Philosophy: aesthetics Books
Fordham University Press The Fact of Resonance Modernist Acoustics and
Book SynopsisThe Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form. The book shows how the experience of reading is undergirded by the sonic.Table of ContentsNote on Abbreviations | ix Overture: The Sound of a Novel | 1 1 Voice at the Threshold of the Audible: Free Indirect Discourse and the Colonial Space of Reading | 13 Coda: Chantal Akerman and Lip Sync as Postcolonial Strategy | 59 2 The Echo of the Object: On the Pain of Self-Hearing in The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and “The Fact of Blackness” | 67 Coda: Literary History as Miscegenating Sound: The Sound and the Fury | 103 Intersonority: Unclaimed Voices Circum-1900, or Sound and Sourcelessness in The Souls of Black Folk | 115 3 A Sinister Resonance: On the Extraction of Sound and Language in Heart of Darkness | 149 Reprise: Reverberation, Circumambience, and Form-Seeking Sound (Absalom, Absalom!) | 211 Acknowledgments | 231 Notes | 235 Bibliography | 309 Index | 331
£80.75
Fordham University Press The Form of Love
Book SynopsisThe Form of Love explores what poetry can articulate about love that philosophy cannot. Reading seven poems, this book shows how figures ranging from Donne to Dickinson use poetic form to transform philosophy’s concern to convey truth about love into the concern to create a virtual experience of love.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Form of Love: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Closeness of Loving Reading | 1 1. Disjunctive Love: Philosophical Project and Poetic Experience in Donne’s “The Ecstasy” | 29 2. Obscure Love: Virtual Masochisms in Philips’s “Friendship’s Mysterys” | 56 3. Forgetting to Love: Problems of Praise in Herbert’s “The Flower” | 78 4. Loving Rhyme: Reading Mastery in Crashaw’s “The Flaming Heart” | 98 5. Green Love: Lost in Marvell’s “The Garden” | 117 6. Love and/or Lyric: Dickinson’s “I cannot live with You -” | 145 Acknowledgments | 171 Notes | 173 Index | 209
£73.95
Fordham University Press The Form of Love
Book SynopsisThe Form of Love explores what poetry can articulate about love that philosophy cannot. Reading seven poems, this book shows how figures ranging from Donne to Dickinson use poetic form to transform philosophy’s concern to convey truth about love into the concern to create a virtual experience of love.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Form of Love: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Closeness of Loving Reading | 1 1. Disjunctive Love: Philosophical Project and Poetic Experience in Donne’s “The Ecstasy” | 29 2. Obscure Love: Virtual Masochisms in Philips’s “Friendship’s Mysterys” | 56 3. Forgetting to Love: Problems of Praise in Herbert’s “The Flower” | 78 4. Loving Rhyme: Reading Mastery in Crashaw’s “The Flaming Heart” | 98 5. Green Love: Lost in Marvell’s “The Garden” | 117 6. Love and/or Lyric: Dickinson’s “I cannot live with You -” | 145 Acknowledgments | 171 Notes | 173 Index | 209
£21.59
Fordham University Press Inceptions Literary Beginnings and Contingencies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsExordium | 1 Part I: Potentiality and Gesture 1 Revision, Origin, and the Courage of Truth: Henry James’s New York Edition Prefaces | 23 2 “First Love”: Gesture and the Emergence of Desire in Eudora Welty | 50 Part II: Novels and the Beginnings of Character 3 Robinson Crusoe and the Inception of Speech | 73 4 The Clock Finger at Nought: Daniel Deronda and the Positing of Perspective | 91 5 Proto-Reading and the Positing of Character in Our Mutual Friend | 103 Part III: Our Stony Ancestry 6 Ovid and Orpheus | 127 7 Wallace Stevens and the Temporalities of Inception and Embodiment | 148 Part IV: Solitude and Queer Origins 8 “Epitaph, the Idiom of Man”: Imaginings of the Beginning | 177 9 Etiology, Solitude, and Queer Incipience | 199 Acknowledgments | 223 Notes | 227 Index | 283
£96.90
Fordham University Press Inceptions Literary Beginnings and Contingencies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsExordium | 1 Part I: Potentiality and Gesture 1 Revision, Origin, and the Courage of Truth: Henry James’s New York Edition Prefaces | 23 2 “First Love”: Gesture and the Emergence of Desire in Eudora Welty | 50 Part II: Novels and the Beginnings of Character 3 Robinson Crusoe and the Inception of Speech | 73 4 The Clock Finger at Nought: Daniel Deronda and the Positing of Perspective | 91 5 Proto-Reading and the Positing of Character in Our Mutual Friend | 103 Part III: Our Stony Ancestry 6 Ovid and Orpheus | 127 7 Wallace Stevens and the Temporalities of Inception and Embodiment | 148 Part IV: Solitude and Queer Origins 8 “Epitaph, the Idiom of Man”: Imaginings of the Beginning | 177 9 Etiology, Solitude, and Queer Incipience | 199 Acknowledgments | 223 Notes | 227 Index | 283
