Philosophy: aesthetics Books
Cambridge University Press Interpreting Bergson
Book SynopsisBergson was a pre-eminent European philosopher of the early twentieth century and his work covers all major branches of philosophy. This volume of essays is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson''s philosophy, including his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of life, aesthetics, ethics, social and political thought, and religion. The essays explore Bergson''s influence on a number of different fields, and also extend his thought to pressing issues of our time, including philosophy as a way of life, inclusion and exclusion in politics, ecology, the philosophy of race and discrimination, and religion and its enduring appeal. The volume will be valuable for all who are interested in this important thinker and his continuing relevance.Trade Review'This collection presents new and promising interpretations of Henri Bergson, revealing the reach of his thought into political science, sociology, aesthetics, and religious studies. Academic readers across the humanities and social sciences will find them accessible and provocative.' Michael Kelly, University of San Diego'In its choice of the most innovative topics in research on Bergson, this book presents an original and at the same time very rich spectrum of the last twenty years of research … Even though they draw on the most canonical texts, the various contributions present highly original interpretations of Bergson's oeuvre and highlight its enduring fertility.' Société des Amis de Bergson Newsletter'This collection is extremely thought-provoking and an excellent resource for scholars as well as students already familiar with his work.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews'Critical Essays is an extraordinary contribution to scholarship on Bergson and the history of philosophy and science.' John R. Bagby, MetascienceTable of ContentsIntroduction Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils F. Schott; 1. Bergson's theory of truth Arnaud François; 2. What was 'serious philosophy' for the young Bergson? Giuseppe Bianco; 3. Bergson and naturalism Stéphane Madelrieux; 4. Bergson on the true intellect Leonard Lawlor; 5. Bergson's philosophy of art Mark Sinclair; 6. Bergson, time, and philosophies of life Suzanne Guerlac; 7. Bergson and philosophy as a way of life Keith Ansell-Pearson; 8. Bergson and social theory Alexandre Lefebvre and Melanie White; 9. Bergson and political theory Richard Vernon; 10. Bergson, colonialism, and race Mark Westmoreland; 11. Bergson's philosophy of religion Nils F. Schott.
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Broadview Press Ltd The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThis book explores the aesthetics of the objects and environments we encounter in daily life. Thomas Leddy stresses the close relationship between everyday aesthetics and the aesthetics of art, but places special emphasis on neglected aesthetic terms such as ‘neat,’ ‘messy,’ ‘pretty,’ ‘lovely,’ ‘cute,’ and ‘pleasant.’ The author advances a general theory of aesthetic experience that can account for our appreciation of art, nature, and the everyday.Trade Review“Thomas Leddy offers a comprehensive and compelling treatment of everyday aesthetics, discussing a wide variety of historical and contemporary sources while putting forward an interesting new theory of what it is to have an aesthetic experience. This engaging book is suitable for students, scholars, and anyone wishing to enrich their experience of everyday life.” — Sherri Irvin, University of Oklahoma“The Extraordinary in the Ordinary is a significant contribution to the newly important field of everyday aesthetics. The book provides an excellent critical overview of work in this field to date, but more importantly breaks new ground by extending our understanding of aesthetic experience and of the properties we encounter in that experience.” — Robert Stecker, Central Michigan University“Discussion of everyday aesthetics has been gaining momentum in recent years, and as well as developing his own theory of everyday aesthetics and of aesthetic experience more broadly construed, Leddy has produced an invaluable reflective consolidation of the work of major contributors to the discipline, past and present.” — Christopher Dowling, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: The Domain of Everyday AestheticsChapter 1: The Nature of Everyday AestheticsChapter 2: Aesthetic Experience and Aesthetic PropertiesChapter 3: Everyday Aesthetics and the EnvironmentPart II: A Theory of Everyday AestheticsChapter 4: Aesthetic Experience as Experience of Objects with AuraChapter 5: A Bestiary of Aesthetic Terms for Everyday ContextsChapter 6: Criticisms Actual and PossibleChapter 7: Everyday Surface Aesthetic QualitiesChapter 8: Everyday Aesthetics and the SublimeConclusionIndex
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Broadview Press Ltd Plain Aesthetics: A Common Sense Approach to
Book SynopsisPlain Aesthetics is an introduction to philosophical aesthetics and the philosophy of art written for all audiences. While students studying philosophy will find it informative, it is specifically constructed to be accessible to anyone, even those with no background in philosophy. It contains no jargon or technical language, except where such terms are defined at their point of use. Philosophers and theorists are discussed only where appropriate, and their views explained in context. Plain Aesthetics is written as a conversation between the author and the reader, and employs a great many examples of fascinating and influential artworks. Images and other works are presented to the reader both within the text and through an innovative interactive system. This book makes aesthetics accessible to everyone.Table of ContentsPrologueChapter One: What is Aesthetics? Why Aesthetics? What is “Aesthetics”? Is Aesthetics About Answering a “Why” Question? Is Aesthetics Philosophy? Is Aesthetics About How the World is Represented to Us? Is Aesthetics About How We Associate One Thing with Another? Do All Aesthetic Experiences have an Emotional Dimension? If Aesthetics is About How We Directly and Immediately Sense the World, Does Context Matter? Is “Aesthetic” a Noun or an Adjective? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions Chapter Two: What is an Aesthetic Property? What Are Some Examples of Aesthetic Properties? Is There a Difference Between Beauty and Aesthetic Goodness? Are Aesthetic Properties Matters of Fact or Matters of Value? Are Aesthetic Properties Literal or Metaphorical? Are They Real or Not Real? Are Aesthetic Properties Properties of Objects or of Experiences? Do Aesthetic Properties Go Beyond Merely the Perceptual? How Are Aesthetic Properties Relative to Time, Place, and Culture? Is the Function of an Object an Aesthetic Property? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions Chapter Three: What is an Aesthetic Object? Are Aesthetic Objects Always Aesthetic Objects? What is the Difference between an Aesthetic Object and an Art Object? What Makes an Object (or Event) a Work of Art? Is Art Imitation? Is Art Expression? Are All Works of Art Aesthetically Appreciable? Is it Possible to Define Art at All? Can We Define Art in Historical or Social Scientific Terms? Why Define Art? What Are the Different Artforms? Should We Collect Art? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestion Chapter Four: What is an Aesthetic Experience? What Makes an Experience Aesthetic? What Features Typify Aesthetic Experiences? Can an Experience be Partly Aesthetic? What is the Role of the Experiencer in Having an Aesthetic Experience? What Features of Aesthetic Experiences are Unique to Experiencers? Are All Aesthetic Experiences Positive? Are All Aesthetic Experiences Moral? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions Chapter Five: What Roles Do Perspective and Culture Play? What is Feminist Aesthetics? What is the Role of Culture? What is the Origin of the Museum? Has the West Become More Secular About Art? What Role Does Resource Availability Play in Art? What Are Some Signature Elements of Ancient Egyptian Aesthetics? What Are Some Signature Elements of Japanese Aesthetics? What Are Some Signature Elements of Islamic Aesthetics? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions Chapter Six: What Makes One Aesthetic Object or Experience Better Than Another? In Aesthetic Evaluation, Are We Focused on Objects or on Experiences? Can One Judgment Be Better Than Another? What Does it Mean to Call a Judgment “Object-Focused”? What Does It Mean to Call a Judgment “Subject-Focused”? How Should We Evaluate Art and/or Aesthetic Objects? What Are the Roles of Art Criticism and Art Critics in Aesthetic Evaluation? How Is Taste Involved in Aesthetic Evaluation? Can Taste Be Developed? How Do We Account for Taste Differences in Aesthetic Evaluation? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions Chapter Seven: How Do I Know What a Work of Art Means? What Does It Mean for a Work of Art to “Mean”? Why Is the Meaning of a Work of Art Important? If Works of Art are Expressions of Artists, Isn’t the Meaning What the Artist Says It Is? Can a Work of Art Have More Than One Meaning? If a Work of Art Can Have More Than One Meaning, Which One Is Correct? Can Aesthetic Objects That Are Not Artworks Have Meanings? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions Chapter Eight: What is the Relationship Between Aesthetics and Ethics? Should Ethics Be Relevant to Aesthetics? Ethically Relevant Art: Some Examples What Should be done about Immoral Art? Offensive Content When Should Censorship Be Practiced? Who Should Censor? Can Aesthetics Teach Morality? Suggested Readings and Discussion Suggestions
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Cosmic Passion for the Aesthetics
Book SynopsisIn this book, the authors present current research in the study of Cosmic Passion for the Aesthetic. It engages arts from different tradition, showing their cultural contexts and discloses dimensions of awareness that transgress the characteristics of art works. This book delves into the deeper meaning of art, and shows how various cultures attempt to suppress other cultures and their arts, and how the suppressed reappear and reassert themselves in new contexts. It travels through different conceptions, speculations, definitions and portrays how the aesthetic, the expressive, that is not identical with the characteristics of an art work, is what all art works attempt to capture. The aesthetic encompasses the passionate dimension which is not limited or reducible to anything -- it is cosmic. The latter is disclosed by the aesthetic passion that is most apparent in comparative studies of arts, above all through examining the art of India, the text visually captures the aesthetic, cosmic passion. In addition, it questions what is aesthetic value, judgements on art, the authors draw on how the depictions of the cosmic in art can assume a way of understanding specific interpretation of space, time and movement prior to any theological, mythical, theoretical or even scientific explanations and portray a flow of sensuous envelopment which resonates with cosmic passion. This book would interest not only artists, but students of cultures and comparative civilisations, and indeed for those who are interested in the ways that cosmic awareness has been and is being explicated in civilisations.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Essays on Beauty and the Arts
Book SynopsisBernard Bolzano’s (1781–1848) writings in aesthetics are clear, concise, and explicit about method. Provocative and revisionary, they champion broad views of beauty, the arts, and their social function. Dominic McIver Lopes's introductory materials place Bolzano's essays in context, give them a new interpretation, and map out how to teach them, in full or in part, in a variety of courses.Trade Review"In two eminently teachable essays—clear, controversial, methodologically acute—Bolzano recasts a broadly Kantian aesthetics, connecting beauty to intellectual achievement, education, and art practice. Immensely helpful guidance, for scholars and students, is provided by the editorial materials: translation notes, an elegant theoretical and contextual Introduction of Bolzano and the text, and a forcefully argued Appendix detailing Bolzano’s criticisms of Kant’s aesthetics." —Rachel Zuckert, Northwestern University"An exciting arrival for anyone interested in fresh perspectives on central debates in aesthetics and its history. Lopes gives a lively and efficient overview of Bolzano's life and historical context, and then provides a short, engaging sketch of how the conceptions of beauty and art that Bolzano develops in these essays might compare (and contrast) with leading positions in classical and contemporary aesthetics. Bolzano’s essays themselves are especially exemplary of his philosophical and writerly virtues. Both the translation and Lopes’s interpretive commentary make for great additions to the pedagogical and scholarly resources in aesthetics and the philosophy of the arts, and the whole volume is a welcome and important contribution for anyone interested in the rich legacies of modern German philosophy." —Clinton Tolley, University of California San Diego
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Verso Books Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-first
Book SynopsisAs we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting edge of current critical thinking: design, environment, technology and introduces us to the thinking of nineteen major writers. Each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. The authors include: Sianne Ngai, Kodwo Eshun, Lisa Nakamura, Hito Steyerl, Yves Citton, Randy Martin, Jackie Wang, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Achille Mbembe, Deborah Danowich and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Eyal Weizman, Cory Doctorow, Benjamin Bratton, Tiziana Terranova, Keller Easterling, Jussi Parikka.Wark argues that we are too often told that expertise is obtained by specialisation. Sensoria connects the themes and arguments across intellectual silos. They explore the edges of disciplines to show how we might know the world: through the study of culture, the different notions of how we create such things, and the impact that the machines that we devise have had upon us. The book is a vital and timely introduction to the future both as a warning but also as a road map on how we might find our way out of the current crisis.Trade ReviewA provocative and compelling exploration of our digital world as it crashes towards ecological disaster. Counter-intuitive, insightful, and imaginative, Capital is Dead is a timely reminder that there are things worse than capitalism - and we may just be living through them -- Nick Snricek, co-author of Inventing the Future * [in praise of Capital is Dead] *a playbook for the Anthropocene, a set of moves and strategies extracted from an unexpected canon of texts formed by a mash-up of the Soviet avant-garde and the Californian high-tech imaginary. * Radical Philosophy [in praise of Molecular Red] *A very imaginative, historically smart, politically generative thesis . that I think we urgently need. -- Donna Haraway, author of A Cyborg Manifesto * [in praise of Molecular Red] *A wonderful book . informative and moving . a great recovery of an instructive life and literary effort. The book makes the case for a kind of political vision and action we need to recognize and enact. A true pleasure to read. -- Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy * [in praise of Molecular Red] *Wark is a fine aphorist ... Playful, angry, depressed, celebratory, this is a book for anyone not convinced that there is no alternative to the way we live now. -- Observer * [In Praise of The Beach Beneath the Streets] *
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Lars Muller Publishers Phenotypes / Limited Forms
Book SynopsisThis book is an extension of the interactive installation Phenotypes/Limited Forms. The installation encourages visitors to pick their favorite subjects out of a total of several hundreds of displayed photographs, rearrange them, name their sequences, and print them in the form of a fanfold. The publication analyzes the 30 000 sequences selected by the public. A detailed demonstration of the applied algorithms helps us to understand the connection between the photographs, the number of times they were chosen by an individual visitor, and how the visitors named their personal selection of images. The book traces the creative processes and the interaction of the visitors with the material of the installation as a work of art highly dependent on the involvement of the audience. Essays by curators and art historians discuss the subject on a theoretical level while examining the aspects of participation and emancipation as well as the question of the autonomy of images.
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Transcript Verlag Energy and Forces as Aesthetic Interventions –
Book SynopsisThis volume collects academic as well as artistic explorations highlighting historical and contemporary approaches to the "energetic" in its aesthetic and political potential. Energetic processes cross dance, performance art and installations. In contemporary dance and performance art, energetic processes are no longer mere conditions of form but appear as distinct aesthetic interventions. They transform the body, evoke specific states and push towards intensities.International contributors (i.e. Gerald Siegmund, Susan Leigh Foster, Lucia Ruprecht) unfold thorough investigations, elucidating maneuvers of mobilization, activation, initiation, regulation, navigation and containment of forces as well as different potentials and promises associated with the "energetic".
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Transcript Verlag Sensing Collectives: Aesthetic and Political
Book SynopsisAre aesthetics and politics really two different things? The book takes a new look at how they intertwine, by turning from theory to practice. Case studies trace how sensory experiences are created and how collective interests are shaped. They investigate how aesthetics and politics are entangled, both in building and disrupting collective orders, in governance and innovation. This ranges from populist rallies and artistic activism over alternative lifestyles and consumer culture to corporate PR and governmental policies. Authors are academics and artists. The result is a new mapping of the intermingling and co-constitution of aesthetics and politics in engagements with collective orders.
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transcript Verlag Hegel on Sacred Poetry
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mdwPress The Flavor of Thinking
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Holocaust in the Central European Literatures &
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses a problem of high controversy: Relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena has often been seen as a taboo, as only authentic testimonies, documents, or at least unliterary, prosaic approaches were considered appropriate for dealing with the topic. However, from the very beginning of Holocaust literature and culture, there were tendencies towards literarisation, poetisation, and ornamentalisation. Nowadays, aesthetic approaches -- also in provocative, taboo-breaking ways -- are more and more regarded as important instruments to evoke the attention required for keeping the cataclysm in the collective memory. The contributions of the volume using examples predominantly from Polish, Czech, and German Holocaust literature and culture focus on selected aspects of this complex of problems, such as: poetry of concentration camp detainees; lyrical poetry about the Holocaust; poetical tendencies in narrative literature and drama; ornamental prose about the Holocaust; devices and functions of aestheticisation in Holocaust literature and culture.
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Oslo Academic Press Aesthetics in Prose
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Museum Tusculanum Press Transfiguration: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kunst &
Book SynopsisText in Danish.
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Mimesis International The Brutality of Things: Psychic Transformations
Book SynopsisThe author examines this theme through the psychoanalytic approach, as well as through philosophy, science and art, and using stories based on personal life and clinical experiences.
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc. In Search of a Sacred Ethos Articles Essays and Lectures on Music and Culture
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Oxford University Press Inc Nietzsche on Ethics and Politics
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Oxford University Press Melody of Time Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era
Book SynopsisMusic has been seen since the Romantic era as the quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time. The Melody of Time explores the multiple ways in which music may provide insight into the problematics of time, spanning the dynamic century between Beethoven and Elgar.Trade ReviewAt once a deeply engaged historical studyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1. Time and Transcendence in Beethoven's late Piano Sonatas ; 2. Music, Time and Philosophy ; 3. Memory and Nostalgia in Schubert's Instrumental Music ; 4. Temporality in Russian Music and the Ideology of History ; 5. La sonate cyclique and the Structures of Time ; 6. Elgar's The Music Makers and the Spirit of Time ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Experiencing Art In the Brain of the Beholder
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Oxford University Press Absolute Music The History of an Idea
Trade ReviewYou should derive considerable enlightenment from Bonds' trenchant and pertinent perspectives. * Arnold Whittall, The Musical Times *...the idea...turns out to be a big one, and Bonds rises brilliantly to his own challenge, writing an epic narrative with a masterly command of 2,500 years of music history from the mysteries of Pythagoras to the mysteries of the CIA...Bonds's concept is immaculately conceived, wonderfully lucid, beautifully organized, and elegantly written. * Music Theory Online *This is an immensely informed, thoroughly documented, and detailed book, offering much to chew on during a delicious and intellectually nourishing journey through millennia of theoretical discussions about the nature of music. Readers with an interest in these matters should find Bonds' account profoundly satisfying, and his book should also provide the basis for graduate seminars on musical aesthetics. Highly recommended. * Classical.Net *Table of ContentsIntroduction 7 Part One Essence as Effect: To 1550 23 1. Orpheus and Pythagoras 23 2. Isomorphic Resonance 30 Part Two Essence and Effect: 1550-1850 39 3. Expression 41 The Separation of Powers 41 Music and Language 48 Music as Language 58 Mimesis 69 4. Beauty 79 5. Form 90 Form as Number 91 Form as Content 98 6. Autonomy 103 Material Autonomy 103 Ethical Autonomy 108 7. Disclosure 112 The Composer as Oracle 112 Beautiful Insights 117 Cosmic Insights 121 Part Three Essence or Effect: 1850-1945 127 8. Wagner's "Absolute" Music 129 9. Hanslick's "Pure" Music 140 Hanslick the Conventional 156 Hanslick the Radical 171 Hanslick the Ambivalent 181 10. Liszt's "Program" Music 205 11. Polemics 214 12. Reconciliation 231 13. Qualities Recast 244 Expression 246 Beauty 263 Form 264 Autonomy 278 Disclosure 284 Epilogue: Since 1945 292 Appendix: Hanslick's Vom Musikalischen-Schönen: Early and Selected Later Reviews and Commentary 294 Works Cited ] 304
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Oxford University Press, USA Good Taste Bad Taste and Christian Taste Aesthetics in Religious Life
Book SynopsisChristians frequently come into conflict with themselves and others over such matters as music, popular culture, and worship style. Yet they usually lack any theology of art or taste adequate to deal with aesthetic disputes. In this provocative book, Frank Burch Brown offers a constructive, ''ecumenical'' approach to artistic taste and aesthetic judgment--a non-elitist but discriminating theological aesthetics that has ''teeth but no fangs''.While grounded in history and theory, this book takes up such practical questions as: How can one religious community accommodate a variety of artistic tastes? What good or harm can be done by importing music that is worldly in origin into a house of worship? How can the exercise of taste in the making of art be a viable (and sometimes advanced) spiritual discipline? In exploring the complex relation between taste, religious imagination, and faith, Brown offers a new perspective on what it means to be spiritual, religious, and indeed Christian.Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating study: a book which gives the reader much to consider. Despite its teasing title, it is a serious examination of a serious subject * Journal of Theological Studies *The author is not only an erudite and distinguished scholar but a fair-minded man who does full justice to the opinions of those whose positions in theology and aesthetics are different from his own * Journal of Theological Studies *
