| |
The aesthetics of nature has over the last few decades become an intense focus of philosophical reflection, as it has been ever more widely recognised that it is not a mere appendage to the aesthetics of art. Just as nature offers aesthetic experiences beyond the reach...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
2003-01-09
PDF
|
Representing Stephen Davies's best shorter writings, these essays outline developments within the philosophy of music over the last two decades, and summarize the state of play at the beginning of a new century. Including two new and previously unpublished pieces, they...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2003-01-02
PDF
|
What are musical works? Are they discovered or created? Of what elements are they comprised? How are they specified by notations?What makes a performance of one piece and not another? Is it possible to perform old music authentically? Can ethnic music influenced by...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
2001-06-07
PDF
|
Approach to Aesthetics is the complete collection of Frank Sibley's articles on philosophical aesthetics. Their appearance within a single volume will be welcome to scholars and students of aesthetics. The value of the book is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of five...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
2001-05-24
PDF
|
What, if anything, has art to do with the rest of our lives, and in particular with those ethical and political issues that matter to us most? Will art created today be likely to play a role in our lives as profound as that of the best art of the past?
A Theory of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1999-12-16
PDF
|
This handsome new edition of Stanley Cavell's landmark text, first published 20 years ago, provides a new preface that discusses the reception and influence of his work, which occupies a unique niche between philosophy and literary studies.
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1999-07-01
PDF, ePub
|
Stephen Mulhall presents the first full-length philosophical study of the work of Stanley Cavell, best known for his highly influential contributions to the fields of film studies, Shakespearian literary criticism, and the confluence of psychoanalysis and literary...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1999-01-07
ePub
|
Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1998-11-26
ePub
|
Although there are a number of anthologies dealing with various topics related to the emotions, this is the first to focus on the arts. The editors have collected new essays on emotion and its relation to the arts by fifteen leading aestheticians. The essays consider...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-09-04
PDF
|
There is not one but many ways to picture the world - Australian `x-ray' pictures, cubist collages, Amerindian split-style figures, and pictures in two-point perspective each draw attention to different features of what they represent. The premise of Understanding...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1996-03-28
PDF
|
The Century of Taste offers an exposition and critical account of the central figures in the early development of the modern philosophy of art. Dickie traces the modern theory of taste from its first formulation by Francis Hutcheson, to blind alleys followed by...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1996-01-04
PDF
|
Stephen Mulhall presents the first full-length philosophical study of the work of Stanley Cavell, best known for his highly influential contributions to the fields of film studies, Shakespearian literary criticism, and the confluence of psychoanalysis and literary...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1994-01-20
PDF
|
In this monograph Paul Crowther seeks to overcome some of the antagonistic positions taken in recent debates about postmodernism. He addresses such issues as the relation between art and politics, artistic creativity, and sublimity and the postmodern sensibility. His...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1993-03-25
PDF
|
In recent years Kant's aesthetic theory has been the subject of a widespread revival of interest amongst English-speaking philosophers. This revival, however, has not so far encompassed Kant's aesthetic of the sublime. This neglect is unfortunate because, amongst...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1989-07-27
PDF
|
It is remarkably appropriate that this work on aesthetics should have been written by George Santayana, who is probably the most brilliant philosophic writer and the philosopher with the strongest sense of beauty since Plato.It is not a dry metaphysical treatise, as...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2021-11-08
epub sans DRM
|
To devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists and demand articulation or meaning. I can only take account of where things...
Editeur :
Book*hug Press
Parution :
2020-05-28
PDF sans DRM
|
There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-04-07
Collection :
Canadian Commentaries
PDF, ePub
|
A leading Polish philosopher of the 20th century, Roman Ingarden is principally renowned in Western culture for his work in aesthetics and the theory of literature. Jeff Mitscherling demonstrates, in this extensive work, how Ingarden's thought constitutes a major...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
1997-10-17
PDF
|