Philosophy: aesthetics Books
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The 87 Press Fleshed Out For All The Corners Of The Slip
Book Synopsis"This major new work is thought, spirit and sense (in every sense) ‘fleshed out’ in ‘all the corners’ by being unmade – as poetry, as music, as (black and white) images, and as attention to the interconnected circuitries the One has with the social, historical and environmental ‘to / link us outside’." - Emily CritchleyFor fans of: Nathaniel Mackey, Fred Moten, Will Alexander, D. S. Mariott This is a book of poems and an essay infused with the tempos of Grime music and black radical thought.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Figuring Out Figurative Art: Contemporary
Book SynopsisIn 1797 Friedrich Schlegel wrote that "philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy, or the art." This collection of essays contains both the philosophy and the art. It brings together an international team of leading philosophers to address diverse philosophical issues raised by recent works of art. Each essay engages with a specific artwork and explores the connection between the image and the philosophical content. Thirteen contemporary philosophers demonstrate how philosophy can aid interpretation of the work of ten contemporary artists, including: Jesse Prinz on John Currin Barry C. Smith and Edward Winters on Dexter Dalwood Lydia Goehr and Sam Rose on Tom de Freston Raymond Geuss on Adrian Ghenie and Chantal Joffe Hallvard Lillehammer on Paul Noble M. M. McCabe and Alexis Papazoglou on Ged Quinn Noël Carroll on Paula Rego Simon Blackburn and Jerrold Levinson on George Shaw Sondra Bacharach on Yue Minjun. The discussion ranges over ethical, political, psychological and religious concepts, such as irony, disgust, apathy, inequality, physiognomy and wonder, to historical experiences of war, Marx-inspired political movements and Thatcherism, and standard problems in the philosophy of art, such as expression, style, depiction and ontology of art, as well as major topics in art history, such as vanitas painting, photography, pornography, and Dadaism. Many of the contributors are distinguished in areas of philosophy other than aesthetics and are writing about art for the first time. All show how productive the engagement can be between philosophy, more generally, and art.Trade Review"This collection of essays by leading philosophers stands out because of its focus on contemporary figurative (representational) art. Being freed from the strictures of an academic audience, Freeman and Matravers are able to engage with the works across a broad landscape of personal reflection and the histories of both art and philosophy. … The discussion of each work is beautifully and intimately framed and not always the focus of the essay. At times, the works serve as entrée to a larger cultural discussion. Perhaps this is the inherent nature of art - to point beyond the work itself to the placement of the individual in society. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - S. J. Shaw, CHOICE"Art and philosophy have always been intertwined; but philosophers have often focused on a few well-known exemplars in particular genres. This unique book represents a new departure in philosophical writing about art. Leading philosophers talk illuminatingly about a striking range of contemporary paintings. The resulting discussions are original, provocative and will appeal to anyone with an interest in contemporary art and aesthetics. A wonderful book." - Tim Crane, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: figurative art and figurative philosophy Damien Freeman 1. John Currin and pornography Jesse Prinz [John Currin The Dane] 2. A moment of capture Barry C. Smith [Dexter Dalwood A View From A Window] 3. Uncanny absence and imaginative presence in Dalwood's paintings Edward Winters [Dexter Dalwood Room 100 Chelsea Hotel and Hendrix's Last Basement] 4. At the still point of the turning world: Two Quartets by Tom de Freston Lydia Goehr [Tom de Freston Quartet - Stage One and Quartet - Stage Two] 5. Being ironic with style, Sam Rose [Tom de Freston, Quartet - Stage Four] 6. The radioactive wolf, pieing and the Goddess "Fashion" Raymond Geuss [Adrian Ghenie Dada is Dead and Nickelodeon] [Chantal Joffe The Black Camisole] 7. Confinement, apathy, indifference Hallvard Lillehammer [Paul Noble Heaven] 8. Thinking outside the frame: Plato, Quinn and Artaud on representation and thought M. M. McCabe [Ged Quinn, The Fall] 9. Nature, life and spirit: a Hegelian reading of Quinn's vanitas art Alexis Papazoglou [Ged Quinn, Hegel's Happy End] 10. Of war and madness Noël Carroll [Paula Rego War] 11. Showing us how it is Simon Blackburn [George Shaw This Sporting Life] 12. Paintings, photographs, titles Jerrold Levinson [George Shaw No Returns] 13. The laughter behind the painted smile Sondra Bacharach [Yue Minjun Untitled]. Index
£137.75
Imprint Academic Sensibility and Sense: The Aesthetic
Book SynopsisAesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans'' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an aesthetic mode of experience. Extending the range of aesthetic experience from the stone of the earth''s surface to the celestial sphere, the book focuses on the aesthetic as a dimension of social experience. The guiding idea of pervasive interconnectedness, both social and environmental, leads to an aesthetic critique of the urban environment, the environment of daily life, and of terrorism, and has profound implications for grounding social and political values. The aesthetic emerges as a powerful critical tool for appraising urban culture and political practice.
£21.49
Oneworld Publications European Aesthetics: A Critical Introduction from
Book SynopsisThe birth of the Enlightenment heralded a new reverence for the power of reason. But as science flourished in Europe, violence and brutality did not abate. In the French Revolution, thousands were guillotined and the death toll was vast. Philosophers asked whether we had become dehumanised by rationality and abstract political theory. Did art and literature provide a way to rediscover our soul and our compassion? Or could art be corrupted just as easily, used as propaganda to justify abhorrent acts? In this masterful survey of European aesthetics over the last two hundred years, philosopher Robert L. Wicks argues that it is this tension between creativity and rationality that has characterised debate in the subject. Presenting the theories of sixteen seminal thinkers, including Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, and Derrida, European Aesthetics shows how each philosopher’s theory of art was motivated by broader topics in their thought, concerning who we are and what a good society should resemble. With colour photographs and written in a lively but objective tone, Wicks analyses important pieces of art, makes critical comparisons between thinkers, and offers a bold conclusion on our contemporary aesthetic situation. In an internet age, where we are presented with endless opportunity, but also startling existential questions, this is the definitive account of the evolution of continental thought in this hugely relevant and exciting area of philosophy.
£36.00
Verso Books In a Materialist Way: Selected Essays
Book SynopsisBest known for his work in literary criticism, Pierre Macherey has, over the past two decades, produced a series of original philosophical works. This first collection of his philosophical writings to be published in English discloses the full range of Macherey's interventions, testifying to his signal status as one of France's leading philosophers. In a Materialist Way ranges over Macherey's writings on philosophy and theory, critiques of the work of major figures in contemporary French thought such as Lacan, Foucoult and Canguilhem, and analyses of the work of Spinoza. It reveals to English-speaking audiences what has long been common knowlege in France: that Pierre Macherey is among the most fertile, imaginative and subtle of contemporary philosophers.Trade ReviewThree decades ago, the work of Pierre Macherey helped to change the face of literary studies. In this volume, he reappears in his more customary persona of philosopher rather than literary theorist, retaining all of his materialist rigour but widening his intellectual range. This fascinating set of encounters with Hegel, Lacan, Foucault, Spinoza and others is the record of a subtle, independent, powerfully demystifying mind, as well as an historic document in the after-life of so-called Althusserian Marxism. -- Terry Eagleton
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death: Walter
Book SynopsisBy contextualizing Walter Pater's aestheticism alongside Alexandre Kojeve's and Georges Bataille's readings of Hegelianism, this book shows that Pater's aestheticism constitutes both a philosophy of death and at the same time a philosophy of the impossibility of death.Trade ReviewScholars have long been aware of the importance of acknowledging Pater's debt to Hegelian philosophy. And many critics of Pater have performed almost obligatory nods towards Hegel's influence, conceptualized in vague terms, without formulating an understanding of its precise forms. Such critics will now have to engage seriously with Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death, which contains the most scholarly and detailed account of Pater's Hegelianism to date. -- Modern Language Review Modern Language Review In this meticulously researched monograph Giles Whiteley sets himself the expansive task of reading Pater's entire intellectual project as an extended conversation with Hegel... the case is well made that Pater should be considered a proto-poststructuralist thinker. -- Forum for Modern Language Studies Forum for Modern Language StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Pater's Reading and Rereading of Hegel 1. The Hegelian Structure of Pater's 'Reconsidered' Aestheticism 2. The Philosophy of (the Impossibility of) Death 3. The Imaginary Portraits 4. Autobiography and the Writing of Death 5. Conclusion: The Ideology of Aestheticism
