Catálogo de libros: Filosofía: estética

2007 Catálogo de libros: Filosofía: estética

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  • Aesthetics across Cultures
    Rosy Singh
    This book examines these sublime linkages in a comparative and interdisciplinary way. Engaging and intersectional, this volume will appeal to students and scholars of arts and aesthetics, literature, philosophy, architecture, sociology, translation studies and readers who are interested in cultural, and comparative studies. ...
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    240,96 €

  • Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology, and New Materialism
    Brian Hisao Onishi
    This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism.  Brian Onishi argues that wonder has explanatory power for the constitution of the world and the organization of meaning. To do this, he appeals to both fiction (specula...
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    145,09 €

  • Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo?
    Phil Cousineau
    Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo? is an exhilarating, course-correcting account about one of the most iconic sculptures ever created. Carved by an obscure Greek sculptor, Alexandros of Antioch, in the first first century BCE, and inspired by the Greek myth of the Judgment of Paris, the Venus was discovered serendipitously in 1820 by the French ensign Olivier Voutier and ...
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    15,69 €

  • Cultural Dance in Australia
    Jeanette Mollenhauer
    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. Topics include adaptation of dance customs within a post-migration context, multicultural festivals, prominent...
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    158,67 €

  • Stoicism
    Wallace Fowler
    Are you yearning for deep joy and the gift of serenity and contentment? Look no further than STOICISM, a philosophy that offers practical self-discipline and mindfulness to enrich your life.If you seek inspiration from the Stoic way of life, as well as wisdom from history’s greatest leaders, thinkers, and innovators, then keep reading.Dating back 2,300 years to ancient Athens, ...
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    20,12 €

  • The Word in the World
    H S Shivaprakash
    Edited by Kamalakar Bhat, this book brings together Prof Shivaprakash’s interventions in the realm of issues that are entwined with the continuities and discontinuities in the cultural negotiations of India. ...
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    240,78 €

  • Muscular Christianity
    Paul Uponi
    WORKOUT PROGRAM AND GUIDE INCLUDEDWhat if the body and mind were not in opposition but rather negotiation? Both aid each other in the pursuit of human excellence. Muscular Christianity: A Case for Spiritual and Physical Fitness explores the benefits of physical fitness in a Christian’s walk with God. It takes a holistic approach to physical, mental, and spiritual health. This t...
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    27,86 €

  • Beautiful Ugliness
    Mark William Roche
    This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art.Many great artworks include elements of ugliness: repugnant content, disproportionate forms, unresolved dissonance, and unintegrated parts. Mark William Roche’s authoritative monograph Beautiful Ugli...
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    88,17 €

  • Contemplative Self after Michel Henry, The
    Joseph Rivera
    In The Contemplative Self after Michel Henry: A Phenomenological Theology, Joseph Rivera provides a close and critical reconstruction of the philosophical anthropology of Michel Henry (1922-2002) while also addressing the question of how theology contributes to Henry’s phenomenology. In conversation with other French figures such as Derrida, Marion, Lacoste, and Barbaras, River...
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    179,56 €

  • Art, Representation, and Make-Believe
    Sonia Sedivy
    This is the first collection of essays focused on the many faceted work of Kendall Walton. Walton provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the arts in terms of the human capacity of make-believe that shows how different arts can be explained in terms of complex structures of pretense, perception, imagining, empathy and emotion. ...
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    72,38 €

  • Philosophical Theories of Political Cinema
    Angelo Emanuele Cioffi
    This book utilizes philosophical tools to build up a framework for the classification, analysis, and assessment of political cinema. The book will be of interest to film studies, film theory and political philosophy scholars, and to anyone with an interest in political film, aesthetic practice, and philosophy of art. ...
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    70,77 €

  • Music as Cultural Heritage and Novelty
    Oana Andreica
    This book provides a multifaceted view on the relation between the old and the new in music, between tradition and innovation. This is a much-debated issue, generating various ideas and theories, which rarely come to unanimous conclusions. Therefore, the book offers diverse perspectives on topics such as national identities, narrative strategies, the question of musical perform...
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    136,75 €

  • Thinking
    The 'THINKING: Bioengineering of Science and Art' is to discuss about philosophical aspects of thinking at the context of Science and Art. External representations provide evidence that the fundamental process of thinking exists in both animal subjects and humans. However, the diversity and complexity of thinking in humans is astonishing because humans have been permitted to in...
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    211,80 €

  • The Untold Help of Harmful Visual Jokes
    Mary Gregg
    This book argues that when visual jokes are harmful, they harm in a specific way: a subject’s personhood is revoked in a way that differs both in kind and degree depending on whether that person is depicted or described. Such revocation can occur in every role and any stage within the joke’s context, from character to audience member, from moment of depiction to uncritical expo...
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    53,08 €

