Philosophy: aesthetics

This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy.

'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literature and art which informed his engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Magritte, Nietzsche, Freud and Wagner.

This book is one of the first to apply the theoretical tools proposed by French philosopher Bruno Latour to film studies.

The imagination is a decisive, if underappreciated, theme in German thought since Kant.

Argues that Lucan''s Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime.

Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of Music opens up a new way of thinking about the absence of women's music.

Classical music shows a close relationship to language, and both musicology and philosophy have tended to approach music from that angle, exploring it in terms of expression, representation, and discourse.

In this volume, a team of internationally respected contributors theorize the concept of aesthetic experience and its value.

Shortlisted for the R.

The Western philosophical tradition shows a marked fondness for tragedy.

Narratives are artefacts of a special kind: they are intentionally crafted devices which fulfil their story-telling function by manifesting the intentions of their makers.

Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern.

This book examines four main areas of music in early childhood: the traditions of music for young children, their capacities for music, the way they make music with others, and constructed and mediated musical childhoods.

Edited by Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Emancipation is the fifth volume of Herbert Marcuse's collected papers.

This book offers the first comprehensive critical study of David Hume's Four Dissertations of 1757, containing the Natural History of Religion, the Dissertation on the Passions, and the two essays Of Tragedy and Of the Standard of Taste.

Alongside Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam and Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell is arguably one of the best-known philosophers in the world.

The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates.

This book features original papers from 27th International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music (FRSM 2023), jointly organized by Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India, and Sir C.

We live in a time of linguistic plainness.

The contemporary media landscape might be described in simple terms as a digital terrain where real and virtual worlds collide.

Inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of game design, Salome Voegelin adapts and develops "e;possible world theory"e; in relation to sound.

To "e;look good"e; and to "e;be good"e; have traditionally been considered two very different notions.

At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small communities of play, affect and respect for nature.

Negative emotions are familiar enough, but they have rarely been a topic of study in their own right.

This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights.

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

This book interprets relationships between art and ethics in the context of contemporary South African art.

In his influential essay Provisional Painting, Raphael Rubinstein applied the term provisional to contemporary painters whose work looked intentionally casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished or self-cancelling; who appeared to have deliberately turned away from "e;strong"e; painting for something that seemed to constantly risk failure or inconsequence.

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

Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Association for Israeli Studies.

Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that are somewhere between art and politics.

Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth.

Why do we value music?

This book shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant''s aesthetics and practical philosophy fit together and deepen our understanding of his thought.

This book investigates the ontological state of relations in a unique way.

Literature is a complex and multifaceted expression of our humanity of a kind that is instructively resistant to simplification; reduction to a single element that would constitute literature's defining essence would be no more possible than it could be genuinely illuminating.

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

With the COVID-19 crisis forcing us to reflect in a dramatic way on the limits of the human and the implications of the Anthropocene Age, this timely volume addresses these concerns through an exploration of post-humanism as represented in philosophy, politics and aesthetics.

Guiding readers through major problems, issues and debates in aesthetics, this is a bias-free introduction for students studying the philosophy of art for the first time.

Digital technology has transformed the way that we visualise the natural world, the art we create and the stories we tell about our environments.

In The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy, Smith argues that Western Metaphysics has indeed come to what Heidegger describes as "e;an end.

In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human.

Bringing some of the insights of modern critical theory to bear on a great deal of information about Pound's activities as a literary critic (some of it made available only recently), K.

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) remains one of the most enigmatic, captivating, and elusive thinkers in the history of European thought.