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Die Essays versammeln begründende und angewandte Überlegungen zu einer kritischen Theorie der visuellen Kultur. Sie zeigen, wie die begriffliche Konstruktion struktureller und historischer Wesensmerkmale der hoch- und spätkapitalistischen Gesellschaft und deren...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-07-11
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This volume presents a collection of essays by leading experts which examine nineteenth century ideas about Christian theology, art, architecture, restoration, and curatorial practice. The volume unveils the importance of John Ruskin’s writing for today’s audience, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-26
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This books delineates the seismic shifts of the twentieth century humanities by way of a close examination of the dynamic landscape of modern language, criticism and philosophy. In this manner, it argues that both philosophy and literary criticism have dovetailed in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-23
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Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood pursues three main questions: What role does literature play in the constitution of a human being? What is the connection between the language we see at work in imaginative fiction...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-19
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Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood pursues three main questions: What role does literature play in the constitution of a human being? What is the connection between the language we see at work in imaginative fiction...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-16
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This ambitious text is a monograph about human experiences concerning the potentialities, capacities, and features of humankind from the wholeness of the collective mind body spirit. The purpose in reframing human endeavors is for enhanced alignment for livability and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-04-21
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This book illuminates the aesthetically underrated meaningfulness of particular elements in works of art and aesthetic experiences generally. Beginning from the idea of "hooks" in popular song, the book identifies experiences of special liveliness that are of enduring...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-29
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The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual discourse, centred on sustained discussion of the practice, teaching and morality of art. This book presents a reappraisal of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-03
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This book covers the field of and points to the intersections between politics, art and philosophy. Its hero, the late Sir Roger Scruton had a longstanding interest in all fields, acquiring professional knowledge in both the practice and theory of politics, art and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-12
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The book explores the liminal aesthetics of U.S. cultural and literary practice. Interrogating the notion of a presumptive unity of the American experience, Moveable Designs argues that inner conflict, divisiveness, and contradiction are integral to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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This book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora. It is the first book to present a broad-ranging analysis of cultural dance in Australia....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-28
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This book provides a stylistic and cognitive poetic account of ekphrastic poetry (poetry whose subject matter is predominantly artworks and images), examining the linguistic processes through which works of art can become literary objects. The author sheds light on the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-25
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This stimulating volume brings together an international team of emerging, mid-career, and senior scholars to investigate the relations between philosophical approaches to language and the language of literature. It has proven easy for philosophers of language to leave...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-29
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The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art: it is the time when the landscape imposed itself as a specific object of thought. It is the time when both the harmony of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-10-19
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Many philosophical accounts of reason are geared toward providing rational justifications ex post facto rather than accounting for the role reason plays in actu in the process of creative work. Moreover, when in actu accounts of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-26
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This book presents an experiential, aesthetic-affective approach to the study of institutions. Drawing on institutional sociology, hermeneutics, phenomenology and process philosophy, it conceptualises institutions as collective experiences with their own self-promoting...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-08-27
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This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. The author starts from the challenge expressed in Plato's critique of the arts generally, according to which they do not lead us to what is true and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. The author starts from the challenge expressed in Plato's critique of the arts generally, according to which they do not lead us to what is true and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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When we think of Iris Murdoch’s relationship with art forms, the visual arts come most readily to mind. However, music and other sounds are equally important. Soundscapes – music and other types of sound – contribute to the richly textured atmosphere and moral tenor of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-15
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In Romantic Empiricism, Dalia Nassar distinguishes and explores an understudied philosophical tradition that emerged in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, traces its development, and argues for its continued significance. Moving from the late...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-17
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