£27.90
Fordham University Press Shattering Biopolitics Militant Listening and
Book SynopsisFailures to listen or mishearings can be a matter of life and death. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates the intimate and complex relation between life and sound in philosophy, political theory, and sound-art.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations | ix Prologue | 1 1 Shatter | 7 Excursus 1: Calculation and Stricture in Mendi + Keith Obadike’s Numbers Station | 38 2 The Rhythm of Life | 49 Excursus 2: Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Phonetic Border-Crossings | 91 3 Mouth(piece) | 100 Excursus 3: Sharon Hayes’s Addresses | 145 4 A Use of Ears | 158 Excursus 4: The Drive to Listen in Ultra-red’s Militant Sound Investigations | 191 Acknowledgments | 207 Notes | 209 Selected Bibliography | 233 Index | 243
£80.75
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.
£18.66
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.
£81.00
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.
£21.56
University of Hawaii Press The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition
Book SynopsisAn introduction to philosophy of Li Zezhou, one of the contemporary China's foremost intellectuals. It presents Li's synthesis of Chinese aesthetic thought, from ancient times to the early modern period, incorporating pre-Confucian and Confucian ideas, Daoism, Chan Buddhism, and the influence of Western philosophy during the late-imperial period.
£39.96
University of Hawai'i Press Mishima Aesthetic Terrorist
Book SynopsisHalf a century after his samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima remains a controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers, he has often been scorned by scholars, who view him as a frivolous figure. Andrew Rankin sets out to challenge this perception by demonstrating the intelligence and seriousness of Mishima's work.
£35.96
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.
£37.99
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.
£39.89
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.
£31.99
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Quest for the Fine A Philosophical Inquiry
Book SynopsisIn this original and compelling exploration of the meaning of the term ''fine'' and the phenomenon of refinement, noted scholar Michael Gelven reflects on the relationship between refinement and existence. Beginning with a study of perceptual refinement, Gelven shows how in some cases this refinement discloses an existential essenceas an architect shows us what it means to dwell. Gelven then moves to a refinement of self, not equating it with virtue but showing how refinement illuminates our understanding of our ethical and aesthetic judgments, and of what it means to be.Trade ReviewAll audiences...not just specialists in philosophy, will find much to delight them, and much to ponder, in this thoughtful, impassioned book. -- Steven Galt Crowell, Rice UniversityA subtle and often elegant essay on a topic that all too frequently escapes the attention of professional philosophers. -- Stanley Rosen, University of Southern CaliforniaThe honesty, rigor, and probity of his thinking are evident throughout this compelling examination of all that is 'fine' in our lives. -- Jerome Miller, author of The Way of SufferingA speculative work of great scope and profundity but contained in a small compass...[I]t exposes the nihilism that is unwittingly and unintentionally generated by the Enlightenment and points the way to recovering the question of human excellence in a way that is modern...but escapes the ideology of modernity. It is a well argued and spirited celebration of the philosophical life properly conceived. -- Donald W. Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University DIS .40The importance of this absolutely original study of the endangered idea of the 'fine' cannot be exaggerated... -- Francisco J. Gonzalez, Skidmore College
£36.90
Rowman & Littlefield The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke A Reader
