion and Immersion—Imagination Not Illusion—Photography and Film, Again—Twofold Attention—Illusion as a Technique—Caché 8. Film as Emotion: The End, Yet Again—The Illusionist's Final Appearance— Motion and Emotion—Corporeality—Sensate Understanding— Expressivity—Engagement—Twofold Attention, Again—Mixed Emotions—Godard 9. Film as Philosophy: Flashbacks—Another Affair—Three Dimensions—Cine- anthropology—Active Passivity—An Encore—Landscapes, Once Again Closing Credits: Notice—Thanks
£15.19
Cornell University Press Modernisms Inhuman Worlds
Book SynopsisModernism''s Inhuman Worlds explores the centrality of ecological precarity, species indeterminacy, planetary change, and the specter of extinction to modernist and contemporary metamodernist literatures. Modernist ecologies, Rasheed Tazudeen argues, emerge in response to the enigma of how to imagine inhuman beingincluding soils, forests, oceans, and the earth itselfthrough languages and epistemologies that have only ever been humanist. How might (meta)modernist aesthetics help us to imagine (with) inhuman worlds, including the worlds still to be made on the other side of mass extinction? Through innovative readings of canonical and emergent modernist and metamodernist works, Tazudeen theorizes inhuman modernism as a call toward further receptivity to the worlds, beings, and relations that tend to go unthought within Western humanist epistemologies. Modernist engagements with the figures of enigma, riddle, and metaphor, according to the book''s central ar
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Stanford University Press Badiou by Badiou
Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed up in the trilogy of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, and The Immanence of Truths. Taking the form of an interview and two talks and keeping in mind a broad audience without any prior knowledge of his work, the book touches upon the central concepts and major preoccupations of Badiou's philosophy: fundamental ontology, mathematics, politics, poetry, and love. Well-chosen examples illuminate his thinking in regards to being and universality, worlds and singularity, and the infinite and the absolute, among other topics. A veritable tour de force of pedagogical clarity, this new student-friendly work is perhaps the single best general introduction to the work of this prolific and committed thinker. If, for Badiou, the task of philosophy consists in thinking through the truths of our time, the texts collected in this small volume could not be timelier.Trade Review"Badiou by Badiou synthesizes Badiou's key ideas with a personal touch, inviting readers into his presentation of what philosophy is and his highly original way of philosophizing. Badiou is brilliant at making anyone want to engage with philosophical questions."—Emily Apter, author of Unexceptional Politics"This book captures the latest developments in Alain Badiou's thought, while providing an excellent introduction for new readers. Badiou by Badiou, his most legible work, is a riveting tour of the domains of art, love, politics, and science."—Héctor Hoyos, author of Things with a History"Badiou proves himself again to be, like Socrates, a corrupter of the youth. With this clear entry point into his metaphysical project, Badiou demonstrates the dangerously transformative character of philosophy."—Jodi Dean, author of Comrade"As the 21st century shapes up to be all about ends, Badiou challenges us to think ab novo. This latest installment of his firebrand philosophy will ignite youth even among those who think its time has passed."—Joan Copjec, author of Imagine There's No WomanTable of ContentsPart One: Event, Truths, Subject Part Two: Philosophy Between Mathematics and Poetry Part Three: Ontology and Mathematics
£57.60
Stanford University Press American Graphic: Disgust and Data in
Book SynopsisWhat do we really mean when we call something "graphic"? In American Graphic, Rebecca Clark examines the "graphic" as a term tellingly at odds with itself. On the one hand, it seems to evoke the grotesque; on the other hand, it promises the geometrically streamlined in the form of graphs, diagrams, and user interfaces. Clark's innovation is to ask what happens when the same moment in a work of literature is graphic in both ways at once. Her answer suggests the graphic turn in contemporary literature is intimately implicated in the fraught dynamics of identification. As Clark reveals, this double graphic indexes the unseemliness of a lust—in our current culture of information—for cool epistemological mastery over the bodies of others. Clark analyzes the contemporary graphic along three specific axes: the ethnographic, the pornographic, and the infographic. In each chapter, Clark's explication of the double graphic reads a canonical author against literary, visual and/or performance works by Black and/or female creators. Pairing works by Edgar Allan Poe, Vladimir Nabokov, and Thomas Pynchon with pieces by Mat Johnson, Kara Walker, Fran Ross, Narcissister, and Teju Cole, Clark tests the effects and affects of the double graphic across racialized and gendered axes of differences. American Graphic forces us to face how closely and uncomfortably yoked together disgust and data have become in our increasingly graph-ick world. Trade Review"This stylishly written book offers a series of masterful examples of the value of close reading, opening up provocative connections between formality and filthiness, detachment and disgust."