  • The Scene of the Voice
    Michael Eng
    Brings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought to bear on the dismissal of language by the affective and aesthetic turns of contemporary critical theory.The recent turns to affect and aesthetics in the humanities and the interpretive social sciences have been productive for reflecting on the crucial role sensibil...
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    41,83 €

  • The Emergence of Value
    Lawrence Cahoone
    Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.Philosophers, social scientists, and natural scientists argue over whether a natural scientific account of human being is compatible with uniquely human norms like ethics, justice, art, and the concern for ...
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    126,63 €

  • Daoism, Dandyism, and Political Correctness
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of 'carefree wandering,' deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.How would Zhuangzi, a Chinese philosopher who lived in the fourth century BCE, have reacted to the recent linguistic reforms commonly referred to as 'political c...
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    127,09 €

  • The Emergence of Institutions
    Elke Weik
    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 and self-propelling powers. Instead of seeing institutional emergence, change and decline as the result of act...
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    68,22 €

  • Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature
    Joseph Fichtelberg
    This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and operation of sovereignty in the unsettled era from the Founding to the Civil War, the book presents two forms of governance: local and regional control, and national governance. The perio...
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    133,99 €

  • Robert Pippin and Film
    Dominic Lash
    Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. He is also an original thinker about - and critic of - film who has written books and numerous articles on canonical subjects such as the Western, Film Noir, and Hitchcock’s Vertigo. In Robert Pippin and Film, Dominic Lash demo...
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    50,91 €

  • A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture
    Jozef Kovalčik / Max Ryynänen
    This book seeks to understand culture through the lens of scenes, analyzing them aesthetically and culturally as well as understanding them through the frameworks of gender, social networks, and art worlds. ...
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    88,81 €

  • Attending to the Literary
    Alan Singer
    Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature is a foray into current debates about the nature of the literary. The book speaks to a broad audience of readers for whom the question 'Why literature matters?' remains an urgent intellectual challenge. ...
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    241,49 €

  • Attending to the Literary
    Alan Singer
    Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature is a foray into current debates about the nature of the literary. The book speaks to a broad audience of readers for whom the question 'Why literature matters?' remains an urgent intellectual challenge. ...
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    67,00 €

  • The Revival of Beauty
    Catherine Wesselinoff
    This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century 'Anti-Aesethetic' movement and the 21st-century 'Beauty Revival' movement. It also includes a positive defence of beauty as a lived experience extrapolated from Beauty-Revival position. ...
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    241,14 €

  • Seismic Shifts in Subject and Style
    Dianne L. Durante
    Why did subject and style in art change so dramatically over the course of the 19th century - from Madame Recamier, by Jacques-Louis David (1800) to Luxe, Calme et Volupte by Matisse (1904)? We’ll look for an explanation through a combination of art analysis and philosophical detection.Artistic trends are not the result of a collective consciousness working its will. Such trend...
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    18,24 €

  • On Quality in Art
    Jakob Rosenberg
    An acclaimed art historian explains how to identify excellence in artIn this book, Jakob Rosenberg takes up the timeless problem of how to make a valid judgment about artistic quality. In his search for criteria of excellence in art, Rosenberg examines both the achievements and failures of other critics from the Renaissance to modern times, including Giorgio Vasari, Roger de Pi...
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    48,85 €

  • Painting and Reality
    Etienne Gilson
    A classic study of the art of painting and its relationship to reality In this book, Étienne Gilson puts forward a bold interpretation of the kind of reality depicted in paintings and its relation to the natural order. Drawing on insights from the writings of great painters-from Leonardo, Reynolds, and Constable to Mondrian and Klee-Gilson shows how painting is foreign to the o...
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    70,24 €

  • Mnemosyne
    Mario Praz
    The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual artsIn his search for a common link between literature and the visual arts, Mario Praz draws on the abundant evidence of mutual understanding and correspondence they have long shared. Praz explains that within literature, each epoch has 'its peculiar handwriting or handwritings, which, if one could...
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    48,82 €

  • The Mediation of Ornament
    Oleg Grabar
    How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objectsBased on universal motifs, ornamentation occurs in many artistic traditions, though it reaches its most expressive, tangible, and unique form in the art of the Islamic world. The Mediation of Ornament shares a veteran art historian’s love for the sheer sensuality of Islamic ornamentation, ...
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    55,90 €

  • On the Laws of the Poetic Art
    Anthony Hecht
    A magisterial exploration of poetry’s place in the fine arts by one of the twentieth century’s leading poetsIn this book, eminent poet Anthony Hecht explores the art of poetry and its relationship to the other fine arts. While the problems he treats entail both philosophic and theoretical discussion, he never allows abstract speculation to overshadow his delight in the written ...
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    47,40 €