Philosophy: aesthetics Books
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The ReEnchantment of the World
Book SynopsisRe-Enchantment of the World advances a critique of consumer capitalism that draws on Freud and Marx to construct an utterly contemporary analysis of our time. The book explores the cognitive, affective, social and economic effects of the 'proletarianization' of the consumer in late capitalism.Trade ReviewExpounding and developing the work of his think tank and pressure group, Ars Industrialis, this book offers a close-up of Stiegler's philosophy in its engagement with our contemporary world. Exposing the toxic short-termism of our runaway economics, Stiegler offers us an alternative: the repurposing of technologies of control and consumption towards an economy of contribution. His analyses ring profoundly true, and his urgency is unparalleled: this is a project we cannot afford to ignore. * Martin Crowley, Reader in Modern French Thought and Culture, Queens' College, University of Cambridge, UK *Stiegler offers penetrating philosophical analyses of our contemporary information society and of the industrial model of consumer capitalism that underpins it. He writes with an urgency and vision that challenges us to reclaim our freedom and knowledge and to recreate a world that would not be subordinated to the exigencies of consumption, production and limitless growth. Stiegler tells us that there can be another way and that there are futures which can be different from the present we have now. His insight and originality make him one of the most important and indispensable philosophers living and writing today. * Ian James, Lecturer in French, Downing College, University of Cambridge, UK *The interventions brought together in The Re-Enchantment of the World work superbly as a point of entry into the increasingly important philosophy of Bernard Stiegler. It is also a major work in its own right, the most strident example of current French philosophy's return to political activism. Stiegler argues that consumer capitalism is deleteriously eroding the processes of sublimation that gives rise to desire, leading to emotional exhaustion, social atomism, apathy and a lethal short-termism. Ars Industrialis offers not just a critique, but a remedy for this demise. By harnessing technology to generate meaningful participation, to create an 'economy of contribution' rather than emotional exploitation, we can invent ourselves a future in which there is an alternative to immiserating acquiescence. * Dr Gerald Moore, Director, MA in Culture and Difference, Lecturer in French, School of Modern Languages & Cultures, Durham University, UK *This small volume functions well as an introduction to [Stiegler's] thought over the last decade -- Christian Lotz * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is to be done? Manifesto of ... Ars Industrialis Part I: Refounding Society 1. The Industrial Age as Service Capitalism 2. The Consumer Discharged of his Existence 3. Hyperindustrial Service Societies as the Destruction of Individuation by Controlling Adoption Procedures 4. Re-Enchanting the World in the Face of the Unhappy Destiny of Consumption 5. 'R' Technologies and the New Apparatuses of Spirit 6. Overcoming the Capitalism of Drives and Fighting Against its Becoming-Barbaric 7. Startled, We Begin Again Differently (!) / The Sudden Surge: a Nw Beginning 8. Grammatization and Individuation - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 9. The Revolution of Capitalism 10. A European Way of Life 11. The Plan that Enchants Me Part II: Investing in the Augmentation of the Value of the 'Human Spirit' Against the Reign of Ignorance 12. From the Informatization of Society to "Information Society" 13. From the "Information Society" to the "Society of Knowledge" - or, On the Possibility of the Re-Enchantment of the World 14. Companies, Public Power, and Industrial Populism 15. Changing the Industrial Paradigm 16. Information Society, Disenchantment, De-Motivation and Control of Knowledge 17. The Re-Instrumentation of Knowledge, the Future of Hyperindustrial Society 18. Knowledge and Information 19. Knowledge and Memory, or Reign of Ignorance? 20. The Risk of Disindividuation as the Growth of Ignorance Rather Than Knowledge 21. Cognitive Saturation and Knowledge Management 22. Instruments of Knowledge and the Criteria of Selection That They Produce 23. Being and Becoming in Technoscience 24. The Crisis of Education 25. Practical Consequences Motion adopted by Ars Industrial on the eve of the Tunis summit Bibliography Index
£32.99
Rowman & Littlefield American Foodie
Book SynopsisAs nutrition, food is essential, but in today's world of excess, a good portion of the world has taken food beyond its functional definition to fine art status. From celebrity chefs to amateur food bloggers, individuals take ownership of the food they eat as a creative expression of personality, heritage, and ingenuity. Dwight Furrow examines the contemporary fascination with food and culinary arts not only as global spectacle, but also as an expression of control, authenticity, and playful creation for individuals in a homogenized, and increasingly public, world.Trade ReviewYou don’t have to be a fan of sophisticated food to enjoy this often entertaining illuminating lecture on America’s current taste revolution. Furrow, a professor of philosophy at San Diego Mesa College, digs up the roots of Yankee cuisine, blaming the Puritans—for whom pleasure was restricted by dogma, and all cooking was dictated by the seasons of planting and reaping—for the dullness of most traditional American food. He declares that food is far more than fuel and nutrition: meals accompany all social life, and food can be so compelling that well-off foodies travel just to savor local cuisines. There’s style and substance in Furrow’s theories of cooking and composition on the plate. He casts a wide net to include middle-class consumers with a yen for organics, celebrity chefs, amateur food bloggers, Julia Child, TV dinners, specialty bistros, food trucks, and family-run farms. In chapters about reading a meal, the beauty of a tuna casserole, and the future of taste, Furrow argues that the foodie craze is in revolt against ‘a life that has become bureaucratic and digitized.’ In the end, Furrow makes a case for the taste revolution in a text. * Publishers Weekly *What this books is, is a fascinating look at how the 'foodie' came to be and what we do with that concept now. Think roots in Yankee cuisine (pleasure was restricted by dogma) all the way to the new age chef prancing his /her way across the television screen declaring anything goes. [Y]ou’ll be challenged to look at food and those who creatively love it in a whole new way once you read this book. * Examiner.com *American Foodie is a thoroughly readable and insightful book on the aesthetics of food and the role of taste in our everyday lives. Dwight Furrow makes the provocative case that far from being an indulgence of the wealthy, foodie culture harbors revolutionary potential to free us from the grip of the food industry by reminding us that flavor matters. -- David M. Kaplan, University of North Texas, director, The Philosophy of Food ProjectAmerican Foodie offers a thought-provoking and readable analysis of the extraordinary rise of interest in cuisine in the United States over the last half century. Furrow presents a compelling vision of the meanings that food attains, meanings attached to home, tradition, romance, and memory. Especially in his examination of culinary modernism, he makes a persuasive case not only for the aesthetic appeal of food but also for its standing as a form of art. -- Carolyn Korsmeyer, author of Making Sense of Taste: Food and PhilosophyThis entertainingly written work brings the aesthetics of food up-to-date. It is a must-read for foodies, gourmands, chefs, epicureans, cultural theorists, and philosophers of art. -- Thomas Leddy, San Jose State University, author of The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life"We think you’ll be challenged to look at food and those who creatively love it in a whole new way once you read this book." -- Linda Kissam, President of International Food, Wine & Travel Writers AssociationTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: America Discovers Its Palate 1 We Live from Good Soup 2 Why Food? Why Now? 3 Gathering the Tribes: Revolutionary Food and the People Who Create It 4 From Pleasure to Beauty: If Kant Was at Myhrvold’s Table 5 How to Read a Meal: The Flavor of Symbols 6 Can Tuna Casserole Be a Work of Art? 7 Habits and Heresies: Authenticity, Food Rules, and Tradition 8 The Future of Taste Notes Index About the Author
£35.10
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Art and Ethical Criticism
Book Synopsis* Provides a timely and philosophically significant contribution to modern aesthetics * Features some of the best contemporary work in philosophical studies on literature, moral beliefs, and thinking in art * Reflects on the significance of a moral life of engagement with works of art .Trade Review"Hagberg draws together some of the top thinkers in aesthetics to consider the cross-impacts between these philosophical disciplines. The selections are widely representative of approaches to ethical criticism of artworks, and the ethical/aesthetic dimensions of the literary, visual, and auditory arts." (CHOICE) "Garry Hagberg's new anthology Art and Ethical Criticism consists of twelve new essays—ten by philosophers, one each by an art historian and a professor of French—together with a short foreword. The overall argument that emerges from these essays is that the first, broader topic (the powers and interest of art for human subjects) is more important than the second, narrower topic (the relation between artistic and moral value), and the essays are strongest exactly when they illuminate the powers and interest of art, precisely by not separating the artistic and ethical features of a work sharply from each other." (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Foreword xiGarry L. Hagberg Part I: Historical Foundations 1 1 Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective 3Paul Guyer Part II: Conceptions of Ethical Content 33 2 Narrative and the Ethical Life 35Noel Carroll 3 A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Improvement through Fiction 63Joshua Landy 4 Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach 95Mitchell Green Part III: Literature and Moral Responsibility 123 5 "Solid Objects," Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy 125Paisley Livingston 6 Disgrace: Bernard Williams and J. M. Coetzee 144Catherine Wilson 7 Facing Death Together: Camus's The Plague 163Robert C. Solomon Part IV: Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response 185 8 Staying in Touch 187Carolyn Korsmeyer 9 Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography 211David Davies 10 Ethical Judgments in Museums 229Ivan Gaskell Part V: Music and Moral Relations 243 11 Cosi's Canon Quartet 245Stephen Davies 12 Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections 259Garry L. Hagberg Index 286
£27.50
Hodder & Stoughton The Art of Creative Thinking
Book SynopsisA scuba diving company faces bankruptcy because sharks have infested the area. Solution? Open the world''s first extreme diving school.The Art of Creative Thinking reveals how we can transform ourselves, our businesses and our society through a deeper understanding of human creativity. Rod Judkins, lecturer at the world-famous St Martin''s College of Art, has studied successful creative thinkers from every walk of life, throughout history. Drawing on an extraordinary range of reference points - from the Dada Manifesto to Nobel Prize Winning economists, from Andy Warhol''s studio to Einstein''s desk - he distils a lifetime''s expertise into a succinct, surprising book that will inspire you to think more confidently and creatively.You''ll realise why you should be happy when your train is cancelled; meet the most successful class in educational history (in which every single student won a Nobel prize); discover why graphic nudity during pubTrade ReviewThis is a must-read for aspiring artists and creatives everywhere. * Mumsnet *
£10.44
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Red Kant Aesthetics Marxism and the Third
Book SynopsisIs Kant really the bourgeois' philosopher that his advocates and opponents take him to be? In this bold and original re-thinking of Kant, Michael Wayne argues that with his aesthetic turn in the Third Critique, Kant broke significantly from the problematic philosophical structure of the Critique of Pure Reason. Through his philosophy of the aesthetic Kant begins to circumnavigate the dualities in his thought. In so doing he shows us today how the aesthetic is a powerful means for imagining our way past the apparent universality of contemporary capitalism. Here is an unfamiliar Kant: his concepts of beauty and the sublime are reinterpreted as attempts to socialise the aesthetic while Wayne reconstructs the usually hidden genealogy between Kant and important Marxist concepts such as totality, dialectics, mediation and even production. In materialising Kant's philosophy, this book simultaneously offers a Marxist defence of creativity and imagination grounded in our poTrade ReviewWayne’s book makes a provocative and substantial contribution to Marxist philosophy that should help to stimulate productive new approaches to the aesthetic dimension of radical politics and the deeper ground of critique in general. -- Bryan Smyth, University of Mississippi * Philosophy in Review *Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism, and the Third Critique is impressively ambitious: it aims to synthesize two notoriously difficult and revolutionary philosophers in order to reveal a causal connection between the third Critique and Marxist social theory. ... [Wayne's] writing is unpretentious, accessible, and jargon-free; he covers difficult terrain lightly and quickly; and he raises many questions that later scholars may feel compelled to answer (or, at least, to investigate). * British Journal of Aesthetics *Red Kant attempts nothing less than a reclaiming of the aesthetic for the cause of emancipatory social transformation ... [Wayne] situates