Philosophy: aesthetics

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Decomposition is a bracing, revisionary, and provocative inquiry into music—from Beethoven to Duke Ellington, from Conlon Nancarrow to Evelyn Glennie—as a personal and cultural experience: how it is composed, how it is idiosyncratically perceived by critics and reviewers, and why we listen to it the way we do.

A passionate and moving tribute to the captivating power of dance, not just as an art form but as a language that transcends barriers "e;[A] smart, bracing book of reflection, analysis, memoir and history.

A groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth-century aesthetics In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the development of form as a concept in and for aesthetics.

Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this "e;sparkling and informative"e; book awakens us to the role of color (Wall Street Journal).

While comparative literature is a well-recognized field of study, the notion of comparative arts remains unfamiliar to many.

A profound meditation on how design reflects the uses and abuses of power from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of Time and the Art of Living “If good design tells the truth,” writes Robert Grudin in this path-breaking book on esthetics and authority, “poor design  tells a lie,  a lie usually related .

The concept of genius intrigues us.

Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories.

A cultural and philosophical history of neon, from Paris in the twentieth century to the perpetually switched-on present day.

How aesthetics—understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity—might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.

The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.

A new theory of aesthetics and music, grounded in the collision between language and the body.

A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry.

An investigation of the “occurrent arts” through the concepts of the “semblance” and “lived abstraction.

Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems.

This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives.

This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives.

Challenging prevailing trends toward aesthetic neutrality, James S.

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

One of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker, novelist, and political martyr.

For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art.

'To create today means to create dangerously'This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world.

'Art is not a luxury.

Filmosophy is a provocative new manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema.

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present.

Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of "e;afterness"e; is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity.

For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art.

Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers.

The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience.

The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust.

In these essays, Michael S.

Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J.

Chaucerian Aesthetics examines The Canterbury Tale and Troilus and Criseyde from both medieval and post-Kantian vantage points.

Using romantic theories, Caton analyzes America's contemporary novel.

This is a study of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists.

Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a Bible is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds.

Examining multiple modes of spatio-temporal and geometric figurations of life, the author explores how relationships between space, geometry and aesthetics generate productive expressions of subjectivity, developed through Kant's 'reflective subject' and 'geometric' texts by Plato and others towards Deleuze's philosophy of sense.

Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life.

The articles in this collection focus attention on the concept of literature and on the relationship between this concept and the concepts of a literary work and a literary text.

This is the first book to explore all central issues surrounding the relationship between the film-image and philosophy.

Over the last decade or so, aesthetic and art theory has played an increasingly significant role in the way work and its organization has come to be understood.

This book shows how our moral concepts are nourished by awe, reverence and various forms of love.

The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere is one of the first books to theoretically explore the relationship between free speech and the public sphere.

In a series of philosophical discussions and artistic case studies, this volume develops a materialist and immanent approach to modern and contemporary art.

Iyer argues for the transformative potential for philosophy and political practice of the thought of Maurice Blanchot.

Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning.