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Cambridge University Press In Defense of Humanism
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Cambridge University Press Beyond Representation
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Cambridge University Press The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsche Philosophy and the Arts Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts
Book SynopsisNietzsche's writings have shaped much contemporary reflection on the relation between philosophy and art. This book brings together a number of distinguished contributors to examine his aesthetic account of the origins and ends of philosophy. They discuss the transformative power which Nietzsche ascribes to aesthetic activity, including his aesthetic justification of existence and its fusion of social and personal existence, and they investigate his experiments with an 'aesthetic politics' and a politicisation of aesthetics. Together their essays set out the ground for future debate about the inter-relation between art, philosophy, and value.Trade Review"Emphasizing the various senses of experiment, temptation, and seduction wrapped up in this German word, Conway sees Nietzche as a thinker of eros, concerned to articulate the possibility of exceptional figures--philosophers, artists,, or saints--who are strong enough to squander their strength and resources in legislating (literally or metaphorically) for the rest of us...Conway's reading should actually help in giving a fresh analysis of these themes that shows how they can be made intelligible without implicating them in such disasters." - Gary Shapiro, University of RichmondTable of ContentsIntroduction: Nietzsche and art Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell and Daniel W. Conway; 1. Nietzsche's conception of irony Ernst Behler; 2. The transfiguration of intoxication: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dionysus Martha Nussbaum; 3. Nietzschean self-transformation and the transformation of the Dionysian Adrian Del Caro; 4. Socratism and the question of aesthetic justification Randall Havas; 5. What is the meaning of Aesthetic ideals? Aaron Ridley; 6. The splitting of historical consciousness Stephen Bann; 7. Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze, truth, and The Birth of Tragedy Timothy W. Hiles; 8. Improvisations, on Nietzsche/on jazz John Carvalho; 9. Unstable identities: Nietzsche on the force of art and language Fiona Jenkins; 10. Dionysus lost and found: literary genres in Nietzsche and Lukács Henry Staten; 11. Nietzsche's politics of aesthetic genius Salim Kemal; 12. Love's labour's lost: the philosopher's Versucherkunst Daniel W. Conway; 13. Nietzsche's Dionysian arts: dance, song, and silence Claudia Crawford.
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Cambridge University Press Faure and French Musical Aesthetics 13 Music in the Twentieth Century Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press Notes and Fragments
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Cambridge University Press Landscape Natural Beauty and the Arts
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Cambridge University Press Picture Image and Experience
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Cambridge University Press Hegels Art History and the Critique of Modernity
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Cambridge University Press Values of Beauty
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
Book SynopsisThis edition of The Birth of Tragedy, one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period, presents a new translation by Ronald Speirs and an introduction by Raymond Geuss that sets the work in its historical and philosophical context.Trade Review'The main purpose of the book was to challenge nineteenth-century idealisations of classical Greece: ancient tragedy at its greatest, Nietzsche argued, was animated not by orderliness and quite decorum but by an inebriated frenzy of music, dnace and rollicking enormity.' New HumanistTable of Contents1. The birth of tragedy; 2. The dionysiac world view; 3. On truth and lying in a non-moral sense.