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Oxford University Press Inc Who Needs Classical Music Cultural Choice and Musical Values
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Oxford University Press, USA A Theory of Art
Book SynopsisAddressed to anyone with a serious interest in the arts, this philosophical theory of art has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthetics from the question "What is art?"; to describe the social and historical situation of art today; and to combine aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics.Trade Review"Berger's goal in this book is to explain how art functions, and what is its purpose. By doing so, he hopes to provide a framework in which political debates (as well as philosophical ones) about the meaning and importance of art can become more fruitful....The book reveals an author of formidable intellectual power and erudition."--he Trenton Times"Berger provides his 21st-century readers with an articulate and accessible restatement of 19th-century aesthetic propositions....General readers."--Choice"Here, musicologist Berger does nothing less than pull back the reins of postmodernism in favor of what could be called a balanced modernism."--Library Journal"This book is an intellectual feast. Berger argues with such clarity that even when one disagrees one learns. He's playing in the same league as the authors he cites: Hegel, Kant, Schopenhauer, and especially Aristotle. He deserves their company."--Richard Taruskin, Class of 1955 Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley"Berger's A Theory of Art is a tour de force of breadth, comprehension, and coverage. Its argumentative style is eminently lucid, accessible, and honest."--Lydia Goehr, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University"Not content simply to repeat or reformulate what others have said before him, Berger aims to show us how we can view art in a new way. Berger writes with great elegance, and has the uncanny ability to spin an elaborate web of ideas from the most basic premises. His concern with the function of art makes his book particularly relevant in light of current debates about public funding for the arts and about the place of art in our school curricula. Berger's A Theory of Art is a convincingly argued, richly textured, and timely book that will speak powerfully not only to academics in the various humanistic disciplines, but to anyone seriously interested in the arts."--John Daverio, Professor of Music, Boston University"This is an excellent and well-reasoned book which wades into the current debate about the relationship between aesthetics and ethics...Referencing Ricoeur, MacIntyre, and Gadamer, Berger perceives art as an invitation to new ways of being human as one enters a world which is embodied in stone, pigment, and sound...Berger concludes that art teaches us how to listen to and come into conversation with others in a way that encourages discernment and judgement of taste; it is a way of seeing through the pluralism of the postmodern world to a place worth bringing into being."--Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsAESTHETICS: THE END OF ARTWORKS; POETICS AND HERMENEUTICS: THE CONTENTS AND INTERPRETATION OF ARTWORKS
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Oxford University Press The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works An Essay in the Philosophy of Music
Trade ReviewEditor: Suzanne Ryan "In my opinion, this is the most important book on music aesthetics to appear in the last several decades.... Goehr does not seek a universal definition for music and its meanings but instead traces the history of the 'work concept' in Western music. She both reveals the developments that cemented the notion of the musical work in the 19th century and also examines the limits of that notion."--Susan McClary, Professor of Musicology, University of California -- Los Angeles"This book is not only a major contribution to the philosophy of music, but is also vitally important to understanding music history and performance practice. Further, those interested in rethinking the conventions of today's classical music world should not miss it."--Bernard Sherman, Iowa Public Radio, author of Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers, co-editor of Performing BrahmsTable of ContentsFOREWORD; INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: HIS MASTER'S CHOICE; INTRODUCTION; PART I. THE ANALYTIC APPROACH; PART II. THE HISTORICAL APPROACH; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Inc Enlightenment Orpheus The Power of Music in Other Worlds New Cultural History of Music
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Oxford University Press Listening through the Noise The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
Book SynopsisListening through the Noise considers how the experience of listening to electronic music constitutes a departure from the expectations that have long governed music listening in the West.Trade Reviewa thought-provoking and significant contribution to our understanding of the aesthetics of electronic music. * Peter Manning, Music and Letters *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part One: Sign Chapter One: Listening to Signs in Post-Schaefferian Electroacoustic music Chapter Two: Material As Sign In Electronica Part Two: Object Chapter Three: Minimal Objects In Microsound Chapter Four: Maximal Objects in Drone Music, Dub Techno, and Noise Part Three: Situation Chapter Five: Site in Ambient, Soundscape, and Field Recordings Chapter Six: Genre, Experimentalism, and the Musical Frame Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Discography
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Oxford University Press, USA Film Theory and Philosophy
Book SynopsisThese essays, by film scholars and philosophers, address the nature of cinematic representation, notions of authorship and intentionality in our understanding and appreciation of films, ideology, aesthetics and the nature and place of emotion in film spectatorship.Trade ReviewThe contributions are all of a high standard. Problems are clearly defined, concepts clarified, fine distinctions drawn, objections considered, and supporting evidence purveyed. In their documentation, scrupulous attention to opposing arguments, integrity, and clarity of reasoning, the contributions are models of professional academic philosophy ... The many virtues of the analytical tradition are manifest in chapter after chapter ... This anthology merits close perusal by anyone interested in genuine film theory. * Trevor Whittock, Brit Jrnl of Aesthetics, Vol 39, no 3, 1999 *Admirably edited by Allen and Smith, who contribute an excellent introductory chapter summing up the argument against the continentals ... * W. A. Vincent, Michigan State University, CHOICE sept 98, vol 36, no 2 *Table of ContentsPART 1 WHAT IS CINEMATIC REPRESENTATION ; PART 2 MEANING, AUTHORSHIP, AND INTENTION ; PART 3 IDEOLOGY AND ETHICS ; PART 4 AESTHETICS ; PART 5 EMOTIONAL RESPONSE
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Clarendon Press The Philosophy of Schopenhauer
