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In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Moving between the visible and the invisible, the audible and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-23
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This book explores relationships between intermedial theater, consciousness, memory, objects, subjectivity, and affect through productive engagement with the performance aesthetics, socio-cognitive theory, and critical methodology of transversal poetics alongside other...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-06
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In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences, urging in its place a 'third culture' which would draw upon and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-24
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In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences, urging in its place a 'third culture' which would draw upon and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-24
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This book explores the relationships between how the body appears and feels in everyday life through aesthetics. The recent shift away from Kantian aesthetics towards a more enacted route places at its core the realization that the world is experienced as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-22
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This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating. It reflects on the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-06
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How can we understand another person's feelings, thoughts, words or behaviour? Through empathy, it is hoped, we might use our imaginations to shift our perspective into another person's, thereby grasping their thoughts and emotions. In this insightful new book, Derek...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-02-13
Collection :
Key Concepts in Philosophy
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Band 20 des Jahrbuchs SYMBOLON dokumentiert Vorträge aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, die bei den Jahrestagungen der Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Symbolforschung e. V. 2012–2014 in Köln, Erfurt und Essen gehalten wurden. Die Beiträge behandeln die folgenden...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-25
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This book examines evangelical dieting and fitness programs and provides a systematic approach of this diverse field with its wide variety of programs. When evangelical Christians engage in fitness and dieting classes in order to “glorify God,” they often face...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-05
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This book deals with philosophical aspects regarding the perception of spatial relationships in two and three-dimensional art. It provides a structural understanding of how art is perceived within the space created by the artwork, and employs a mapping sentence and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-26
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This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts: first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and second, Carthusian studies...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-19
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In this book, Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-‘n’-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value. That value is that popular music affirms the importance of materiality and the body, challenging the long-standing Western elevation of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-17
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This is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examines the historical, political, and social significance of 9/11.This collection considers 9/11 as an event situated within the much larger historical context of late late-capitalism, a paradoxical time in which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-08
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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 puzzled philosophers...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-05
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This edited monograph provides a compelling analysis of the interplay between neuroscience and aesthetics. The book broaches a wide spectrum of topics including, but not limited to, mathematics and creator algorithms, neurosciences of artistic creativity, paintings and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-30
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Das Buch schlägt vor, die Medien und Medientheorien in drei Hauptkategorien zusammenzufassen: 1) Die imperativ-archischen Medien. Es handelt sich hier um ein von der historischen Bühne verdecktes »Heeresgerät« (Kittler), das heute im Dienste eines neuen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-17
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This volume presents new essays on art, mind, and narrative inspired by the work of the late Peter Goldie, who was Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester until 2011. Its three sections cover Narrative Thinking; Emotion, Mind, and Art; and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
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Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today, presents a new collection of essays, following on from his four previous collections, Music, Art and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), Contemplating Art (2006), and Musical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
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Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today, presents a new collection of essays, following on from his four previous collections, Music, Art and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), Contemplating Art (2006), and Musical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
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This volume presents new essays on art, mind, and narrative inspired by the work of the late Peter Goldie, who was Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester until 2011. Its three sections cover Narrative Thinking; Emotion, Mind, and Art; and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
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