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Throughout modernity there has been a clear divide between art and commerce. Objects could either be consumed as commerce or contemplated as art. Today, as museums are facing increasing financial pressure and as stores have become inventive locations for new modes of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-02-22
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'To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one'John Ruskin - born 200 years ago, in February 1819 - was the greatest critic of his age: a critic not only of art and architecture but of society and life. But his writings - on beauty and truth, on work and...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2019-02-07
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This groundbreaking book uses observations made by Marshall McLuhan to analyze the aesthetics of science fiction films, treating them as visual metaphors or probes into the new reality dominated by electronic media:...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-17
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This book provides the first recent philosophical account of how ruins acquire aesthetic value. It draws on a variety of sources to explore modern ruins, the ruin tradition, and the phenomenon of “ruin porn.” It features an unusual and original combination...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-11-30
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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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-04
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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 wide-ranging...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-31
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Dieses Buch untersucht, ausgehend von einer der bedeutendsten technikphilosophischen Positionen der deutschen Nachkriegsmoderne, die diffizile Interaktion von aktueller Kultur und Technik. Die Beiträge diskutieren die faktische Aktualität des Wissenschaftlers und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-10-17
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Jeanne Fichtner-Egloff analysiert die Epoche um 1900 in Japan und zeigt, dass sie als Übergang in ein neues Selbstverständnis in der Kunst zu verstehen ist. Mit den um 1910 herausgegebenen Schriften des Bildhauers und Schriftstellers Takamura Kotaros wurde zum ersten...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-10-12
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The book deals with philosophical issues concerning the understanding of the literary text and its distinctive nature, meaning, and relevance to life. It also provides an occasion to revisit many of the seminal ideas towards these ends by contextualizing them in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-10-10
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This book focuses on a central notion in Theodor. W. Adorno’s philosophy: the nonidentical. The nonidentical is what our conceptual framework cannot grasp and must therefore silence, the unexpressed other of our rational engagement with the world.This study presents the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-22
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For over fifty years, philosophers working within the broader remit of analytic philosophy have developed and refined a substantial body of work in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, curating a core foundation of scholarship which offers rigor and clarity on matters...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-09-11
Collection :
Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
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This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring how Beckett fabricates encounters with the impossible and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-28
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This book interrogates the relation between film spectatorship and film theory in order to criticise some of the disciplinary and authoritarian assumptions of 1970s apparatus theory, without dismissing its core political concerns. Theory, in this perspective, should not...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-27
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The book is organized around 4 sections.The first deals with the creativity and its neural basis (responsible editor Emmanuelle Volle).The second section concerns the neurophysiology of aesthetics (responsible editor Zoï Kapoula). It covers a large spectrum of different...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-20
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Das Bild ist ohne Zweifel ein interkulturelles Grundphänomen. In verschiedenen kulturellen Kontexten finden sich stets bestimmte Formen und Praktiken bildlicher Darstellung, die sich zudem als Ausdruck der jeweiligen Welt- und Selbstansichten lesen lassen. Zugleich...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-07-05
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This book provides a critical introduction to François Laruelle’s writings on photography, with a particular focus on his two most important books on photography: The Concept of Non-Photography and Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics. By unpacking and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-06-25
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This book introduces traditional and modern aesthetics and arts, comparing the similarities and differences between traditional and modern Chinese aesthetics. It also explores the aesthetic implications of traditional Chinese paintings, and discusses the development of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-05-12
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Philosophers say what art is and then scientists and then other scholars study how we are equipped, cognitively and socially, to make art and appreciate it. This time-honoured approach will not work. Recent science reveals that we have poor intuitive access to artistic...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-11
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Philosophers say what art is and then scientists and then other scholars study how we are equipped, cognitively and socially, to make art and appreciate it. This time-honoured approach will not work. Recent science reveals that we have poor intuitive access to artistic...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-10
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This book considers how Samuel Beckett’s critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-19
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