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Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to our lives – a possibility that breaks the monotony of servitude and points to a different, more liberated existence. This is the way to approach all these...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-04-16
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This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the philosophy of language, ethics, and the philosophy of mind. It also includes a section on philosophical interpretations of literature.
This volume offers...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-12
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In this collection of eighteen essays, two-thirds of them appearing here for the first time, Aaron Ridley addresses the full range of Nietzsche's aesthetics, from his discussions of tragedy, music, and language to his conceptions of taste, beauty, and the sublime. Some...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-16
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In this collection of eighteen essays, two-thirds of them appearing here for the first time, Aaron Ridley addresses the full range of Nietzsche's aesthetics, from his discussions of tragedy, music, and language to his conceptions of taste, beauty, and the sublime. Some...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-03
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This book addresses aesthetics from a process philosophy perspective to highlight how even the perception of fixed objects, such as painting and drawing, depends on the intertwining and layering of a range of processes.
Drawing on philosophers within the process...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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The loss of David Lynch in January 2025 produced an extraordinary outpouring of love and grief that revealed how deeply he mattered. But the strength and size of this reaction came as a surprise to many. In life, Lynch was a wilfully obtuse cult filmmaker who had been...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2025-11-13
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Der Denkraum der Besonnenheit stammt als Begriff vom Hamburger Kulturwissenschaftler Aby Warburg (1866-1929). Obwohl bereits vor über einhundert Jahren formuliert, scheint die dringliche Notwendigkeit für einen derartigen Raum aktueller denn je. Das Buch...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-07
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This book provides the first in-depth theory of how we communicate using photographs. Despite the ubiquitous use of photographs as a universal language in digital social media, a systematic understanding of photographic communication has remained elusive. The author...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-07
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This book explores the intricate relationships between film, spectators, and animal bodies through the lens of gesture. It offers a unique approach to understanding how the relations between human and nonhuman animals are not only depicted but also enacted by the medium...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-10-29
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In der Debatte über Digitalisierung sind Techniken und Praktiken des digitalen Lesens zu einem viel diskutierten Gegenstand geworden. Kulturkritischen Befürchtungen, dass mit dem Ende der ‚Gutenberg-Galaxis‘ die Fähigkeit zu vertieftem Lesen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-10-14
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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 :
2025-09-30
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This open access edited volume is based on the premise that entanglements between current societal, political, technological, ecological, and cultural transformations cannot be sufficiently understood without transforming the modes, forms, and notions of understanding....
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-02
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This book examines the use of colour terms in the poetry of Dylan Thomas, adopting a primarily linguistic and stylistic - rather than literary - approach. Although critical studies of the poetry of Dylan Thomas abound, systematic and detailed linguistic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-29
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This Brief focuses on Nietzsche’s aesthetics not merely as an artistic field but as a way of understanding life itself. Unlike his predecessors, Nietzsche rather saw aesthetics as a fundamental principle aim of human existence.This volume demonstrates how...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-28
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What We Are in Literature and Art begins from a simple observation: literature and art hand us complex material evidence of the experience of people. This is not a mystical, naive, or hopelessly old-fashioned claim about aesthetic works. The experience that literature...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-20
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“You’re not a painter if you haven’t painted gray”, declared Paul Cézanne. The same could be said of philosophers: you’re not a philosopher if you have never thought gray. This simple four-letter word signifies much more than a quasi-neutral color lying between black...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-08-20
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Hannah Arendt hat kein spezifisch kunstphilosophisches Buch geschrieben. Jedoch spielen ihre Überlegungen zu den Künsten und mehr noch die kulturgeschichtliche Verortung von produktions- und rezeptionsästhetischen Fragen eine wichtige Rolle in ihrem Werk. Der Band legt...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-12
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This book explores the processes of disfiguration in the 'classical' and 'ritual-healing' performances of India, with a particular focus on the rich and diverse performance traditions of Kerala. It examines three modes of disfiguration—'blood,' 'madness,' and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-09
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Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch zeigt, wie Fabeln im Philosophieunterricht der Sekundarstufe I eingesetzt werden können, um philosophische Gedanken bei Kindern und Jugendlichen anzustoßen. Dabei werden zunächst Kriterien für die Auswahl geeigneter...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-07-29
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Roland Barthes zählt zu den wichtigsten Intellektuellen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sowohl die zeitgenössische Brisanz als auch die zukunftsweisende Prägnanz seiner Texte bewirken eine anhaltende Faszination. Als akademischer Semiotiker und literarischer Essayist wird Barthes...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-07-25
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