his case within Kant's formidable philosophical system and draws consequential links to Marx ... Its success in this endeavour rests largely on Wayne's rare ability to distinguish philosophical explication from his own powerful reinterpretations. * Film-Philosophy *Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism, and the Third Critique, offers a cogent and valiant defense of the necessity for sophisticated thinking about aesthetics in our contemporary moment … a valuable resource on the relationship between Kant’s philosophy and Marxist critical theory. Red Kant reaffirms the radical political power of the aesthetic; and Wayne’s reading of Kant goes a long way towards repairing this 'bourgeois' and 'idealist' philosopher’s reputation. Such a project has been, I think, long overdue. -- Bakary Diaby * Sequiter *No longer just an archetypal bourgeois philosopher, Kant emerges from Wayne’s new book as a thinker whose system led him to grasp the stultifying limits of positivist reason. Wayne provides incisive critiques not just of bourgeois presentations of Kant but also of earlier left readings of his aesthetic by Bourdieu, Deleuze, Eagleton, Rancière and others; he demonstrates the contemporaneity of the Kantian model through sparkling analyses of films, ranging from Casablanca to Land of the Dead. A compelling demonstration of the continuing resourcefulness of rational critique for progressive cultural politics today. -- Andrew Hemingway, Emeritus Professor of History of Art, University College London, UKMichael Wayne does more than just read Kant’s Critique of Judgment against the grain he manages to deliver us a truly radical Kantian agency that neither mainstream scholars nor dominant Marxist interpreters have dared to consider. Red Kant anticipates techniques of aesthetic estrangement found in Brecht, Benjamin and certain forms of science fiction. Red Kant rescues aesthetic populism for Marxist critics who have too long abandoned research into working class fantasy and imagination to anthropology, cultural studies and corporate marketers. Red Kant reassigns concepts such as beauty and the sublime to the social-historical realm, reinvigorating material production with a utopian inflection made possible by the metaphorical workings of the aesthetic. Red Kant rocks. -- Gregory Sholette, Assistant Professor Queens College, CUNY, USA, and an Associate of the Art, Design and the Public Domain program at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USAIn this bold and original re-thinking of Kant, Michael Wayne argues that with his aesthetic turn in the Third Critique, Kant broke significantly from the problematic philosophical structure of the Critique of Pure Reason. Through his philosophy of the aesthetic Kant begins to circumnavigate the dualities in his thought. In so doing he shows us today how the aesthetic is a powerful means for imagining our way past the apparent universality of contemporary capitalism. -- Eugene Wolters * Critical-Theory blog *Wayne does more than simply make a familiar plea for the role of the aesthetic as socially transformative; he situates his case within Kant’s formidable philosophical system and draws consequential links to Marx, all the while deflecting, through helpful explication, the views of his ‘bourgeois’ interlocutors. * Film-Philosophy Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Disinterring Kant 2. Kant’s First Critique and The Problem of Reification 3. The Aesthetic, The Beautiful and Praxis 4. The Aesthetic and Class Interests 5. The Sublime in Kant’s Philosophical Architecture 6. Labour, The Aesthetic And Nature 7. On Marxism and Metaphor 8. In The Laboratory Of Kant’s Aesthetic Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Visual Art Schizoanalytic Applications
Book SynopsisIan Buchanan is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of the Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory (2010) and the editor of Deleuze Studies.Lorna Collins is an artist, critic and arts educator based in Cambridge, where she completed her PhD as a Foundation Scholar in French Philosophy, at Jesus College. She is the founder and co-organiser/curator of the trans-disciplinary Making Sense colloquia and co-editor of the series of Making Sense books. Her provocative practice as an artist (in paint, film, installation and performance) drives the motor that lies behind all her existential and epistemological (philosophical) enquiries.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction, Ian Buchanan and Lorna Collins Part I: Genealogy of Art and Schizoanalysis 1. The Clutter Assemblage, Ian Buchanan (Director for the Institute for Social Transformation Research, University of Wollongong, Australia) 2. Schizo-Revolutionary Art; Deleuze, Guattari and Communisation Theory, Stephen Zepke (author of Sublime Art) Part II: Raw Data for Schizoanalysis: Outsider Art 3. Pragmatics of Raw Art (For the Post-Autonomy Paradigm), Alexander Wilson (media artist, musician, theatre director and theorist) 4. Passional Bodies: The Interstitial Force of Artaud’s Drawings, Anna Powell (Reader in Film and English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 5. Art, Therapy and the Schizophrenic, Lorna Collins (artist, poet and critical theorist) Part III: Art as an Abstract Machine 6. The Audience and the Art Machine: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s Opera for a Small Room, Susan Ballard (School of the Arts, English and Media, University of Wollongong) 7. 1780 and 1945: An Avant-Garde Without Authority, Addressing the Anthropocene, jan jagodzinski (University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada) 8. Strategies of Camouflage: Depersonalisation, Schizoanalysis and Contemporary Photography, Ayelet Zohar (transdisciplinary artist, curator and Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Israel) Part IV: Mobilizing Schizoanalysis: Collaborative Art Practice 9. The Event of Painting, Andrea Eckersley (artist) 10. In Response to the ‘Indiscreet Questioner’, Jac Saorsa (Cardiff University, Wales) 11. The Sinthome/Z-point Relation or Art as Non-Schizoanalysis, David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan (Plastique Fantastique) (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK and Goldsmiths College, University of London) 12. Art as Schizoanalysis: Creative Place-Making in South Asia, Leon Tan (Independent scholar) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Philosophy of Textile
