Philosophy: aesthetics

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.

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.

The aesthetics of everyday life, originally developed by Henri Lefebvre and other modernist theorists, is an extension of traditional aesthetics, usually confined to works of art.

Critical Models combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works - Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969).

This book finds Heidegger's Aristotle interpretation integral to his idea of leading metaphysics back to its own presuppositions, and his reflection on art as necessitating a revision of this interpretation.

Philip Goldstein explains the socio-historical context of the diverse interpretive practices which make up the humanities in the USA in the 21st century.

Chaucerian Aesthetics examines The Canterbury Tale and Troilus and Criseyde from both medieval and post-Kantian vantage points.

Using romantic theories, Caton analyzes America's contemporary novel.

This is a study of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists.

Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a Bible is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds.

Examining multiple modes of spatio-temporal and geometric figurations of life, the author explores how relationships between space, geometry and aesthetics generate productive expressions of subjectivity, developed through Kant's 'reflective subject' and 'geometric' texts by Plato and others towards Deleuze's philosophy of sense.

Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life.

The articles in this collection focus attention on the concept of literature and on the relationship between this concept and the concepts of a literary work and a literary text.

This is the first book to explore all central issues surrounding the relationship between the film-image and philosophy.

Over the last decade or so, aesthetic and art theory has played an increasingly significant role in the way work and its organization has come to be understood.

This book shows how our moral concepts are nourished by awe, reverence and various forms of love.

The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere is one of the first books to theoretically explore the relationship between free speech and the public sphere.

In a series of philosophical discussions and artistic case studies, this volume develops a materialist and immanent approach to modern and contemporary art.

Iyer argues for the transformative potential for philosophy and political practice of the thought of Maurice Blanchot.

Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning.

"Annehmlichkeit gilt auch für vernunftlose Thiere; Schönheit nur für Menschen, d.

This authoritative and accessible book explains the argument and strategy of Kant's analysis of beauty.

Although current debates in epistemology and philosophy of mind show a renewed interest in perceptual illusions, there is no systematic work in the philosophy of perception and in the psychology of perception with respect to the concept of illusion and the relation between illusion and error.

The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures.

This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett.

Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy, this original study elaborates fresh perspectives on the experiences of undoing, fiasco and disaster that shadow both the both stage and everyday life.

Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art, art history and perceptual psychology, this book places seeing at the centre of an original theory of pictorial representation and explores the ramifications such a theory has for the visual arts.

Metaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality.

This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy.

This work presents a rethinking of Critical Philosophy through the recovery of a larger sense of 'aesthetics' in Kant.

This, the first collection of essays on the aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee, offers a wide range of critical writings by scholars.

Based on Nelson Goodman's conception of language and of pragmatically inherited meaning, this book looks at the arts as systems of particular symbols.

This book tackles the age-old interpretative problem of 'pleasure' in Keat's poetry by placing him in the context of the liberal, leisured and luxurious culture of Hunt's circle.

Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us?

Leading young scholars present a collection of wide-ranging essays covering central problems in meta-aesthetics and aesthetic issues in the philosophy of mind, as well as offering analyses of key aesthetic concepts, new perspectives on the history of aesthetics, and specialized treatment of individual art forms.

In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory.