Aesthetics

Specifically engaging with contemporary art examples, this is a comprehensive introduction designed to help students studying aesthetics for the first time to master the subject. Guiding readers through major problems, issues and debates in aesthetics,...

Focusing on the works of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Ranciere, Space, Politics and Aesthetics reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie their political thinking, and demonstrates how their conceptualisations of politics depend on the...

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions connect the theoretical dimensions of improvisation with different viewpoints on its practice in the arts and the classroom. The chapters...

What can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe the competing approaches to philosophizing on film? New Philosophies of Film answers these questions by offering a lucid introduction to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820471112Author Liana De Girolami CheneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981484679Author Leonard KorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Imperfect PublishingPublisher Imperfect Publishing

Expectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on literature, written across three decades but, for the most part, previously unavailable in English. More substantial than literary criticism, these essays collectively negotiate literature's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882145921Author Klaus OttmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Spring PublicationsPublisher Spring PublicationsWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

This book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that the idea of mimesis was supplanted by the far more robust and compelling doctrines of taste and...

Renowned for his influence as a political philosopher, a writer, and an autobiographer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known also for his lifelong interest in music. He composed operas and other musical pieces, invented a system of numbered musical notation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783837681192Author Arno BoehlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint mdwPressPublisher Transcript Verlag

This anthology connects recent debates in feminist theory to debates in traditional philosophical aesthetics. Among the topics covered are: gender totemism; the oppositional gaze in terms of the black female spectator; the interweaving of feminist...

Something needs to be changed-be it through the revolutionary overthrow of social conditions, the liberating force of passion, the contemplation and creation of works of art, or the exploration of an unresolved past. Luchino Visconti's films are models...

This book offers an original approach to avant-garde art and its transformative force. Presenting an alternative to the approaches to art developed in postmodern theory or cultural studies, Ziarek sees art's significance in its critique of power and the...

This book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that the idea of mimesis was supplanted by the far more robust and compelling doctrines of taste and...

Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin's "Artwork" essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned with the ability of new technologies-notably film, sound...

Written with clarity, wit, and rigor, The Philosophy of Art provides an incisive account of the core topics in the field. * The first volume in the new Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts series, designed to provide crisp introductions to the...

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Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to...

THE ART OF COMICS The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Introduction is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical questions raised by the art of comics. The volume, which includes a preface by the renowned comics...

We encounter in our lives things and situations that elicit from us special forms of attention. They affect and inform us in various ways, drawing us in and holding us in their grasp or turning us away. Works of art of all sorts, and nature in its myriad...

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Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience.In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816618002Author Theodor W. Adorno AdornoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota...

Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century.The American abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman famously declared in 1948 that the impulse of modern art is to destroy beauty. Not long after that,...

Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles...

This book reads Alfred Hitchcock as a philosopher of what constitutes the erotic. The author argues that Hitchcock is doing a post-Nietzschean, postmodern kind of philosophy in which he is exploring and creating possibilities of what the erotic can feel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783035808469Author Kevin B LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint DiaphanesPublisher Diaphanes

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300285581Author Richard SennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews"Brummett's exciting volume challenges us to acknowledge the necessarily subversive elements implicated in the study of popular culture.... His book is much more than a...

Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers' meditations on artistic expression.Winner for the 2023 European Network of Japanese Philosophy Award for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783770567454Author Lucilla GuidiFormat HardbackPage Count 333Imprint Brill U FinkPublisher Brill U FinkWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997012910Author Gregory ScaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Succubus MediaPublisher Succubus MediaWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042007864Author Michael H. MitiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher BrillWeight(grams) 399g

The aim of this essay is to analyse TV series from the point of view of philosophical aesthetics. Aiming to show how philosophy may contribute to "seriality studies", Andrzejewski and Salwa focus on seriality as a factor which defines the structure of TV...

In Roman Ingarden's Philosophy of Literature Wojciech Chojna discusses Ingarden's theory of literary works and develops a phenomenological account of identity which accommodates differences in interpretations and value judgments without succumbing to...

Cities are defined by their complex network of busy streets and the multitudes of people that animate them through physical presence and bodily actions that often differ dramatically: elegant window-shoppers and homeless beggars, protesting crowds and...