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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
Book SynopsisPraised in its original edition for its up-to-date, rigorous presentation of current debates and for the clarity of its presentation, Robert Stecker''s new edition of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art preserves the major themes and conclusions of the original, while expanding its content, providing new features, and enhancing accessibility. Stecker introduces students to the history and evolution of aesthetics, and also makes an important distinction between aesthetics and philosophy of art. While aesthetics is the study of value, philosophy of art deals with a much wider array of questions including issues in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, as well value theory. Described as a ''remarkably unified introduction to many contemporary debates in aesthetics and the philosophy of art,'' Stecker specializes in sympathetically laying bear the play of argument that emerges as competing views on a topic engage each other. This book does not simply present a controversy in Trade ReviewRobert Stecker's excellent book was already the best high-level introduction to philosophical aesthetics in the analytic tradition. It has retained this distinction in its second edition, while becoming both more accessible and more wide-ranging, and is appropriate for use in both undergraduate and graduate courses. -- Jerry Levinson, University of MarylandProfessor Stecker gives his readers the elements of aesthetics from an advanced standpoint. His coverage of the core topics in the field is admirably clear and accessible, but more importantly, it is incisive and at the cutting-edge of current debates. -- Paisley Livingston, Lingnan UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Preface to Second Edition Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Part I: Aesthetics Chapter 5 Environmental Aesthetics: Natural Beauty Chapter 6 Conceptions of the Aesthetic: Aesthetic Experience Chapter 7 Conceptions of the Aesthetic: Aesthetic Properties Chapter 8 Part II: Philosophy of Art Chapter 9 What is Art? Chapter 10 What Kind of Object is a Work of Art? Chapter 11 Interpretation and the Problem of the Relevant Intention Chapter 12 Representation: Fiction Chapter 13 Representation: Depiction Chapter 14 Expressiveness in Music and Poetry Chapter 15 Artistic Value Chapter 16 Interaction: Ethical, Aesthetic and Artistic Value Chapter 17 The Value of Architecture Chapter 18 Conclusion Chapter 19 References Chapter 20 Index
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Pluto Press Herbert Marcuse An Aesthetics of Liberation
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the ideas of a thinker who greatly influenced the 1960s protest movementsTrade Review'Goes back to Marcuse's work on aesthetics to link philosophy, art, history, political analysis, and sociological insights in a deeply humane search for the way to a better world. It deserves a very wide readership' -- Peter Marcuse (with obvious bias).'A comprehensive critical overview and an interrogation of Marcuse's writings on art and aesthetics' -- Douglas Kellner, UCLA, author of Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy'Introducing the aesthetic writings of radical philosopher Herbert Marcuse, cultural theorist Malcolm Miles explores the role the imagination plays for Marcuse in political transformation, offering us the hope of a horizon to neoliberal capitalism's treachery' -- Jane Rendell, Professor and Vice Dean of Research, The Bartlett, UCL, and author of Site-Writing (2010), Art and Architecture (2006) and The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002).Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Society 2. The Artist and Social Theory 3. Affirmations 4. A Literature of Intimacy 5. Society as a Work of Art 6. The End of Utopia 7. The Aesthetic Dimension 8. Legacies and Practices Notes Index
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Springer On the Aesthetics of Roman Ingarden Interpretations and Assessments 27 Nijhoff International Philosophy Series
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Springer Ingardeniana II
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Springer Phenomenology and Aesthetics
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Springer Ingardeniana III
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Springer The Elemental Dialectic of Light and Darkness The Passions of the Soul in the OntoPoiesis of Life 38 Analecta Husserliana
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Springer The Aesthetics of Communication Pragmatics and Beyond 2 Library of Rhetorics
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Springer Aspects of Metaphor 238 Synthese Library
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Springer Language Mind and Art Essays in Appreciation and Analysis in Honor of Paul Ziff 240 Synthese Library
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Springer Critical Rationalism the Social Sciences and the Humanities
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Springer The Prism of the Self Philosophical Essays in Honor of Maurice Natanson 19 Contributions to Phenomenology
