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"La querella de los bufones" surgida en un momento de crisis tanto poética como institucional del modelo francés de teatro musical, desborda ampliamente los márgenes de una de aquellas controversias sobre el gusto dirimidas hasta entonces en los salones de moda. Cuando los enciclopedistas se juntan en torno a la enseña de la ópera bufa italiana y critican la tragedia musical francesa, lo hacen en tanto que símbolo de una monarquía abocada al...
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From William Blake through to Iain Sinclair, literature has sought to engage with and transform urban space. Architects now seek the input of poets, and storytelling is, employed in urban regeneration. Writing Urban Space investigates this relationship between imaginative writing and the built environment.
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Environmental aesthetics crosses several commonly recognized divides: between analytic and continental philosophy, Eastern and Western traditions, universalizing and historicizing approaches, and theoretical and practical concerns. This volume sets out to show how these, perspectives can be brought into conversation with one another. The first part surveys the development of the field and discusses some important future directions. The second part...
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Essays on Aesthetic Genesis is a collection of essays written on Jeff Mitscherling's work in realist phenomenology, Aesthetic Genesis: The Origin of Consciousness in the Intentional Being of Nature. The authors explicate, expand, contextualize and apply the concepts of intentional being, the "New Copernican Hypothesis" (a reversal of the fundamental tenet of phenomenology that all consciousness is intentional; intentionality, rather, gives rise to...
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A modo de antología, se presentan unos materiales textuales, con un hilo conductor común que subraya el nuevo enfoque que el siglo XVIII concedió a las cuestiones del ámbito de 'la Estética'. Esta nueva disciplina ilustrada, intentó sistematizar diferentes términos que la Encyclopédie hizo elocuentemente suyos a lo largo de los suyos diferentes volúmenes.
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La ironía es mucho más que una figura literaria que trasciende lo literal para jugar con lo equívoco. Es un instrumento para superar, rebasar y desbordar lo que una sociedad entiende como límite. La ironía romántica nace de una actitud vital que busca subvertir el sentido común y cancelar la autoridad de lo normativo en un ejercicio de libertad subjetiva, en el que creación y aniquilación se confunden. Por ello, lo irónico se acerca a lo...
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This book explores the role of material culture in the formation of corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past societies and thus contributes to the cultural relativization of bodily aesthetics and related gender norms. The volume does not explore beauty for the sake of beauty, but extensively explores how it serves to form and keep gender norms in place. The concept of beauty has been a topic of interest for some time, yet it is only...
8) Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real
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The essays in Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real explore the intersections among image, word, and visual habits in shaping realities and subjectivities.