—Eugenie Brinkema, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"A smart, lively, consistently unsettling book. Clark's superb analysis of works that are at once grotesque and clinical boldly charts the sentimental politics of affect and identification for our age of data-driven cool."—Justus Nieland, Michigan State University"Clark has written a groundbreaking and timely book, one that interrogates the social implications of the flat registers that digital and visual culture create. She disrupts our relationships with sleek digital artifacts and the consequential flat affects that shape our everyday lives. And in doing so, she pushes on the limits of what the digital humanities can be and do."—Liliana M. Naydan, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Graphic and the Graph-ick 1. The American Grotesque: A Graphic Digest 2. The Ethnographic 3. The Pornographic 4. The Infographic Conclusion: Identification and Its Discontents
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Stanford University Press Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique
Book SynopsisIn Anteaesthetics, Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness cannot be represented in modernity's aesthetic regime, but is nevertheless foundational to every representation. Troubling the idea that the aesthetic is sheltered from the antiblack terror that lies just beyond its sanctuary, Bradley insists that blackness cannot make a home within the aesthetic, yet is held as its threshold and aporia. The book problematizes the phenomenological and ontological conceits that underwrite the visual, sensual, and abstract logics of modernity. Moving across multiple histories and geographies, artistic mediums and forms, from nineteenth-century painting and early cinema, to the contemporary text-based works, video installations, and digital art of Glenn Ligon, Mickalene Thomas, and Sondra Perry, Bradley inaugurates a new method for interpretation—an ante-formalism which demonstrates how black art engages in the recursive deconstruction of the aesthetic forms that remain foundational to modernity. Foregrounding the negativity of black art, Bradley shows how each of these artists disclose the racialized contours of the body, form, and medium, even interrogating the form that is the world itself. Drawing from black critical theory, Continental philosophy, film and media studies, art history, and black feminist thought, Bradley explores artistic practices that inhabit the negative underside of form. Ultimately, Anteaesthetics asks us to think philosophically with black art, and with the philosophical invention black art necessarily undertakes.Trade Review"Anteaesthetics is the study of black aesthetics I didn't know I sorely needed. Bradley offers a razor-sharp and sumptuous meditation on black aesthetics in, through, and vestibular to an anti-black world."—Alexander Ghedi Weheliye, Brown University"Rizvana Bradley's searching theory of black aesthesis traces black art's recursions through the violent origins of the aesthetic. Anteaesthetics opens a mode of reading for black art's non-instrumental exploration of abyssal descent. An incisive and energizing book through and through."—Rei Terada, University of California, Irvine"In this brilliantly conceived and exquisitely rendered study, Bradley offers a path-breaking analysis that will revolutionize how we approach, contest, and undo the Western visual field. Anteaesthetics offers an indispensable and undisciplined new frame for black feminist theorizing."—Huey Copeland, University of Pennsylvania"Incisive and compelling, Bradley's Anteaesthetics restores to thought and feeling a capacious sense of the aesthetic, revealing its tremendous and violent power as nothing less than foundational to a racially typified modern world."—Shane Denson, Stanford University"Anteaesthetics limns the depths of aesthetic and semiotic violence, refocusing our theoretical vision. This is an indispensable text—a tour de force."—Calvin Warren, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Toward a Theory of Anteaesthetics 2. The Corporeal Division of the World, or Aesthetic Ruination 3. Before the Nude, or Exorbitant Figuration 4. The Black Residuum, or That Which Remains 5. Unworlding, or the Involution of Value
£92.80
Stanford University Press Aesthetic Action
