Entre la multiplicidad de afluentes que convergen en el pensamiento de Benjamin, el que proviene del temprano romanticismo alemán ha recibido una atención signicativamente menor.
Si es que existen las historias y los relatos es porque, gracias a sus facultades imaginativas, los seres humanos han sabido crear dimensiones alternativas dentro de la amplia superficie de realidad que habitan.
Drawing from the work of Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger, this book aims to relate a series of philosophic insights to the practice of engaging in design research for change.
Providing a solid media-philosophical groundwork, Beyond Mimesis contributes to the theory of mimesis and alterity in performance philosophy while serving to stimulate and inspire future inquiries where studies in media and art intersect with philosophy.
Ethics of Cinematic Experience: Screens of Alterity deals with the relationship between cinema and ethics from a philosophical perspective, finding an intrinsic connection between film spectatorship and the possibility of being open to different modes of alterity.
An invigorating exploration of the pleasures and social importance of conversationTalking Cure is a timely and enticing excursion into the art of good conversation.
This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life.
Drawing from the work of Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger, this book aims to relate a series of philosophic insights to the practice of engaging in design research for change.
A new examination of the history of ceramic art, spanning ancient to modern times, emphasizing its traditions, materials, and methods of makingConcise but comprehensive, Ceramic Art brings together the voices of art historians, conservators, and artists to tell the history of making art from fired clay.
La actual disolución de las fronteras de los géneros artísticos va acompañada de experimentos estéticos que renuevan la vieja pretensión vanguardista de borrar la clásica brecha entre arte y vida.
This book provides a stylistic and cognitive poetic account of ekphrastic poetry (poetry whose subject matter is predominantly artworks and images), examining the linguistic processes through which works of art can become literary objects.
This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications.
A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a contemporary focus, which addresses the problem of explaining the appeal of artworks whose appreciation entails negative or difficult emotions on the appreciator's part - what has traditionally been known as "the paradox of tragedy".
Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects.
This sourcebook presents nearly 200 specially-translated Greek and Roman texts from Homer to Plutarch, revealing the place of the animal in the moral consciousness of the Classical era.
The Invisible Dragon made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty-and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, igniting a debate that has shown no sign of flagging.
Uno de los asuntos sobre los que el hombre se pregunta a lo largo de su historia es el de la procedencia de la creación artística y la naturaleza de la inspiración.
Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson investigates a fundamental shift, from the 1920s to the present day, in the way that trauma is aesthetically expressed.
Friedrich von Hardenberg und Friedrich Schlegel verdanken wir zwei der berühmtesten Denkfiguren der Romantik: die ‚blaue Blume‘ und die ‚progressive Universalpoesie‘.
This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic , but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues.
New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and imagesTales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century.
Dieses eBook: "Lälius oder von der Freundschaft" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century Art is the language that speaks to the soul Why do we make art?
El presente escrito, surgido a partir de una reflexión sobre la situación política actual, y nutriéndose del pensamiento del filósofo francés personalista Jacques Maritain, se propone demostrar que sin el concepto de persona humana todas las acciones del hombre pierden por completo su sentido originario.
En nombre de un ataque a las nociones de "totalidad" e "identidad", un gran número de teóricos contemporáneos se ocuparon de echar los proyectos utópicos y dialécticos del marxismo por el desagüe del posmodernismo y la "pospolítica".
Escritas como elogio a los profesores de educación física y a los entrenadores, a los guías de alta montaña, a los atletas, bailarines, mimos, clowns, artesanos y artistas, estas Variaciones describen las admirables metamorfosis que sus cuerpos pueden llevar a cabo.
En busca de las palabras reúne los textos críticos y filosóficos sobre literatura y arte escritos por Oscar del Barco a lo largo de más de cuarenta años.
No pocos libros se han dedicado a intentar despejar invariantes que permitan reunir a un conjunto de autores diversos en una misma orientación de pensamiento.
En el prólogo a "L'uso dei corpi", Giorgio Agamben retoma la figura de Guy Debord bajo la afectividad de una vida clandestina, o mejor, de una vida privada vivida como clandestina, una vida singular que rehúye y resiste las formas de la legalidad y de lo público.
Reading Baudelaire with Adorno examines Charles Baudelaire's oeuvre - including verse poems, prose poems, and critical writings - in dialogue with the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno, for whom the autonomy of the artwork critically resists any attempt to view it merely as a product of its socio-historic context.
Reading Baudelaire with Adorno examines Charles Baudelaire's oeuvre - including verse poems, prose poems, and critical writings - in dialogue with the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno, for whom the autonomy of the artwork critically resists any attempt to view it merely as a product of its socio-historic context.
Unfreezing Music Education argues that discussing the conflicting meanings of music should occupy a more central role in formal music education and music teacher preparation programs than is currently the case.
Unfreezing Music Education argues that discussing the conflicting meanings of music should occupy a more central role in formal music education and music teacher preparation programs than is currently the case.
This edited volume recognises the need to cultivate a critical and acute understanding of AI technologies amongst primary and elementary school children, enabling them to meet the challenge of a human- and ethically oriented management of AI technologies.
