Philosophy: aesthetics

This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating.

This book rethinks the concept of community taking Jean-Luc Nancy's influential essay "e;La communaute desoeuvree"e; as its starting point, tracing subsequent scholarship on community and adding new insights on avant-garde aesthetics and politics.

This book analyzes the nature and functions of horror films from the vantage of a theoretical reconstruction of George Santayana's account of beauty.

This book addresses the philosophy of Kant and the poetry of Shelley as historical starting points for a new way of thinking in the modern age.

This book is a unique attempt to systematize the latest research on all that music connotes.

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This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of ethics in the canon of William Faulkner.

This book explores the relationships between how the body appears and feels in everyday life through aesthetics.

This book analyzes the relation between the flow time and poetic speech in drama and rhetoric.

This book discusses the philosophy of influential contemporary philosopher Peter van Inwagen.

In this book, perspectives in psychology, aesthetics, history and philosophy are drawn upon to survey the value given to sad music by human societies throughout history and today.

This book reviews Iris Murdoch's thought as a whole.

This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world.

This book presents argumentation for an evolutionary continuity between human persons and cyborg persons, based on the thought of Joseph Margolis.

This book provides a comprehensive view of the aesthetic realm, placing the various major artforms within the setting of nature and the built environment as they arise within the field of experience.

This book analyzes the role that the physical body plays in foundational Mormon doctrine, and claims that such an analysis reveals a model of empathy that has significant implications for the field of Mormon aesthetics.

This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy.

This book focuses on a central notion in Theodor.

This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us.

Max Bense (1910–1990) gilt als Vorreiter der Computerkunst und der Technikphilosophie und war ein engagierter Förderer von Kunst und Literatur, Promotor interdisziplinären Denkens und politischer Provokateur.

This book provides a critical introduction to Francois Laruelle's writings on photography, with a particular focus on his two most important books on photography: The Concept of Non-Photography and Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics.

This book interrogates the relation between film spectatorship and film theory in order to criticise some of the disciplinary and authoritarian assumptions of 1970s apparatus theory, without dismissing its core political concerns.

Über das Phänomen Börse herrscht seit dem Ausbruch der Finanzkrise im Jahr 2008 eine anhaltende gesellschaftspolitische, nicht selten emotional und polemisch geführte Diskussion.

Die Dissertation, mit der René König 1930 bei Max Dessoir an der Universität Berlin promovierte, wurde erstmals ein Jahr später in Leipzig veröffentlicht.

Bilder zeigen – dies scheint die Prämisse alles Bildhaften zu sein.

Installationskunst verschiebt die Grenzen der Künste und der Kunst, indem sie die Künste füreinander und die Kunst für die außerkünstlerische Realität sowie für die Betrachterin öffnet.

This book addresses a perennial challenge for product planners and designers alike: how to objectively specify and quantify the aesthetics of products.

This book highlights aesthetics as pertaining to the structural component in architectural design.

Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis.

This book opens with the emergence and development of the discipline of aesthetics in western countries, specifically the history of Western Music Aesthetics, to study and delve into the development of Chinese Music Aesthetics.

Jaša Drnovšek entwickelt in seiner kulturphilosophischen, komparatistischen Studie erstmals eine ästhetische Theorie des Masochismus, die auf die Ästhetik des Erhabenen sowie auf die Ästhetik des Performativen zugreift.

This book deals with the philosophy of Daya Krishna, an Indian philosopher of the twentieth century.

This book provides a thorough and insightful examination of melancholy in philosophy and art.

The book features an in-depth analysis of pre-modern Chinese discourses on artistic style especially the concept of Vitality-Charm ( eY ).

This book examines aesthetic issues based on humanities principles and creates a theory of Chinese aesthetics from a global perspective by applying China's traditional and cultural history to a Western theoretical framework.

This book explores how speculative thinking is shaping how we relate to our entangled social, mental, and environmental ecologies.

This Key Concepts pivot explores the aesthetic concept of 'imaginative contemplation.

Dieses eBook: "Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest.

This ambitious text is a monograph about human experiences concerning the potentialities, capacities, and features of humankind from the wholeness of the collective mind body spirit.

Using five case studies of contemporary art, this book uses ideas of systems and dispersion to understand identity and experience in late capitalism.

Using five case studies of contemporary art, this book uses ideas of systems and dispersion to understand identity and experience in late capitalism.

El lenguaje del sufrimiento es el resultado de una auténtica investigación filosófica, que se dedica a indagar con mucha sutileza la obra estética, social y política de Theodor Adorno, uno de los grandes pensadores de nuestro tiempo.

The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-opting the creative worldmaking of art and merging it with the destructive forces of warfare.

La ironía es mucho más que una figura literaria que trasciende lo literal para jugar con lo equívoco.

This ambitious text is a monograph about human experiences concerning the potentialities, capacities, and features of humankind from the wholeness of the collective mind body spirit.

Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind.