Philosophy: aesthetics

We live in an age of the mobile image.

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

The book is organized around 4 sections.

What exactly are comics?

What is the work of art?

The Images of Time presents a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it.

Blanchot and his writings on three major poets, Mallarm , H lderlin, and Char, provide a decisive new point of departure for English language criticism of his philosophical writings on narrative in this study by leading Blanchot scholar, Kevin Hart.

Aesthetics and Video Games introduces current issues and ideas in philosophical aesthetics that help us to better understand why video games are different from cinema, animation and other types of fiction.

Although, initially, dealing with specifically pedagogical issues arising out of debates within the philosophy of education, the main thrust of this book tackles the more fundamental questions concerning communication, dialogue and solitude.

An accessible investigation of the importance of Cavell''s most famous work for modern and contemporary philosophy and literature.

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

Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential twentieth-century philosophers in the western tradition.

Originally published in 2004.

For sociologists, making, distributing, and using art and cultural products constitute social practices, yet, sociologists disagree on how to investigate these practices.

The book is the first English translation of Nicolai Hartmann's final book, published in 1953.

Through much of the twentieth century, philosophical thinking about works of art, design, and other aesthetic products has emphasized intuitive and reflective methods, often tied to the idea that philosophy's business is primarily to analyze concepts.

Within a short space of time, the film Memento has already been hailed as a modern classic.

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France analyzes the work of several literary critics in France and England, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, who were inspired by the idea that literature especially the literary sublime might offer us the deepest kind of knowledge.

The Re-enchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science.

This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city.

The present work addresses itself to the question of the nature of appraisive concepts such as were the subject of investigation in The Concepts of Value* and The Concepts of Criticism.

»Orte sind Ausgangspunkte«: Thomas Wilds großer Essay lädt zur Neuentdeckung Ilse Aichingers einMuß nicht alles immer wieder neu entdeckt werden, um zu bleiben?

The first book-length study of Sartre as philosopher of the imaginary and the development of his philosophical, literary, aesthetic and political thought.

A milestone in Kant scholarship, this interpretation of his critical philosophy makes sense of his notorious ''synthetic judgments a priori''.

This book reclaims Hegel's notion of the "e;end of art"e;-or, more precisely, of "e;art's past character"e;-not just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as a living critical and interpretive methodology.

Merleau-Ponty's categories of the visible and the invisible are investigated afresh and with originality in this penetrating collection of literary and philosophical inquiries.

In The Aesthetic Value of the World, Tom Cochrane defends Aestheticism, the claim that everything is aesthetically valuable and that a life lived in pursuit of aesthetic value can be a particularly good one.

This book introduces narrative justice, a new theory of aesthetic education the thesis that the cultivation of aesthetic or artistic sensibility can both improve moral character and achieve political justice.

This book reframes the Lacanian object a voice as a horrific register of alterity.

Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry.

Climate change is a key challenge in the contemporary world.

This book argues that the philosophical significance of Kant's aesthetics lies not in its explicit account of beauty but in its implicit account of intentionality.

Alan H.

The Reformation was one of the defining cultural turning points in Western history, even if there is a longstanding stereotype that Protestants did away with art and material culture.

The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues concerning the arts.

This book provides a multifaceted view on the relation between the old and the new in music, between tradition and innovation.

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.

Locating poetry in a philosophy of the everyday, Brett Bourbon continues a tradition of attention to logic in everyday utterances through Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, and Cavell, arguing that poems are events of form, not just collections of words, which shape everyone's lives.

Anlaß dieses Sonderheftes ist die Gründung der Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft vor hundert Jahren durch Max Dessoir.

Chinese martial arts cinema is held to be a synthesis drawing on artistic conventions of traditional Chinese theatre.

Sport aesthetics is an important but often marginalized field in the philosophy of sport.

'PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas' as S.

In the third Critique Kant details an aesthetic operation of judgment that is surprising considering how judgment functioned in the first Critique.

From Pascal to contemporary anxieties about attention, we have constantly been urged to avoid distraction if we want to live and work better.

In The Sovereign Self, Grant H.