Aesthetics
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The Forces of Art (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Krzysztof Ziarek  Publisher Comments This book offers an original approach to avant-garde art and its transformative force. Presenting an alternative to the approaches to art developed in postmodern theory or cultural studies, Ziarek sees art's significance in its critique of power and the...
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Aesthetic Subjects
by Pamela R. Matthews Publisher Comments Recent calls for a return to aesthetics occur precisely at a moment when it is increasingly evident that nothing concerning aesthetics is self-evident anymore. Determined to recover the value of aesthetic experience for artistic, cultural, and social...
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Aesthetics; Critical Concepts in Philosophy
by James Young Publisher Comments This four volume set brings together both classic and contemporary writings to provide a comprehensive collection of the most important essays on the subject. All of the various artistic genres are addressed, with sections on film, dance and architecture...
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Is There Truth in Art?
by Herman Rapaport Publisher Comments 'Is There Truth in Art?' includes chapters on atonal music, environmental art, modern German and French poetry, contemporary French fiction, experimental French film, and a photograph taken by the National Socialists during the destruction of the Warsaw...
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Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life (Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics)
by Gregg M. Horowitz Publisher Comments An exploration of the fascination of the living and the dead in art and aesthetics....
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Selves and Other Texts: The Case for Cultural Realism
by Joseph Margolis Publisher Comments Extending his well-known investigations into the nature and logic of art and history in the cultural world, Joseph Margolis here offers a sustained account of how selves and cultural phenomena they generate (language, history, action, art) can be viewed...
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The Genius Decision: The Extraordinary and the Postmodern Condition
by Klaus Ottmann Publisher Comments While there is no essentialist quality of genius, the postmodern artist can reach the extraordinary by way of an active-passive Genius Decision, which is engaged in an activity of failure in its desire to represent the nonrepresentable....
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Inquiry Into the Picturesque
by Sidney K. Robinson Publisher Comments The aesthetic mode of the picturesque has undergone so many transformations since its initial discussion in eighteenth-century England that it is hard to say just what it is. In these probing essays, Sidney K. Robinson re-examines the picturesque in its...
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Driftworks (Foreign Agents Series)
by Jean-francois Lyotard Publisher Comments In this collection of essays and interviews from 1970-72, Jean-Francois Lyotard explores and drifts, as we drift, between art and politics, the "figural" and representation, silence and libidinal energy....
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Art and Knowledge
by James O. Young Publisher Comments "Art and Knowledge" argues that the experience of art is so rewarding because it can be an important source of knowledge about ourselves and our relation to each other and to the world. He argues that all the arts, including music, are importantly...
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Creative Entanglements Gadda & Baroque (Toronto Italian Studies)
by Robert S. Dombroski Publisher Comments With a critical apparatus that includes sustained readings of such thinkers as Leibniz, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, and Fredric Jameson, the author places Gadda - a consummate modernist who is often misunderstood, or marginalized as a literary...
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Landscapes of the Heart: Narratives of Nature and Self
by Thomas Nelson Publisher Comments What connection do we have to our environment? How is our sense of well-being affected by our relationship with nature? This collection of personal essays takes a refreshing look at how our interaction with nature--a river, a block of ice, a bolt of...
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Aesthetic Subjects
by Pamela R. Matthews Publisher Comments Recent calls for a return to aesthetics occur precisely at a moment when it is increasingly evident that nothing concerning aesthetics is self-evident anymore. Determined to recover the value of aesthetic experience for artistic, cultural, and social...
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The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics
by Berys Gaut Publisher Comments This volume should prove invaluable both to curious newcomers, who want to learn more about aesthetics, and to professionals, who desire a ready reference work....
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Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
by Shierry W Nicholsen Publisher Comments Until now, most English-language writing on Adorno has attempted to place him in various contexts and to differentiate him from other thinkers. Such work, while important, masks our failure to imaginatively appropriate Adorno's ideas. In Exact...
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The Discipline of Taste and Feeling
by Charles Wegener Publisher Comments Musing in Florence in June of 1858, Nathaniel Hawthorne said of himself, "I am sensible that a process is going on—and has been, ever since I came to Italy—that puts me in a state to see pictures with less toil, and more pleasure, and makes...
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The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy (Cultural Memory in the Present Cultural Memory in the Presen)
by Alison Ross Publisher Comments This book examines the ways that Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy adopt and reconfigure the Kantian understanding of "aesthetic presentation." In Kant, "aesthetic presentation" is understood in a technical sense as a specific mode of experience...
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The Genealogy of Aesthetics
by Ekbert Faas Publisher Comments Offers a new aesthetics, heavily influenced by Nietzsche, that draws on contemporary cognitive science....
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Chinese Aesthetics: The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties
by Zongqi Cai Synopsis This singular work presents the most comprehensive and nuanced studies available in any Western language of Chinese aesthetic thought and practice during the Six Dynasties (A.D. 220-589). A prologue details the historical context in which Six Dynasties...
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The Western Theory of Tradition: Terms and Paradigms of the Cultural Sublime
by Sanford Budick Publisher Comments This elegantly written book offers a new way to conceive of cultural tradition. Sanford Budick reveals an operative concept of Western cultures that has been only partially understood: according to this concept, the act of freely receiving and handing on...
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