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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections: general issues emotion history figures kinds of music music, philosophy and related disciplines The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, music and musicology.Trade Review"Comprehensive and authoritative … readers will discover many excellent articles in this well-organized addition to a growing interdisciplinary field. Summing Up: Highly recommended" - CHOICE"… succeeds well in catching the wide-ranging strands of musical theorising and thinking, and performance, and an understanding of the various contexts in which all thistakes place." - Reference Reviews"A necessary book, one that those who are passionate about music and philosophy have long been awaiting. There is simply nothing like it." - Jerrold Levinson University of Maryland, USA"An intelligent and comprehensive overview of the Philosophy of Music, featuring contributions by many of the leading figures in the field. The editors have done a remarkable job soliciting topical and historical essays from both musically-minded philosophers and philosophically-minded musicians. It should become the standard reference work in the field." - Brian Kane, Yale University, USA"By bringing together in one volume the most up-to-date thinking from the best minds in the business, from all the relevant disciplines, Gracyk and Kania have provided an invaluable service not only to numerous scholars and their students, but equally to musicians and their audiences." - Guy Dammann, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK"This admirable volume will be welcomed by established philosophers of music and - especially - by those coming to the subject for the first time. The coverage of topics is ideal, while the contributors range from emerging talents to the biggest names in the field. An essential resource for anyone with an interest in the philosophy of music." - Aaron Ridley, University of Southampton, UK"Comprehensive and authoritative … readers will discover many excellent articles in this well-organized addition to a growing interdisciplinary field. Summing Up: Highly recommended" - CHOICE"… succeeds well in catching the wide-ranging strands of musical theorising and thinking, and performance, and an understanding of the various contexts in which all thistakes place." - Reference Reviews"A necessary book, one that those who are passionate about music and philosophy have long been awaiting. There is simply nothing like it." - Jerrold Levinson University of Maryland, USA"An intelligent and comprehensive overview of the Philosophy of Music, featuring contributions by many of the leading figures in the field. The editors have done a remarkable job soliciting topical and historical essays from both musically-minded philosophers and philosophically-minded musicians. It should become the standard reference work in the field." - Brian Kane, Yale University, USA"By bringing together in one volume the most up-to-date thinking from the best minds in the business, from all the relevant disciplines, Gracyk and Kania have provided an invaluable service not only to numerous scholars and their students, but equally to musicians and their audiences." - Guy Dammann, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK"This admirable volume will be welcomed by established philosophers of music and - especially - by those coming to the subject for the first time. The coverage of topics is ideal, while the contributors range from emerging talents to the biggest names in the field. An essential resource for anyone with an interest in the philosophy of music." - Aaron Ridley, University of Southampton, UK"A reader like me seeks an introduction that faithfully reviews the major topics, offers a critical perspective on the current controversies, provides resources for further study, and presents the material in clear language and at a level of sophistication appropriate to the discourse. In these respects, the editors have crafted an excellent collection." -Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University, USA Table of ContentsPart 1: General Issues 1. Definition Andrew Kania 2. Silence, Sound, Noise, and Music Jennifer Judkins 3. Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony Roger Scruton 4. Ontology Ben Caplan & Carl Matheson 5. Medium David Davies 6. Improvisation Lee B. Brown 7. Notation Stephen Davies 8. Performances and Recordings Andrew Kania & Theodore Gracyk 9. Authentic Performance Practice Paul Thom 10. Music and Language Ray Jackendoff 11. Music and Imagination Saam Trivedi 12. Understanding Music Erkki Huovinen 13. Style Jennifer Judkins 14. Aesthetic Properties Rafael de Clercq 15. Value Alan Goldman 16. Evaluating Music Theodore Gracyk 17. Appropriation and Hybridity James O. Young 18. Instrumental Technology Anthony Gritten Part 2: Emotion 19. Expression theories Jenefer Robinson 20. Arousalist Theories Derek Matravers 21. Resemblance theories Saam Trivedi 22. Music’s Arousal of Emotions Malcolm Budd Part 3: History 23. Classical aesthetic traditions of India, China, and the Middle East Stephen Blum & Peter Manuel 24. Antiquity and the Middle Ages Thomas J. Mathiesen 25. The Early Modern Period Jeanette Bicknell 26. Continental Philosophy and Music Tiger Roholt 27. Analytic Philosophy and Music Stephen Davies Part 4: Figures 28. Plato Stephen Halliwell 29. Rousseau Julia Simon 30. Kant Hannah Ginsborg 31. Schopenhauer Alex Neill 32. Nietzsche John M. Carvalho 33. Hanslick Thomas Grey 34. Gurney Malcolm Budd 35. Wagner Thomas Grey 36. Adorno Andy Hamilton Part 5: Kinds of Music 37. Popular Music John A. Fisher 38. Rock Allan F. Moore 39. Jazz Lee B. Brown 40. Song Jeanette Bicknell 41. Opera Paul Thom 42. Music and Motion Pictures Noël Carroll & Margaret Moore 43. Music and Dance Robynn Stilwell 44. Visual Music and Synesthesia Kathleen Higgins Part 6: Music, Philosophy, and Related Disciplines 45. Musicology Justin London 46. Music Theory and Philosophy Judith Lochhead 47. Composition Roger Scruton 48. Analysis Joseph Dubiel 49. Ethnomusicology Peter Manuel 50. Music and Politics James Currie 51. Sociology and Cultural Studies Anthony Kwame Harrison 52. Music and Gender Fred Everett Maus 53. Phenomenology and Music Bruce Ellis Benson 54. Music, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science Diana Raffman 55. Psychology of Music Eric Clarke 56. Music Education Philip Alperson. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Humes Aesthetic Theory Taste and Sentiment Routledge Studies in EighteenthCentury Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis On Manners
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Taylor & Francis Heidegger and the Romantics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How to Use Your Eyes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Genres of Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Natural Order and Other Texts Reconstructing Philosophy from the Artists Viewpoint Ashgate Translations in Philosophy Theology Religion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Aesthetics Imagination and the Unity of Experience
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Faith and Beauty A Theological Aesthetic Routledge Studies in Theology Imagination and the Arts
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Taylor & Francis contemporarymusictheoreticalandphilosophicalperspectives
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Wittgenstein Aesthetics and Philosophy Ashgate Wittgensteinian Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown Another Place Liturgy Worship Society
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Irony and Singularity Aesthetic Education from
Book SynopsisAlthough, initially, dealing with specifically pedagogical issues arising out of debates within the philosophy of education, the main thrust of this book tackles the more fundamental questions concerning communication, dialogue and solitude. Irony and Singularity introduces aesthetics into higher education not as an academic discipline among others but as part of a wider strategy to re-orientate teaching. Although focused on the manner in which art and aesthetics are taught within the context of the art school, the book raises wider and more central issues within pedagogy, challenging the currently dominant models rooted in science and the humanities. Engaging with a wide range of philosophers and philosophical traditions often ignored in the philosophy of education, Peters questions the resistance of the aesthetic object to language, communication and instruction and claims that the philosophical acknowledgement of incommunicability coupled with the demand for communication allows uTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Teaching the unteachable: method and manner in Kant's aesthetics; Aesthetic education or aesthetic ideology? Schiller and de Man; Severity, ideality and pleasure: Hegel contra irony; Hearing, seeing, teaching: Nietzsche, Rosenzweig and the university; Dissymmetry and height: intersubjectivity and pedagogy in Husserl, Blanchot and Levinas; Judgement, critique and ignorance: afterword; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd TE Hulme and the Question of Modernism
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Taylor & Francis Encountering Urban Places
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Taylor & Francis Rethinking Aesthetics Rogue Essays on Aesthetics and the Arts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Encountering Nature Toward an Environmental Culture
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Taylor & Francis Theological Aesthetics after von Balthasar
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Deleuzes Way Essays in Transverse Ethics and Aesthetics
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Taylor & Francis Sounding the Virtual Gilles Deleuze and the Theory and Philosophy of Music
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Taylor & Francis Authenticity in Culture Self and Society
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Taylor & Francis Aesthetics and Political Culture in Modern
Book SynopsisDo aesthetic appeals to senses and emotions in political debate necessarily marginalise political reason and reduce citizens to consumers thus dangerously undermining democracy? Or is sensuous-emotional engagement, on the contrary, a basic fact of the political process and a crucial precondition for revitalising democracy? Aesthetics and Political Culture in Modern Society investigates the current interrelationship between aesthetic practice and political practice in Western democracies, focusing on its impact on democratic political culture. Henrik Kaare Nielsen argues that aesthetic interventions in the political process do not by definition undermine politics' content of reason. Instead, a differentiation must be made between a multiplicity of aesthetic forms of intervention some of which tend to weaken the political judgement of citizens while other forms tend to stimulate competent judgement.This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of political scTrade Review'A great deal of writing on art and politics these days is interested in arts only as a form of political resistance. Alternately, there is a strain of study which circumvents big P politics, concentrating on "community" and "conversation" and "process" as ends in themselves. In Aesthetics and Political Culture in Modern Society, Nielsen does something different. He reaches back to classical democratic and aesthetic theory to argue that art can facilitate the necessary conditions for democratic politics on a macro scale. For anyone interested in moving past resistance, or creating change that goes beyond micro-communities, this approach is essential.' - Stephen Duncombe, Co-Director of the Center for Artistic Activism and Professor of Media and Culture, New York University'Criticizing neoliberal technocratisation and the overall process of aestheticisation while at the same time showing the potentials of aesthetic practice in generating genuine political judgement, this book is an eye-opening analysis of different kinds of current aesthetic intervention within public space. Theoretically brilliant and powerful.' - Birger Steen Nielsen, Professor, Roskilde University, DenmarkTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Politics and democracy 3. Public space and late modern forms of public practice 4. Political and aesthetic discursive practice 5. Power-oriented aesthetic interventions in politics 6. Artistic interventions in the field of political practice 7. Current developmental perspectives of public discourse
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Taylor & Francis Designing Social Equality
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Taylor & Francis Architecture and Sacrament
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Taylor & Francis Art and Liberation
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Taylor & Francis Inc Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art
Book SynopsisTradition and Transformation in Christian Art approaches tradition and transculturality in religious art from an Orthodox perspective that defines tradition as a dynamic field of exchanges and synergies between iconographic types and their variants. Relying on a new ontology of iconographic types, it explores one of the most significant ascetical and eschatological Christian images, the King of Glory (Man of Sorrows). This icon of the dead-living Christ originated in Byzantium, migrated west, and was promoted in the New World by Franciscan and Dominican missions. Themes include tensions between Byzantine and Latin spiritualities of penance and salvation, the participation of the body and gender in deification, and the theological plasticity of the Christian imaginary. Primitivist tendencies in Christian eschatology and modernism place avant-garde interest in New Mexican santos and Greek icons in tradition.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Tradition and Iconographic Types Chapter 3: Iconicity and Eschatology Chapter 4: Ascetics in Prison Chapter 5: Sinaitic and Franciscan Theophanies Chapter 6: Byzantine Encounters with the Dead Christ Chapter 7: The Penitential Imagination Chapter 8: The King of Glory in Italy Chapter 9: Missionary Masses Chapter 10: The Mystical Colony Chapter 11: New Mexican Acheiropoietai Chapter 12: The Greek Icon Epilogue Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Photography and Ontology
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Taylor & Francis The Aesthetics Poetics and Rhetoric of Soccer
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Taylor & Francis Philosophy and Literature
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Taylor & Francis Reflections on Aesthetic Judgment and other Essays
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art
Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography. The problem of mapping, although indebted to the spatial turn of poststructuralist philosophy, is reconstructed as hermeneutics, while exposing the nexus between topology, space-time, and memory. The book posits that the emergence of mapping as a ubiquitous theme in contemporary art can be attributed to the power of the cartographic model to constitute multiple worldviews that can be seen as paradigmatic of the post-modern and contemporary condition. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, art theory, aesthetics, and cartography.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Volume 15 Tome IV Kierkegaards Concepts
Book SynopsisKierkegaard's Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard's writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish term, traces the development of the concept over the course of the authorship, and explains how it functions in the wider context of Kierkegaard's thought. Concepts have been selected on the basis of their importance for Kierkegaard's contributions to philosophy, theology, the social sciences, literature and aesthetics, thereby making this volume an ideal reference work for students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines.Table of ContentsContents: Preface; Individual, Lydia B. Amir; Inner/outer, Philipp Schwab; Intensity/extensity, Noreen Khawaja; Interesting, the, K. Brian Soderquist; Inwardness/inward deepening, Christian Fink Tolstrup; Irony, Nassim Bravo Jordán; Irrational, Sean Anthony Turchin; Joy, Benjamin Miguel Olivares Bøgeskov; Judaism, Tamar Aylat-Yaguri; Language, Steven Shakespeare; Law, David Coe; Leap, Gerhard Schreiber; Legends, Matthew Brake; Leveling, Leo Stan; Life-view, Lee C. Barrett; Logic, Gabriel Ferreira da Silva; Love, William McDonald; Lyric, Nassim Bravo Jordán; Marriage, Deidre Nicole Green; Martyrdom/persecution, Jack Mulder, Jr.; Mediation/sublation, Jamie Turnbull; Melancholy, Steven M. Emmanuel; Metaphor, Frances Maughan-Brown; Metaphysics, Corey Benjamin Tutewiler; Middle Ages, Diego Giordano; Miracles, Heiko Schulz; Mohammedanism, Diego Giordano; Moment, William McDonald; Monasticism, Curtis L. Thompson; Money, Gabriel Guedes Rossatti; Mood/emotion/feeling, Sara Carvalhais de Oliveira; Movement, motion, Shannon M. Nason; Music, William McDonald; Myth, Diego Giordano and William McDonald; Nature, Thomas Posch; Necessity, Gabriel Ferreira da Silva; Negation, Archie Graham; Novel, Gabriel Guedes Rossatti; Index of persons; Index of subjects.
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Taylor & Francis Ethical Musicality
Book SynopsisEthical Musicality addresses the crossroads between music and ethics, combining philosophical knowledge, theoretical reflection, and practical understanding. When tied together, music and ethics link profoundly, offering real-life perspectives that would otherwise be inaccessible to us. The first part elucidates music and ethics through some influential and selected scholars ranging from Antiquity via modern philosophy to contemporary voices. In the second part, different roles and arenas are illustrated and explored through various music practices in real-life encounters for the musician, the music educator, the music therapist, the musicologist, the lay' musician, and the music researcher. The third part unfolds an ethical musicality focusing on the body, relationship, time, and space. Following these fundamental existentials, ethical musicality expands our lifeworld, including context, involvement, power, responsibility, sustainability, and hope. Such an ethical mus
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality
Book SynopsisThis book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR presence to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences.The author provides compelling evidence that VR simulations are capable of producing virtually real experiences in people. He also provides a framework for understanding when and how simulations induce virtually real experiences. From these insights, the book shows that virtually real experiences are responsible for several unaddressed ethical issues in VR research and design. Experimental philosophers, moral psychologists, and institutional review boards must become sensitive to the ethical issues involved between designing realistic virtual dilemmas, for good data collection, and avoiding virtually real trauma. Ethicists and game designers must do more to ensure that their simulations don't inculcate harmful character traits. VirtTable of Contents1. Exploring Strange New Worlds2. Imagination and the Limits of Empathy3. When Being There is Not Enough4. Virtual Experience, Real Harm5. Why It's Unethical to Use VR and AR as "Empathy" Machines6. Putting It All Together: A Code of Ethics for VR/AR7. AR and the Future of Selves
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Taylor & Francis Food Ethics The Basics