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Maney Publishing Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in
Book SynopsisThis book is based on the comprehensive investigations of the literary forms of philosophy around 1800 conducted within research project 'Heuristics between Science and Poetry'. It presents new research on the debates on the concept of the symbol from the late eighteenth to the nineteenth century.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Kant's Transformation of the Symbol-Concept 2. Mere Nature in the Subject': Kant on Symbolic Representation of the Absolute 3. Neither mere allegories nor mere history': Multi-layered Symbolism in Moritz's Andreas Hartknopf 4. Comparative Morphology and Symbolic Mediation in Goethe 5. Friedrich Schlegel's Symbol-Concept 6. Bread, Wine and Water: Hegel's Distinction between Mystical and Symbolical in the Spirit of Christianity and its Fate 7. All are but parts of one stupendous whole'? Henry Crabb Robinson's Dilemma 8. The Spark of Intuitive Reason: Coleridge's 'On the Prometheus of Aeschylus' 9. Emerson's Exegesis: Transcending Symbols 10. Pointing at Hidden Things: Intuition and Creativity 11. Aesthetic Cognition and Aesthetic Judgment 12. Afterword
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Bitter Lemon Press Summers of Discontent
Book SynopsisSince the time of the Ancient Greeks, philosophers have pondered on the nature and purpose of the arts, but artists have gone on making them and audiences enjoying them regardless of these musings. None of their theories have met with universal or even popular acceptance. But here is theory that places the arts - all the arts - firmly and squarely within everyone's everyday experiences. Summers of Discontent goes to the heart of the arts. It's an examination of why artists create them in the first place and why we all feel the need for them. Tallis thinks the arts spring from our inability as humans fully to experience our experiences; from our hunger for a more rounded, more complete sense of the world. Tallis's thesis is original and fresh, down-to-earth and life-enhancing. Above all it is practical and intelligible. It will inspire anyone who feels the creative urge today, or anyone who wants to understand why and how the arts enrich their lives and those of others.Trade Review'Tallis has a range of expertise that would leave Jonathan Miller gasping.' Sunday Times
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Uniformbooks Sound arts now
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Palgrave Macmillan Fictional Worlds and the Political Imagination
Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Occasions for Reflection on Political Possibility.- Part I. Relations Between Literary and Political Writing.- 2. J. M. Coetzee's Fictional Ethics, Christian Howard-Sukhil.- 3. Never Out of Style: On the Critique of Literary Devices in Political Philosophy, Charlie van Veen and Catherine M. Robb.- 4. The Transpolitical Role of Poetry according to Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney, Lewis Fallis.- 5. The Antagonism of Thomas Carlyle's Romanticism and John Rawls's Rationalism on Social and Distributive Justice, Brian Wolfel.- II. Political Psychology Depicted.- 6. Boredom as a Propositional Attitude: Reading Alberto Moravia with Hegel, Eliza Starbuck Little.- 7. Beyond Tyranny: Ethical Imagination, Erotic Education, and Justice in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Dustin Gish.- 8. Mimetic Rivalry and the Scapegoat Mechanism in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Sina Movaghati.-III. Power, Violence, Resistance: Overt and Subtle, Physical and Symbolic.- 9. Command me, Confessor": Violence, Power, and Ethics within Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth Series, Benjamin Carpenter.- 10. Leontius in Vietnam: The Aesthetics of Violence in Michael Herr's Dispatches, Luke Sayers.- 11. African Scarification and Slavery: from Anthropology to Allegory, Michael Janis.- 12.Flaubert and Marx on 1848, Divya Menon.- IV. Outward Corruption, Inner Corrosion, Aesthetic Redemption.- 13. Platonic Corruption in The Handmaid's Tale, Andy Lamey.- 14. Michael Corleone, Truly Unregulated Capitalist: The Godfather II as Political Allegory and Ethical Catastrophe, Garry L. Hagberg.- 15. Retheorizing the Aristotelians' Catharsis: The Role of Memories in Narrating and Purging Emotions, Shilpi Saxena and Diksha Sharma.- 16. The Philosopher at the Gate of the Word: A Study of Simone Weil's Transformative Literature, Caprioglio Panizza and Philip Wilson.
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Palgrave Macmillan Horrors of a Voice object a
Book Synopsis1: Introduction?.- 2: Beyond the Veil of our World.- 3: Violence.- 4: Changes.- 5: Insidious.- 6: Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan Subversive Esotericism and Aesthetic Radicalism
Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. The Myth of the Blood Organ.- 3. The Nature of the Aesthetic Panorama.- 4. Performative Satanism and Pornographic Gestures.- 5. Radical Androgyny and Shamanic Rites.- 6. Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan Herman Charles Bosman and the Depth of Humorous Storytelling
Book Synopsis1: Introduction: Life and Contexts.- 2: Bosman and Existential Grace.- 3: The Depth of Artistic Fiction.- 4: A General Overview of the Nature and Depth of Bosman’s Humor.- 5: Specifics of Bosman’s Humorous Storytelling and Its Charmed World.- 6: Bosman’s Charmed World as a Contemplative Space That Brings Out the Meaningfulness of Things.- 7: The Charmed World and the Sense of Sense Itself.- 8: The Truth of the Story’s Content and the Reality of the Reader Themselves.
£28.49
Diaphanes Verlag The Future of Survival
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De Gruyter Theodor W. Adorno: Ästhetische Theorie
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De Gruyter Schein Und Anschein: Dynamiken Ästhetischer
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De Gruyter Immanuel Kant: Kritik der Urteilskraft
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Walter de Gruyter Reine Sprache
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Walter de Gruyter Spracharbeit und Literaturreform 16171650
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de Gruyter Personifikationen ALS Ästhetische
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de Gruyter Bade Und Kurmusik
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de Gruyter Metapher Und Erkenntnis
£107.24
Springer International Publishing AG Toward a Philosophy of the Documentarian: A
Book SynopsisThe theme of this book is the documentarian—what the documentarian is and how we can understand it as a concept. Working from the premise that the documentarian is a special—extended—sign, the book develops a model of a quadruple sign structure for-and-of the documentarian, growing out of enduring traditions in philosophy, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and documentary theory. Dan Geva investigates the intellectual premise that allows the documentarian to show itself as an extremely sophisticated, creative, and purposeful being-in-the-world—one that is both embedded in its own history and able to manifest itself throughout its entire documentary life project, as a stand-alone conceptual phase in the history of ideas. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Documentarian-Abstractness (DA) 3. Documentarian-Sensoriality (DS) 4. 4. Documentarian Práxis (DP) 5. 5. Documentarian-Invisibility (DI)
£98.99
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Was Ist Kunst? Eine Grundlegung
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Das Zwischenreich (T? Eta )
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Brill I Schoeningh Theologische Ästhetik der Kunst
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wbg Academic Deixis Zeigen Pointing
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J.B. Metzler Diskursive Unruhe
Book Synopsis1. Einleitung.- 2. Max Bense: Formationen diskursiver Unruhe in der Nachkriegsära.- 3. Unruhefelder um Max Bense vor 1945.- 4. Max Bense in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone (SBZ).- 5. Max Bense in den westlichen Zonen in der Gründungsphase der BRD.- 6. Max Bense in den frühen bis mittleren 1950er Jahren der BRD.- 7. Fazit und Ausblick.
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Brill Fink Francis Bacon: Logik Der Sensation: 2. Auflage
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Brill Fink Die Wahrheit Der Niederländischen Malerei: Eine
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Brill U Fink Das Wahre, Schone, Gute: Aufstieg, Fall Und
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Brill I Fink G.E. Lessings iHamburgische Dramaturgiei
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£115.20
Brill I Fink Situationen ästhetischer Aushandlung
£75.65
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Das Weltbild Der Igel: Naturethik Einmal Anders
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£26.60
Schwabe Verlag Basel Handbuch Philosophische Ästhetik
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£40.80
Lit Verlag Aesthetics in Contemporary Philosophy:
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£33.26
Tectum Asthetische Forschung: Wege Durch Alltag, Kunst
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£30.60
Mentis Verlag GmbH In Goethes Auge
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£67.15
Mentis Verlag GmbH Ästhetik Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Other Things
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£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Beautiful Democracy
Book SynopsisExplores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, and magic lantern exhibitions. This work suggests that the distance separating academic thinking and popular wisdom about social transformation is narrower than we generally suppose.Trade Review"Beautiful Democracy is an important book, reestablishing aesthetics as a vital issue both within the immediate field of American literature and far beyond it. It engages a long and complexly developed conversation on the politics of form, using rich archival material, ranging from college curricula, black print culture, and the history of film." - Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Insatiability of Human Wants Economics
Book SynopsisThis work begins during a key transitional moment in aesthetic and economic theory, 1871, when both disciplines underwent a turn from production to consumption models. The author traces the shift in Western thought from models of production to consumption.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism
Book SynopsisIn this bold interdisciplinary work, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that asceticism has played a major role in shaping Western ideas of the body, writing, ethics, and aesthetics. He suggests that we consider the ascetic as the 'cultural' element in culture, and presents a close analysis of works by Athanasius, Augustine, Matthias, Grünewald, Nietzsche, Foucault, and other thinkers as proof of the extent of asceticism's resources. Harpham demonstrates the usefulness of his findings by deriving from asceticism a discourse of resistance, a code of interpretation ultimately more generous and humane than those currently available to us.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Novelty A History of the New
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The University of Chicago Press Writing Art History Disciplinary Departures
Book SynopsisWhy did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of slipping into obsolescence? And, if so, should we care? This book proposes that we might reframe the questions concerning art history by asking what kind of writing might help the discipline to better imagine its actual practices - and its potential futures.Trade Review"Filled with rich and probing accounts of many of art history's most noted writers, this book shows how, through the writing of art history, deep changes have been encouraged and effected in our modes of contemplation and judgment." - Lydia Goehr, Columbia University"
£91.00
University of Chicago Press Writing Art History Disciplinary Departures
Book SynopsisWhy did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of slipping into obsolescence? And, if so, should we care? This book proposes that we might reframe the questions concerning art history by asking what kind of writing might help the discipline to better imagine its actual practices - and its potential futures.Trade Review"Filled with rich and probing accounts of many of art history's most noted writers, this book shows how, through the writing of art history, deep changes have been encouraged and effected in our modes of contemplation and judgment." - Lydia Goehr, Columbia University"
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press The Liberation of Painting Modernism and
Book SynopsisThe years before World War I were a time of profound social and political ferment in Europe that deeply affected the art world. In this title, the author argues that anarchist aesthetics and a related politics of form played crucial roles in the development of modern art, only to be suppressed soon after the war and then forgotten.Trade Review"The Liberation of Painting is the real thing: a mature work by a paradigm-shifting scholar who has been publishing leading-edge scholarship on several of the artists discussed here over the course of her distinguished professional career. This book will make its mark in studies of the relationship between avant-garde art and radical politics, as the groundwork has already been put down by two decades of work by Patricia Leighten in her consistently strong and persuasive voice." (Elizabeth Childs, Washington University in St. Louis)"
£47.50