Book SynopsisA revised and enlarged version of Bryan Magee's study of Schopenhauer. It contains a brief biography of Schopenhauer, a systematic exposition of his thought, and a critical discussion of the problems to which it gives rise and of its influence on a wide range of thinkers and artists.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews of the first edition:"This is a book of many virtues and few vices ... The book reads well. It deserves to be well read ... surpass[es] all current English-language treatments of Schopenhauer" Schopenhauer-Jahrbuchambitious ... highly readable ... Magee moves with confidence and ability among the connecting structures of philosophy, the history of ideas, the arts, and human psychology. * Philosophical Quarterly *Maggee's study should, however, not merely be reviewed but also read; for it is thorough, lucid and wide-ranging ... a substantial work." Times Higher Education SupplementBryan Magee's book is ... to be welcomed as the most illuminating and admirable study of Schopenhauer's philosophy yet to appear in English * Wagner *He sets about the task of explaining Schopenhauer's ideas with a commitment and enthusiasm all too rare in philosophical writing, and succeeds admirably in communicating his excitement to the reader. * Philosophy and Psychology *This is a wide-ranging book and Mr Magee's enthusiasm makes it stimulating. * The Economist *Table of ContentsPART I: ; PART II:
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Clarendon Press Aesthetics Volume 1
Book SynopsisIn his Aesthetics Hegel gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. He surveys the history of art from ancient India, Egypt, and Greece through to the Romantic movement of his own time, criticizes major works, and probes their meaning and significance; his rich array of examples gives broad scope for his judgement and makes vivid his exposition of his theory.The substantial Introduction is Hegel''s best exposition of his general philosophy of art, and provides the ideal way into his Aesthetics. In Part I he considers the general nature of art: he distinguishes art, as a spiritual experience, from religion and philosophy; he discusses the beauty of art and differentiates it from the beauty of nature; and he examines artistic genius and originality. Part II provides a sort of history of art, divded into three periods called Symbolic (India, Persia, Egypt), Classical (Greece), and Romantic (medieval and post-medieval up to the end of the eighteenth century). Part III deals individTable of ContentsVOLUME I: TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE IDEA OF ARTISTIC BEAUTY, OR THE IDEAL; PART II: DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEAL INTO THE PARTICULAR FORMS OF ART; SECTION I: THE SYMBOLIC FORM OF ART; SECTION II: THE CLASSICAL FORM OF ART; SECTION III: THE ROMANTIC FORM OF ART
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Clarendon Press Aesthetics
Book SynopsisIn his Aesthetics Hegel gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. He surveys the history of art from ancient India, Egypt, and Greece through to the Romantic movement of his own time, criticizes major works, and probes their meaning and significance; his rich array of examples gives broad scope for his judgement and makes vivid his exposition of his theory.The substantial Introduction is Hegel''s best exposition of his general philosophy of art, and provides the ideal way into his Aesthetics. In Part I he considers the general nature of art: he distinguishes art, as a spiritual experience, from religion and philosophy; he discusses the beauty of art and differentiates it from the beauty of nature; and he examines artistic genius and originality. Part II provides a sort of history of art, divded into three periods called Symbolic (India, Persia, Egypt), Classical (Greece), and Romantic (medieval and post-medieval up to the end of the eighteenth century). Part III deals individTable of ContentsVOLUME II. PART III: THE SYSTEM OF THE INDIVIDUAL ARTS; SECTION I: ARCHITECTURE; SECTION II: SCULPTURE; SECTION III: THE ROMANTIC ARTS; INDEX
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Oxford University Press, USA The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol
Book SynopsisThe distinctive concept of the symbol, articulated by such writers as Goethe, Schelling, and Coleridge, is of the utmost significance in the literary, philosophical, and even scientific thought of the Romantic period. This interdisciplinary historical study examines the development of the concept in a jargon-free style that will appeal to a broad range of readers.Trade ReviewThe Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol is a really fine book, and one that anyone interested in Romantic literary theory will find absorbing. Halmi draws on an impressively wide range of authorities; he gathers a complex argument into pages of pleasurable lucidity; and he pursues his quarry with grace. * Seamus Perry, The Wordsworth Circle *innovative... a brilliant and original study that is essential reading for scholars of the Romantic period. * Orianne Smith, Year's Work in English Studies *an important contribution to Romantic scholarship. * Carol Tully, The Modern Language Review *This book offers one of the most profound reflections on symbol since Paul de Man: subtle, original and provocative. It is a brief book, but extremely rich, and often brilliant. This is history of ideas as it ought to be written. * Michael John Kooy, THES *Halmi's book will take its place before long among the indespensable contributions to Romantic studies * Uttara Natarajan, Notes and Queries *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; 1. Defining the Romantic Symbol ; 2. Burdens of Enlightenment ; 3. Uses of Philosophy ; 4. Uses of Theology ; 5. Uses of Mythology ; Appendix: The So-called 'Oldest Programme for a System of German Idealism' ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press A Philosophy of Gardens
Book SynopsisWhy do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is surprising that the question has been so long neglected by modern philosophy. Now at last there is a philosophy of gardens. Not only is this a fascinating subject in its own right, it also provides a reminder that the subject-matter of aesthetics is broader than the fine arts; that ethics is not just about moral issues but about ''the good life''; and that environmental philosophy should not focus only on ''wilderness'' to the exclusion of the humanly shaped environment. David Cooper identifies garden appreciation as a special human phenomenon distinct from both from the appreciation of art and the appreciation of nature. He explores the importance of various ''garden-practices'' and shows how not only gardening itself, but activities to which thTrade Reviewan intricately argued, beautifully nuanced and highly sensitive analysis of what gardens mean and what sort of enterprise they are . . . David E. Cooper has written a book that anyone who wants to understand gardening, our relationship with nature, and the arts will want to read. * Mara Miller, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *Table of Contents1. Taking Gardens Seriously ; 2. Art or Nature? ; 3. Art-and-Nature ; 4. Gardens, People, and Practices ; 5. Gardens and the Good Life ; 6. The Meaning of Gardens ; 7. The Garden as Epiphany ; 8. Conclusion: The Garden's Distinction