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Springer Emotion in Aesthetics 64 Philosophical Studies Series
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Springer Art Line Thought 21 Contributions to Phenomenology
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Springer Life the Human Quest for an Ideal 25th Anniversary Publication Book II 49 Analecta Husserliana
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Springer Denying Existence The Logic Epistemology and Pragmatics of Negative Existentials and Fictional Discourse 261 Synthese Library
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Springer Enjoyment
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Springer The Significance of Beauty
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Springer Thomas Reid Ethics Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self
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Springer Science and Art The Red Book of Einstein Meets Magritte 2 Einstein Meets Magritte An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science Nature Art Human Action and Society
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Springer The Orchestration of the Arts A Creative Symbiosis of Existential Powers
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Springer The Good Life as a Public Good 6 Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
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Springer Art Education and the Democratic Commitment A Defense of State Support for the Arts 7 Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
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Springer Judging Appearances
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Springer The Poetry of Life in Literature 69 Analecta Husserliana
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Springer Life the Play of Life on the Stage of the World in Fine Arts StagePlay and Literature
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Scarecrow Press The A to Z of Aesthetics
Book SynopsisAesthetics is not a factual discipline; there are no aesthetic facts. The word itself is derived from the Greek word for feeling and the discipline arises because of the need to find a place for the passions within epistemologythe branch of philosophy that investigates our beliefs. Aesthetics is more than just the study of beauty; it is a study of that which appeals to our senses, most often in connection with the classification, analysis, appreciation, and understanding of art. The A to Z of Aesthetics covers its history from Classical Greece to the present, including entries on non-western aesthetics. The book contains a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the main concepts, terminology, important persons (philosophers, critics, and artists), and the rules and criteria we apply in making judgments on art. By providing concise information on aesthetics, this dictionary is not only accessible to students, but it pro
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Forgotten Female Aesthetes
Book SynopsisIn this text, Schaffer analyzes writers such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, Alice Meynell, Rosamund Marriott Watson and Una Ashworth Taylor. These women used aestheticism to forge a compromise between the two models of female identity available to them - the New Woman and the Angel in the House.
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University of Hawai'i Press Modern Japanese Aesthetics A Reader
Book SynopsisThis work concerns the history of the Japanese philosophy of art, from its inception in the 1870s to the present. It discusses the momentous efforts made by Japanese thinkers to master, assimilate and transform Western philosophical systems to discuss their own literary and artistic heritage.
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University of Hawai'i Press Modern Japanese Aesthetics A Reader
Book SynopsisAn examination of the history of the Japanese philosophy of art. The text explores the historical background and discusses aesthetic issues, while assessing the efforts made by Japanese thinkers to assimilate and transform Western philosophical systems to discuss their own artistic heritage.
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University of Hawai'i Press A History of Modern Japanese Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays constitutes a history of modern Japanese aesthetics. It introduces readers through translations to works on the philosophy of art written by major Japanese thinkers from the late-19th century to the present.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Adorno and Literature Continuum Literary Studies