Book SynopsisIn this new book, Florian Klinger gives readers a basic action-theoretical account of the aesthetic. While normal action fulfills a determinate concept, Klinger argues, aesthetic action performs an indeterminacy by suspending the action's conceptual resolution. Taking as examples work by Tino Sehgal, Kara Walker, Mazen Kerbaj, Marina Abramović, Cy Twombly, and Franz Kafka, the book examines indeterminacy in such instances as a walk that is at once leisurely and purposeful, a sound piece that is at once joyous and mournful and mechanical, or a sculpture that at once draws one in and shuts one out. Because it has irresolution as its point, aesthetic action presents itself as an unsettling of ourselves, our ways, our very sense of who we are. As performers of such action, we don't recognize one another as bearers of a shared human form as we normally would, but find ourselves tasked anew with figuring out what sharing a form would mean. In conversation with philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, and Anscombe; political thinkers such as Marx and Lorde; and contemporary interlocutors such as Michael Thompson, Sebastian Rödl, and Thomas Khurana, Klinger's book makes a case for a conception of the human form that systematically includes the aesthetic: an actualization of the form that is indeterminate and nevertheless rational. The book gives the project of Western philosophical aesthetics a long-overdue formulation for our present that aims to do justice to contemporary aesthetic production as it actually exists. It will appeal to those working in philosophy, art, and political thought. Trade Review"With ingenious, stunning readings, Klinger breaks new ground in aesthetics. This is a philosophy of art with which thinkers and scholars will contend for years to come."—Henry W. Pickford, Duke University"Aesthetic Action offers a highly original and substantial outline of a new understanding of aesthetics. This is an important and rigorous contribution to emerging conversations in philosophy, of highest interest for readers interested in giving an account of contemporary art."—Rüdiger Campe, Yale University"Klinger gives us an entirely new way of understanding the indeterminacy of our encounters with art. In his incisive analyses he offers a truly fresh view of art, one that opens the fields of interaction each work creates."—Niklaus Largier, University of California, Berkeley"This book rethinks action through aesthetics and aesthetics through action, providing us with a new insight into the kind of unsettling that the aesthetic is and affords."—María del Rosario Acosta López, University of California, RiversideTable of ContentsPreface ONE. The Unsettling 1. The Thought of Aesthetic Distinction 2. Life Form and Settledness 3. Aesthetic Unsettling 4. The Use of Unsettling 5. The Account TWO. Accounting for Ourselves 1. Determinacy 2. The Original Scene of Self-Determination 3. Form as Answer: Hegel's Conception of the Aesthetic as Determinacy 4. Form as Question: A Conception of the Aesthetic as Indeterminacy 5. The Task of a Unified Accounting THREE. A Three-Way Capacity 1. Rationality and Indeterminacy 2. A Rational Capacity 3. Failed Attempts at Conceiving Indeterminacy 4. Indeterminacy as Part of Our Form 5. Indeterminacy as Such FOUR. Logical Account of Aesthetic Action: Aspectual Irresolution 1. The Concept of Aesthetic Action 2. Distinction through Aspectual Irresolution 3. Internal Unity in Crisis 4. Aesthetic Indeterminacy 5. External Unity with Action at Large FIVE. Material Account of Aesthetic Action: Bond without Terms 1. Logical and Material Accounting 2. Bond without Terms 3. Aesthetic Interaction 4. Life as Such 5. The Question of Who We Are SIX. Aesthetic Transformation 1. Aesthetic Action as Transformation 2. Performance without Resources 3. The Work of Aspectual Irresolution 4. Transformation That Includes Its Terms 5. The Aesthetic Self SEVEN. The Use of the Aesthetic 1. The Political as Example 2. Our Form as Political Task 3. Tino Sehgal: Genus Politics 4. Kara Walker: Politics of Difference 5. Mazen Kerbaj: Politics of Life as Such Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Syriza in Power: Reflections of an Accidental
Book SynopsisAmid the turmoil of economic crisis, Greece has become the first European experiment of left rule in a sea of neoliberalism. What happens when a government of the Left, committed to social justice and the reversal of austerity, is blackmailed into following policies it has fought against and strongly opposes? What can the experience of the Syriza government tell us about the prospects for the Left in the twenty-first century? In this engaging and provocative book, Costas Douzinas uses his position as an 'accidental politician', unexpectedly propelled from academia into the world of Greek politics as a Syriza MP, to answer these urgent questions. He examines the challenges facing Syriza since its ascent to power in 2015 and draws out the theoretical and political lessons from one of the boldest and most difficult experiments in governing from the Left in an age of neoliberalism and austerity.Trade Review"What a rare and wonderful book! Douzinas reflects with searing honesty on the challenges facing left parties trying to govern and protect embattled nations in an age of financialization and globalization. Because he is one of the most perspicacious critical legal and political theorists of our time, he has also offered a brilliant set of political theoretical meditations. By turns ironic, tragic, caustic and moving, Syriza in Power is essential reading for serious leftists everywhere." Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley "While the Syriza government, elected in 2015 in Greece, was teaching the world a lesson of courage and fidelity, Costas Douzinas, its "professor elect", was teaching a lesson of lucidity, intelligence and imagination. Above all, he makes plain that, in the darkest hour, history is not finished, because the resistance is rooted in the life and ideals of the people itself. Whether one entirely agrees or not with Douzinas' "left Euroscepticism that can save Europe", his politics of truth will prove immensely helpful." Étienne Balibar, Kingston UniversityTable of Contents Prologue: The Accidental Politician A. Resistance Rising 1. From Utopia to Dystopia and Resistance, a Short Run 2. Hunger Strikers and Hunger Artists 3. Radical Philosophy Encounters Syriza 4. A Philosophy of Resistance B. Syriza Agonistes 5. A Very European Coup 6. Contradiction is the Name of the Governing Left C. Reflections on Life as Politician 7. Welcome To The Desert Of Disorderly Order 8. Learning from Ideology 9. The Curious Incident of the Missing TV Licenses D. The Moral Advantage of the Left 10. The Ethos of the Left 11. Greeks or Europeans? 12. The Euro, the Sacred and the Holy E. Left History 13. The Left and the Philosophy Of History 14. 1949, 1969, 1989: The Cycles of History F. From Grexit to Brexit 15. Putting the Demos On Stage 16. Grexit and Brexit, Oxi and Leave 17. Brexit and Euroscepticism G. Finis Europae 18. Finis Europae? 19. The Left and the Future of Europe H. Cities of Refuge 20. Europe Between Two Infant Deaths 21. Human Rights For Martians Notes
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Syriza in Power: Reflections of an Accidental
Book SynopsisAmid the turmoil of economic crisis, Greece has become the first European experiment of left rule in a sea of neoliberalism. What happens when a government of the Left, committed to social justice and the reversal of austerity, is blackmailed into following policies it has fought against and strongly opposes? What can the experience of the Syriza government tell us about the prospects for the Left in the twenty-first century? In this engaging and provocative book, Costas Douzinas uses his position as an 'accidental politician', unexpectedly propelled from academia into the world of Greek politics as a Syriza MP, to answer these urgent questions. He examines the challenges facing Syriza since its ascent to power in 2015 and draws out the theoretical and political lessons from one of the boldest and most difficult experiments in governing from the Left in an age of neoliberalism and austerity.Trade Review"What a rare and wonderful book! Douzinas reflects with searing honesty on the challenges facing left parties trying to govern and protect embattled nations in an age of financialization and globalization. Because he is one of the most perspicacious critical legal and political theorists of our time, he has also offered a brilliant set of political theoretical meditations. By turns ironic, tragic, caustic and moving, Syriza in Power is essential reading for serious leftists everywhere." Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley "While the Syriza government, elected in 2015 in Greece, was teaching the world a lesson of courage and fidelity, Costas Douzinas, its "professor elect", was teaching a lesson of lucidity, intelligence and imagination. Above all, he makes plain that, in the darkest hour, history is not finished, because the resistance is rooted in the life and ideals of the people itself. Whether one entirely agrees or not with Douzinas' "left Euroscepticism that can save Europe", his politics of truth will prove immensely helpful." Étienne Balibar, Kingston University"Costas Douzinas’ Syriza in Power carries a wondrous resemblance to Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince... Both works scrutinise without moralization the world of politics at a critical historical juncture… As they set out to expose the tensions between the logic of moral rectitude and the demands of public action, they advance positions that are in direct conflict with the dominant doctrines of the time. The insights into the world of politics are invariably delivered with flair and erudition that simultaneously seduce and intimidate."Open DemocracyTable of Contents Prologue: The Accidental Politician A. Resistance Rising 1. From Utopia to Dystopia and Resistance, a Short Run 2. Hunger Strikers and Hunger Artists 3. Radical Philosophy Encounters Syriza 4. A Philosophy of Resistance B. Syriza Agonistes 5. A Very European Coup 6. Contradiction is the Name of the Governing Left C. Reflections on Life as Politician 7. Welcome To The Desert Of Disorderly Order 8. Learning from Ideology 9. The Curious Incident of the Missing TV Licenses D. The Moral Advantage of the Left 10. The Ethos of the Left 11. Greeks or Europeans? 12. The Euro, the Sacred and the Holy E. Left History 13. The Left and the Philosophy Of History 14. 1949, 1969, 1989: The Cycles of History F. From Grexit to Brexit 15. Putting the Demos On Stage 16. Grexit and Brexit, Oxi and Leave 17. Brexit and Euroscepticism G. Finis Europae 18. Finis Europae? 19. The Left and the Future of Europe H. Cities of Refuge 20. Europe Between Two Infant Deaths 21. Human Rights For Martians Notes
£14.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Art and Objects
