Philosophy: aesthetics

The first comprehensive philosophical analysis of the ''Davos debate'' between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger.

This book considers how Samuel Beckett's critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry.

Ideas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics.

This book is a critical introduction to J.

Rodowick takes after the theories of Hannah Arendt and argues that thinking is an art we practice with and for each other in our communities.

This book expounds Kant's Critique of Judgement by interpreting all the details in the light of what Kant himself declares to be his fundamental problem.

Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visible physical world at the expense of the invisible intangible ideas and concepts, including that of the designer's imagination.

Standing at the intersection of criminology and philosophy, this book demonstrates the ways in which mythic movies and television series can provide an understanding of actual crimes and social harms.

Die Musik gilt seit jeher als die "romantische" Kunst schlechthin.

Historically, phenomenology began in Edmund Husserl's theory of mathematics and logic, went on to focus for him on transcendental rst philosophy and for others on metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, and theory of interpretation.

Stefanie Buchenau explores the philosophical and conceptual origins of aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

An anthology of works commenting on the perception of beauty in art, structure and style in literature, and aesthetic judgement.

Integrating science and art, this accessible, but nuanced work explains how we experience beauty and why we enjoy it.

Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art focuses on practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its socially sanctioned expressions.

What is truth in the postmodern age?

This book is an exploration of how art-specifically paintings in the European manner-can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past.

What is moral reasoning?

Everyone knows what noise is.

Bridging the gap between cognition and culture, this handbook explores both social scientific and humanities approaches to understanding the physical processes of religious life, tradition, practice, and belief.

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s.

This book defends an account of the positive psychological, ethical, and political value of simulated human experience.

More than two hundred years after the publication of his seminal The World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer's influence is still felt in philosophy and beyond.

In Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction, Jeanette Bicknell explores key aesthetic, ethical, and other philosophical questions that have not yet been thoroughly researched by philosophers, musicologists, or scientists.

This book bridges the gap between the many insights into art provided by research in evolutionary theory, psychology and neuroscience and those enduring normative issues best addressed by philosophy.

Learning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art - and the ways it can transform us, if we let it.

"Das Theater ist nicht tot, es stinkt nur ein bisschen.

Originally published in 1924, this title is substantially a continuation of Baudouin's earlier work Studies in Psychoanalysis, being an application of psychoanalysis to the theory of aesthetics, as illustrated by a detailed study of the works of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren.

For the Enlightenment mind, from Moses Mendelssohn's focus on the moment of surprise at the heart of the work of art to Herder's imagining of the seismic moment at which language was discovered, it is the flash of recognition that nails the essence of the work, the blink of an eye in which one's world changes.

This book engages artistic interventions in the aerial elements to investigate the aesthetics and politics of atmosphere.

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.

Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Andre Breton, Rousseau, Simone de Beauvoir: who could imagine a better group of walking companions?

An acclaimed art historian explains how to identify excellence in artIn this book, Jakob Rosenberg takes up the timeless problem of how to make a valid judgment about artistic quality.

In Hegel's aesthetics, the element of speculative philosophy is always a notorious aspect that attracts the most complaints from modern art criticism.

The #metoo movement has forced many fans to consider what they should do when they learn that a beloved artist has acted immorally.

The fifteen essays in this second edition of this highly popular Companion address all aspects of Hume''s wide-ranging thought.

"A partir de una crítica al «sentido común» de las imágenes como representaciónde la realidad, Imágenes del terror propone un estatuto contraintituivo que lesdevuelve su propiedad procesual, generativa y transformadora; unaproblematización que aprovecha el rendimiento de la ambigüedad entre terror yerror, es decir el impacto por la fricción de lo errático.

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.

Beauty today is a paradox.

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

'God is dead .

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

Why do we make things?

«Aún / hay cantos que cantar más allá / de los hombres».

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

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