Aesthetics

This book addresses the philosophy of Kant and the poetry of Shelley as historical starting points for a new way of thinking in the modern age. Fusing together critical philosophy and visionary poetry, Bassler develops the notion of visionary critique,...

Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life. Although it has long been argued that aestheticism aims to de-humanize art, this volume seeks to consider the counterclaim that such de-humanization can also lead to re-humanization and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039110452Author Gudrun Von TevenarFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 470g

This book radically rethinks the philosophical basis of copyright in the arts. The author reflects on the ontology of art to argue that current copyright laws cannot be justified. The book begins by identifying two problems that result from current...

This text is part of the "Bristol Introductions" series which aims to present perspectives on philosophical themes, using non-technical language, for both the new and the advanced scholar. This introductory text examines how questions of understanding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798211449664Author DeWitt H ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 299g

This book presents a chronology of thirty definitions attributed to the word, term, phrase, and concept of "documentary" between the years 1895 and 1959. The book dedicates one chapter to each of the thirty definitions, scrutinizing their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960711816Author Andrew Thornton-NorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint OS Justi PressPublisher OS Justi PressWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941066232Author Page NelsonFormat PaperbackImprint Another Sparrow PressPublisher Another Sparrow PressWeight(grams) 118g

This collection on the Standard of Taste offers a much needed resource for students and scholars of philosophical aesthetics, political reflection, value and judgments, economics, and art. The authors include experts in the philosophy of art, aesthetics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788794559317Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Filibooks ClassicsPublisher Filibooks ClassicsWeight(grams) 159g

This edited collection investigates the kinds of moral reflection we can undertake within the imaginative worlds of literature. In philosophical contexts of ethical inquiry we can too easily forget that literary experience can play an important role in...

This book investigates the ontological state of relations in a unique way. Starting with the notion of system, it shows that the system can be understood as a relational structure, and that relations can be assessed within themselves, with no need to...

This book extends a theory of art that addresses the present era's shift towards global pluralism. By focusing on extrinsic rather than intrinsic qualities of art, this book helps viewers evaluate art across cultural boundaries. Art can be universally...

This book investigates a new interactive data visualisation concept that employs traditional Chinese aesthetics as a basis for exploring contemporary digital technological contexts. It outlines the aesthetic approach, which draws on non-Western aesthetic...

Enea Bianchi provides the first in-depth introduction to the pioneering thought of 20th-century Italian philosopher, Mario Perniola. Examining Perniola’s entire oeuvre, this book also pushes his philosophy into new directions by investigating the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039111077Author Karl AxelssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 340g

This book examines the little understood end-of-art theses of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Danto. The end-of-art claim is often associated with the end of a certain standard of taste or skill. However, at a deeper level, it relates to a transformation in how we...

This book extends a theory of art that addresses the present era's shift towards global pluralism. By focusing on extrinsic rather than intrinsic qualities of art, this book helps viewers evaluate art across cultural boundaries. Art can be universally...

This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin's writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin's related writings. Eliciting from Benjamin's writings a conception of philosophy that is political in its dissociation from - its becoming renegade in...

This book explores the ways in which popular music can criticise political, social and economic structures, through the lens of alternate rock band Manic Street Preachers. Unlike most recent work on popular music, Peters concentrates largely on lyrical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039102693Author Jeanne RiouFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 410g

`We are fools to turn from the superhuman beauty' The Forbidden Subject launches from Ed Abbey's affirmation in Desert Solitaire: `This is the most beautiful place on earth'. How could such a sentiment become construed as problematic, elitist, or worse?...

This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley Cavell's lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic understanding. Focusing on various strands of the rich body of Cavell's philosophical work, the authors explore connections between his...

This book explores the ways in which popular music can criticise political, social and economic structures, through the lens of alternate rock band Manic Street Preachers. Unlike most recent work on popular music, Peters concentrates largely on lyrical...

This book investigates a new interactive data visualisation concept that employs traditional Chinese aesthetics as a basis for exploring contemporary digital technological contexts. It outlines the aesthetic approach, which draws on non-Western aesthetic...

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...

This book offers a series of critical commentaries on, and forced encounters between, different thinkers. At stake in this philosophical and psychoanalytical enquiry is the drawing of a series of diagrams of the finite/infinite relation, and the mapping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412200790Author J. N. NielsenFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 530g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039111060Author Ross WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 350g

The main themes and aims of this book are understanding aesthetics, contemporary art and the end of the avant-garde not from the traditional viewpoint of the metaphysics of the beautiful and the sublime but rather thru close connection to the...

In recent years, the terms "ethics," "politics," "performativity," and "experience" have proliferated throughout the discourse of the humanities. However, it is rarely noted that their contemporary understanding...

This monograph brings three branches of philosophy together: epistemology, ethics and aesthetics. It assesses the built environment as a case study from a phenomenological perspective. Under the notion of phenomenology, this study understands the built...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189504806Author Karl Katz LydénFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Sodertorn UniversityPublisher Sodertorn UniversityWeight(grams) 395g

Metaphor, which allows us to talk about things by comparing them to other things, is one of the most ubiquitous and adaptable features of language and thought. It allows us to clarify meaning, yet also evaluate and transform the ways we think, create and...

This study examines how key figures in the German aesthetic tradition - Kant, Schelling, Friedrich Schlegel, Hegel, and Adorno - attempted to think through the powers and limits of art in post-Enlightenment modernity. Ayon Maharaj argues that the...

This book explores the interactions between science and music in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. It examines and evaluates the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Shohe Tanaka, and Adriaan Fokker, leading physicists and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622734467Author Piotr StankiewiczFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604595673Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 141g

In this book, perspectives in psychology, aesthetics, history and philosophy are drawn upon to survey the value given to sad music by human societies throughout history and today. Why do we love listening to music that makes us cry? This mystery has...