Book SynopsisFood Ethics: The Basics is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the ethical dimensions of the production and consumption of food. It offers an impartial exploration of the most prominent ethical questions relating to food and agriculture, including: Should we eat animals? Are locally produced foods ethically superior to globally sourced foods? Do people in affluent nations have a responsibility to help reduce global hunger? Should we embrace bioengineered foods? What should be the role of government in promoting food safety and public health? This second edition has been revised and updated throughout, not only to take in the latest empirical and policy information, but also to address the impact of major issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine, AI and machine learning, and the rapid growth of the gig economy.Using extensive data and real-world examples, as well as providing suggestions for further reading, Food Ethics: The Basics is an ideal introduction for anyone interested in the ethics of food.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition:"The book provides a balanced perspective for each contemporary issue as well as arguments supporting and opposing debatable benefits and risks of food production and consumption issues. The philosophical perspectives are clearly written, the technical details are jargon free, and the science is accurate... A useful resource for public policy and agricultural libraries...Summing Up: Recommended." - B. R. Shmaefsky, CHOICE"Sandler makes a good job introducing the topic of food ethics to the reader, offering a broad range of information and describing key underlying ethical enquiries and particular views on each of the topics presented. (...) Reading this book was helpful in the sense that it provided insight into a topic that has not been widely studied or discussed. Thus, it can be a valuable introduction to food ethics, while encouraging the reader to explore more about this project." - Natalie Herdoiza Castro, Utrecht University, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Food systems 2. Food security and the ethics of assistance 3. Should we eat animals? 4. Technology: Bioengineering and big data 5. Food and Health 6. Food and Culture. Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Why Its OK to Not Be Monogamous
Book SynopsisThe downsides of monogamy are felt by most people engaged in long-term relationships, including restrictions on self-discovery, limits on friendship, sexual boredom, and a circumscribed understanding of intimacy. Yet, a happily ever after monogamy is assumed to be the ideal form of romantic love in many modern societies: a relationship that is morally ideal and will bring the most happiness to its two partners. In Why It's OK to Not Be Monogamous, Justin L. Clardy deeply questions these assumptions. He rejects the claim that non-monogamy among honest, informed and consenting adults is morally impermissible. He shows instead how polyamorous relationships can actually be exemplars of moral virtue. The book discusses how social and political forces sustain and reward monogamous relationships. The book defines non-monogamy as a privative concept; a negation of monogamy. Looking at its prevalence in the United States, the book explains how common criticisms of non-Trade Review"This book leads the reader through the strongest arguments on both sides of the debate in a highly accessible and engaging way. It will make even the skeptical reader think deeply about these timely questions."Elizabeth Brake, Rice UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Elizabeth Brake Introduction 1. What is Non-Monogamy? 2. Why It’s OK to NOT be Monogamous 3. Monogamous and Non-Monogamous Identity 4. Why It’s NOT OK for Liberal States to be Monogamous Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Volume 3
Book SynopsisIn his Phenomenology of Cognition, Cassirer provides a comprehensive and systematic account of the dynamic process involved in the whole of human culture as it progresses from the world of myth and its feeling of social belonging to the highest abstractions of mathematics, logic and theoretical physics. Cassirer engages with the most sophisticated and cutting-edge work in fields ranging from ethnology to classics, egyptology and assyriology to ethology, brain science and psychology to logic, mathematics and theoretical physics. His command of philosophy, literature, and the arts is superb.Echoing his work on Kant, Cassirer begins The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms with the problem posed by the meaning of being for philosophy since Plato. But Cassirer also shows that this problem gains new significance with Kant and with the development of modern culture. Cassirer weaves his conception of the development of knowledge into a broadly Kantian and German ideaTrade Review'The three volumes of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms focus on language, myth, and science respectively, offering fascinating, if necessarily fragmentary and speculative, accounts of how each develops in the direction of increasing freedom and