Book SynopsisIn this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in this way because they don't have direct access to their objects. Hence philosophy shares the same fate as art in being compelled to communicate indirectly, allusively, or elliptically, rather than in the clear propositional terms that are often taken – wrongly – to be the sole stuff of genuine philosophy. Conceiving of philosophy and art in this way allows us to reread key debates in aesthetic theory and to view art history in a different way. The formalist criticism of Greenberg and Fried is rejected for its refusal to embrace the innate theatricality and deep multiplicity of every artwork. This has consequences for art criticism, making pictorial content more important than formalism thinks but less entwined with the social sphere than anti-formalism holds. It has consequences for art history too, as the surrealists, David, and Poussin, among others, gain in importance. The close link between aesthetics and ontology also invites a new periodization of modern philosophy as a whole, and the habitual turn away from Kant’s thing-in-itself towards an increase in philosophical "immanence" is shown to be a false dawn. This major work will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, aesthetics, art history and cultural theory.Trade Review“An essential guide by the foremost philosopher of our age. This book will educate and delight both aficionados and those unfamiliar with the first major philosophical movement of the twenty-first century.”Timothy Morton, Rice University “Harman presents a clear overview of the development of Speculative Realism’s core debates. He not only reconstructs its genealogy but offers a remarkably concise introduction to his own ontology by putting it in its larger context.”Markus Gabriel, University of Bonn". . . Harman is a wonderful writer. He’s accessible and lively, a real joy to read."The University BookmanTable of ContentsAbbreviations for Frequently Cited Works Preliminary Note Introduction: Formalism and the Lessons of Dante 1. OOO and Art: A First Summary 2. Formalism and its Flaws 3. Theatrical, Not Literal 4. The Canvas is the Message 5. After High Modernism 6. Dada, Surrealism, and Literalism 7. Weird Formalism Notes Works Cited
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The PlayStation Dreamworld
Book SynopsisFrom mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is – to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek – the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream analysis. It also argues that the Left needs to work inside this dreamspace – a powerful arena for constructing our desires – or else the dreamworld will fall entirely into the hands of dominant and reactionary forces. While cyberspace is increasingly dominated by corporate organization, gaming, at its most subversive, can nevertheless produce radical forms of enjoyment which threaten the capitalist norms that are created and endlessly repeated in our daily relationships with mobile phones, videogames, computers and other forms of technological entertainment. Far from being a book solely for dedicated gamers, this book dissects the structure of our relationships to all technological entertainment at a time when entertainment has become ubiquitous. We can no longer escape our fantasies but rather live inside their digital reality.Trade Review“The universe of video games and the action they involve us in render perfectly the illusions and antagonisms of our ideological predicament - the popularity of post-apocalyptic games tells it all. But perhaps even more important is the type of subjectivity a gamer has to adopt when immersed into a game: a mixture of extreme engagement and loss of reality, a universe of immortality where actions are indefinitely repeatable. So it is not that we can understand the impact of these games only through the analysis of our social reality - it's also the other way round: to understand how our societies work you have to know video games And Alfie Bown does this at such a high level that he produces an instant classic, a book that everyone who seeks to find a way in our confused social life will have to read. The Playstation Dreamworld is unputdownable, once you start reading it you will get addicted to it... as in a good video game!” Slavoj iek “If you ever asked yourself what Freud and Lacan would think if they had a chance to play video games, Alfie Bown gives you the answer. As a passionate gamer and a playful philosopher, he succeeds in showing not only why video-games matter but why they might carry subversive potential. This exciting psychoanalysis of video games shows why Pokémon GO and other games were only the beginning of a brave new world."Srećko Horvat From mobile phones to consoles to tablet, we are now a generation of gamers. This book dissects the structure of our relationships to all forms of technological entertainment at a time when digital enjoyment has become ubiquitous.Alfie Bown is Assistant Professor of Literature at HSMC, Hong Kong and co-editor of the Hong Kong Review of Books."A significant contribution to the debate around virtual reality" TLSTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Note on the Games Tutorial: The Pokémon Generation Level 1. From Farming Simulation to Dystopic Wasteland: Gaming and Capitalism Work and Play - Cultures of Distraction - Pastoral Dystopia, Apocalyptic Utopia – No Alternative Level 2. Dreamwork: Cyborgs on the Analyst’s Couch Japanese Dreams, American Texts – The Dreamworld - Repetitions and the Dromena – Immersion and Westworld Level 3. Retro Gaming: The Politics of Former and Future Pleasures 90s Rational Gaming – Virtual/Reality - Subject, Object, Enjoyment - Jouissance in the Arcades Bonus Features: How to be a Subversive Gamer Game Index Endnotes
