Aesthetics

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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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,...

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...

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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...

This book addresses the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the framework of pragmatist aesthetics, offering a comprehensive panorama of the ways and fields in which pragmatist aesthetics ties in with vital social and ethical...

The book presents five philosophical and axiological studies devoted to the relationship between aesthetics and politics. It shows this relationship throughout the works of some avant-gardists, pragmatists, and postmodernists. It is also a voice in the...

Memento mori is a broad and understudied cultural phenomenon and experience. The term "memento mori" is a Latin injunction that means "remember mortality," or more directly, "remember that you must die." In art and cultural history, memento mori appears...

When does eating become art? The Aesthetics of Taste answers this question by exploring the position of taste in contemporary culture and the manner in which taste meanders its way into the realm of art. The argument identifies aesthetic values not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789062037100Author Michael H. MitiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher BrillWeight(grams) 334g

This is the first collection in English devoted exclusively to pragmatist aesthetics. Its main aim is to employ the resources of that rich and exciting tradition in studying artistic phenomena such as film, sculpture, bio-art, poetry, the novel, cuisine,...

This book proposes a new approach to the problem of aesthetic experience in Western culture. Noting how art world phenomena evoke conventional psychoanalytic speculations about narcissism, the authors turn the tables and "apply" aesthetic...

The present volume encapsulates the contemporary scholarship on John Dewey and shows the place of Dewey's thought on the philosophical arena. The authors are among the leading specialists in the philosophy of John Dewey from universities across the US...

Who isn't seduced by the idea of an affinity between aging and aesthetics? Yet, when does aging truly begin? What attributes does the aesthetic embrace? Looking into startling photographic art of the past three decades, this book is prompted by such...

Critical Models combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works - Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969). Written after his return to Germany in 1949, the articles, essays, and...

Art and the Absolute restores Hegel's aesthetics to a place of central importance in the Hegelian system. In so doing, it brings Hegel into direct relation with the central thrust of contemporary philosophy.The book draws on the astonishing scope and...

The noise factor is the ratio of signal to noise of an input signal to that of the output signal. Noise can block or interfere with the meaning of a message in both human and electronic communication. But in Information Theory, noise is still considered...

Chance ordained that Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was not only a philosopher, playwright and writer, but also a salonnier. In other words, an art critic. In 1759, his friend Grimm entrusted him with a project that forced him to acquire "thoughtful notions...

Interpretation and Construction examines the interpretation and products of intentional human behavior, focusing primarily on issues in art, law, and everyday speech. Focuses on artistic interpretation, but also includes extended discussion of...

Chance ordained that Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was not only a philosopher, playwright and writer, but also a salonnier. In other words, an art critic. In 1759, his friend Grimm entrusted him with a project that forced him to acquire "thoughtful notions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783796545726Author Stefan Lorenz SorgnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Schwabe VerlagPublisher Schwabe VerlagWeight(grams) 235g

Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics is a comprehensive collection devoted to the new field of research called 'intermedialities.' The concept of intermedialities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355228086Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Classy PublishingPublisher Classy PublishingWeight(grams) 132g

Lyra Ekström Lindbäck revisits the crucial distinction between literature and philosophy in Iris Murdoch’s work to make a convincing case for understanding the particularity of literature and her insistence on the separation between the two. Iris Murdoch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330374946Author Jacob S OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Common Sense Communications, LLCPublisher Common Sense Communications,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789392322907Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Hawk PressPublisher Hawk PressWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987770702Author Christopher AngleFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Rite Report Inc.Publisher Rite Report Inc.Weight(grams) 163g

Artistic Judgement sketches a framework for an account of art suitable to philosophical aesthetics. It stresses differences between artworks and other things; and locates the understanding of artworks both in a narrative of the history of art and in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783770567072Author Alessandro BertinettoFormat HardbackImprint Brill U FinkPublisher Brill U FinkWeight(grams) 4436g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949899184Author Etienne GilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 558Imprint Cluny MediaPublisher Cluny MediaWeight(grams) 966g