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Cambridge University Press Fiction and Metaphysics
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Adorno
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Adorno
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Cambridge University Press The German Aesthetic Tradition
Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 2002, is a systematic overview of German aesthetics from 1750 to the present. It begins with the work of Baumgarten and covers all the major writers on German aesthetics that follow. It offers a clear, non-technical exposition of ideas, placing these in a wider philosophical context where necessary.Trade Review'… will serve as a valuable introduction to central aspects of nineteenth-century art and thought.' Art NewspaperTable of ContentsPreface; Part I. The Age of Paradigms: 1. Baumgarten, Mendelssohn; 2. Kant; 3. Schiller; 4. Schelling; 5. Hegel; Part II. Challenging the Paradigms: 6. Schopenhauer; 7. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche; Part III. Renewing the Paradigms: 8. Cassirer, Lukács; 9. Heidegger, Gadamer; 10. Adorno; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The German Aesthetic Tradition
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Cambridge University Press Aesthetics and Ethics Essays at the Intersection Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts By Levinson January 2008
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Cambridge University Press Kants Theory of Taste
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Cambridge University Press Kants Theory of Taste A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment Modern European Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Kant, Henry Allison, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics. The first part of the book analyses Kant's conception of reflective judgment and its connections with both empirical knowledge and judgments of taste. The second and third parts treat two questions that Allison insists must be kept distinct: the normativity of pure judgments of taste, and the moral and systematic significance of taste. The fourth part considers two important topics often neglected in the study of Kant's aesthetics: his conceptions of fine art, and the sublime.Trade Review'Kant's Theory of Taste is a well produced volume usefully equipped at the end with a compendious bibliography.' MindTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Note on sources and key to abbreviations and translations; Introduction; Part I. Kant's Conception of Reflective Judgment: 1. Reflective judgment and the purposiveness of nature; 2. Reflection and taste in the introductions; Part II. Te Quid Facti and the Quid Juris in the Domain of Taste: 3. The analytic of the beautiful and the quid facti: an overview; 4. The disinterestedness of the pure judgment of taste; 5. Subjective universality, the universal voice, and the harmony of the faculties; 6. Beauty, purposiveness, and form; 7. The modality of taste and the sensus communis; 8. The deduction of pure judgments of taste; Part III. The Moral and Systematic Significance of Taste: 9. Reflective judgment and the transition from nature to freedom; 10. Beauty, duty, and interest: the moral significance of natural beauty; 11. The antinomy of taste and beauty as a symbol of morality; Part IV. Parerga to the Theory of Taste: 12. Fine art and genius; 13. The sublime; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting
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Cambridge University Press Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Genealogy of Aesthetics
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Cambridge University Press Adornos Positive Dialectic
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Cambridge University Press The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature 135 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 135
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Cambridge University Press The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece
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Cambridge University Press Kant on Beauty and Biology
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Cambridge University Press Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation Volume 2
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Cambridge University Press LeviStrauss Anthropology and Aesthetics 85 Ideas in Context Series Number 85
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Cambridge University Press Quotidian Beckett
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Cambridge University Press Guru Nanaks Transcendent Aesthetics
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Cambridge University Press The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant
Book SynopsisIn this book, Robert Doran offers the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its reception in early modern literary theory to the philosophical accounts of Burke and Kant. Doran explains how and why the sublime became a key concept of modern thought and shows how the various theories of sublimity are united by a common structure - the paradoxical experience of being at once overwhelmed and exalted - and a common concern: the preservation of a notion of transcendence in the face of the secularization of modern culture. Combining intellectual history with literary theory and philosophical analysis, his book provides a new, searching and multilayered account of a concept that continues to stimulate thought about our responses to art, nature and human events.Trade Review'I cannot say enough how good I think this book is. It is the best discussion of the origins and establishing of the sublime and is wonderful in its scholarly deployment of such a wide range of authors and texts. Doran's treatment of Kant is of the greatest interest. Kant's mature theory is examined in the context of his broader moral philosophy as well as through its presentation in the Critique of Judgment.' Paul Crowther, National University of Ireland, Galway'Doran is one of the very few scholars to have succeeded in making a significant contribution to the understanding of both the Longinian version of the sublime and its modern offspring from Boileau to Kant. Combining sophisticated readings of particular texts with an impressive sweep of intellectual history, this book offers a fascinating analysis of one of the most important concepts in aesthetics.' Stephen Halliwell, Wardlaw Professor of Classics, University of St Andrews'Robert Doran's new book provides a much-needed systematic, detailed and comprehensive survey of the idea of the sublime, tracing it from its origin in the obscure third-century work attributed to Longinus, through its major expositors in the modern era, including Boileau, Dennis, Burke, and especially Kant, who gets the most detailed treatment. This work is a welcome addition to the limited literature on the sublime; any student of the subject will profit from Doran's intelligent and well-informed inquiry into the subject.' Whitley Kaufman, Philosophy in Review'… there is much of value in Doran's work. All students of Kant can benefit from his presentation of 'Longinus' and of figures often better known to literary scholars rather than philosophers, such as Boileau, Dennis, and even Burke. … all will benefit by working through his detailed interpretation of Kant on the sublime …' Paul Guyer, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews'… With a remarkable combination of innovation and clarity, Doran has produced a work of scholarship that promises to be of lasting value for scholars of both philosophy and comparative literature.' Kelly Lehtonen, Comparative Literature Studies'The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant certainly breaks new ground by covering the origins of the sublime and showing how they can be traced through to the height of the discussions of the concept in the eighteenth century. I would single out this book for praise for its scholarly attention to neglected writers on the sublime, such as Longinus, Dennis, and Boileau, as well as for its new insight into Kant's thought. It deserves to be read widely and by anyone interested in both historical and contemporary debates on the sublime.' Emily Brady, Comparative LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Longinus' Theory of Sublimity: 1. Defining the Longinian sublime; 2. Longinus' five sources sublimity; 3. Longinus on sublimity in nature and culture; Part II. Sublimity and Modernity: 4. Boileau: the birth of a concept; 5. Dennis: terror and religion; 6. Burke: sublime individualism; Part III. The Sublimity of the Mind: Kant: 7. The Kantian sublime in 1764: 'Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime'; 8. The sublime in the 'Critique of Practical Reason'; 9. The sublime in the 'Critique of the Power of Judgment'; 10. Judging nature as a magnitude: the Mathematically Sublime; 11. Judging nature as a power: the Dynamically Sublime; 12. Sublimity and culture in Kant.
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Cambridge University Press The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThis book explores the forgotten philosophical and conceptual origins of aesthetics in eighteenth-century Germany. It offers fresh perspectives on Kantian aesthetics and will appeal to students and scholars who are interested in the history of aesthetics and the beginnings of the German aesthetic tradition.Trade Review'Readers will learn much about Wolff and his school from Buchenau's engaging narrative and impeccable scholarship.' Journal of the History of PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Wolff and the modern debate on a method of invention; 2. Wolff on the pleasure of invention; 3. Leibniz and Wolff on invention: hieroglyphs, images and poetry; 4. Poetry as revelation: Bodmer, Breitinger, Gottsched on the imitation of nature; 5. Invention, judgement, literary criticism; 6. The rhetorical shift: Baumgarten's founding of aesthetics in the Meditationes philosophicae; 7. Baumgarten's Aesthetica. Topics and the modern ars inveniendi; 8. Aesthetics and anthropology; 9. Aesthetics and ethics; 10. 'A general heuristic is impossible'. Kant and the Wolffian ars inveniendi; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom
Book SynopsisThis book shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and practical philosophy - the sublime, enthusiasm, freedom, empirical and intellectual interests, the idea of a republic - fit together and deepen our understanding of Kant's philosophy.Trade Review'This is a comprehensive and insightful treatment of the Kantian sublime. It convincingly links Kant's aesthetic discussions of the sublime to both his moral philosophy and his political perspective. Toward that end Clewis emphasizes the role of enthusiasm in the sublime and provides exceedingly nuanced analyses of the various senses of disinterestedness and interest that help to elucidate how the aesthetic can have moral import.' Rudolf A. Makkreel, Emory University, Atlanta'In this learned, acute, and lucid book, Robert R. Clewis supplements recent discussion of connections between Kant's aesthetics and his ethics with a demonstration of the tie between his aesthetics and his politics, convincingly establishing a relation between Kant's concepts of the sublime and of enthusiasm as a positive political force. Along the way, he also throws new light on Kant's views about freedom, interest and disinterestedness, respect, and republicanism, and illuminates Kant's attitude toward the French Revolution. This is a must read for all students of Kant's aesthetics, moral philosophy, and political philosophy.' Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania'… there has been only a handful of sustained scholarly works on the sublime in Kant. Clewis's book, which emphasizes the connection between the sublime and enthusiasm in Kant's writings, tracing Kant's thoughts on these topics back to his early work, is a very welcome addition to Kant scholarship. … provides a rich and detailed analysis of Kant's concepts of the sublime, of enthusiasm as well as the moral feeling of respect, showing their differences and interconnections. … I learned a lot from reading this book and benefited from thinking about the issues involved …' Melissa Zinkin, TPR Critique'Robert R. Clewis's book The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom is a rich and thoughtful examination of Kant's concept of the sublime, of the interface between Kant's aesthetics and his practical philosophy, and of Kant's attitude toward moral enthusiasm, which he effectively argues …' Paul Guyer, TPR CritiqueTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Observations and the Remarks; 2. The judgment of the sublime; 3. Moral feeling and the sublime; 4. Various senses of interest and disinterestedness; 5. Aesthetic enthusiasm; 6. Enthusiasm for the idea of a republic; 7. Conclusion; Appendix 1. On the Remarks; Appendix 2. Some features of the feelings discussed in this book; Appendix 3. Classification of what elicits sublimity; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting Cassirer
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive volume in English on Cassirer's philosophy for over seventy years. Containing eleven essays by leading Cassirer scholars, it addresses all the key aspects of Cassirer's multi-faceted thought and situates them in the wider context of his philosophy of culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction; I. Cassirer's Philosophy of Culture: The Interaction between Language and the other Symbolic Forms Robert Leib; 2. The Status of Art in Cassirer's System of Culture Samantha Matherne; 3. Being in Time: History as an Expression and Interpretation of Human Culture Anne Pollok; 4. Science as a Symbolic Form: Ernst Cassirer's Culture of Reason Massimo Ferrari; 5. Quantum Mechanics as the Ultimate Mode of Symbol Formation: The Final Stage of Cassirer's Philosophy of Physical Science Thomas Ryckman; 6. Spirit in the Age of Technical Production Nicolas de Warren; 7. Political Myth and the Problem of Orientation: Reading Cassirer in Times of Cultural Crisis Simon Truwant; II. Cassirer's Philosophy of Consciousness: 8. Rethinking Representation: Cassirer's Philosophy of Human Perceiving, Thinking, and Understanding Martina Plümacher; 9. Cassirer's Philosophy of Mind: From Consciousness to 'Objective Spirit' Guido Kreis; III: Cassirer's Philosophical Method: 10. Cassirer's Phenomenological Affinities Daniel D. Dahlstrom; 11.Cassirer's Place in Today's Philosophical Landscape: 'Synthetic Philosophy', Transcendental Idealism, Cultural Pluralism Sebastian Luft.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism
Book SynopsisThis updated edition offers a comprehensive, penetrating, and informative guide to what is regarded as the classical period of German philosophy. Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling are all discussed in detail, along with contemporaries such as Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schopenhauer, whose influence was considerable but whose work is less well known in the English-speaking world. Leading scholars trace and explore the unifying themes of German Idealism and discuss its relationship to Romanticism, the Enlightenment, and the culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. This second edition offers an updated bibliography and includes three entirely new chapters, which address aesthetic reflection and human nature, the chemical revolution after Kant, and organism and system in German Idealism. The result is an illuminating overview of a rich and complex philosophical movement, and will appeal to a wide range of interested readers in philosophy, literature, theology, German