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Philip Goldstein explains the socio-historical context of the diverse interpretive practices which make up the humanities in the USA in the 21st century. He considers the rise of college-educated women, minority readers, the increased influence of the Universities, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-12-22
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Glenn Parsons and Allen Carlson offer an in-depth philosophical study of the relationship between function and aesthetic value, breaking with the philosophical tradition of seeing the two as separate. They begin by developing and defending, in a general way, the concept...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-11-20
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“I wrote this book out of my experiences during thirty years of teaching at the Collège de France. In it I look both at culture and art – music and painting – as well as life in society, ethics, and the meaning of death; languages and writing, as well as the neural...
Editeur :
Odile Jacob
Parution :
2008-11-14
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The book brings together a selection of Malcolm Budd's essays in aesthetics. A number of the essays are aimed at the abstract heart of aesthetics, attempting to solve a cluster of the most important issues in aesthetics which are not specific to particular art forms....
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OUP Oxford
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2008-11-06
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Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to beautiful surroundings – no matter what their class. Throughout history,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2008-08-07
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Leading young scholars present a collection of wide-ranging essays covering central problems in meta-aesthetics and aesthetic issues in the philosophy of mind, as well as offering analyses of key aesthetic concepts, new perspectives on the history of aesthetics, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-08-01
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'Yes, what is Dionysian? - This book provides an answer - "a man who knows" speaks in it, the initiate and disciple of his god.'
The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a book about the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. For...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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What is unique and essential about theater?What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful - as language itself. Defining...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-04-30
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The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues concerning the arts. Many of them apply to the arts generally-to literature, theater, film, music, and the visual arts-but several focus primarily on pictorial representation...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-04-23
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Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise. Cultural appropriation is a pervasive feature of the contemporary world (the Parthenon Marbles remain in London;...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
New Directions in Aesthetics
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The Art of Theater argues for the recognition of theatrical performance as an art form independent of dramatic writing. Identifies the elements that make a performance a work of art Looks at the competing views of the text-performance relationships An important and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
New Directions in Aesthetics
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The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available.The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Blackwell Philosophy Guides
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In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
New Directions in Aesthetics
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COMEDY INCARNATECOMEDY INCARNATEBuster Keaton, Physical Humor and Bodily Coping “Buster Keaton was an engineer of the comic, a craftsman of gags, a mechanic of humor. While Carroll does not aspire to be as funny as Keaton, he can match (and follow) him in intricate and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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In An Introduction to Kant’s Aesthetics, Christian Wenzel discusses and demystifies Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, guiding the reader each step of the way and placing key points of discussion in the context of Kant's other work. Explains difficult concepts...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone examine their significance. Western aesthetic theories of the past few...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-01-03
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Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone examine their significance. Western aesthetic theories of the past few...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-01-03
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Using romantic theories, Caton analyzes America's contemporary novel. Organized through the two sections of "Theory" and "Practice," Reading American Novels and Multicultural Aesthetics begins with a study of aesthetic form only to have it reveal the content of politics...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-12-25
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Literature is a source of understanding and insight into the human condition. Yet ever since Aristotle, philosophers have struggled to provide a plausible account of how this can be the case. For surely the fictionality - the sheer invented character - of the literary...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-12-06
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Artworld Metaphysics turns a critical eye upon aspects of the artworld, and articulates some of the problems, principles, and norms implicit in the actual practices of artistic creation, interpretation, evaluation, and commodification. Aesthetic theory is treated as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-10-11
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