Catálogo de libros: Filosofía: estética

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  • An Aesthetics Anthology
    ZONG Baihua
    This book is a collection of insightful writings on aesthetics and Chinese and Western art by ZONG Baihua, one of the most esteemed scholars of aesthetics in China. ...
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    240,86 €

  • Choreography as Embodied Critical Inquiry
    Shay Welch
    In this book, Shay Welch expands on the contemporary cognitive thinking-in-movement framework, which has its roots in the work of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone but extends and develops within contemporary embodied cognition theory.  Welch believes that dance can be used to ask questions, and this book offers a method of how critical inquiry can be embodied.  First, she presents the t...
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    123,86 €

  • The Special Liveliness of Hooks in Popular Music and Beyond
    Steven G. Smith
    This book illuminates the aesthetically underrated meaningfulness of particular elements in works of art and aesthetic experiences generally. Beginning from the idea of 'hooks' in popular song, the book identifies experiences of special liveliness that are of enduring interest, supporting contemplation and probing discussion. When hooks are placed in the foreground of aesthetic...
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    144,94 €

  • The Special Liveliness of Hooks in Popular Music and Beyond
    Steven G. Smith
    This book illuminates the aesthetically underrated meaningfulness of particular elements in works of art and aesthetic experiences generally. Beginning from the idea of 'hooks' in popular song, the book identifies experiences of special liveliness that are of enduring interest, supporting contemplation and probing discussion. When hooks are placed in the foreground of aesthetic...
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    48,39 €

  • Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler
    Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stieglerframes the intertwined relationship between artistic endeavours and scientific fields and their sociopolitical implications. Each chapter is either an explication of, or a critique of, some aspect of Bernard Stiegler’s technological philosophy; as it is his technological-political-aesthetical-ethical theorisations which form the p...
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    53,04 €

  • Art and Enchantment
    Patrick Curry
    Offering studies of painting, music, fiction and poetry, this book considers the experience of enchantment in art, drawing on the thought of philosophers, artists and sociological theorists to understand the complex relationship between wonder in art and the programmatic disenchantment to which it is often subject. ...
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    65,10 €

  • Spectres of Pessimism
    Mark Schmitt
    This book argues that philosophical pessimism can offer vital impulses for contemporary cultural studies. Pessimist thought offers ways to interrogate notions of temporality, progress and futurity. When the horizon of future expectation is increasingly shaped by the prospect of apocalypse and extinction, an exploration of pessimist thought can help to make sense of an increasin...
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    52,98 €

  • Spectres of Pessimism
    Mark Schmitt
    This book argues that philosophical pessimism can offer vital impulses for contemporary cultural studies. Pessimist thought offers ways to interrogate notions of temporality, progress and futurity. When the horizon of future expectation is increasingly shaped by the prospect of apocalypse and extinction, an exploration of pessimist thought can help to make sense of an increasin...
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    48,61 €

  • The Philosophical Novel as a Literary Genre
    Michael H. Mitias
    This book examines the conceptual, existential, and logical conditions under which the philosophical novel can be treated as a literary genre on a par with generally recognized literary genres, such as mystery, romantic, adventure, religious, or historical novel. Michael H. Mitias argues that the philosophical novel meets these conditions. He advances a detailed analysis of the...
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    134,58 €

  • Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger
    Rebecca Moden
    The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual discourse, centred on sustained discussion of the practice, teaching and morality of art. This book presents a reappraisal of Murdoch’s novels - chiefly, three mature novels, The Sea, The Sea (1978), Nuns and Soldiers (1980) and The Good A...
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    147,31 €

  • Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger
    Rebecca Moden
    The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual discourse, centred on sustained discussion of the practice, teaching and morality of art. This book presents a reappraisal of Murdoch’s novels - chiefly, three mature novels, The Sea, The Sea (1978), Nuns and Soldiers (1980) and The Good A...
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    47,51 €

  • 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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    121,54 €

  • The Cinematic Sublime
    Nathan Carroll
    An academic reader bridging the disciplines of aesthetics and film studies by focusing on cinematic sublimity. Original essays by contemporary film scholars and philosophers with topics and case studies ranging from early cinema and classical Hollywood to avant-garde film and contemporary digital cinema. ...
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    44,70 €

  • Art
    Rick Sorenson
    Art: The Church’s Response explores what the biblical perspective is towards creativity and the arts by examining the Hebrew and Greek words the Bible uses touching on various art concepts. While considering the biblical perspective, Rick Sorenson (a creative) includes a historic and aesthetic context, presenting the arts as a wholistic attitude, because art is more than just v...
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    13,28 €

  • Architectural Humanities in Progress
    Bagoes Wiryomartono
    This monograph brings three branches of philosophy together: epistemology, ethics and aesthetics.  It assesses the built environment as a case study from a phenomenological perspective. Under the notion of phenomenology, this study understands the built environment as the hermeneutical phenomenon of being in the life-world that is experienced by people within the socio-cultural...
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    133,90 €

  • Fictional Worlds and Philosophical Reflection
    Garry Hagberg
    This edited collection investigates the kinds of philosophical reflection we can undertake in the imaginative worlds of literature. Opening with a look into the relations between philosophical thought and literary interpretation, the volume proceeds through absorbing discussions of the ways we can see life through the lens of literature, the relations between philosophical sayi...
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    170,52 €

  • The Touch of the Present
    Sharon Todd
    Explores the importance of the body and the senses in educational encounters, drawing out the aesthetic and political dimensions of educational practices.How are educational encounters understood, experienced, and lived? How are they conceptualized? How do they shape our being in and of the world? In this time of apparent distance and disconnect, this volume emphasizes the role...
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    121,88 €

  • Life Above the Clouds
    Steven DeLay
    The definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick.Leaving a promising career in academic philosophy to embark on a career in film, American director Terrence Malick has created cinematic works of art that are also deeply philosophical. His contribution to philosophy through a half century of filmmaking has become the focus of increasin...
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    121,08 €

  • Hong Kong as Creative Practice
    Eddie Tay
    In this book, Hong Kong is seen as a labyrinth, a postmodern site of capitalist desires, and a panoptic space both homely and unhomely. The author maps out various specific locations of the city through the intertwined disciplines of street photography, autoethnography and psychogeography. By meandering through the urban landscape and taking street photographs, this form of pra...
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    48,71 €

  • Theo Angelopoulos
    Vrasidas Karalis
    The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is celebrated as challenging the status quo. From the political films of the 1970s through to the more existential works of his later career, Vrasidis Karalis argues for a coherent and nuanced philosophy underpinning Angelopoulos’ work.The political force of his films, including the classic The Travelling Players (1975), gave way to more essayist...
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    115,30 €

  • Mass Society and Its Culture, and Three Essays concerning Etienne Gilson on Bergson, Christian Philosophy, and Art
    Étienne Gilson / Henri Gouhier / James G. Colbert
    A medievalist and defender of the notion of Christian philosophy, Etienne Gilson had a lifelong interest in the philosophy of art. He questioned whether what is reproduced as art in contemporary society is art at all. This is not a simple issue. A cheap version of a novel is still a novel. A picture of a statue is not a statue, nor indeed is a photograph of a painting a paintin...
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    22,91 €

  • Mass Society and Its Culture, and Three Essays concerning Etienne Gilson on Bergson, Christian Philosophy, and Art
    Étienne Gilson / Henri Gouhier / James G. Colbert
    A medievalist and defender of the notion of Christian philosophy, Etienne Gilson had a lifelong interest in the philosophy of art. He questioned whether what is reproduced as art in contemporary society is art at all. This is not a simple issue. A cheap version of a novel is still a novel. A picture of a statue is not a statue, nor indeed is a photograph of a painting a paintin...
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    36,64 €

  • The Turn to Provisionality in Contemporary Art
    Raphael Rubinstein
    In his influential essay 'Provisional Painting,' Raphael Rubinstein applied the term 'provisional' to contemporary painters whose work looked intentionally casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished or self-cancelling; who appeared to have deliberately turned away from 'strong' painting for something that seemed to constantly risk failure or inconsequence.In this collection of e...
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    148,16 €

  • Minimalist Boho Coloring Book
    Henriette Wilkins
    Escape into a world of chic and trendy coloring with our Minimalist Boho Coloring Book for Adults. Filled with boho-inspired illustrations, this coloring book is suitable for all skill levels and is printed on high-quality paper for vibrant, crisp finished products. In addition to providing entertainment, coloring has numerous benefits for adults including reducing stress and i...
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    15,66 €

  • New Music and the Crises of Materiality
    Samuel Wilson
    Arguing that new music in this era reflects a historical moment when the idea of materiality itself is in flux, the book focuses on how recent music and sound art have expressed notions of the body and the material environment. ...
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    69,51 €

  • Knowledge and Beauty in Classical Islam
    Giovanna Lelli
    This volume offers an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn, a text that has been studied up to the present as a work on historiography. It argues that the Muqaddima is also a comprehensive treatise on classical Arab-Islamic culture and provides a picture of classical Arab-Islamic aesthetics in its totality. ...
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    69,49 €

  • Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism
    This volume reconsiders poststructuralism historically and demonstrates the ways in which it remains relevant, especially for debates in aesthetics, ethics, and politics. It examines issues including biopolitics, culture, embodiment, epistemology, history, music, temporality, political resistance, psychoanalysis, revolt, and the visual arts. ...
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    68,99 €

  • Chinese Aesthetics in a Global Context
    Zhirong Zhu / Xurong Kong
    This book examines aesthetic issues based on humanities principles and creates a theory of Chinese aesthetics from a global perspective by applying China’s traditional and cultural history to a Western theoretical framework. In particular, this book emphasizes the shared features of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, namely the unity of heaven and men, unity of nature and soci...
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    133,70 €

  • Words, Music, and the Popular
    Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations opens up the notion of the popular, drawing useful links between wide-ranging aspects of popular culture, through the lens of the interaction between words and music. This collection of essays explores the relation of words and music to issues of the popular. It asks: What is popularity or ’the’ popular...
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    145,07 €

  • Why Teaching Art Is Teaching Ethics
    John Rethorst
    This exhaustively-researched, carefully-focused book asks whether imagination, emotion and art can enlighten our sense of right and wrong, looking at this question through the lens of moral philosophy with contributions from cognitive science, psychology and neurology.If moral thinking is simply logical reasoning or following God-given law, why did the poet Shelley say that 'th...
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    133,11 €


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