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe bibliography is extensive, giving an interesting insight into the metaphorical use of the words that textiles have made to the language. * Book Threads *Dormor provides a crucial model of integrated writing about practice that entwines the academic and creative voice. In the face of much writing that adopts linear models not because of their usefulness, but for lack of another model, here the academic and creative voice finally hold “theory” and “practice” as one. * Jessica Hemmings, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland *Table of ContentsList of Plates Acknowledgements Introduction Textile as Making: techne between practice and theory Weaving the Chapters (Inter)mingling Chapter One: Folding An Unfolding of Making Metaphorics and Metonymy as Enfolded Modes for Thinking Textile–Space La Maison Baroque Folding–Seaming–Fraying Chapter Two: Textile as Shimmering Surface Veils: a space of scintillation Faintly Gleaming Illicit Encounters Absurdity Through the Looking Glass Chapter Three: Seaming Seaming as Passage Hand & Machine Stitching Seaming as Suturing Seaming as Trace Conjunctions & Crossings Chapter Four: Textile as Viscous Substance Attacking the Boundary Collapsing Boundaries Flow Ontological Secretions A substance between two states Chapter Five: Fraying Frayed and Fraying: a politics of translation Frayed and Fraying Cloth: broken and contingent To the Edge: pointing away from the centre Worn Through Fraying Chapter Six: Textile as Caressing Subject/Object Affective Touching Proximity Opening Out-Becoming Measuring Distance First Actions of Hands Synoptic-Synesthetic Caressing Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£85.50
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Deleuze and Futurism
Trade ReviewThe book’s constructive project is worthy of attention. Kaspar uses the many objections to intuitionism to pare the theory down to its essentials; then, he develops a framework that promises to solve the explanatory and epistemological puzzles that the view faces. ... An engaging and accessible work. -- Robert William Fischer, Texas State University, USA * Philosophy in Review *In this exceptionally rewarding study of Deleuze and futurism, Helen Palmer enacts new possibilities for rigorous scholarship, where precise formal analysis and powerful conceptual innovation combine to give us the deepest practical explanation of Deleuze’s radical philosophy of language, while pointing to the continued importance of futurism as template for avant-garde movements. * James Williams, University of Dundee, UK *This important new study sheds more light on a movement that has profoundly influenced the development of literature and the arts in the 20th century internationally. While there are excellent books dealing with futurism, the avant-garde, and Deleuze’s philosophy individually, there is no book bringing together those two topics for comparison like this book does. It highlights for the first time the connection between the futurist manifestoes and Deleuze’s philosophical writings, from both a conceptual and a linguistic perspective * Anna Lawton, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Poetics of Futurism: Zaum, Shiftology, Nonsense 2. Poetics of Deleuze: Structure, Stoicism, Univocity 3. The Materialist Manifesto 4. Shiftology #1: From Performativity to Dramatisation 5. Shiftology #2: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis 6. The See-Sawing Frontier: Linguistic Spatiotemporalities 7. Conclusion: Suffixing, Prefixing Notes Bibliography Index
£26.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Music as an Art
Book SynopsisIn the latest of his books exploring a lifetime's passion for music, bestselling author and philosopher Roger Scruton brings his immense critical faculties to bear on a panoply of different musical genres, both contemporary and classical.Music as an Art begins by examining music through a philosophical lens, engaging in discussions about tonality, music and the moral life, music and cognitive science and German idealism, as well as recalling the author's struggle to encourage his students to distinguish the qualities of good music. Scruton then explains via erudite chapters on Schubert, Britten, Rameau, opera and film how we can develop greater judgement in music, recognising both good taste and bad, establishing musical values, as well as musical pleasures.As Scruton argues in this book, in earlier times, our musical culture had secure foundations in the church, the concert hall and the home; in the ceremonies and celebrations of ordinary life, religion and manners. Yet we no longer live in that world. Fewer people now play instruments and music is, for many, a form of largely solitary enjoyment. As he shows in Music as an Art, we live at a critical time for classical music, and this book is an important contribution to the debate, of which we stand in need, concerning the place of music in Western civilization.Trade ReviewScruton fastidiously argues for tonality and expression as significant components of musical compositions in this enlightening academic work. * Publishers Weekly *This is as clear an argument for the value of Western classical music as one will find. Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS 1 When is a Tune? 2 Music and Cognitive Science 3 Music and the Moral Life 4 Music and the Transcendental 5 Tonality 6 German Idealism PART II: CRITICAL EXPLORATIONS 7 Franz Schubert and the Quartettsatz 8 Rameua the Musician 9 Britten's Dirge 10 David Matthews 11 Reflections on Deaths in Venice 12 Pierre Boulez 13 Film Music 14 The Assault on Opera 15 Nietzsche on Wagner 16 The Music of the Future 17 The Culture of Pop Bibliography Acknowledgements Index A Note on the Author
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy
Book SynopsisWhether art can be wholly autonomous has been repeatedly challenged in the modern history of aesthetics. In this collection of specially-commissioned chapters, a team of experts discuss the extent to which art can be explained purely in terms of aesthetic categories. Covering examples from Philosophy, Music and Art History and drawing on continental and analytic sources, this volume clarifies the relationship between artworks and extra-aesthetic considerations, including historic, cultural or economic factors. It presents a comprehensive overview of the questionof aesthetic autonomy, exploring its relevance to both philosophy and the comprehension of specific artworks themselves. By closely examining how the creation of artworks, and our judgements of these artworks, relate to society and history, Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy provides an insightful and sustained discussion of a major question in aesthetic philosophy.Trade ReviewThe notion of aesthetic autonomy has assumed a number of forms across the diverse and too often mutually oblivious traditions of philosophy. In bringing together a wide range of interpretations from some of the leading theorists in their respective fields Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy provides an important and innovative overview of that notion. Thanks not least to the editor’s skilful introduction this volume makes a persuasive case for the indispensability of autonomy as a category of contemporary art theory. -- Brian O’Connor, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University College Dublin, IrelandThe autonomy of art has been a key issue in Continental traditions, and Owen Hulatt brings it centre-stage in Anglophone aesthetics. This is a collection of high quality that teases out autonomy's diverse meanings - showing its centrality to philosophical debate concerning the nature of art. -- Andy Hamilton, Reader in Philosophy, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors \ Introduction Owen Hulatt \1. The Transcendental Economy of Aesthetic Experience Andy Hamilton & Richard Stopford \ 2. Aesthetic Autonomy and Artistic Heteronomy Robert Stecker \ 3.The Artwork and the Promesse du Bonheur in Adorno's Aesthetics Gordon Finlayson \ 4. Political Embeddedness and Artistic Autonomy: Jacques-Louis David as a Test Case Peter Lamarque \ 5. The Concept of Autonomy in the Visual Arts: A Conflict of Values Jason Gaiger \ 6. Indifferent to Intentions: The Autonomy of Artistic Meaning Paul Crowther \ 7. Aesthetic Autonomy and Identifying Non-Western Art Anneliese Monsere \ 8. Conclusion Casey Haskins \ Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Exploring the Work of Edward S Casey Giving Voice to Place Memory and Imagination Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy
Book SynopsisDonald A. Landes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Azucena Cruz-Pierre is an independent scholar in France.Trade ReviewIt is no exaggeration to say that Edward Casey is an extraordinary philosopher. And this book, consisting of an excellent introduction surveying the entirety of Casey’s work, a deeply probing interview, and thoughtful essays on Casey’s philosophical contributions by colleagues and former students, is much more than testimony to Casey’s influence. Exploring the remarkable range of his thought as the most creative, most exciting, most provocative inheritor of Husserlian phenomenology, the contributions to this volume take the reader on an unforgettable journey. To describe the significance and reward of his thought, I will borrow a concept that he has investigated with impressive rigor and simply say that he is one of the very few whose writing is on the cutting edge. -- David Kleinberg-Levin, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University, USA, author of 'Gestures of Ethical Life' and 'Before the Voice of Reason'Edward S. Casey is widely known for his honest, attentive openness to phenomena, for his finely nuanced accounts of experience, and for his compelling descriptions of our shared world. The essays and interviews that comprise this work confirm that Casey numbers among the most incisive and creative philosophers today, making original contributions to fields broadly conceived as epistemology, aesthetics, the history of philosophy, and human geography. -- Anthony Steinbock, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USATable of ContentsAbout the Authors Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations of Books by Edward S. Casey List of Figures and Images 1. Introduction Donald A. Landes and Azucena Cruz-Pierre Part I: Imagining, Memory, and Place 2. The Weight of Imagining, Memory, and Place: The Multiple Origins of Edward S. Casey’s Thought. Edward S. Casey, interviewed by Donald A. Landes 3. Place, Memory, and History David Carr 4. Casey’s Subliminal Phenomenology: On Edging Things Back into Place David Morris 5. The Remembrance of Place Jeff Malpas 6. A Philosophy of Place? Thierry Paquot, translated by Azucena Cruz-Pierre and Donald A. Landes 7. The Derivation Of Space Eugene Gendlin 8. Place(s) of Ornament Kent Bloomer 9. Plato, Levinas, and the Erotic Image Tanja Staehler Part II: Painting and Scapes 10. Framing the Landscape Edward S. Casey, interviewed by Azucena Cruz-Pierre 11. Glimpsing the Sublime: Casey, De Kooning, and Abstract Expressionism Galen Johnson 12. Slipping Glancer: Painting Place with Ed Casey Megan Craig 13. Drawing with/in and drawing out. A redefinition of architectural drawing through Edward S. Casey’s meditations on mapping Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Angeliki Sioli 14. Where In the World Is Art's Edge? An Artist's Quest Eve Ingalls Part III: Edges, Glances, and Worlds 15. The Reinscription of Place Edward S. Casey, interviewed by Azucena Cruz-Pierre 16. Casey Comes to the Edge: Borders, Boundaries, Diagrams, Arts and Islands Gary Shapiro 17. The Body as the Place of Care Eva Feder Kittay 18. Voices and the “Spirit of Place” Fred Evans Works Cited Appendix: Chronological Bibliography of the Work of Edward S. Casey (selected), compiled by Kathleen Hulley. Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Companion to Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThe Bloomsbury Companion to Aesthetics presents a practical study guide to emerging topics and art forms in aesthetics and the philosophy of art.Placing contemporary discussion in its historical context, this companion begins with an introduction to the history of aesthetics. Surveying the central topics, terms and figures and noting the changes in the roles the arts played over the centuries, it also tackles methodological issues asking what the proper object of study in aesthetics is, and how we should go about studying it. Written by leading analytic philosophers in the field, chapters on Core Issues and Art Forms cover four major topics;- the definition of art and the ontology of art work- aesthetic experience, aesthetic properties, and aesthetic and artistic value- specific art forms including music, dance, theatre, the visual arts as a whole, and the various forms of popular art- new areas in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, such as environmental aesthetics and globalTable of ContentsContributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction, Anna Christina Ribeiro 2. Research Methods and Problems, Brandon Cooke Part I: Core Issues and Art Forms 3. Defining Art, Thomas Adajian 4. Artworks, Objects, and Structures, Sherri Irvin 5. The Aesthetic Experience, Derek Matravers 6. Aesthetic Properties, Elisabeth Schellekens 7. Aesthetic and Artistic Value, Sondra Bacharach and James Harold 8. Music, Jeanette Bicknell 9. Literature, Anna Christina Ribeiro 10. Theatre, David Osipovich 11. Dance, Renee M. Conroy 12. Visual Arts, John Kulvicki 13. Film, Amy Coplan 14. Architecture, Rafael De Clercq 15. Popular Art, Aaron Smuts 16. Environmental Aesthetics, Glenn Parsons 17. Global Standpoint Aesthetics: Towards a Paradigm, David Gandolfo and Sarah E. Worth 18. New Directions in Aesthetics, Paisley Livingston Part II: Resources 19. Chronology of Works in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Darren Hudson Hick 20. Research Resources in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Darren Hudson Hick Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic
Book SynopsisAesthetic desire and distaste prime everyday life in surprising ways. The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic casts much-needed light on the complex mix of meanings our aesthetic activities weave into cultural existence.Anchoring aesthetic experience in our relationships with persons, places, and things, Monique Roelofs explores aesthetic life as a multimodal, socially embedded, corporeal endeavor. Highlighting notions of relationality, address, and promising, this compelling study shows these concepts at work in visions of beauty, ugliness, detail, nation, ignorance, and cultural boundary. Unexpected aesthetic pleasures and pains crop up in sites where passion, perception, rationality, and imagination go together but also are in conflict. Bonds between aesthetics and politics are forged and reforged. Cross-disciplinary in outlook, and engaging the work of theorists and artists ranging from David Hume to Theodor W. Adorno, Frantz Fanon, Clarice Lispector, and Barbara Johnson, TTrade ReviewMonique Roelofs’s The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic is important because it analyzes the concepts of “address” (as a widespread social phenomenon and a carrier of meaning) and “aesthetic relationality” (relations with people mediate relations with things, and relations with things mediate relations with people) and the connection between them (i.e., modes of address constitute the muscles and joints of aesthetic relationality) in ways that restore the “promise” of aesthetics as a promise of culture. These concepts are vital in aesthetics but also in contemporary feminism, race theory, political theory, and other areas of cultural critique intersecting with aesthetics. Often these intersections are mostly negative and aesthetics has often been left out of the picture. But if we reconceive aesthetics as Roelofs proposes, we will recognize that it is needed for cultural critique and for culture itself – hence the promise of aesthetics. Using a variety of examples from (mostly) contemporary art, Roelofs makes these points clearly and develops the key concepts of address, relationality, and promise in inspired ways. -- Michael Kelly, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA and Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2nd ed., 2014)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Aesthetic, the Public, and the Promise of Culture 2. Whiteness and Blackness as Aesthetic Productions 3. The Gendered Aesthetic Detail 4. Beauty's Moral, Political, and Economic Labor 5. The Aesthetics of Ignorance 6. An Aesthetic Confrontation 7. Racialized Aesthetic Nationalism 8. Aesthetic Promises and Threats Postscript Notes Bibliography Index
£28.79
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Sympathy of Things Ruskin and the Ecology of Design
Book SynopsisLars Spuybroek is Professor of Architectural Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA. He is the author of NOX: Machining Architecture (2004), The Architecture of Continuity (2008), Research & Design: The Architecture of Variation (2009) and Research & Design: Textile Tectonics (2011). He is an award-winning architect with his practice NOX.Trade Review... exhilarating to watch elements of Ruskin's thought being taken on ... The Sympathy of Things is energetic, well written and full of examples. -- Matthew Reynolds * Times Literary Supplement *This is a dazzling, provocative, baffling, and sometimes vexing manifesto. The Sympathy of Things is an unforgettable book. * Carlyle Studies Annual *The term 'brilliant' is often misused in reviews, but the opening chapter on 'the digital nature of gothic' is truly scintillating. * Architectural Research Quarterly *Hundreds of threads that make an astonishingly rich tapestry ... Ruskin has at last found an interpreter with the breadth of learning and a poetic imagination to make his perceptions relevant to our own day. * Architectural Review *The author envisions a radical future for design and technology ... This book is undoubtedly a rich and original source of ideas for anyone across the many disciplines that increasingly care about materiality in the past, present or future. * Theory, Culture & Society *In this remarkable study, Spuybroek treats us to an astonishingly fresh upgrade of John Ruskin, who ends up no longer inhabiting an antique past but talks to us directly. Spuybroeck shows how Ruskin's aesthetic actually works, cutting through clouds of vagueness to get at a wonderfully algorithmic, procedural tactics with limpid clarity. But there's much more: something like a distinctive ontology emerges when we study Ruskin this way. This ontology radically decenters the human from its meaning-making position in the cosmos, allowing all kinds of other entities to show up without the usual visas and interrogations. What results is truly an ecology of things, making Ruskin sharply relevant for our age. * Professor Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Chair in English, Rice University, USA *The Sympathy of Things is a stirring call to action; an amazing reconstruction of the ideas of the Victorian sage John Ruskin; and, above all, a visionary look at the inner life of things. Lars Spuybroek makes the case that aesthetics is first philosophy, and proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital age. -- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University, USAIf Spuybroek, like Ruskin, does not shake your design and aesthetic concepts, you haven’t understood him. -- Charles JencksThe Sympathy of Things is an astonishing and visionary work. I have never before come across a book so brimming with insight, written with such feeling, and so keenly in touch with life. Ostensibly a meditation on the oeuvre of John Ruskin, what Lars Spuybroek offers us is an intoxicating meditation on art, architecture and design that soars above the ponderous deadweight of thing-theory to luxuriate in the unruly and exuberant proliferation of the things themselves. * Professor Tim Ingold, Chair of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen *Table of ContentsForeword Preface 1. The Digital Nature of Gothic 2. The Matter of Ornament 3. Abstraction and Sympathy 4. The Radical Picturesque 5. The Ecology of Design Notes Bibliography Index
£123.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Understanding Music
Book SynopsisWith Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthetics and theory of music and the second consists of critical studies of individual composers, thinkers and works including essays on Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven''s Ninth, Janácek & Schoenberg, Szymanowski and Adorno. Understanding Music will appeal to specialists in philosophy and musicology and also to music lovers who wish to find deeper meaning in this mysterious art. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new preface from the author.Trade ReviewThe prolific philosopher turns his attention back to music, exploring the fundamental elements that make a great piece. Ranging from Wagner to Hoagy Carmichael and even a final chapter on 'the disaster of pop', this is trademark, provocotive Scruton. * The Bookseller *As a welcome addition to Roger Scruton's continuing canon of fascinating works on the nature and meaning of music, this short, dense book amply supports his genuine and lifelong belief that aesthetic contemplation offers the key to proper understanding of motivation and meaning, not just in ourselves, but in everything around us. * Literary Review *Illuminating ... touching ... much to inspire. Anyone who is capable of being deeply moved by music should read it. * BBC Music Magazine *Roger Scruton presents a depth of knowledge and understanding that could make listening to a symphony all the more meaningful ... worthwhile for those who would like a deeper relationship with classical music. * Good Book Guide *Aesthetic arguments are well summarised, disagreements presented very largely without querulousness; [Scruton] ... avoids shrill dogmatism. And while he makes substantial reference to music theory, he does so without the cack-handedness of many non-specialist music students. * Classical Music *Table of ContentsPreface Part I 1 Introduction 2 Sounds 3 Wittgenstein on music 4 Movement 5 Expression 6 Rhythm Part II 7 My Mozart 8 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony 9 The trial of Richard Wagner 10 A first shot at The Ring 11 True Authority: Janacek, Schoenberg and us 12 Thoughts on Szymanowski 13 Why read Adorno? Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Film Fables