Book SynopsisIn its comprehensive overview of Alain Locke's pragmatist philosophy this book captures the radical implications of Locke's approach within pragmatism, the critical temper embedded in Locke's works, the central role of power and empowerment of the oppressed and the concept of broad democracy Locke employed.Trade ReviewA valuable anthology suitable for those interested in the serious study of pragmatism or Alain Locke. * Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy *Table of ContentsPart 1 Part I: Critical Pragmatism and Value Theory Chapter 2 Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical "Race" Theory, and the Politics of Culture Chapter 3 Struggling with Stereotypes: The Problems of Representing a Collective Identity Chapter 4 Values and Language: Toward a Theory of Translation for Alain Locke Chapter 5 African Art and the Harlem Renaissance: Alain Locke, Melville Herskovits, Roger Fry, Albert C. Barnes Chapter 6 Alain Lockes' Multicultural Philosophy of Value: A Transformative Guide for the Twenty-First Century Part 7 Part II: Aesthetics Chapter 8 Pragmatist Aesthetics: Roots and Radicalism Chapter 9 Alain Locke, Essentialism, and the Notion of a Black Aesthetic Chapter 10 Aesthetics and the Issue of Identity Chapter 11 Open-Textured Aesthetic Boundaries: Matters of Art, Race, and Culture Part 12 Part III: Community and Culture Chapter 13 Two Lockes, Two Keys: Tolerance and Reciprocity in a Culture of Democracy Chapter 14 Alain Locke and Walt Whitman: Manifestos and National Identity Chapter 15 Alain Locke: Philosophical "Midwife" of the Harlem Renaissance Chapter 16 Alain Locke: A Sociocultural Conception of Race Chapter 17 Instrumental Relativism and Cultivated Pluralism: Alain Locke and Philosophy's Quest for a Common World Part 18 Part IV: Edification and Education Chapter 19 Adult Education and Democratic Values: Alain Locke on the Nature and Purpose of Adult Education for African Americans Chapter 20 Alain Locke and His Contributions to Black Studies Chapter 21 Andragogy and the Education of African American Adults Chapter 22 Alain Locke: A Paradigm for Transformative Education—Addressing the Relationship of Knowledge to Social Concerns Part 23 Part V: Paradoxes, Dilemmas, and Critiques Chapter 24 Values, Imperatives, and the Imperative of Democratic Values Chapter 25 Meaning in an Epistemic System Chapter 26 Alain Locke: Critical Relativism and Multicultural Education Part 27 Part VI: Postscript Chapter 28 Alain Locke Remembered
£159.30
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive overview of Alain Locke''s pragmatist philosophy. It aims to capture the radical implications of Locke''s approach within pragmatism, the critical temper embedded in Locke''s works, the central role of power and empowerment of the oppressed, and the concept of broad democracy Locke employed. Arguing that the school of thought Locke initiated is best described as critical pragmatism, the well-known philosopher and Locke scholar, Leonard Harris, provides a clear and thorough introduction to Locke''s thought that will be useful to students and scholars alike. At a time when critical theory in all formspost-Marxist, legal, race, and gender theoryis undergoing a major reassessment, this volume is especially timely. Locke''s critical pragmatism arguably avoids the pitfalls of critical theory, anticipates its tremendous contribution to human liberation, and offers an alternative to the limitations of classical pragmatism. This volume introduces unique indTrade ReviewA valuable anthology suitable for those interested in the serious study of pragmatism or Alain Locke. * Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy *Table of ContentsPart 1 Part I: Critical Pragmatism and Value Theory Chapter 2 Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical "Race" Theory, and the Politics of Culture Chapter 3 Struggling with Stereotypes: The Problems of Representing a Collective Identity Chapter 4 Values and Language: Toward a Theory of Translation for Alain Locke Chapter 5 African Art and the Harlem Renaissance: Alain Locke, Melville Herskovits, Roger Fry, Albert C. Barnes Chapter 6 Alain Lockes' Multicultural Philosophy of Value: A Transformative Guide for the Twenty-First Century Part 7 Part II: Aesthetics Chapter 8 Pragmatist Aesthetics: Roots and Radicalism Chapter 9 Alain Locke, Essentialism, and the Notion of a Black Aesthetic Chapter 10 Aesthetics and the Issue of Identity Chapter 11 Open-Textured Aesthetic Boundaries: Matters of Art, Race, and Culture Part 12 Part III: Community and Culture Chapter 13 Two Lockes, Two Keys: Tolerance and Reciprocity in a Culture of Democracy Chapter 14 Alain Locke and Walt Whitman: Manifestos and National Identity Chapter 15 Alain Locke: Philosophical "Midwife" of the Harlem Renaissance Chapter 16 Alain Locke: A Sociocultural Conception of Race Chapter 17 Instrumental Relativism and Cultivated Pluralism: Alain Locke and Philosophy's Quest for a Common World Part 18 Part IV: Edification and Education Chapter 19 Adult Education and Democratic Values: Alain Locke on the Nature and Purpose of Adult Education for African Americans Chapter 20 Alain Locke and His Contributions to Black Studies Chapter 21 Andragogy and the Education of African American Adults Chapter 22 Alain Locke: A Paradigm for Transformative Education—Addressing the Relationship of Knowledge to Social Concerns Part 23 Part V: Paradoxes, Dilemmas, and Critiques Chapter 24 Values, Imperatives, and the Imperative of Democratic Values Chapter 25 Meaning in an Epistemic System Chapter 26 Alain Locke: Critical Relativism and Multicultural Education Part 27 Part VI: Postscript Chapter 28 Alain Locke Remembered