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OUP Oxford The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics brings the authority, liveliness, and multi-disciplinary scope of the Handbook series to the area where philosophy meets the arts. Jerrold Levinson has assembled a hugely impressive range of talent to contribute 48 brand-new essays, making this the most comprehensive guide available to the theory, application, history, and future of the field. This Handbook will be invaluable to academics and students across philosophy and all branches of the arts, both as the reference work of Trade Reviewthe philosophy of emotion as a whole is considerably richer as a result of this comprehensive, skilfully edited collection of high-quality philosophical work ... essential reading for those with an interest in the emotions * Michael Brady, British Journal of Aesthetics *This Handbook is a timely response to a growing interest in aesthetics ... it covers a good deal of ground, provides much interesting information and abounds in interesting quotations. * Peter Rickman, Philosophy Now *Levinson has achieved his intention to provide a collection from which both the professional philosopher and the enthusiastic non-professional can derive instruction and pleasure. . . . he has brought together many of the key practitioners in the field of philosophical aesthetics and this is reflected in the depth of subjects and the lucid quality of the writing. * British Journal of Aesthetics *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Philosophical Aesthetics: an Overview ; 2. History of Modern Aesthetics ; 3. Aesthetic Realism 1 ; 4. Aesthetic Realism 2 ; 5. Aesthetic Experience ; 6. Beauty ; 7. Aesthetics of Nature ; 8. Definition of Art ; 9. Ontology of Art ; 10. Medium in Art ; 11. Representation in Art ; 12. Expression in Art ; 13. Style in Art ; 14. Creativity in Art ; 15. Authenticity in Art ; 16. Intention in Art ; 17. Interpretation in Art ; 18. Value in Art ; 19. Humour ; 20. Metaphor ; 21. Fiction ; 22. Narrative ; 23. Tragedy ; 24. Art and Emotion ; 25. Art and Knowledge ; 26. Art and Morality ; 27. Art and Politics ; 28. Music ; 29. Painting ; 30. Literature ; 31. Architecture ; 32. Sculpture ; 33. Dance ; 34. Theatre ; 35. Poetry ; 36. Photography ; 37. Film ; 38. Feminist Aesthetics ; 39. Environmental Aesthetics ; 40. Comparative Aesthetics ; 41. Aesthetics and Evolutionary Psychology ; 42. Aesthetics and Cognitive Science ; 43. Aesthetics and Ethics ; 44. Aesthetics of Popular Art ; 45. Aesthetics of the Avant-Garde ; 46. Aesthetics of the Everyday ; 47. Aesthetics and Postmodernism ; 48. Aesthetics and Cultural Studies
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Oxford University Press Inc How to Do Things with Fictions
Book SynopsisWhy does Mark''s Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato''s Socrates make bad arguments? Why are Beckett''s novels so inscrutable? And why don''t stage magicians even pretend to summon spirits anymore? In a series of captivating chapters on Mark, Plato, Beckett, Mallarmé, and Chaucer, Joshua Landy not only answers these questions but explains why they are worth asking in the first place.Witty and approachable, How to Do Things with Fictions challenges the widespread assumption that literary texts must be informative or morally improving in order to be of any real benefit. It reveals that authors are sometimes best thought of not as entertainers or as educators but as personal trainers of the brain, putting their willing readers through exercises designed to fortify specific mental capacities, from form-giving to equanimity, from reason to faith.Delivering plenty of surprises along the way--that moral readings of literature can be positively dangerous; that the parables were deliberatelTrade ReviewThis book may be most valuable for its call to pedagogical reform. It would be helpful for revising the aims of broad world-lit surveys or humanities courses, or, indeed, for reframing almost any literature class. ...Landy's book also offers persuasive talking points for any defense of the liberal arts mission... His book is a good manual for training Landy's own readers in how to become formative teachers. * Ashley Barnes, Comparative Literature *Joshua Landy has no patience for the simple-minded moral didacticism that permeates recent literary theory and philosophy. Sure-footed and light-handed, he emphasizes the 'formative' rather than the 'informative' function of literary fiction. Eloquent, erudite, witty, and just as passionate, Landy has given us a new way of looking at the importance of fiction for life * a new and marvelous 'defence of poesy.'Alexander Nehamas, author of Only a Promise of Happiness *What do we gain from reading fiction? Joshua Landy's brilliant new book advances a provocative answer with impressive verve, erudition, and insight. His discussion ranges from the New Testament to Plato, Mallarme, and Beckett, among many others. No reader will put down the book unaffected, or think of fiction in quite the same way again. * Charles L. Griswold, author of Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus *In this wonderfully engaging book, Joshua Landy writes against all of those (rather depressing) theories that argue for literary texts as guides for moral improvement, or as 'messages' for the reader. Instead, Landy identifies what he calls 'formative fiction' - literature that trains the reader in the act of reading itself - a compelling and refreshing study. * Francoise Meltzer, author of Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity *This terrific book pulls no punches in engaging with scholarly debates, critiquing an array of knowledge-seeking approaches to fiction. Landy's constructive work, exemplified in the verve and affection with which he treats his 'formative fictions,' is persistently humane and practical, pressing us for openness to the vital exercise fictions offer. * Eileen John, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick *If we persist in reading complicated books for something more than their plot, Landy has at least given us a series of thoughtful and persuasive reasons for doing so. * The Guardian *It is rare to read a work in which the sense comes through so fully of what it must be like to sit in the author's classroom; in this case, it is clear that Stanford students enjoy an intellectual treat, one now available to many others...Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; Acknowledgments ; INTRODUCTION ; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fiction ; Formative Fictions ; The Temporality of the Reading Experience ; In Spite of Everything, a Role for Meaning ; A Polite Aside to Historians ; The Value of Formative Fictions ; PART ONE-CLEARING THE GROUND ; Chapter One-Chaucer: Ambiguity and Ethics ; Prudence or Oneiromancy? ; A Parody of Didacticism ; Preaching to the Converted ; The Asymmetry of 'Imaginative Resistance' ; Virtue Ethics and Gossip ; Qualifications ; Positive Views ; PART TWO- ENCHANTMENT AND RE-ENCHANTMENT ; Chapter Two-Mark: Metaphor and Faith ; Rhetorical Theories ; Five Variables, Six Readings ; Deliberate Opacity ; The Vision of Mark ; From Him Who Has Not ; To Him Who Has ; The Syrophenician Woman ; The Formative Circle ; Metaphor and Faith ; Theological Ramifications ; A Parable about Parables ; Getting It Wrong By Getting It Right ; Coda: The Secular Kingdom ; Appendix: "Le Cygne" ; Chapter Three-Mallarme: Irony and Enchantment ; Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin ; Exorcisms and Experiments ; Science and Wonder ; Lucid Illusions ; Stephane Mallarme ; The Spell of Poetry ; Setting the Scene ; A Replacement Faith ; How to Do Things with Verses ; A Corner of Order ; The Magic of Rhyme ; A Training in Enchantment ; A Sequence of States ; The Birth of Modernism from the Spirit of Re-Enchantment ; PART THREE-LOGIC AND ANTI-LOGIC ; Chapter Four-Plato: Fallacy and Logic ; A Platonic Coccyx ; Ascent and Dissent ; The Developmental Hypothesis ; Dubious Dialectic ; Pericles, Socrates and Plato ; The Gorgias Unravels ; The Uses of Oratory ; Was Gorgias Refuted? ; Spiritual Exercises: Seven Points in Conclusion ; Appendix: Just How Bad is the Pericles Argument? ; Chapter Five-Beckett: Antithesis and Tranquillity ; Bringing Philosophy to an End ; Ataraxia ; Antilogoi ; One Step Forward ; Finding the Self to Lose the Self ; An Irreducible Singleness ; Res Cogitans ; Solutions and Dissolutions ; Two Failures ; "I confess, I give in, there is I" ; Negative Anthropology ; The Beckettian Spiral ; An End to Everything? ; Fail Better ; Glimpses of the Ideal ; Two Caveats ; Coda ; Works Cited
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Oxford University Press Aesthetic Essays
Book SynopsisThe book brings together a selection of Malcolm Budd''s essays in aesthetics. A number of the essays are aimed at the abstract heart of aesthetics, attempting to solve a cluster of the most important issues in aesthetics which are not specific to particular art forms. These include the nature and proper scope of the aesthetic, the intersubjective validity of aesthetic judgements, the correct understanding of aesthetic judgements expressed through metaphors, aesthetic realism versus anti-realism, the character of aesthetic pleasure and aesthetic value, the aim of art and the artistic expression of emotion. Other essays are focussed on central issues in the aesthetics of particular art forms: two engage with the most fundamental issue in the aesthetics of music, the question of the correct conception of the phenomenology of the experience of listening to music with understanding; and two consider the nature of pictorial representation, one examining certain well-known views, the other arTrade ReviewAll topics addressed in the collection are dealt with with unmitigated rigour, and every scholar writing on them should take good note of what Budd has to say. * Paloma Atencia-Linares, Mind *This important collection by the prominent aesthetician Malcolm Budd brings together fourteen papers on the nature of aesthetics judgement and value, expression and movement in music, and depiction. In addition, there is a masterly analysis of and exposition of Kant's account of the pure judgement of taste and another of Wittgenstein's view of aesthetics ... Related chapters complement each other nicely without excessive overlap ... Philosophers of art will admire the unfussy care and insight with which Budd probes these intriguing topics, many of which lie at the 'abstract heart of aesthetics', as he rightly observes. I strongly recommend his book. * Stephen Davies, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Aesthetic Judgements, Aesthetic Principles and Aesthetic Properties ; 2. Aesthetic Essence ; 3. The Acquaintance Principle ; 4. The Intersubjective Validity of Aesthetic Judgements ; 5. The Pure Judgement of Taste as an Aesthetic Reflective Judgement ; 6. Understanding Music ; 7. The Characterization of Aesthetic Qualities by Essential Metaphors and Quasi-Metaphors ; 8. Musical Movement and Aesthetic Metaphors ; 9. Aesthetic Realism and Emotional Qualities of Music ; 10. On Looking at a Picture ; 11. The Look of a Picture ; 12. Wollheim on Correspondence, Projective Properties and Expressive Perception ; 13. Wittgenstein on Aesthetics ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA The Kantian Aesthetic
Book SynopsisThe Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant''s aesthetics to a critically upgraded account of his theory of knowledge. This upgraded theory emphasizes those conceptual and imaginative structures which Kant terms, respectively, ''categories'' and ''schemata''. By describing examples of aesthetic judgment, it is shown that these judgments must involve categories and fundamental schemata (even though Kant himself, and most commentators after him, have not fully appreciated the fact). It is argued, in turn, that this shows the aesthetic to be not just one kind of pleasurable experience amongst others, but one based on factors necessary to objective knowledge and personal identity, and which, indeed, itself plays a role in how these capacities develop.In order to explain how individual aesthetic judgments are justified, and the aesthetic basis of art, however, the Kantian position just outlined has to be developTrade Reviewexciting and provocative * Philosophy in Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Transcendental Deduction; Objective Knowledge and the Unity of Self- Consciousness ; 2. Imagination and the Conditions of Knowledge ; 3. Pure Aesthetic Judgment: A Harmony of Imagination and Understanding ; 4. The Universality and Justification of Taste ; 5. Adherent Beauty and Concepts of Perfection ; 6. From Aesthetic Ideas to the Avant-Garde: The Scope of Fine Art ; 7. The Kantian Sublime Revisited
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Oxford University Press Antipodean America
Book SynopsisThe Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Chatterjee uses neuroscience to probe how an aesthetic sense is etched in our minds and evolutionary psychology to explain why aesthetic concerns feature centrally in our lives. Along the way, Chatterjee addresses fundamental questions: What is beauty? Is beauty universal? How is beauty related to pleasure? What is art? Should art be beautiful? Do we have an instinct for art? Chatterjee starts by probing the reasons that we find people, places, and even numbers beautiful. At the root of beauty, he finds, is pleasure. He then examines our pleasures by dissecting why we want and why we like food, sex, and money and how these rewards relate to aesthetic encounters. His ruminations on beauty and pleasure prepare him and the reader to face art. He wanders through the problems of defining art, understanding contemporary art, and interpreting ancient art. He explores why art, somethiTrade ReviewIn this book, Dr Anjan Chatterjee. . . introduces us to the emerging field of neuroasthetics. . . In his cogent review of the long history of human artifact-making art, he carefully considers the many definitions of aesthetics, art, and beauty. . . The author comes to his persuasive conclusion after having carefully examined prehistoric art objects, the history of art, evolutionary biology, brain anatomy, and functional studies. * Roy G. Fitzgerald, MD, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 76, October 2015 *Table of ContentsPREFACE ; INTRODUCTION ; BEAUTY ; 1. What is this thing called beauty? ; 2. Captivating faces ; 3. The measure of facial beauty ; 4. The body beautiful ; 5. How the brain works ; 6. Brains behind beauty ; 7. Evolving beauty ; 8. Landscapes ; 9. Numbering beauty ; 10. The illogic of beauty ; PLEASURE ; 1. What is this thing called pleasure? ; 2. Food ; 3. Sex ; 4. Money ; 5. Liking, wanting, learning ; 6. The logic of pleasure ; ART ; 1. What is this thing called art? ; 2. Art: Biology and culture ; 3. Descriptive science of the arts ; 4. Experimental science of the arts ; 5. Conceptual art ; 6. The inception of art ; 7. Messy minds ; 8. Evolving art ; 9. Art: A tail or a song? ; 10. The serendipity of art
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Refractions of Reality Philosophy and the Moving Image
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to explore all central issues surrounding the relationship between the film-image and philosophy. It tackles the work of particular philosophers of film (Žižek, Deleuze and Cavell) as well as general philosophical positions (Cognitivist and Culturalist), and analyses the ability of film to teach and create philosophy.Trade Review'In this engaging, comprehensive, incisive work, Mullarkey addresses whether film can philosophize on its own, adding something original, rather than simply illustrating concepts that philosophers extract from their own discourse An indispensible work for students/scholars in philosophy of film/art, aesthetics, and film studies.' D.W.Rothermel, CHOICE '...addresses the question of the relation between art and philosophy - the age-old problem of aesthetics - in an entirely original manner by examining how film changes the terms of this debate.' '...to summarize Mullarkey's text in terms of his criticism of other film theorists does not do justice to the intricate readings and impressive scope of Mullarkey's overall approach. His engagement with figures such as Jacques Rancière, Edward Branigan, Joseph Anderson, Badiou, and Cavell (to name a few) lead him to fascinating 'partial' observations on the nature of film.' 