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Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts. Having traced philosophical interest in theories of art to a reaction to certain puzzle cases of avant-garde art, he argues...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-01-30
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Why do we value music? Many people report that listening to music is one of life's most rewarding activities. In Critique of Pure Music, James O. Young seeks to explain why this is so. Formalists tell us that music is appreciated as pure, contentless form. On this view,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-01-09
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The Philosophy of Art is a highly accessible introduction to current key issues and debates in aesthetics and philosophy of art. Chapters on standard topics are balanced by topics of interest to today's students, including creativity, authenticity, cultural...
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Polity
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2014-01-07
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Wenn von Europa die Rede ist, kommt die Kunst und das kulturelle Erbe ins Spiel. Beide gelten als integratives Instrument neben den treibenden Motoren Politik und Wirtschaft. Im Hofmannsthalschen Sinne ist die Kunst ein Lebensmittel, das die Menschen für ein...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a contemporary focus, which addresses the problem of explaining the appeal of artworks whose appreciation entails negative or difficult emotions on the appreciator's part - what has...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-14
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This book is a result of studies on psychoanalysis, politics, and art. The topics in this book range from populism, the limits of the political, identity, melancholy, the peculiarity of psychoanalytical interpretation to the connection of theatre and politics....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-05
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes richten einen umfassenden, interdisziplinären Blick auf das Thema des Rationalen und des Irrationalen im deutschen Sprachraum. Um dem Phänomen näher zu kommen, werden die Ausdrucksformen dieses Begriffspaares vom Mittelalter bis in die...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Betrayal has never gone out of fashion. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon – from antiquity to the present, from the realm of politics to the most personal relationships. This book gathers essays by scholars from the fields of philosophy, comparative literature, classics,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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This book is a reconstruction and presentation of the fundamental assumptions of the so-called weak thought, as elaborated mainly by the Italian hermeneutical philosopher Gianni Vattimo and the Romanian philosopher Constantin Noica in his ontology. Both Noica and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Urban public space continues to be the focus of debate regarding its conceptualization and how it is designed, (re)produced and managed. Nowadays public spaces are facing new challenges conceptually and practically. This book focuses on two of them: mobility and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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Minerva’s Night Out presents series of essays by noted philosopher and motion picture and media theorist Noël Carroll that explore issues at the intersection of philosophy, motion pictures, and popular culture. Presents a wide-ranging series of essays that reflect on...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-07-29
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has described Morphology as a science dedicated to the observation and description of everything «that is handled by chance and occasionally in other [sciences]». This meant that morphological research could be undertaken by any science or...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-09
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Although few philosophers agree about what it is for something to be art, most, if not all, agree on one thing: art must be in some sense intention dependent. Art and Art Attempts is about what follows from taking intention dependence seriously as a substantive...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-27
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Inwiefern ist das Werk des Genfer Regisseurs Alain Tanner (geboren 1929) für eine Philosophie der Reise relevant? Sein fiktionales Langfilmschaffen handelt von der reisenden oder sesshaften, stets aber unruhigen Suche nach einem besseren, im wörtlichen Sinne utopischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-16
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Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). He explores a variety of articulations (in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the arts) of the idea that selfhood is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-04-18
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According to the literary humanist, works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of their production and which is the same for all readers, then and thereafter, not subject to the vagaries of individual readers' responses. Such...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-04-18
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This book is a critical introduction to contemporary French philosopher Jacques Rancière. It is the first introduction in any language to cover all of his major work and offers an accessible presentation and searching evaluation of his significant contributions to the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-17
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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The Critical Imagination is a study of metaphor, imaginativeness, and criticism of the arts. Since the eighteenth century, many philosophers have argued that appreciating art is rewarding because it involves responding imaginatively to a work. Literary works can be...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-04-11
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Alan H. Goldman presents an original and lucid account of the relationship between philosophy and the novel. In the first part, on philosophy of novels, he defends theories of literary value and interpretation. Literary value, the value of literary works as such, is a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-04-05
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Art and Abstract Objects presents a lively philosophical exchange between the philosophy of art and the core areas of philosophy. The standard way of thinking about non-repeatable (single-instance) artworks such as paintings, drawings, and non-cast sculpture is that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-17
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