Book SynopsisJacques Rancière taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement.Trade ReviewA compelling study that will leave an enduring mark on film and media studies. * Tom Conley, Harvard University, USA *A remarkable and beautiful book which, with immense elegance, sets aside the difficulties of film theory to recreate a liberating, critical and poetic history of cinema. * Adrian Rifkin, Professor of Visual Culture Media, Middlesex University, UK, and Editor of the Art History journal *An important exploration of the tensions, ruptures and continuities that complicate the twists and folds of the history of cinema. * Geoffrey Whitehall, Theory & Event *What really sets the book apart is Ranciere's gifts as a writer and fine-grain critic... The wide-ranging analyses emerge out of a truly intimate knowledge of the films, expressed with loving attention to the most minute of formal details--a hesitant gesture, a recurring sound, a glimmer of light. Like all the best books by philosophers on cinema, Ranciere encourages us at once to think and to see these images anew. * Paul Fileri in Film Comment *Table of ContentsTranslator's Preface Prologue: A Thwarted Fable Part I: FABLES OF THE VISIBLE Between the age of the theater and the television age 1. Eisenstein's Madness 2. A Silent Tartuffe 3. From One Manhunt to Another: Fritz Lang Between Two Ages 4. The Child Director Part II: CLASSICAL NARRATIVE, ROMANTIC NARRATIVE 5. Some Things To Do: The Poetics of Anthony Mann 6. The Missing Shot: The Poetics of Nicholas Ray Part III: IF THERE IS A CINEMATOGRAPHIC MODERNITY 7. From One Image to Another? Deleuze and the Ages of Cinema 8. Falling Bodies: Rossellini's Physics 9. The Red of La Chinoise: Godard's Politics Part IV: FABLES OF THE CINEMA, (HI)STORIES OF A CENTURY 10. Documentary Fiction: Marker and the Fiction of Memory 11. A Fable Without a Moral: Godard, Cinema, (Hi)stories Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Disparities
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA book of profound philosophical investigation. * David Marx Book Reviews *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: IS HEGEL DEAD — OR ARE WE DEAD (IN THE EYES OF HEGEL)? When the Kraken Wakes A Report from the Trenches of Dialectical Materialism I THE DISPARITY OF TRUTH: SUBJECT, OBJECT, AND THE REST 1. FROM HUMAN TO POSTHUMAN AND BACK TO INHUMAN: THE PERSISTENCE OF ONTOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE Aspects of Disparity Against the Univocity of Being Posthuman, Transhuman, Inhuman Hyperobjects in the Age of Anthropocene Biology or Quantum Physics? 2. OBJECTS, OBJECTS AND THE SUBJECT Re-enchanting Nature? No, Thanks! A Detour: Ideology in Pluriverse On a Subject Which Is Not an Object Resistance, Stasis, Repetition Speculative Judgment The Subject’s Epigenesis 3. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS? AGAINST THE RENORMALIZATION OF HEGEL In Defense of Hegel’s Madness The Immediacy of Mediation The Stick in Itself, for Us, for Itself Action and Responsibility Recollection, Forgiveness, Reconciliation Healing the Wound Self-consciousness = Freedom = Reason Reflexivity of the Unconscious II THE DISPARITY OF BEAUTY: THE UGLY, THE ABJECT, AND THE MINIMAL DIFFERENCE 4. ART AFTER HEGEL, HEGEL AFTER THE END OF ART With Hegel Against Hegel The Ugly Gaze From the Sublime to the Monstrous Hegel’s Path towards the Nonfigurative Between Auschwitz and Telenovelas 5. VERSIONS OF ABJECT: UGLY, CREEPY, DISGUSTING Varieties of Disavowal Traversing Abjection “MOOR EEFFOC” From Abjective to Creepy Mamatschi! Eisler’s Sinthoms 6. WHEN NOTHING CHANGES: TWO SCENES OF SUBJECTIVE DESTITUTION The Lesson of Psychoanalysis Music as a Sign of Love A Failed Betrayal Scene from a Happy Life III THE DISPARITY OF THE GOOD: TOWARDS A MATERIALIST NEGATIVE THEOLOGY 7. TRIBULATIONS OF A WOMAN-HYENA: AUTHORITY, COSTUME, AND FRIENDSHIP Why Heidegger Should Not Be Criminalized The Birth of Fascism out of the Spirit of Beauty Don Carlos between Auhthority and Friendship Stalin as Anti-Master Schiller versus Hegel The Self-Debased Authority 8. IS GOD DEAD, UNCONSCIOUS, EVIL, IMPOTENT, STUPID OR JUST COUNTERFACTUAL? On Divine Inexistence Counterfactuals Retroactivity, Omnipotence, and Impotence The Twelfth Camel as One of the Names of God A Truth That Arises out of a Lie The Divine Death-Drive The Deposed God 9. JECT OR SCEND? FROM THE TRAUMATIZED SUBJECT TO SUBJECT AS TRAUMA The Parallax of Drive and Desire Immortality as Death in Life The Troubles with Finitude Materialism or Agnosticism? A Comical Conclusion CONCLUSION: THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESS The Millenarian “Exhalation of Stale Gas” Divine Violence The Points of the Impossible Index
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Edinburgh University Press Bergson and the Art of Immanence
Book SynopsisImmanence is a theory of divine presence, in which the divine is found in the material world, not outside of it. This collection brings the major 20th century French philosopher Henri Bergson's work on immanence together with fresh ideas in art theory and the practice of immanent art as found in painting, photography and film.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Untimely Affects
Book SynopsisHow does cinema function as a means of ethical resistance and thought? Focusing on Alain Resnais and Chris Marker's cinemas, this book uses the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to ask how cinema can enable us to see and act in an ethical way. It analyses the cinematic medium itself through concepts of affect, sensation and actual virtual violence.
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuzes Bergsonism
Book SynopsisThis critical introduction and guide to Gilles Deleuze's 1988 book 'Bergsonism' gives readers of both Deleuze and Bergson an opportunity to discover and fully connect with the philosophical encounter between these two great thinkers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Method of Intuition; Duration and Multiplicity; Memory and the Virtual; Dualism or Monism?; The Elan Vital and Differentiation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Jean Baudrillard The Disappearance of Culture
Book SynopsisOriginally published between 1968 and 2009, this collection of 25 pieces includes six interviews translated into English for the first time and a new transcription of a Q&A session with Baudrillard following a lecture he gave in London in 1994, The guiding theme of the collection is Baudrillard's engagement with culture.
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Edinburgh University Press SpinozaS Philosophy of Ratio
Book SynopsisThese essays explore the surprisingly varied dimensions of this unacknowledged keystone of Spinoza's thought. They take you from Spinoza's geometrical diagrams to his concepts of mind, body, the emotions and the cosmos.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Speculative Art Histories
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy. The contributors include philosophers, art historians, architects and art practitioners. It takes a generous definition of art to include architecture, cinema, dance and new media.
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Edinburgh University Press Speculative Art Histories
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy. The contributors include philosophers, art historians, architects and art practitioners. It takes a generous definition of art to include architecture, cinema, dance and new media.
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Edinburgh University Press Critical and Clinical Cartographies
Book SynopsisThis collection is framed through Deleuze's symptomalogical approach which creates the ideal terrain for architecture and medical technologies of care to meet with robotics, alongside the newly emerging 'materialist landscape.
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Edinburgh University Press Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition
Book SynopsisAshley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard s incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard s ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as `posthumanism .
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Edinburgh University Press Nancy and Visual Culture
Book SynopsisThese 12 essays reanimate the dialogue between interdisciplinary scholars and practicing artists that originally gave birth to visual culture as a field of study. A new translation of Nancy s essay, 'The Image: Mimesis and Methexis', reveals how Nancy s work informs, challenges and inspires our encounters with visual culture.Trade Review"Nancy and Visual Culture offers an insightful exploration of the relevance of Nancy's work for our understanding of visual and other cultures." - Marta Weychan, University of Aberdeen, Film-Philosophy
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Edinburgh University Press Practising with Deleuze
Book SynopsisSix authors two fine artists, a dancer, a creative writer, a designer and a philosopher participate in the first systematic reading of Gilles Deleuze's mature philosophy through the lens of creative practice. It is focused around five key aspects of creative production: forming, framing, experiencing, encountering and practising.
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Edinburgh University Press Seeing Degree Zero
Book SynopsisIn literature and the visual arts, zero degree represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to and outside of the dominant cultural order. Starting from Roland Barthes' 1953 book Writing Degree Zero, this volume examines the historical, theoretical and visual aspects of the term in collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin.
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Edinburgh University Press Seeing Degree Zero
Book SynopsisIn literature and the visual arts, zero degree represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to and outside of the dominant cultural order. Starting from Roland Barthes' 1953 book Writing Degree Zero, this volume examines the historical, theoretical and visual aspects of the term in collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin.
£27.90
Edinburgh University Press The Imagination in Humes Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe prominence of the imagination in David Hume's philosophy has been recognised by generations of readers. In this rich study, Timothy Costelloe gives us the most complete picture yet of Hume's view of imagination and its place in his philosophy.
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Edinburgh University Press The Imagination in Humes Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe prominence of the imagination in David Hume's philosophy has been recognised by generations of readers. In this rich study, Timothy Costelloe gives us the most complete picture yet of Hume's view of imagination and its place in his philosophy.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Ranciere and Music
Book SynopsisThis collection explores Ranciere's thought along a number of music-historical trajectories, including Italian and German opera, Romantic and modernist music, Latin American and South African music, jazz, and contemporary popular music, and sets him in dialogue with key thinkers including Adorno, Althusser, Badiou andDeleuze.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Ranciere and Music
Book SynopsisThis collection explores Ranciere's thought along a number of music-historical trajectories, including Italian and German opera, Romantic and modernist music, Latin American and South African music, jazz, and contemporary popular music, and sets him in dialogue with key thinkers including Adorno, Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Sensing Justice Through Contemporary Spanish
Book SynopsisSensing Justice examines the aesthetic frames that mediate the sensory perception and signification of law and justice in the context of 21st century Spain.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Sublime Art
Book SynopsisStephen Zepke shows how the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Ranciere and the recent Speculative Realism movement.
£26.09
Edinburgh University Press The Filmmakers Philosopher
Book SynopsisExploring Mamardashvili's extensive philosophical output, as well as a range of recent Russian films, Alyssa DeBlasio reveals the intellectual affinities amongst directors of the Mamardashvili generation including Alexander Sokurov, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexei Balabanov.
£67.50
Edinburgh University Press The Conversational Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThe Conversational Enlightenment' traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including the project of politeness, the fine arts, philosophy and public opinion.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press SpinozaS Philosophy of Ratio
Book SynopsisThese essays explore the surprisingly varied dimensions of ratio:an unacknowledged keystone of Spinoza's thought. They take you from Spinoza's geometrical diagrams to his concepts of mind, body, the emotions and the cosmos.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Lyotard and Politics
Book SynopsisStuart Sim explores how Lyotard's brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in our cultural climate, especially in light of the dramatic resurgence of right-wing extremism.
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Edinburgh University Press Lyotard and Politics
Book SynopsisStuart Sim explores how Lyotard's brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in our cultural climate, especially in light of the dramatic resurgence of right-wing extremism.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays from a range of philosophers and art practitioners offers tools through which we can action change across art and philosophy, across a range of media and across the theory/practice divide.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Music Philosophy and Gender in Nancy
Book SynopsisAnalyses the role of music in the work of Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe and Badiou, and the role of gender in the history of philosophy of music.
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Edinburgh University Press Music Philosophy and Gender in Nancy
Book SynopsisAnalyses the role of music in the work of Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe and Badiou, and the role of gender in the history of philosophy of music.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Visual Power Representation and Migration Law
Book SynopsisInterrogates how the images of migrants and refugees effect the legitimacy of legal changes in the area of migration law
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Edinburgh University Press The Stoic Theory of Beauty
Book SynopsisAist elkyt shows us that Stoic views about beauty were substantial and compelling.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity
Book SynopsisExplores abstraction as a keyword in aesthetic modernism and in critical thinking since MarxTrade Review"That abstraction is so abstract, Jeff Wallace's brilliant book shows us, is one of the conceptual difficulties at the heart of aesthetic theory since Marx. This study's response is to make abstraction newly visible, demonstrating, with astonishing clarity and agility, that abstraction is the force attaching the human to the inhuman." -Peter Boxall, University of Sussex
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