£38.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Transitory Museum
Book SynopsisThroughout 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 begun to dissolve. There is one place that represents a key stage in this evolution: 10 Corso Como. It was founded in Milan, at that very address, by fashion editor Carla Sozzani and has since expanded to Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, and New York. The name “concept store”, which has now spread across our globalized world, was originally coined to describe this new form. This book is the first philosophical inquiry into this new form of store and it sheds new light on how categories that have governed our modern lives, such as commerce, art, fashion, and museum, are being redefined today.Trade Review“Coccia and Grau's insightful account of 10 Corso Como presents a model where multiple disciplines do not just sit side by side but blend together holistically under one roof. This is a compelling case study of a transitional and ever-shifting space that is wholly in tune with the rhythm and pace of our time.”Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, London “Is some of the future of the art museum to be found in the intimate experience that comes in 10 Corso Como, the ultimate, curated ‘concept store’? Coccia and Grau have found food for museum thought in a retail temple of fashion and living.”Michael Govan, CEO and Director, Los Angeles County Museum of ArtTable of Contents Foreword. In Action Chapter 1. Absolute Commerce Chapter 2. The Eternal and the Ephemeral Chapter 3: The Confines of Fashion Postface. At Calm Notes
£33.25
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Time of the Landscape: On the Origins of the
Book SynopsisThe time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art: it is the time when the landscape imposed itself as a specific object of thought. It is the time when both the harmony of arranged gardens and the disharmony of wild nature led to a revolution in the criteria of the beautiful and in the meaning of the word “art.” It coincided with the birth of aesthetics, understood as a regime for shaping how art is seen and thought, and also with the French Revolution, understood as a revolution in the very idea of what binds together a human community. The time of the landscape is the time when the conjunction of these two upheavals brought into focus, however hazily, a common horizon: that of a revolution that no longer concerns only the laws of the state or the norms of art, but the very forms of sensible experience. This brilliant and wide-ranging book will be of interest to students and scholars in philosophy, literature, the visual arts, and the humanities generally, and to anyone interested in critical theory and philosophy.Trade Review“This short, polemical intervention in the history of landscape aesthetics is sure to energize a fresh debate about the relations of painting, architecture, and visual experience in the nineteenth century.”W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago“A decisive treatment of the perception and management of nature, The Time of the Landscape contends that the design and management of gardens in the post-revolutionary regime signal a sea-change in the ways we perceive, experience, and shape the world around us.”Tom Conley, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations of frequently cited works List of Illustrations Foreword I. A Newcomer to the Fine Arts II. Scenes of Nature III. The Landscape as Painting IV. Beyond the Visible V. Politics of the Landscape Epilogue Notes
£42.75
University of Minnesota Press Bioaesthetics: Making Sense of Life in Science
Book SynopsisIn recent years, bioaesthetics has used the latest discoveries in evolutionary studies and neuroscience to provide new ways of looking at art and aesthetics. Carsten Strathausen’s remarkable exploration of this emerging field is the first comprehensive account of its ideas, as well as a timely critique of its limitations. Strathausen familiarizes readers with the basics of bioaesthetics, grounding them in its philosophical underpinnings while articulating its key components. Importantly, he delves into the longstanding problem of the “two cultures” that separate the arts and the sciences. Seeking to make bioaesthetics a more robust way of thinking, Strathausen then critiques it for failing to account for science’s historical and cultural assumptions. At its worst, he says, biologism reduces artworks to mere automatons that rubber-stamp pre-established scientific truths. Written with a sensitive understanding of science’s strengths, and willing to refute its best arguments, Bioaesthetics helps readers separate the sensible from the specious. At a time when humanities departments are shrinking—and when STEM education is on the rise—Bioaesthetics makes vital points about the limitations of science, while lodging a robust defense of the importance of the humanities.Trade Review"If you’ve ever wondered how we’ve gotten to the point where virtually every cultural theory field now boasts a ‘bio-’ or ‘neuro-’ subfield, Carsten Strathausen’s Bioaesthetics is an excellent guide. Setting the stage with scrupulous readings of historical controversies, Strathausen then incisively critiques the reductionist ‘biologism’ he finds in ‘literary Darwinism,’ ‘biopoetics,’ ‘neuroaestethics,’ and so on, before judiciously tackling Deleuze and affect theory. A powerful and insightful study, Bioaesthetics rewards the reader with clarifying and careful mappings of important contemporary concepts."