Aesthetics

An exploration of the aesthetic experience of architectural design and space inhabitation, addressed through the lens of the architectural project as its own entity.

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Jointly explores Bill Viola's video art and Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation through their shared understanding of the interpenetration of nature and technology.

Originally published in 2001, this intriguing volume brings together professionals working in architecture, planning, urban design and social policy with academics from both humanities and social sciences to provide a broad-based and insightful...

This Brief focuses on Nietzsche's aesthetics not merely as an artistic field but as a way of understanding life itself. Unlike his predecessors, Nietzsche rather saw aesthetics as a fundamental principle aim of human existence. This volume demonstrates...

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An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience gives students and other readers a comprehensive sense of the dynamic issues and problems in aesthetics and philosophy of art today. Each of the 14 chapters is written by a...

A philosophical exploration of our relationship to large objects and their outsized psychological effects. Big Culture asks a simple question: why do big things give us big feelings? Skyscrapers, disasters, and other large phenomena can elicit fear,...

The contributors converge on the intersection of New Materialism, Media Studies and Cultural Theory and offer speculative approaches combining creative writing and visual interludes from artists and designers, all of which address the question: are we on...

An inquiry into probabilistic modes of sensing and making sense of reality developed by avant-garde artists

In dialogue with thinkers from Aristotle to Freud, Alfredo Ferrarin provides a philosophical account of the nature of images and the imagination.

The first science fiction and philosophy anthology to focus on identity, covering and illuminating core aspects of the debates around personal identity.

Humans must eat, and our eating involves us in a cascade of eating relationships that leave life and death biting into each other.These realities should-but often do not-profoundly shape our understanding of personhood. This book explores "parasitic...

A philosophical exploration of our relationship to large objects and their outsized psychological effects. Big Culture asks a simple question: why do big things give us big feelings? Skyscrapers, disasters, and other large phenomena can elicit fear,...

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How have feelings, presumptions, and preconceptions concerning racialized Blackness intersected with film noir? Dan Flory relies on recent advances in philosophy of film, philosophy of emotion, cognitive film theory, and critical philosophy of race to...

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This is the first systematic treatment of what Kant's theory of judgment means for all fields of learning, making it an important contribution to studies of aesthetics in both humanistic research and educational scholarship.

A compelling new interpretation of the aesthetic experience that draws upon attention, judgement and value as central to our responses to the world we encounter.

A compelling new interpretation of the aesthetic experience that draws upon attention, judgement and value as central to our responses to the world we encounter.

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Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly comprehensive theoretical treatment of the ugly? Theories of Ugliness remedies this by gathering and scrutinising ideas of the ugly and...

This book presents the first ecocritical study of novelist, philosopher, poet and public intellectual Iris Murdoch (1919-1999). It brings her love of the natural world into the light, arguing for its critical significance when Murdoch conveys an...

First published in 1978, Philosophy and Human Movement examines the major philosophical issues in the rapidly growing field of the study of human movement, physical education, and sport and dance. Issues which start with, and grow from, the central...

Dark Futures provides a new way of thinking about the world. Light is everywhere, often uninvited as a by-product of our contemporary lives. Darkness meanwhile appears unwanted, yet is essential to our wellbeing, other species, and our planet. When we...

An award-winning mathematician and Oxford professor looks to the arts to uncover the key mathematical structures that underpin both nature and human creativity. Many of the artists that we encounter are completely...

Richard Wollheim's (1923-2003) was the leading voice in the philosophy of art in the Anglo-American tradition during the second half of the twentieth century. This volume serves two purposes. First, at the time of his death, Wollheim was composing a...

This is the first survey of Murdoch's exploration of evil, addressing aesthetic, philosophical, political and theological perspectives. The study demonstrates how her work engages with currently urgent issues of trauma, terrorism and psychopathy and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262552394Author Joan CopjecFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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This book develops an original theory of performative beauty. Philosophical aesthetics has largely neglected one’s own actions as a potential experience of the beautiful. Throughout the book, the author uses his own experiences of Argentine tango as a...

Dreams and fantasies of immorality date back to the first human being who was expelled from the Garden of Eden and fell into time, as Augustine recounts. Falling into time, into mortality, living with the consciousness of death and the decline of the...

Focusing on the aesthetic representation of trauma, George Smith outlines the nexus points between poetics and hermeneutics and shows how a particular kind of thinker, the artist-philosopher, practices interpretation in an entirely different way from...

Providing an innovative approach to conceptualising imagination or creativity, this book offers an alternative concept of imagination to the classical internalist and representationalist theory.Emilien Dereclenne argues that contemporary conceptions of...

In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger's philosophy of art to include his ontological account of poetry and technology. Following Heidegger's definition of technology as preventing authentic poetic language, alongside his argument that...