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Theatricality as Medium
by Samuel Weber  Publisher Comments Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or the "plot." This conception of theater has...
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Sublime Understanding: Aesthetic Reflection in Kant and Hegel (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
by Kirk Pillow Publisher Comments Makes sublimity the center of an alternative conception of aesthetic response and interpretation....
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Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by Liu Kang Publisher Comments "Well-informed, replete with scholarly detail, yet presented in an attractive and engaging manner. It will stand as a pioneering work in the rethinking of the story of Chinese Marxism."--Gregory B. Lee, Universite Jean Moulin <BR> "A work of...
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The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Marc Redfield Publisher Comments This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, and Romanticism....
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Perspectives in Continental Philosophy #51: The Ground of the Image
by Jean-luc Nancy Publisher Comments If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and...
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art
by Richard Eldridge Publisher Comments Richard Eldridge's compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art draws on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy as well as literary theory and art criticism. Eldridge explores the representational...
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The African Aesthetic: Keeper of the Traditions
by Kariamu Welsh-asante Publisher Comments While the field of aesthetics has long been dominated by European philosophy, recent inquiries have expanded the arena to accommodate different cultures as well as different definitions and meanings. Aesthetics often establishes the pattern that connects...
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Disgust: Theory and History of a Strong Sensation
by Winfried Menninghaus Publisher Comments A volume in the SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory Rodolphe Gasche...
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Finding a Replacement for the Soul: Mind and Meaning in Literature and Philosophy
by Brett Bourbon Publisher Comments Bourbon asserts that our complex and variable relation with language defines a domain of meaning and being that is misconstrued and missed in philosophy, in literary studies, and in our ordinary understanding of what we are and how things make sense...
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Four Essays on Aesthetics: Toward a Global View
by Zehou Li Publisher Comments Available for the first time in English, Li Zehou's philosophical aesthetics interpret the historical origins and evolution of aesthetic experience and their significance to the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth of human beings. Although LI's...
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The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature: Essays on the Aesthetics of Nature
by Malcolm Budd Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-152) and index....
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Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos (Literature and Philosophy)
by Alan Singer Publisher Comments A challenge to the contemporary critical tendency to treat aesthetic value as separate from the realms of human agency and sociopolitical change....
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Performance and Authenticity in the Arts (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts)
by Salim Kemal Publisher Comments These essays investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts....
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Aesthetics Across the Color Line
by James J. Winchester Publisher Comments James Winchester brings the western philosophical tradition into dialog with contemporary African-American thinkers in an attempt to bridge (or at least understand) the culture gap in aesthetic judgments. Visit our website for sample chapters!...
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The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics
by Peter Kivy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 384-390) and index....
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The New Aestheticism
by John J. Joughin Publisher Comments The rise of literary theory spawned the rise of anti-aestheticism, so that even for cultural theorists, discussions concerning aesthetics were often carried out in a critical shorthand that failed to engage with the particularity of the work of art, much...
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Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics
by Gordon Graham Publisher Comments Now in its third edition, (1st edn 1997, 2nd edn 2000) "Philosophy of the Arts" is distinctive edn. aesthetics textbook because it is structured largely by art-form, with a chapter each on music, poetry, architecture, painting and film - most other books...
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The Bakhtin Circle: In the Master's Absence
by Galin Tikhanov Publisher Comments The Russian philosopher and cultural theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has traditionally been seen as the leading figure in the group of intellectuals known as the Bakhtin Circle. The writings of other members of the Circle are considered much less important than...
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Aesthetic Order: A Philosophy of Order, Beauty and Art (Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy)
by Ruth Lorand Publisher Comments Drawing on philosophical material and aestheticians, Lorand analyzes the differences between discursive and aesthetic order, covering issues of meaning, typology and validity....
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On Representation (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Louis Marin Publisher Comments Essays exploring the complex relationship between language and image....
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