—John Protevi, author of Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the SciencesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Biological Nature of What?Against Consilience What Is Bioaesthetics?Structure and Chapters1. Human Nature after KantKant and BiologyPreformation and Epigenesis before 1800Emergent Life (Autopoiesis and Cognition)Sensus Communis Aestheticus2. Marxism and BiologyMarx and DarwinChance and Necessity, or, Kant RevisitedScience and PoliticsA Biologistic Theory of HistoryOn Norm-Circularity and Aleatory Materialism3. Cultural EvolutionSociobiologyEvolutionary Psychology (EP)Social Learning and SociogenesisOf Memes and Culturgens Technogenesis4. Evolutionary AestheticsArt and NatureA Survey of the FieldLiterary Darwinism RevisitedCognitive Studies5. NeuroaestheticsHow to “Read” a Brain ScanThe Cerebral SubjectConsciousnessNeuronal Aesthetics: The Historical ViewNeuroaesthetics: The Scientific View“The Pre-existing Idea within Us”: Zeki’s PlatonismCodaDeleuze and AffectA Posthuman Aesthetics?NotesIndex
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press Bioaesthetics: Making Sense of Life in Science
Book SynopsisIn recent years, bioaesthetics has used the latest discoveries in evolutionary studies and neuroscience to provide new ways of looking at art and aesthetics. Carsten Strathausen’s remarkable exploration of this emerging field is the first comprehensive account of its ideas, as well as a timely critique of its limitations. Strathausen familiarizes readers with the basics of bioaesthetics, grounding them in its philosophical underpinnings while articulating its key components. Importantly, he delves into the longstanding problem of the “two cultures” that separate the arts and the sciences. Seeking to make bioaesthetics a more robust way of thinking, Strathausen then critiques it for failing to account for science’s historical and cultural assumptions. At its worst, he says, biologism reduces artworks to mere automatons that rubber-stamp pre-established scientific truths. Written with a sensitive understanding of science’s strengths, and willing to refute its best arguments, Bioaesthetics helps readers separate the sensible from the specious. At a time when humanities departments are shrinking—and when STEM education is on the rise—Bioaesthetics makes vital points about the limitations of science, while lodging a robust defense of the importance of the humanities.Trade Review"If you’ve ever wondered how we’ve gotten to the point where virtually every cultural theory field now boasts a ‘bio-’ or ‘neuro-’ subfield, Carsten Strathausen’s Bioaesthetics is an excellent guide. Setting the stage with scrupulous readings of historical controversies, Strathausen then incisively critiques the reductionist ‘biologism’ he finds in ‘literary Darwinism,’ ‘biopoetics,’ ‘neuroaestethics,’ and so on, before judiciously tackling Deleuze and affect theory. A powerful and insightful study, Bioaesthetics rewards the reader with clarifying and careful mappings of important contemporary concepts."—John Protevi, author of Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the SciencesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Biological Nature of What?Against Consilience What Is Bioaesthetics?Structure and Chapters1. Human Nature after KantKant and BiologyPreformation and Epigenesis before 1800Emergent Life (Autopoiesis and Cognition)Sensus Communis Aestheticus2. Marxism and BiologyMarx and DarwinChance and Necessity, or, Kant RevisitedScience and PoliticsA Biologistic Theory of HistoryOn Norm-Circularity and Aleatory Materialism3. Cultural EvolutionSociobiologyEvolutionary Psychology (EP)Social Learning and SociogenesisOf Memes and Culturgens Technogenesis4. Evolutionary AestheticsArt and NatureA Survey of the FieldLiterary Darwinism RevisitedCognitive Studies5. NeuroaestheticsHow to “Read” a Brain ScanThe Cerebral SubjectConsciousnessNeuronal Aesthetics: The Historical ViewNeuroaesthetics: The Scientific View“The Pre-existing Idea within Us”: Zeki’s PlatonismCodaDeleuze and AffectA Posthuman Aesthetics?NotesIndex
£23.39
University of Minnesota Press Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and