universality… the basic insight of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one that continues to inform the humanities today. The categories we use to understand the world aren’t a passive reflection of the way things really are; rather, we actively create systems of meaning that evolve over time.' - Adam Kirsch, New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsForeword Peter E. Gordon Translator’s Preface Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Introduction: A Phenomenology of Symbolic Creative Cognition: the Unfolding of the Symbolic Function and the Construction of a Pure Theory of the Symbolic Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Acknowledgements Steve G. Lofts. Preface Introduction Part 1: The Expressive Function and the World of Expression 1. Subjective and Objective Analysis 2. The Expressive Phenomenon as the Basic Element of Perceptual Consciousness 3. The Expressive Function and the Mind-Body-Problem [Leib-Seelen-Problem] Part 2: The Problem of Representation [Repräsentation] and the Construction of the Intuitive World 1. The Concept and the Problem of Representation [Repräsentation] 2. Thing and Property 3. Space 4. The Intuition of Time 5. Symbolic Pregnance 6. On the Pathology of Symbolic Consciousness Part 3: The Function of Signification and the Construction of Scientific Cognition 1. Toward a Theory of the Concept 2. Concept and Object 3. Language and Science: Thing Signs and Ordinal Signs 4. The Object of Mathematics 5. The Foundations of Natural-Scientific Cognition Appendix: "'Spirit' and 'Life' in Contemporary Philosophy" (1930). Glossary of German Terms Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Theological Power of Film
Book SynopsisThis book explores the theological power of film and seeks to render a properly theological account of cinematic art. It considers: What theology and theological practice does cinematic art give rise to? What are the perceptual and affective potentials of film for theology, and what, if anything, is theological about the cinematic medium itself? The author argues that film is a fundamentally embodied art form, a haptic and somatic medium of perception-cum-expression. This, combined with the distinct temporal aesthetic of film, invests cinema with profound theological potentials. The chapters explore these potentials through theological-cinematic analysis, emphasising the themes of encounter, embodiment, time, and contemplation, as well as three intimately connected doctrines of Christian theology: creation, incarnation, and eschatology. Throughout the book, the films and writings of the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky emerge as a singular illustration of the theological power of f
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Taylor & Francis The Kierkegaardian Mind
Book SynopsisSÃren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) remains one of the most enigmatic, captivating, and elusive thinkers in the history of European thought. The Kierkegaardian Mind provides a comprehensive survey of his work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising thirty-eight chapters by a team of international contributors, this handbook is divided into eight parts covering the following themes: Methodology Ethics Aesthetics Philosophy of Religion and Theology Philosophy of Mind Anthropology Epistemology Politics. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, Kierkegaardâs work is central to the study of political philosophy, literature, existentialist thought, and theology.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Kierkegaard’s Life, Context, and Legacy Adam Buben, Eleanor Helms, and Patrick Stokes Part 1: Methodology 1. The Passion of Kierkegaard’s Existential Method Lee C. Barrett 2. Johannes Climacus and the Dialectical Method: From Dialectics Back to Existence Claudine Davidshofer 3. Kierkegaard’s Experimenting Psychology William McDonald 4. Methodology and the Kierkegaardian Mind Jamie Turnbull Part 2: Ethics 5. Ethical Reflection as Evasion Rob Compaijen and Pieter Vos 6. Kierkegaard and Moral Particularism and Exemplarism Karl Aho 7. Beyond Worry? On Learning Humility from the Lilies and the Birds John Lippitt 8. Did Napoleon Teleologically Suspend the Ethical? A Dilemma for some ‘Hegelian’ Readings of Fear and Trembling Ryan S. Kemp 9. An Ethics of Home and Hope: Kierkegaard’s Exile and Heidegger’s Emigrant Megan Altman 10. Love for Humans: Morality as the Heart of Kierkegaard’s Religious Philosophy Sharon Krishek Part 3: Aesthetics 11. The Ethical Life of Aesthetes Ulrika Carlsson 12. Kierkegaard on Nature and Natural Beauty Anthony Rudd 13. Kierkegaard's Transfigurations of the Sublime Samuel Cuff Snow 14. Kierkegaard on the Value of Art: An Indirect Method of Communication Antony Aumann 15. Deleuze on Kierkegaard Andrew Jampol-Petzinger Part 4: Philosophy of Religion and Theology 16. Kierkegaard’s Existential Mimesis Wojciech Kaftanski 17. Becoming a Subject: Kierkegaard’s Theological Art of Existence Peder Jothen 18. Engendering Atonement: Kierkegaard on the Cross Deidre Nicole Green 19. On Faith and Reason(s): Kierkegaard’s Logic of Conviction K. Brian Söderquist 20. Coming to an Understanding with the Paradox Mark A. Wrathall 21. Kierkegaard’s Defense of Nature and Theology against Natural Theology Will Williams Part 5: Philosophy of Mind 22. Consciousness, Self, and Reflection Patrick Stokes 23. Conscience, Self-Deception, and the Question of Authenticity in Kierkegaard Claudia Welz 24. Imagination and Belief Eleanor Helms 25. Agency, Identity, and Alienation in The Sickness unto Death Justin White Part 6: Anthropology 26. Kierkegaard’s Post-Kantian Approach to Anthropology and Selfhood Roe Fremstedal 27. Images of the Closed Self in The Sickness unto Death Anna Strelis Söderquist 28. The Kierkegaardian Self: Convergences and Divergences Jack Mulder, Jr. 29. Kierkegaard and the Desirability of Immortality Adam Buben Part 7: Epistemology 30. Christian Epistemology and the Anthropology of Sin: Kierkegaard on Natural Theology and the Concept of ‘Offense’ Karen L. Carr 31. Varieties of Existential Uncertainty Rick Anthony Furtak 32. Irony and the Conversion Experience Walter Wietzke 33. Logic, Language, and Existential Knowledge Mélissa Fox-Muraton 34. The Incognito of a Thief: Johannes Climacus and the Poetics of Self-incrimination Martijn Boven Part 8: Politics 35. Lukacs, Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Political Alison Assiter 36. Kierkegaard: The Dialectical Self and the Political Shoni Rancher 37. Kierkegaard, Hegel, and Augustine on Love Thomas J. Millay 38. The Covetous Canary: Kierkegaard on the Problem of Social Comparison and the Cultivation of Social Courage Paul Carron. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThe essays, collected by Berleant in this volume all express the impulse to reject the received wisdom of modern aesthetics: that art demands a mode of experience sharply different from others and unique to the aesthetic situation, and that the identity of the aesthetic lies in keeping it distinct from other kinds of human experience, such as the moral, the practical, and the social. Berleant shows, on the contrary, that the value, the insight, the force of art and the aesthetic are all enhanced and enlarged by recognizing their social and human role, and that this recognition contributes both to the significance of art and to its humanizing influence on what we like to call civilization.Trade Review'This collection is the culmination of Arnold Berleant's pioneering journey, spanning over four decades, in pursuit of an aesthetics consistently informed by our experience and firmly grounded in a phenomenological outlook. These essays issue a challenge to mainstream Western aesthetics dominated by the characterization of art as an object of disinterested attention. Our journey with these essays will reward us immeasurably by redirecting the course of aesthetic investigation and inviting us to explore heretofore uncharted domains of our aesthetic life.' Yuriko Saito, Professor of Philosophy at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA 'Really worthwhile writing in aesthetics must draw upon a lively participation in the arts and appreciation of nature, together with a no less lively delight in philosophizing clearly about the aesthetic, exploring its place in human life as a whole. Arnold Berleant's love of that range of perspectives, from the highly particular to the highly abstract, comes through in his many studies in aesthetics: his readers can count on their own engagement with art-works and their own theorizing about aesthetic experience gaining in zest and assurance, both where they are persuaded by his arguments and where they resist them also also. Historically, too, Arnold Berleant's range is large. While seeing aesthetics as necessarily involved in the arts of one's own day, he reflects also on the historical emergence of the concepts through which we try---with more or less success---to grasp their distinctive nature and value.' Ronald W. Hepburn, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh, UK ’This book is fine work by a truly significant and insightful philosopher. It is clearly and colorfully written, and I recommend it for anyone interested in aesthetics.’ Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface. Introduction: art and the future of aesthetics. The Focus of Aesthetics: Re-thinking aesthetics; The historicity of aesthetics; Beyond disinterestedness; Aesthetics and the contemporary arts. Iconoclastic Implications: The sensuous and the sensual in aesthetics; Aesthetic embodiment; Intuition in art, or Pygmalion rediscovered; Art without object; The art of the unseen. Re-Thinking The Arts: Death in image, word, and idea; Brancusi and the phenomenology of sculptural space; The verbal presence: an aesthetics of literary performance; The intuitive impulse in literary performance; A phenomenology of musical performance; Index.
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