studies, and the history of ideas.Trade Review'Each of the already strong existing essays has been updated to reflect the most recent scholarship in the growing field of German idealism and early German Romanticism. The historical arc is most impressive, from Kant and Hegel to often-neglected figures such as Hamann, Herder, Hölderlin, Jacobi, Maimon, Novalis, Reinhold, and Schopenhauer. Ameriks's collection is indispensable for all scholars of the period.' E. Millán, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: interpreting German Idealism Karl Ameriks; 1. The Enlightenment and idealism Frederick Beiser; 2. Absolute idealism and the rejection of Kantian dualism Paul Guyer; 3. Kant's practical philosophy Allen W. Wood; 4. Aesthetic reflection and human nature: the Kantian thread in Early German Romanticism Jane Kneller; 5. The aesthetic holism of Hamann, Herder, and Schiller Daniel O. Dahlstrom; 6. All or nothing: systematicity and nihilism in Jacobi, Reinhold, and Maimon Paul Franks; 7. The early philosophy of Fichte and Schelling Rolf-Peter Horstmann; 8. Philosophy and the Chemical Revolution after Kant Michela Massimi; 9. Hölderlin and Novalis Charles Larmore; 10. Hegel's Phenomenology and Logic: an overview Terry Pinkard; 11. Hegel's practical philosophy: the realization of freedom Robert Pippin; 12. Organism and System in German Idealism Rachel Zuckert; 13. German realism: the self-limitation of idealist thinking in Fichte, Schelling, and Schopenhauer Günter Zölle; 14. Politics and the New Mythology: the turn to Late Romanticism Dieter Sturma; 15. German Idealism and the arts Andrew Bowie; 16. The legacy of idealism in the philosophy of Feuerbach, Marx, and Kierkegaard Karl Ameriks.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Better Living Through Criticism How to Think
Book SynopsisThe New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than everFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott shows that while individual critics--himself included--can make mistakes and find flaws where they shouldn't, criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most creative, and urgent activities of modern existence.Using his own film criticism as a starting point--everything from his infamous dismissal of the international blockbuster The Avengers to his intense affection for Pixar's animated Ratatouille--Scott expands outward, easily guiding readers through the complexities of Rilke and Shelley, the origins of Chuck Berry and the Rolling S
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The University of Chicago Press Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisLiterary scholars often avoid category of aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work's sociopolitical heft. This title reveals that aesthetics formal aspects of literary language that make it senseperceptible are indeed inextricable from ethics in writing of medieval literature.Trade Review"Eleanor Johnson is a kind of literary-critical mechanic, revealing with brilliance and skill how particular formal and rhetorical elements work discretely and together to shape the readerly process - not for its own sake, but for the larger premodern project of personal ethical transformation. The research is first-rate and the arguments are original. The book will have an immediate and lasting effect on the study of medieval literature." (Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia)"
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The University of Chicago Press Aesthetics at Large Volume 1 Art Ethics Politics
Book SynopsisImmanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment, Thierry de Duve argues in the first volume of Aesthetics at Large, is as relevant to the appreciation of art today as it was to the enjoyment of beautiful nature in 1790. Going against the grain of all aesthetic theories situated in the Hegelian tradition, this provocative thesis, which already guided de Duve's groundbreaking book Kant After Duchamp (1996), is here pursued in order to demonstrate that far from confining aesthetics to a stifling formalism isolated from all worldly concerns, Kant's guidance urgently opens the understanding of art onto ethics and politics. Central to de Duve's re-reading of the Critique of Judgment is Kant's idea of sensus communis, ultimately interpreted as the mere yet necessary idea that human beings are capable of living in peace with one another. De Duve pushes Kant's skepticism to its limits by submitting the idea of sensus communis to various tests leading to questions such as: Do artists speak on behal
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The University of Chicago Press Crossings Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy
Book SynopsisBoldly contesting recent scholarship, Sallis argues that The Birth of Tragedy is a rethinking of art at the limit of metaphysics. His close reading focuses on the complexity of the Apollinian/Dionysian dyad and on the crossing of these basic art impulses in tragedy. Sallis effectively calls into question some commonly accepted and simplistic ideas about Nietzsche's early thinking and its debt to Schopenhauer, and proposes alternatives that are worth considering.--Richard Schacht, Times Literary Supplement