'The gesture Mullarkey employs - a graceful, seamless move from critical analysis to constructive observation - suggests a pluralistic strategy based on an ethics of affirmation and acknowledgement.' '...as a treatment of the question 'what does film mean for philosophy?', Mullarkey offers an intricate and considered study - with important consequences for philosophy in terms of what can be said, and what may be gestured to only by attention to what is left unsaid - that is to say, through a constellation of plural and variably flawed refractions.' - Amanda Dennis in The International Journal for Philosophical Studies 'This book, in some sense, brings to an end a certain phase of film theorizing and instead looks toward something quite new: how theories have been written and how they may be written, how they fall into types, how these types are filling out not a logical grid but a grid of the anxieties we feel, and the defenses we erect toward the everyday. A wonderful, ground-breaking book.' - Edward Branigan (University of California, Santa Barbara), author of Projecting a Camera: Language-Games in Film Theory and Narrative Comprehension and Film 'Highly original both in its concern for avoiding the illustrative approach generally favoured by philosophers, and in the speculative ambition that looms behind the critical edge of its readings of contemporary film- philosophers. The very question "when does the film itself happen?" is a fundamental one, which is rarely addressed. Mullarkey is opening the door to a brand new type of philosophical engagement with films.' - Elie During (Université de Paris X-Nanterre), author of Matrix: Machine philosophique 'Mullarkey brings an informed, critical view to a number of theories from both the Continental tradition (his specialization) and the Anglo-American tradition...Refractions of Reality is an original and valuable contribution to the field of film philosophy...It is perhaps most valuable in its highly successful dislocation of the rigid, myopic perspective of so many contemporary theories' - Joseph Mai, Notre Dame Philosophy ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: The Film-Envy of Philosophy Introduction: Nobody Knows Anything! Illustrating Manuscripts Bordwell and Other Cogitators Žižek and the Cinema of Perversion Deleuze's Kinematic Philosophy Cavell, Badiou, and Other Ontologists Expanded Cognitions and the Speeds of Cinema Fabulation, Process and Event Refractions of Reality Or, What is Thinking Anyway? Conclusion: Code Unknown - A Bastard Theory for a Bastard Art Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK New Waves in Metaethics New Waves in Philosophy
Book SynopsisMetaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality. This collection presents original and ground-breaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best of a new generation of philosophers working in this field.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Series Editors' Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Brady Non-Naturalist Ethical Realism; W.Fitzpatrick Naturalistic Metaethics at Half Price; J.Gert In Defence of Moral Error Theory; J.Olson The Myth of Moral Fictionalism; T.Cuneo & S.Christy Metaethics and the Philosophy of Language; M.Chrisman How not to Avoid Wishful Thinking; M.Schroeder Internal Reasons and the Motivating Intuition; J.Markovits Beyond Wrong Reasons: The Buck-Passing Account of Value; U.Heuer A Wrong Turn to Reasons?; P.Väyrynen Shmagency Revisited; D.Enoch The Authority of Social Norms; N.Southwood Moral Epistemology; A.Hills Aesthetics, Objectivity and Particularism; S.Mckeever & M.Ridge Index
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Penguin Books Ltd The Performer
Book SynopsisAn exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than on words. Richard Sennett is particularly attuned to the ways in which the rituals of ordinary life are performances.The book draws on history and sociology, and more personally on the author''s early career as a professional cellist, as well as on his later work as a city planner and social thinker. It traces the evolution of performing spaces in the city; the emergence of actors, musicians, and dancers as independent artists; the inequality between performer and spectator; the uneasy relations between artistic creation and social and religious ritual; the uses and abuses of acting by politicians. The Janus-faced art of performing is both destructive and civilizing.
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Yale University Press John Dewey and the Lessons of Art
Book SynopsisThis study examines John Dewey's thinking about the arts and explores the practical implications of that thinking for educators. The author introduces the basics of Dewey's aesthetic theory and then looks at the ways in which a work of art can affect its creator and audience.Trade Review"Philip Jackson's searching meditations on Dewey and art are of abiding interest for all of us who care about our lives and how we nurture and nourish our children." Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education "Jackson presents a useful and...insightful review of John Dewey's systematic consideration of the arts...Jackson examines Dewey's theories on how the arts might help people live their lives differently. He also asks teachers of all kinds to consider how they might use the 'lessons' of art in their role as educators...This book makes a sound addition to commentary on the writings of John Dewey and to the fields of curriculum studies, educational philosophy, and arts education." Choice
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Brecht On Art And Politics
Book SynopsisBertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists of the 20th century whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera and, while exiled from Germany and living in the USA, such masterpieces as The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
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Lexington Books Badiou and Hegel
Book SynopsisThis book collects the work of leading scholars on Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel, creating a dialogue between, and a critical appraisal of, these two central figures in European philosophy.Trade ReviewThe essays in Jim Vernon and Antonio Calcagno's timely collection cover the multiple facets of Badiou's highly ambivalent rapport with Hegel's philosophy as it unfolds from the 1970s through today. . . .For those interested in Badiou and Badiou's relations with Hegel, Badiou and Hegel certainly is worth reading. It contains useful summaries and analyses of the place(s) of Hegel in the Badiouian oeuvre. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *This book contains the first exhaustive analysis of Badiou’s brilliant and surprising texts on Hegel. The essays include an excellent treatment of infinity in Badiou and Hegel that discusses precise mathematical ontology in a way that non-mathematicians can follow and participate in: this is the sort of Badiou scholarship we need. They also include theses on materiality and dialectic, subject and event, society and decision, art and politics, love and tragedy, and, of course, truth procedures. For its close readings of Badiou, and current approaches to Hegel, this collection is indispensible. What is especially good is that it forces readers to participate in controversial decisions, and raises the level at which these controversies will have to be pursued in the future. -- Jay Lampert, University of Guelph, Duquesne UniversityThis collection is a sustained and timely examination of the relationship between one of the foremost philosophers of the twenty-first century and one of the major thinkers of the nineteenth. Of equal use and importance to Badiou and Hegel scholars alike, these essays should provide the bedrock of any serious discussion of many key philosophical terms and approaches over the coming years. -- Nina PowerTable of Contents1. Measuring Up: Some Consequences of Badiou’s Confrontation with Hegel, A.J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens 2. The Good, the Bad and the Indeterminate: Hegel and Badiou on the Dialectics of the Infinite, Tzuchien Tho 3. Badiou contra Hegel: The Materialist Dialectic Against the Myth of the Whole, Adriel M. Trott 4. The Question of Art: Badiou and Hegel, Gabriel Riera 5. Badiou with Hegel: Preliminary Remarks on A(ny) Contemporary Reading of Hegel, Frank Ruda 6. The Biolinguistic Challenge to an Intrinsic Ontology, Norman Madarasz 7. Badiou and Hegel on Love and the Family, Jim Vernon 8. Fidelity to the Political Event: Hegel, Badiou, and the Return to the Same, Antonio Calcagno 9. Taming the Furies: Badiou and Hegel on The Eumenides, Alberto Toscano
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