Book SynopsisDespite the upsurge of interest in Theodor Adorno's work, his literary writings are generally under-represented. However, literature is a central element in his aesthetic theory. Bringing together original essays from a an international group of contributors, this book offers a wide ranging account of the literary components of Adorno's thinking.Trade Review"This elegant and finely argued collection of essays...sends the reader back to the Notes to Literature, in particular, with a sharpened appetite...' 'In a series of scrupulous readings of Adorno's reflections on literature, which have been noticeably neglected in the recent reconsideration of his thought among anglophone scholars, they communicate the sophistication of his criticism and its own critical and utopian potential for literary studies.' Radical Philosophy"Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction, David Cunningham (University of Westminster, UK) and Nigel Mapp (University of Tampere, Finland); Part I: Philosophy, Aesthetics and Literature; 1. Literature, and the Modern System of the Arts: Sources of Criticism in Adorno, Stewart Martin (Middlesex University, UK); 2. Adorno's critical Presence: Cultural Theory and Literary Value, Martin Ryle (University of Sussex, UK) and Kate Soper (London Metropolitan University, UK); 3. Interpretation and Truth: Adorno on Literature and Music, Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, UK); 4. Adorno and the Poetics of Genre, Eva Geulen (University of Bonn, Germany); Part II: Poetry and Poetics; 5. Lyric Poetry Before Auschwitz, Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths, UK); 6. The Truth in Verse? Adorno, Wordsworth, Prosody, Simon Jarvis (University of Cambridge, UK); 7. Lyric's Expression: Musicality, Conceptuality, Critical Agency, Robert Kaufman (Stanford University, USA); 8. Returning to the 'House of Oblivion': Celan Between Adorno and Heidegger, Iain Macdonald (University of Montreal, Canada); Part III: Modernity, Drama and the Novel; 9. Forgetting - Faust: Adorno and Kommerell, Paul Fleming (New York University, USA); 10. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and Lukacs's Theory of the Novel, Timothy Hall (University of East London, UK); 11. No Nature, No Nothing: Adorno, Beckett, Disenchantment, Nigel Mapp (University of Tampere, Finland); 12. Late Style in Naipaul: Adorno's Aesthetic and the Postcolonial Novel, Timothy Bewes (Brown University, USA); 13. After Adorno: The Narrator of the Contemporary European Novel, David Cunningham (University of Westminster, UK); Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Aesthetics and Music Continuum Aesthetics
Book SynopsisPart of "The Continuum Aesthetics" series, this book offers a different exploration of the key concepts and arguments in musical aesthetics. It looks at: the experience of listening; rhythm and musical movement; what modernism has meant for musical aesthetics; the relation of music to other 'sound arts'; improvisation and composition; and more.Trade Review'A gifted philosopher, music critic and jazz performer, Andy Hamilton has produced a book which leaves neither the philosophy nor the music out. He guides us deftly through the aesthetics of Kant and Adorno without neglecting the reality of music as sound and rhythm, improvisation and composition, showing in an unusually open-minded, lively way - and in philosophical depth - how aesthetic experience is universal and human.' Professor John Skorupski, St Andrews University, UK'An innovative, cross-disciplinary contribution to the philosophy of music, weaving Adorno's Critical Theory with Analytic aesthetics.' Professor Max Paddison, Durham University, UK.'With a fine eye for argument, for teasing out and testing key assumptions within the philosophy of music, Andy Hamilton's Aesthetics And Music charts a knife-edge course between scholarship, clear and penetrating thinking, and above all sound intuitions.' Stephen Robinson, The Wire, December 2007'Aesthetics and Music is a rich and interesting study. Hamilton's approach is innovative ... [the book] should be recommended to anyone interested in the philosophy of music.' Stephen Davies, University of Auckland, Analysis'A deeply informed author thinking hard about the musical matters which he considers - with justification - to be the most important... a lively and stimulating contribution to a number of debates.' M.W. Rowe, British Journal of Aesthetics'Hamilton has read widely, listened hard and had his own practical engagement with music as a jazz pianist, and there is much to be learned from his argument ... The range of Hamilton's interests, and his familiarity with modern, postmodern, and post-postmodern culture, help to support an argument that is far more interesting in its detail than can be conveyed in a short review. There is a freshness in his approach, and a pleasing disregard for pedantic controversies, that will surely attract new readers to a subject that has not always been as well served by its practitioners as it is served by Hamilton.' Roger Scruton, MIND"The value of Aesthetics and Music lies in its producing the groundwork needed to present modern jazz as music worthy of Analytic philosophical treatment." Reviewed by Andrew McGettigan in Radical Philosophy, July 2008"Andy Hamilton's Aesthetics and Music is an unusual concoction: one part history of the aesthetics of music, one part review of recent work in the Analytic philosophy of music, and one part original contribution to musical aesthetics...Hamilton's respect for and sincere interest in improvised music, experimentalism, and sound-art is model for future writers on the philosophy of music." - Brian Kane, Current Musicology, No. 85, Spring 2008Reviewed in Dagens Nyheter, Sweden - Jan 2008'Hamilton's is a distinctive philosophical voice, and Aesthetics and Music is a lively and stimulating contribution to a number of important debates.' - British Journal of AestheticsTable of Contents1. Aesthetics and music in ancient Greece; 2. The concept of music; 3. The aesthetic of form, the aesthetic of expression, and "Absolute Music": Aesthetics of music in the late 18th and 19th centuries 4. The sound of music; 5. Rhythm and time; 6. Adorno and modernism: Music as autonomous and "social fact" 7. Improvisation and composition.