Philosophy: aesthetics

The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence.

This groundbreaking book uses observations made by Marshall McLuhan to analyze the aesthetics of science fiction films, treating them as visual metaphors or probes into the new reality dominated by electronic media: -          it considers the relations between the senses and sensuality in Blade Runner, the visually-tactile character of the film, and the status of replicants as humanity s new clothes; -          it analyzes the mixture of Eastern and Western aesthetics in Star Wars, analyzing Darth Vader as a combination of the literate and the tribal mindset; -          it discusses the failure of visual society presented in the Terminator and Alien franchises, the rekindling of horror vacui, tribalism, and the desire to obliterate the past as a result of the simultaneity of the acoustic space; -          finally, the book discusses the Matrix trilogy and Avatar as being deeply related in terms of the growing importance of tactility, easternization, tribalization, as well as connectivity and the implosion of human civilization.

The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture brings together a respected team of philosophers and architecture scholars to ask what impact architecture has over today's culture and society.

Activating Aesthetics addresses questions of aesthetics in various fields of education, with the aim of investigating a way of revealing how aesthetics may activate an engaged, responsive and poetic pedagogy.

'Aesthetics' and 'theological aesthetics' usually imply a focus on questions about the arts and how faith or religion relates to the arts; only the final pages of this work take up that problem.

Now that cinema is offline and online, the capacity of cinema to relate to philosophy and science has increased.

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century.

When scientists describe their results or insights as 'beautiful', are they using the term differently from when they use it of a landscape, music or another person?

Timbre is among the most important and the most elusive aspects of music.

Guattari Reframed presents a timely and urgent rehabilitation of one of the twentieth century's most engaged and engaging cultural philosophers.

"e;I wrote this book out of my experiences during thirty years of teaching at the College de France.

This book traces the history of 'girls' aesthetics,' where adult Japanese women create art works about 'girls' that resist motherhood, from the modern to the contemporary period and their manifestation in Japanese women's theatrical and dance performance and visual arts including manga, film, and installation arts.

Bare Architecture: a schizoanalysis, is a poststructural exploration of the interface between architecture and the body.

The visual arts have long been held to have an intimate link with emotions.

Visual art has a ubiquitous political cast today.

Regarding Santayana it has been claimed that he lacks a system while contradicting himself in outrageous ways.

This anthology makes many key eighteenth-century texts on the Sublime readily available for the first time.

Portraits have for centuries been one of the most important art forms.

Offering new and original readings of literature, poetry, and education as interpreted through the conceptual lens of Heidegger's later philosophy of the "e;Turn"e;, this book helps readers understand Heidegger's later thought and presents new takes on how to engage the themes that emerged from his later writing.

This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "e;Promethean"e; tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing.

Experience is inescapably temporal.

Using the way in which artists from the former Eastern bloc perceive the experience of EU integration and transition from a Soviet past as a conceptual launching pad, this book explores how artists critically inhabit a permanent state of 'in-between' to capture the simultaneous existence of multiple and overlapping temporalities.

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "e;aesthetics"e; from the narrow confines it is often reduced to.

'The ideal interpreter of the Ring .

"Le Portrait de Dorian Gray est un roman écrit par l'écrivain irlandais Oscar Wilde, publié pour la première fois en 1890.

Since the industrial revolution, when everything ran by clockwork, people have understood how important it is to live in the moment.

The title as well as the thematic impetus of ESCAPE FROM PHALARIS are derived from the legend of Perilaus and Phalaris as related by the ancient Greek satirist Lucian.

Throughout modernity there has been a clear divide between art and commerce.

In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou s latest work on the most complete of the arts, the theatrical stage.

Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty.

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) is a philosophical treatise published in pamphlet form by Irish statesman and thinker Edmund Burke.

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Beauty today is a paradox.

Extrait : "Il importe avant tout de préciser avec soin ce qui constitue un acte voulu.

'The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all the worse for him if he is at the same time its pupil, even worse its minion.

In this eagerly awaited follow-up to his international bestsellers Anam Cara and Eternal Echoes, John O'Donohue turns his attention to the subject of beauty - the divine beauty that calls the imagination and awakens all that is noble in the human heart.

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A renowned designer of Japanese gardens contemplates wildness, humanity, beauty, the liquid state of the world.

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.

"Tradicionalmente descrito como italiano, comunista, homosexual, católico y poeta, Pier Paolo Pasolini, a los cuarenta años, decide dedicarse casi en exclusiva al cine, convencido de que solo así podría habitar esa realidad que decía amar con desesperación.

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

Levinas Unhinged presents philosopher Emmanuel Levinas as a metaphysician racked by the sensuous, and often terrifying, materiality of existence.

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

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

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