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The theme of this book is the documentarian—what the documentarian is and how we can understand it as a concept. Working from the premise that the documentarian is a special—extended—sign, the book develops a model of a quadruple sign structure for-and-of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-03
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Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism, and one of the most emblematic books of the 20th Century. It tells the story of Josef K., a man accused of a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-03-23
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This book discusses the philosophy of influential contemporary philosopher Peter van Inwagen. Looking at perennial philosophical problems from a modern point of view, Peter van Inwagen’s philosophy masterfully combines positions that have been considered irreconcilable:...
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Springer
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2018-02-12
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People engage with authored works all the time. They buy paintings, read books, download songs - they may even be artists themselves. Very rarely, however, is the concept of authorship brought into question.
The basic idea that the artist as an author maintains some...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-02
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What is art?What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste?What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret a work of art? Can we learn anything from literature, film or opera?...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-01-26
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People engage with authored works all the time. They buy paintings, read books, download songs - they may even be artists themselves. Very rarely, however, is the concept of authorship brought into question.
The basic idea that the artist as an author maintains some...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-01-26
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Der Begriff des Subjekts meint im Kern das Erkenntnissubjekt. Damit wird vornehmlich auf eine kognitive Dimension verwiesen, die sich mit Termini wie Vernunft oder Rationalität konnotieren lässt. Mit dem Blick auf die Ästhetik lässt sich dies durch Formen der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-01-24
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Does philosophy gain or lose when it is embedded within literature or embodied by drama?Does literary criticism gain or lose when it turns to literary works as occasions for abstract reflection? Leading literary scholars and philosophers interrogate philosophical...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-05
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This book marks the centenary of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain by critically re-examining the established interpretation of the work. It introduces a new methodological approach to art-historical practice rooted in a revised understanding of Lacan, Freud and Slavoj Žižek....
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-12-04
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This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958–9, formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory, widely regarded as one of his greatest works. The lectures cover a wide range of topics, from an intense analysis of the work...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-11-10
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This book analyzes how the public character of judgments of taste makes implicit statements in moral and political philosophy. The framework that relates aesthetic, moral, and political aspects into such a triadic relationship is an implicit conception of freedom. In...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-10-26
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In verschiedenen Beiträgen dieses Bandes wird soziologisch und ästhetisch, kunst- und literaturwissenschaftlich erörtert, wie aus ästhetischen Erfahrungen Widerstandskraft gegen Zerstörung und Selbstzerstörung entwickelt wird. Es wird gezeigt, dass Kunst und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-20
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Art and Belief presents twelve new essays at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of art, particularly to do with the relation between belief and truth in our experience of art. Several contributors discuss the cognitive contributions artworks can make...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-20
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Art and Belief presents twelve new essays at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of art, particularly to do with the relation between belief and truth in our experience of art. Several contributors discuss the cognitive contributions artworks can make...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-20
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Only Imagine offers a theory of fictional content or, as it is sometimes known, 'fictional truth'.
The theory of fictional content Kathleen Stock argues for is known as 'extreme intentionalism'; the idea that the fictional content of a particular work is equivalent to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-01
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Only Imagine offers a theory of fictional content or, as it is sometimes known, 'fictional truth'.
The theory of fictional content Kathleen Stock argues for is known as 'extreme intentionalism'; the idea that the fictional content of a particular work is equivalent to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-01
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What's in a shadow? Menace, seduction, or salvation? Immaterial but profound, shadows lurk everywhere in literature and the visual arts, signifying everything from the treachery of appearances to the unfathomable power of God. From Plato to Picasso, from Rembrandt to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-04
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This book uses an examination of the annual Turner Prize to defend the view that the evaluation of artworks is a reason-based activity, notwithstanding the lack of any agreed criteria for judging excellence in art. It undertakes an empirical investigation of actual...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-19
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Yuriko Saito explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people's everyday life. Everyday aesthetics has the recognized value of enriching one's life experiences and sharpening one's attentiveness and sensibility. Saito draws out its broader...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-04
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Yuriko Saito explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people's everyday life. Everyday aesthetics has the recognized value of enriching one's life experiences and sharpening one's attentiveness and sensibility. Saito draws out its broader...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-23
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