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Aesthetics and Nature Continuum Aesthetics Series
Book SynopsisAddresses various central issues in the aesthetics of nature. This book offers an introduction to the field of nature aesthetics. It situates nature aesthetics in relation to two principal influences: aesthetics' traditional project of understanding the value of art, and thought on the ethics of our relationship with nature.Trade Review'In Aesthetics and Nature, Parsons establishes a definitive account of theories and issues raised in contemporary nature aesthetics. Its coverage is comprehensive, writing extremely clear, analysis meticulous, and discussion thought-provoking. This book is required reading for an introduction to this subject matter, as well as for stimulating further advancement of this field.' Yuriko Saito, Professor of Philosophy, Rhode Island School of Design, USA'This impressive and comprehensive examination of recent views on the aesthetics of nature leads the reader immediately into the heart of recent philosophical debates. Parsons provides challenging discussions of a wide range of positions.' Donald W. Crawford, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of California, USAMention -Book News, February 2009Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Approaching the Philosophy of Natural Beauty; 2. Imagination, Belief and Aesthetic Judgement. 3. Formalism; 4. Science and Nature Aesthetics; 5. Pluralism; 6. Nature and the Disembodied Aesthetic; 7. Aesthetic Preservation; 8. Nature in the Garden; 9. Art in Nature; Bibliography; Index.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pragmatist Aesthetics Living Beauty Rethinking
Book SynopsisBy articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic experience and the art of living, and providing a compellingly rigorous defense of popular art, this volume re-orients aesthetics towards a fresher and socially progressive agenda.Trade ReviewShusterman...has written a spirited, generous, powerful, and stylish essay in which the acuity of analytical philosophy is cross-bred to the vision of continental theory to produce a work that no one interested in the philosophy of art—or philosophy of life—can afford to ignore. It is clear, eloquent, fair, and urgent. -- Arthur C. Danto, art critic; Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia UniversityA deeply satisfying work. Shusterman's knowledge of aesthetic theory, and in particular, current trends in what constitutes art, seems unparalleled. Inasmuch as he pushes the envelope of what hitherto has consisted of pragmatists aesthetics, Shusterman deserves to be called an original thinker. * Journal of Aesthetic Education *A challenging, deeply intelligent book. * Substance *The renovated, more everyday conception of aesthetic experience that he [Shusterman] champions inPragmatist Aesthetis is deeply embodied, occasionally political, and oriented around the practical art of living. * Studies in Philosophy and Education *The first edition was a fine book. The additional chapter in this second edition expands the account of the aesthetic way of life. Shusterman's defense of popular culture as art is convincing, thorough, and welcome. * Contemporary Pragmatism *Through a generous and inspired reinterpretation of John Dewey, Richard Shusterman establishes a theory of aesthetics that is liberated from the traditional dualisms and capable of reconciling art and the political. -- Pierre Bourdieu, College de France
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Re.Press Aesthetics After Finitude
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Atara Press Die Augen der Haut
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Neopoiesis Press, LLC Media and Formal Cause
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Cambridge Architectural Press Philosophy of Architecture
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Metaflux Publishing Into Immaterial Culture 1 Metaflux Vilem Flusser
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Legare Street Press On the Limits of Descriptive Writing Apropos of Lessings Laocoon
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Legare Street Press The Science of Aesthetics or The Nature Kinds Laws and Uses of Beauty
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Legare Street Press Aesthetics
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Legare Street Press On Beauty
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