Philosophy: aesthetics

Japanese philosophy is now a flourishing field with thriving societies, journals, and conferences dedicated to it around the world, made possible by an ever-increasing library of translations, books, and articles.

In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens.

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Philosophy for busy people.

Philosophy for busy people.

A passionate and moving tribute to the captivating power of dance, not just as an art form but as a language that transcends barriers "e;[A] smart, bracing book of reflection, analysis, memoir and history.

A groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth-century aesthetics In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the development of form as a concept in and for aesthetics.

Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our livesOur lives are saturated by color.

While comparative literature is a well-recognized field of study, the notion of comparative arts remains unfamiliar to many.

Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories.

An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.

A cultural and philosophical history of neon, from Paris in the twentieth century to the perpetually switched-on present day.

Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play.

How aesthetics—understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity—might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.

The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.

A new theory of aesthetics and music, grounded in the collision between language and the body.

Leading philosophers and scholars speculate on what Heidegger''s unfinished masterpiece might have said, why Heidegger didn''t publish it, and what being actually means.

A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry.

An investigation of the “occurrent arts” through the concepts of the “semblance” and “lived abstraction.

Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems.

For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers alike.

This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives.

This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives.

Challenging prevailing trends toward aesthetic neutrality, James S.

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) is known to many as a leading figure of 1960s counterculture, and a "e;Guru of the New Left.

For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers alike.

En Desmarcar el territorio, Carla Macchiavello Cornejo realiza un análisis crítico de las prácticas performativas, conceptuales y estéticas que surgieron en Chile en oposición a la dictadura, centrándose en sus discursos territoriales y nacionalistas.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

It is often difficult to describe beauty or even justify attempts to experience something beautiful.

The moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch said that philosophy "e;is both the guide and mirror of the age"e;.

One of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker, novelist, and political martyr.

For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art.

'To create today means to create dangerously'This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world.

'Art is not a luxury.

Filmosophy is a provocative new manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema.

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present.

Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of "e;afterness"e; is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity.

For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art.

Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers.

Richard Eldridge explores the ability of dense and formally interesting literature to respond to the complexities of modern life.

The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience.

The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust.

In these essays, Michael S.

Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J.