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The University of Chicago Press An Unnatural Attitude
Book SynopsisTrade Review“In these pages Benjamin Steege recovers, at the very margins of the musical sciences, and against all the odds, a Heideggerian moment, the reverberations of which he traces from the 1920s until they all but fade from hearing three decades later. In the depth and breadth of its synthesis, An Unnatural Attitude provides a model for what it means to write imaginatively about music and conceptual thought.” * Brian Hyer, University of Wisconsin–Madison *“Between the hard-edged Platonism of musical form and the reduction of musical experience to mere psychological effect, an intricate and reflective style of musical thought emerged in Weimar Germany that was influenced by Edmund Husserl’s novel method of phenomenology. Steege’s deep dive into these forgotten figures—supported by forays into political history, textured close readings, and complete translations of primary texts—is a philosophical feast. It illuminates a complicated strain of European music theory embroiled in evolving debates about musical ontology, cultural difference, and social change.” * Michael Gallope, author of 'Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable' *"Enriched by convincing music-analytical examples, careful handling of philosophical terms of art, and an ethical sensitivity not unlike that of its historical interlocutors, Steege's book—and the writers whose work it examines—is sure to draw attention from music historians and historians of philosophy alike, who will question the relative unfamiliarity of its subject matter and set out to reach out across this gap to explore the models of historical listening it offers." * New Books Network *"Steege's work is an important contribution to music aesthetics." * Choice *"An Unnatural Attitude is a serious intellectual history that brings to light the musical thought of actors unfamiliar to the vast majority of music scholars. Ambitiously, Steege writes of both local and global concerns. At times, he suggests that the intentional manner with which one engages with music can shape the history of feeling; at others, he explicates music’s role in forging various types of community and in responding to human-led catastrophes. Densely written and always precise, An Unnatural Attitude is likely to establish itself as a central treatment of its topic: musicologists clearly need to think more deeply about the ideological, philosophical and political implications of that strange practice we call listening." * Twentieth-Century Music *"Even if one might feel the tension differently oneself, there is no question that this text maintains and communicates it with tremendous skill and historical sensitivity, in both its main chapter sequence and the translated essays that make up a rich set of appendixes." * Notes *Table of ContentsList of Examples Introduction Worldhood and World War Max Scheler, “Genius of War” Musicology in the World From Psychology to Phenomenology Music in Phenomenological Study Chapter 1 The Unnatural Attitude The Acoustical Attitude and the Harmonic Attitude Beyond Psychologism “What Is the Phenomenology of Music?” Chapter 2 Debussy, Outward and Open An Outward Turn Dehumanization Being-There-With Music Letting Oneself Go Actuality Chapter 3 Hearing-With Case One Aesthetic Hearing (Seventeenth-Century Suite) Joining In Vocal Hearing and Instrumental Hearing Case Two Participatory Hearing (Thirteenth-Century Motet) Factical Life Spacing The Limits of Community Chapter 4 Techniques of Feeling This Is Not a Test Techniques of Feeling A Call Appendix A Hans Mersmann, “On the Phenomenology of Music” (1925) Appendix B Helmuth Plessner, “Response [to Mersmann]” (1925) Appendix C Paul Bekker, “What Is the Phenomenology of Music?” (1925) Appendix D Herbert Eimert, “On the Phenomenology of Music” (1926) Appendix E Günther Stern-Anders, “On the Phenomenology of Listening (Elucidated through the Hearing of Impressionist Music)” (1927) Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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MIT Press Ltd Fun Taste Games An Aesthetics of the Idle
Book SynopsisReclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play.“Fun” is somewhat ambiguous. If something is fun, is it pleasant? Entertaining? Silly? A way to trick students into learning? Fun also has baggage—it seems inconsequential, embarrassing, child's play. In Fun, Taste, & Games, John Sharp and David Thomas reclaim fun as a productive and meaningful tool for understanding and appreciating play and games. They position fun at the heart of the aesthetics of games. As beauty was to art, they argue, fun is to play and games—the aesthetic goal that we measure our experiences and interpretations against. Sharp and Thomas use this fun-centered aesthetic framework to explore a range of games and game issues—from workplace bingo to Meow Wolf, from basketball to Myst, from the consumer marketplace to Marcel Duchamp. They begin by outlining three elements for understanding the drive, creation, and experience of fun: set-
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MIT Press Ltd Chaos and Awe Painting for the 21st Century The
Book SynopsisFifty paintings, reproduced in color, by an international array of contemporary artists, show the aptness and relevance of painting in an era of uncertainty.In an age of global instability, the threat of chaos looms. Or is the threat more spectral than real? The fear of chaos may simply be our response to living in a world controlled by powerful forces beyond our understanding. Chaos and Awe demonstrates the aptness and relevance of painting as a medium for expressing the uncertainty of our era. It presents more than fifty paintings, by an international array of contemporary artists, that induce sensations of disturbance, curiosity, and expansiveness—the new sublime, derived not from the unfathomable mystery of nature but from the hidden and often insidious forces of culture. Essays by art historians and “painters who write” offer context and illumination.Chaos and Awe, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Frist Art Museum in Nash
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University of Washington Press Disappearing Traces
Book SynopsisExamines the tensions between the ethical and aesthetic imperatives in literary, artistic, and philosophical works about the HolocaustTrade Review"This book is very profound. Every time Glowacka introduces a major thinker into her consideration of the questions at hand she adds a much deeper understanding not only of the question but also of the thinker. This is a must read for Holocaust scholars and teachers." David Patterson, Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas "Dorota Glowacka's impassioned and eloquent dialogue with the philoso--pher Emmanuel Levinas makes a persuasive case for translating his ethics into a poetics (what she calls "poethics") that powerfully illuminates post-Holocaust philosophy, literature, and visual art." Karyn Ball, author of Disciplining the HolocaustTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Disappearing Traces: Holocaust Testimonials between Ethics and Aesthetics 1. “Like an Echo without a Source”: Subjectivity as Witnessing and the Holocaust Narrative 2. The Tower of Babel: Holocaust Testimonials and the Ethics of Translation 3. Lending an Ear to the Silence Phrase: Holocaust Writing of the Differend 4. Poethics of Disappearing Traces: Levinas, Literary Testimony, and Holocaust Art 5. “Witnesses against Themselves”: Encounters with Daughters of Absence Epilogue: “To Write Another Book about the Holocaust . . . ” Notes Works Cited Index
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Random House USA Inc Reality Hunger
Book SynopsisA landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead.Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past and present, to reframe debates about the veracity of memoir and the relevance of the novel. He argues that our culture is obsessed with “reality,” precisely because we experience hardly any, and urgently calls for new forms that embody and convey the fractured nature of contemporary experience.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd FORM FUNCTION American Modernist Jewelry 19401970
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MJ - Ohio University Press Art in Context
Book SynopsisThe various lenses—ethical, political, sexual, religious, andso forth—through which we may view art are often instrumental ingiving us an appreciation of the work.
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Ohio University Press Motivation and the Primacy of Perception
Book SynopsisBridging phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, Peter Antich asserts that the latter has long been hampered by an inadequate phenomenology of knowledge. However, a careful description of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenon of motivation can offer compelling new ways to think about knowledge and longstanding epistemological questions.Trade Review“Antich’s book demonstrates the difference made to epistemological debates and perplexities when we understand perception as motivating knowledge. It does this with great lucidity and insight, enriched by examples drawn from empirical studies, literature and art—all of which make for a compelling read. Because of its clarity and its commendable development of Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of perceptual motivation, it will be very useful not only to scholars but also to graduate students and senior undergraduates in philosophy.”“An erudite and seminal contribution to phenomenology studies, Motivation and the Primacy of Perception must be considered as a core and unreservedly recommended addition to college and university library contemporary philosophy collections and epistemic supplemental studies. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that [the title] is also readily available in a digital book format.” * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Defining the Account 1 Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Motivation 2 The Primacy of Perception Part II. Defending the Account 3 Empirical Judgments 4 Universal and A Priori Judgments 5 Perceptual Faith Part III. Motivation and Pure Reason 6 Transcendental Justification 7 Metaphysical Judgments and Self-Consciousness Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£79.00
John Wiley & Sons Paradise Wild Reimagining American Nature
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