£37.80
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
£38.95
Rowman & Littlefield Making Sense A Theory of Interpretation
Book SynopsisCritics and artists claim the title of interpreter for themselves. Scientists do not so readily describe themselves in this way. This text recognizes that whenever interpretation occurs there may be a plurality of successful interpretations.Trade ReviewThom's framework is important and along the right lines. Anyone interested in interpretation should give careful consideration to these views. * British Journal of Aesthetics *This is a very lucid and precise text, which is richly textured with illuminating and intriguing discussions of examples from painting, theatre, music, opera and the sciences. I would recommend it as a text for undergraduate courses on Interpretation —and I would have all teachers read chapter 3!> -- Jennifer A. McMahon * Australasian Journal of Philosophy *This book is suitable for those with an interest in the performing arts and are looking for a general theory that provides a conceptual framework by which to assess different performative interpretations of a piece of work. * Philosophy in Review *This is a very lucid and precise text, which is richly textured with illuminating and intriguing discussions of examples from painting, theatre, music, opera and the sciences. I would recommend it as a text for undergraduate courses on Interpretation —and I would have all teachers read chapter 3! -- Jennifer A. McMahon * Australasian Journal of Philosophy *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 Data and Difficulties: The La Scala Eracle, Lavoisier's Oxygen, and Various People's Shakespeare Chapter 3 2 Structure: Schikaneder's Flugwerk, Gilda's Body, and Horowitz's Liszt Chapter 4 3 Process: Greek Meteorology, The Potato Eaters, and Madonna's "Fever" Chapter 5 4 Kinds Chapter 6 5 General Rules: The Uninspired Archaeologist and Freud's Macbeth Chapter 7 6 Special Rules: The Offstage Piano and Elvis's "Hound Dog" Chapter 8 7 Conclusions Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 About the Author
£108.00
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Making Sense
Book SynopsisCritics and artists (including performing artists) claim the title of ''interpreter'' for themselves. Scientists do not so readily describe themselves in this way. But is the formulation of explanatory hypotheses in science so different from the interpretive work of artists? Making Sense recognizes that whenever interpretation occurs there may be a plurality of competing successful interpretations. It offers a philosophical theory that views the interpretive enterprise as an attempt to make sense of things by representing them in ways that can be accommodated within various significance-systems.Trade ReviewThom's framework is important and along the right lines. Anyone interested in interpretation should give careful consideration to these views. * British Journal of Aesthetics *This is a very lucid and precise text, which is richly textured with illuminating and intriguing discussions of examples from painting, theatre, music, opera and the sciences. I would recommend it as a text for undergraduate courses on Interpretation —and I would have all teachers read chapter 3!> -- Jennifer A. McMahon * Australasian Journal of Philosophy *This book is suitable for those with an interest in the performing arts and are looking for a general theory that provides a conceptual framework by which to assess different performative interpretations of a piece of work. * Philosophy in Review *This is a very lucid and precise text, which is richly textured with illuminating and intriguing discussions of examples from painting, theatre, music, opera and the sciences. I would recommend it as a text for undergraduate courses on Interpretation —and I would have all teachers read chapter 3! -- Jennifer A. McMahon * Australasian Journal of Philosophy *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 Data and Difficulties: The La Scala Eracle, Lavoisier's Oxygen, and Various People's Shakespeare Chapter 3 2 Structure: Schikaneder's Flugwerk, Gilda's Body, and Horowitz's Liszt Chapter 4 3 Process: Greek Meteorology, The Potato Eaters, and Madonna's "Fever" Chapter 5 4 Kinds Chapter 6 5 General Rules: The Uninspired Archaeologist and Freud's Macbeth Chapter 7 6 Special Rules: The Offstage Piano and Elvis's "Hound Dog" Chapter 8 7 Conclusions Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 About the Author
