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In order to better understand the conditions of the twenty-first century Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello revisit the twentieth century in Political Blind Spots: Reading the Ideology of Images. Sassower and Cicotello revisit some of the most significant periods in art and politics in the twentieth century paying close attention to the relationship between aesthetics and politics.
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This book engages with the question of making sense of seeing in today's technologically dominated world. It does so by exploring the notion of the 'hypermodern', a term which is used to capture the drive in contemporary culture to achieve ever greater speed and efficiency. The volume draws principally on the thought of Paul Virilio and Friedrich Nietzsche. The text's key argument is that destabilizing tendencies, which become increasingly evident...
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Lysaker examines the relationship between philosophical thought and the act of writing to explore how this dynamic shapes the field of philosophy.
Philosophy's relation to the act of writing is John T. Lysaker's main concern in Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought. Whether in Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, or Derrida, philosophy has come in many forms, and those forms-the concrete shape philosophizing takes in writing-matter....
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Teachers of literature make judgments about value. They tell their students which works are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange, or insightful-and thus, which are more worthy of time and attention than others. Yet the field of literary studies has largely disavowed judgments of artistic value on the grounds that they are inevitably rooted in prejudice or entangled in problems of social status. For several decades now, professors...
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Connecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art means for cognition, recognition, and affect-how art changes our everyday disposition or behavior. Günter Figal engages in a penetrating analysis of the moment at which, in our contemplation of a work of art, reaction and thought confront each other. For those trained in the visual arts and for more casual...
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If you're interested in exploring philosophical topics through literature, there are numerous classic and contemporary works available from well-known philosophers. From timeless texts like Plato's "The Republic" to modern philosophical discussions by authors like Daniel Dennett or Alain de Botton, you can find a wide range of perspectives. As for Raja Kumar, it's crucial to verify the author's credentials and the reception of their work. Check online...
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In "The New World," embark on a journey of exploration and discovery as we navigate the transformative landscape of change and possibility. In this captivating narrative, we delve into the complexities of navigating uncertainty, embracing transformation, and charting a course towards a brighter future.Through insightful anecdotes, practical strategies, and expert insights, "The New World" offers a roadmap for thriving amidst change and uncertainty....
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En 1790, Kant introdujo el arte de los jardines en las Bellas Artes y las escenas de la naturaleza libre, desencadenada, en la filosofía. El mismo año, Wordsworth veía señales de la revolución en los caminos y riberas del campo francés, al tiempo que Burke denunciaba a los levellers revolucionarios que aplicaban a la sociedad la simetría de los jardines a la francesa.
Así pues, el paisaje es bastante más que un espectáculo agradable a la...
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A pathbreaking work about the way literature teaches us to use our imagination.
We often attribute to our imaginative life powers that go beyond ordinary perception or sensation. In Dreaming by the Book, the noted scholar Elaine Scarry explores the apparently miraculous but in fact understandable processes by which poets and writers confer those powers on us: how they teach us the work of imaginative creation.
Writers from Homer to Heaney, Scarry...
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"One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2014" "One of TheAustralian.com's "In the Good Books" 2014" "One of The Globe and Mail 75 Book Ideas for Christmas 2014" Michel Pastoureau is a historian and director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études de la Sorbonne in Paris. A specialist in the history of colors, symbols, and heraldry, he is the author of many books, including Blue and Black (both Princeton) and The Devil's Cloth: A History...
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"Winner of the 2009 Bronze Medal in Fine Art, Independent Publisher Book Awards" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009" Michel Pastoureau is a historian and director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études de la Sorbonne in Paris. He is the author of many books, including Blue: The History of a Color (Princeton) and The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes.
The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture-from...
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About the main psychological and philosophical aspects detached from the film Solaris directed by Andrei Tarkovski, as well as the cinema techniques used by the director to convey his messages to the spectator. In the "Introduction" I briefly present the relevant elements of Tarkovski's biography and an overview of Stanislav Lem's Solaris novel and the film Solaris directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. In "Cinema Technique" I talk about the specific rhythm...
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"One of The Times (Saturday Review) Best Art Books of 2017" "Finalist for the 2018 (31st Annual) Translation Prize for Non Fiction, French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation" Michel Pastoureau is a historian and director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études de la Sorbonne in Paris. A specialist in the history of colors, symbols, and heraldry, he is the author of many books, including Green, Black, and Blue (all Princeton)...
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A pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter.
In this study of the practice of contemporary painter Gerhard Richter, Florian Klinger proposes a fundamental change in the way we think about art today. In reaction to the exhaustion of the modernist-postmodernist paradigm's negotiation of the "essence of art," he takes Richter to pursue a pragmatist model that understands artistic form as action. Here...
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John Dewey is known as a pragmatic philosopher and progressive architect of American educational reform, but some of his most important contributions came in his thinking about art.
Dewey argued that there is strong social value to be found in art, and it is artists who often most challenge our preconceived notions. Dewey for Artists shows us how Dewey advocated for an "art of democracy." Identifying the audience as co-creator of...
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Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance-so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in The Rhythm of Thought. Holding the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, the paintings of Paul Cézanne, the prose of Marcel Proust, and the music of Claude Debussy under Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological light, she offers innovative interpretations of some of these artists' masterworks,...
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L'essence même de l'ouvrage "J'ai écrit et ils ont lu" réside dans la volonté de l'auteur de partager ses citations, poèmes et acrostiches. Il offre ainsi une invitation à un périple intérieur empreint de réflexion et de sensibilité. Au-delà du simple divertissement, ce recueil aspire à susciter une résonance émotionnelle profonde chez chaque lecteur, en explorant des thèmes riches en ressentis et en philosophie.
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Own in daylight: a Dickian Aftermath is a very personal take and approach on Dickian craftsmanship. A Tribute from an aficionado of the worlds, works, and Man that was Philip Kindred Dick, a giant of the second half of 20 th century Science fiction, thus through this subjective approach, honoring the reality paradigms of the "idios kosmos" defined by the great Visionary. An experimental essay blending different genres. A Zuihitsu of sorts. Nice Navigation...
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In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility-the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in a twist of historical irony Hegel would die just before the most radical artistic revolution in history: modernism. In After the Beautiful, Robert B. Pippin,...
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Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music-highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original-and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals.
In Good Music, John J. Sheinbaum explores these traditional models for valuing music. By engaging examples such as Handel oratorios, Beethoven and Mahler symphonies,...