Book SynopsisA philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of lifeBleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes—from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its calculation—as aesthetic. It is also a book about “bad” things, such as anguish and devastation, which relate to the ecological and technical but are also constitutive of politics, the ethical, and the formation of subjects.Avidly interdisciplinary, Bleak Joys draws on scientific work in plant sciences, computing, and cybernetics, as well as mathematics, literature, and art in ways that are not merely illustrative of but foundational to our understanding of ecological aesthetics and the condition in which the posthumanities are being forged. It places the sensory world of plants next to the generalized and nonlinear infrastructure of irresolvability—the economics of indifference up against the question of how to make a home on Planet Earth in a condition of damaged ecologies. Crosscutting chapters on devastation, anguish, irresolvability, luck, plant, and home create a vivid and multifaceted approach that is as remarkable for its humor as for its scholarly complexity.Engaging with Deleuze, Guattari, and Bakhtin, among others, Bleak Joys captures the modes of crises that constitute our present ecological and political condition, and reckons with the means by which they are not simply aesthetically known but aesthetically manifest.Trade Review"Bleak Joys is a tour de force—a survey of some of the most important ideas and environmental issues of our times."—Eben Kirksey, author of Emergent Ecologies and editor of The Multispecies Salon"With Bleak Joys, Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova take us on an extraordinary exploration of aesthetic transformations in the era of the new climate regime. Not only does the book offer a unique perspective on a new framework of thought, but it also questions the perceptual, emotional, and ethico-aesthetic transformations imposed on us by the ecological crisis that constitutes our present."—Didier Debaise, author of Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Aesthesis and Perceptronium: On the Entanglement
Book SynopsisA new speculative ontology of aesthetics In Aesthesis and Perceptronium, Alexander Wilson presents a theory of materialist and posthumanist aesthetics founded on an original speculative ontology that addresses the interconnections of experience, cognition, organism, and matter. Entering the active fields of contemporary thought known as the new materialisms and realisms, Wilson argues for a rigorous redefining of the criteria that allow us to discriminate between those materials and objects where aesthesis (perception, cognition) takes place and those where it doesn’t. Aesthesis and Perceptronium negotiates between indiscriminately pluralist views that attribute mentation to all things and eliminative views that deny the existence of mentation even in humans. By recasting aesthetic questions within the framework of “epistemaesthetics,” which considers cognition and aesthetics as belonging to a single category that can neither be fully disentangled nor fully reduced to either of its terms, Wilson forges a theory of nonhuman experience that avoids this untenable dilemma. Through a novel consideration of the evolutionary origins of cognition and its extension in technological developments, the investigation culminates in a rigorous reevaluation of the status of matter, information, computation, causality, and time in terms of their logical and causal engagement with the activities of human and nonhuman agents. Trade Review"Aesthesis and Perceptronium offers a nuanced engagement with science, technology, and art that is otherwise largely missing from contemporary debates, exploring the significance of aesthetics in the aftermath of neomaterialist and nonrepresentational theories of perception, cognition, and intelligence."—Luciana Parisi, Goldsmiths, University of London
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University of Minnesota Press Aesthesis and Perceptronium: On the Entanglement
Book SynopsisA new speculative ontology of aesthetics In Aesthesis and Perceptronium, Alexander Wilson presents a theory of materialist and posthumanist aesthetics founded on an original speculative ontology that addresses the interconnections of experience, cognition, organism, and matter. Entering the active fields of contemporary thought known as the new materialisms and realisms, Wilson argues for a rigorous redefining of the criteria that allow us to discriminate between those materials and objects where aesthesis (perception, cognition) takes place and those where it doesn’t. Aesthesis and Perceptronium negotiates between indiscriminately pluralist views that attribute mentation to all things and eliminative views that deny the existence of mentation even in humans. By recasting aesthetic questions within the framework of “epistemaesthetics,” which considers cognition and aesthetics as belonging to a single category that can neither be fully disentangled nor fully reduced to either of its terms, Wilson forges a theory of nonhuman experience that avoids this untenable dilemma. Through a novel consideration of the evolutionary origins of cognition and its extension in technological developments, the investigation culminates in a rigorous reevaluation of the status of matter, information, computation, causality, and time in terms of their logical and causal engagement with the activities of human and nonhuman agents. Trade Review"Aesthesis and Perceptronium offers a nuanced engagement with science, technology, and art that is otherwise largely missing from contemporary debates, exploring the significance of aesthetics in the aftermath of neomaterialist and nonrepresentational theories of perception, cognition, and intelligence."—Luciana Parisi, Goldsmiths, University of London
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