£27.00
Lawrence & Wishart Ltd The Actuality of Walter Benjamin
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays concentrates on the work of Walter Benjamin. Topics covered include: the question of historical understanding versus historicism; Benjamin and the sources of Judaism; feminism and cultural analysis; and images in Benjamin's novels and other writings.Table of ContentsThe measure of the possible, the weight of the real and the heat of the moment - Benjamin's actuality today, Irving Wohlfarth; from gender images to dialectical images in Benjamin's writings, Sigried Wiegel; the city in pieces, Victor Burgin; Benjamin the intellectual, Zygmunt Bauman; Walter Benjamin - out of the sources of modern Judaism, Gillian Rose; a communicative disclosure of the past - on the relation between anthropology and philosophy of history in Walter Benjamin, Axl Honneth; Shoah, remembrance and the abeyance of fate - Walter Benjamin, feminism and cultural analysis, Andrew Benjamin; aesthetics and anaesthetics - Walter Benjamin's artwork essay reconsidered, Susan Buck-Morris; experience without a subject - Benjamin and the novel, Martin Jay; the aesthetics of conflict, Julian Roberts; the judgement of the angels, Iain Chambers.
£15.20
John Wiley & Sons Paradise Wild Reimagining American Nature
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£18.80
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc On The Musically Beautiful
Book SynopsisOffers insights into both the disciplines of music and philosophy.Trade ReviewLike Hanslick, Professor Payzant is both musician and philosopher; and he has brought the knowledge and insights of both disciplines to this large undertaking. --Gordon Epperson, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
£32.29
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Color for Philosophers
Book SynopsisAwarded the 1986 Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy. This work on colour features a chapter, 'Further Thoughts: 1993', in which the author revisits the dispute between colour objectivists and subjectivists from the perspective of the ecology, genetics, and evolution of colour vision.Trade ReviewMuch the best philosophically orientated book about colour that has been written. . . . It has none of the philosophical crudity which mars scientific accounts of colour, and none of the scientific ignorance which makes so many philosophical accounts of colour worthless or worse. . . . Time and again I found myself unexpectedly convinced at a point whose opposite I had believed. I have in mind particularly the later sections on ‘Other colours, other minds’, language foci, and ‘boundaries and indeterminacy’. It is annoying, but also exhilarating, to be relieved of some stubborn and treasured opinions. --Jonathan Westphal, Mind
£18.89
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Color for Philosophers
Book SynopsisAwarded the 1986 Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy. This work on colour features a chapter, 'Further Thoughts: 1993', in which the author revisits the dispute between colour objectivists and subjectivists from the perspective of the ecology, genetics, and evolution of colour vision.Trade ReviewMuch the best philosophically orientated book about colour that has been written. . . . It has none of the philosophical crudity which mars scientific accounts of colour, and none of the scientific ignorance which makes so many philosophical accounts of colour worthless or worse. . . . Time and again I found myself unexpectedly convinced at a point whose opposite I had believed. I have in mind particularly the later sections on ‘Other colours, other minds’, language foci, and ‘boundaries and indeterminacy’. It is annoying, but also exhilarating, to be relieved of some stubborn and treasured opinions. --Jonathan Westphal, Mind
£45.89
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Covering such diverse topics as architecture, epistemology, art, literature, and music, the book is firmly held together by a unique vision. . . a brilliant work of destruction. All certainty seems to disappear under Goodman and Elgin's rigorous scrutiny. Rightness, adoption, and understanding are substituted for truth, certainty, and knowledge, without yielding to terminal scepticism or irresponsible relativism. The students of Goodman and Elgin know less but understand more." --Carl Rudbeck, Svenska Dagbladt"The idea that knowledge and truth are not as absolutely crucial as we have thought is absolutely crucial: it is right." --Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University
£34.84
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Guide to Aesthetics
Book SynopsisPresents the defense of the intuitive nature of art in Western philosophical thought.
