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There Are No Such Things as Theories considers the fundamental question: what is a scientific theory? It presents a range of options - from theories are sets of propositions, to theories are families of models, abstract artefacts, or fictions - and highlights the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-20
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There Are No Such Things as Theories considers the fundamental question: what is a scientific theory? It presents a range of options - from theories are sets of propositions, to theories are families of models, abstract artefacts, or fictions - and highlights the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-20
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Unter dem großen und anspruchsvollen Motto Die Gestirne: Symbole und Mythen hat die Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Symbolforschung vier Tagungen abgehalten, von denen die letzten drei in diesem Band aufscheinen. Bei der Tagung des Jahres 2015 in Essen ging es um...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-02-18
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Works of fiction are works of the imagination and for the imagination. Gregory Currie energetically defends the familiar idea that fictions are guides to the imagination, a view which has come under attack in recent years. Responding to a number of challenges to this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-14
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Works of fiction are works of the imagination and for the imagination. Gregory Currie energetically defends the familiar idea that fictions are guides to the imagination, a view which has come under attack in recent years. Responding to a number of challenges to this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-14
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This book is one of the first to apply the theoretical tools proposed by French philosopher Bruno Latour to film studies. Through the example of the Hollywood Teen Film and with a particular focus on Actor-Network Theory (ANT), the book delineates how Teen Film has...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-29
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What is it about art that can be so captivating? How is it that we find value in the often odd and abstract objects and events we call artworks? William P. Seeley proposes that artworks are attentional engines. They are artifacts that have been intentionally designed to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-22
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In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in this way because...
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Polity
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2020-01-07
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This book presents an original worldview, Homo risibilis, wherein self-referential humor is proposed as the path leading from a tragic view of life to a liberating embrace of human ridicule. Humor is presented as a conceptual tool for holding together contradictions and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-19
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Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s rewrites the story of early modernist literature and culture by drawing out the tensions underlying its simultaneous engagement withDecadence and Symbolism, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-12
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This book deals with the complexity of art by focusing on the singularity of the work of art. Gathering a selection of writings in art theory and semiotics, it explores the question of apprehending art from its perceptual aspects to aesthetic comprehension and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-12-12
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This book extends a theory of art that addresses the present era’s shift towards global pluralism. By focusing on extrinsic rather than intrinsic qualities of art, this book helps viewers evaluate art across cultural boundaries. Art can be universally classified by an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-02
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This book provides a presentation of the concept of “atmosphere” in the realm of aesthetics. An “atmosphere” is meant to be an emotional space. Such idea of “atmosphere” has been more and more subsumed by human and social sciences in the last twenty years, thereby...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-21
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Das Lexikon erläutert die zentralen Leitideen, Methoden und Hilfsmittel der Kunstgeschichte bis hin zu jüngsten Forschungsansätzen. In etwa 150 Stichwörtern, z.B. Original, Fälschung, Repräsentation, Kunsthändler, Kunstmarkt, Manierismus, Ende der Kunst, wird dabei auch...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-15
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'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literature and art which informed his engagement with ethics and...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-11-14
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Max Bense (1910–1990) gilt als Vorreiter der Computerkunst und der Technikphilosophie und war ein engagierter Förderer von Kunst und Literatur, Promotor interdisziplinären Denkens und politischer Provokateur. Häufig ist es bei der Auseinandersetzung mit Bense jedoch bei...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-01
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This handbook brings together essays in the philosophy of film and motion pictures from authorities across the spectrum. It boasts contributions from philosophers and film theorists alike, with many essays employing pluralist approaches to this interdisciplinary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-30
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Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience--particularly in sociology, cultural and media theory, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-10-30
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Cognition and Temporality: The Genesis of Historical Thought in Perception and Reasoning argues that both verbal grammar and figural grammar have their cognitive basis in twelve characteristic forms of judgment, distributed among individuals in human populations...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-10-29
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Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste. It doesn't just consider traditional artistic experiences such as artworks in a museum or an opera performance, but also everyday experiences such as autumn leaves in the park, or...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-24
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