£12.34
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Guide to Aesthetics
Book Synopsis A reprint of the Library of Liberal Arts edition of 1965. Croce's Guide presents one of the clearest and strongest defenses of the intuitive nature of art in Western philosophical thought.
£27.19
MP-MQU Marquette University Identity Authenticity and Humility
Book SynopsisElaborates and defends an account of the experience of self-identity that underwrites the possibility of authenticity (being true to oneself), only accessible with humility.
£12.30
Prometheus Art Beauty and Pornography
Book SynopsisMaking a radical departure from the conventional wisdom on art and beauty, this book presents the thesis that things of beauty are not only unrelated to art but often responsible for pornography.
£34.49
Prometheus Art and Philosophy
Book SynopsisOffers a look at the history, ethics, and aesthetics of art from the perspective of the specific philosophical concepts of transcendence, metaphysics, subjectivity, and conditionality. This volume questions many philosophical concepts used to justify art, and views their meaning within the perspective of philosophical development.
£24.00
SteinerBooks, Inc Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual
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£33.75
Spring Publications The Genius Decision
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£19.80
Getty Trust Publications The Intelligent Eye Learning to Think by Looking
Book SynopsisAttentive observation of art provides an excellent opportunity for better thinking, for the cultivation of the art of intelligence. The arts are important in an educational setting, therefore, because they can cultivate important thinking strategies in children and adults alike. With carefully chosen illustrations, Perkins demonstrates how the reflective approach to art can develop broader, more adventurous, and clearer avenues of thought.
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Baywood Publishing Company Inc EighteenthCentury British Aesthetics Foundations
Book SynopsisIn Eighteenth Century British Aesthetics, editor Dabney Townsend has brought together the work of such well-known writers as John Dryden, Joshua Reynolds, David Hume, and Samuel Johnson with the more obscure works of aestheticians such as Uvedale Price, Daniel Webb, John Baillie, and James Harris, whose work is difficult to find, but is nonetheless important, informative, and interesting. These twenty-two selections, accompanied by Dabney Townsend''s historical essay on the development of eighteenth century aesthetics, make the history of aesthetics accessible to both students and specialists alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 1John Dryden: "Introduction" to Charles du Fresnoy, De Arte Graphica (1695) Chapter 2John Dennis: A Large Account of the Taste in Poetry, and the Causes of the Degeneracy of It (1702) Chapter 3Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711) Chapter 4Joseph Addison: The Spectator (1712) Chapter 5Francis Hutcheson: Reflection on Laughter (1725)An Inquiry Into The Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) Chapter 6James Harris: Three Treatises (1744) Chapter 7John Baillie: An Essay on the Sublime (1744) Chapter 8Samuel Johnson: The Rambler (1751) Chapter 9William Hogarth: Analysis of Beauty, Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (1753) Chapter 10David Hume: Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion (1742)Of Tragedy (1757)Of the Standard of Taste (1757) Chapter 11Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757/1759) Chapter 12Alexander Gerard: An Essay on Taste (1759) Chapter 13Joseph Priestly: A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism (1759/1777) Chapter 14Daniel Webb: An Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting and into the Merits of the Most Celebrated Painters, Ancient and Modern (1760) Chapter 15Henry Home, Lord Kames: Elements of Criticism (1762) Chapter 16Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Idler, No. 76, 79, 82 (1757)Discourses on Art (1776) Chapter 17James Beattie: Essays on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind (1762) Chapter 18Hugh Blair: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783) Chapter 19Archibald Alison: Essay on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790) Chapter 20William Gilpin: Three Essays (1791) Chapter 21Uvedale Price: An Essay on the Picturesque as Compared with the Sublime and Beautiful (1794) Chapter 22Adam Smith: Of the Nature of that Imitation which Takes Place in What are Called the Imitative Arts ((1795) Index
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Imprint Academic Art and the Brain III Journal of Consciousness
Book SynopsisThird of a three-volume series of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, which asks if it is possible to take a natural science approach to art and uncover general laws of aesthetic experience, or is that taking reductionism too far? The contributors to this volume include Semir Zeki, Nicholas Humphrey, VS Ramachandran & Erich Harth.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Ways of Worldmaking
Book SynopsisProvides a workable notion of the kinds of skills and capacities that are central for those who work in the arts.Trade ReviewIn a way reminiscent of Einstein, Goodman leads us to the very edge of relativism, only then to step back and to suggest certain criteria of fairness and rightness. More so than any other commentator, he has provided a workable notion of the kinds of skills and capacities that are central for anyone who works in the arts. --Howard Gardner, Harvard University
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThis second edition features a new 48-page Afterword--1980 updating Professor Beardsley's classic work.
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Urbanomic Media Ltd Secrets of Creation Urbanomic Redactions
Book SynopsisAn artist and a mathematician debate, find common ground, and jointly create an assemblage that is neither (or both) an artwork and a mathematical model.A week-long residency project brought together artist Conrad Shawcross and mathematician Matthew Watkins to reflect on the ways in which artists use (or misuse) scientific and mathematical concepts. Secrets of Creation documents this fascinating meeting of worlds, presenting both the week's discussions and debates, and the project upon which Shawcross and Watkins subsequently embarked.Navigating a route that tacked between formalism and natural language, experts and laymen, quantity and quality, poetics and mechanics, Shawcross and Watkins gradually forged a shared discourse in which the concerns of the artist and those of the mathematician could find a common ground. The project ended with their joint creation of an assemblage that was neither (or both) an artwork and a mathematical model.
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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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State University of New York Press Anonymous
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Pro Arte Books Who Says Thats Art A Commonsense View of the Visual Arts
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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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Green Writers Press Infinite Good
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Cambridge University Press Colonialism World Literature and the Making of
Book SynopsisThis book offers an account of how the modern idea of the literary emerged, through the colonial archives. Situated at the cusp of postcolonialism and world literature, it offers a multilingual, multicultural, and comparative account of how literature became one of the most powerful cultural expressions of modernity.Trade Review'In this magisterial book, Baidik Bhattacharya develops a surprising thesis: that the modern conception of literature as an autonomous, self-directed cultural form was the product of a highly political process – the efforts of colonial British administrators to extend their sway in India and beyond. This is a compelling, revisionary genealogy of the contemporary idea of culture, and a major contribution to debates on the intertwined origins of world literature and modern empire.' David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University'Baidik Bhattacharya's erudition in the fields of Indian and British literary history and his transdisciplinary approach to 'lettered sovereignty' as a catalyst of colonial modernity give us a fresh perspective on what Pascale Casanova famously dubbed the 'world republic of letters.' Philological legacies; questions of race, language, and translation; the formation and deformation of epistemic habits crucial to narratives of empire; comparatism in the colony (including the complex reception of European philosophies of aesthetic judgment and nationalist imagination within Indian education) – all receive fine-grained analysis, making Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters essential reading for scholars, critics, historians, and theorists committed to rethinking the postcolonial public sphere in the contemporary humanities.' Emily Apter, Julius Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University, and author of Against World Literature: On the Politics of UntranslatabilityTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgement; Introduction: formations of the literary sovereign; Part I. Epistemic Habits: 1. Ethnographic recension; 2. Colonial untranslatables; 3. Comparatism in the colony; Part II. Aesthetic Conventions: 4. Impure aesthetics; 5. Sanskrit on shagreen; 6. National enframing; Coda: Decolonization after world literature; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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