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Can capital be, seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question offered by artists, filmmakers, writers and theorists over the past few decades. It zones in on the crises of representation that have accompanied the enduring crisis of capitalism, foregrounding the production of new visions and artefacts that wrestle with the vastness, invisibility and complexity of the abstractions that rule our lives.
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Walter Kaufmann (1921–1980) was the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught for more than thirty years. His many books include Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist and Critique of Religion and Philosophy (both Princeton).
A classic book by one of the twentieth century's most innovative and adventurous thinkers
First published in 1959, From Shakespeare to Existentialism offers Walter Kaufmann's critical...
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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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Este escrito muestra, de la mano de Wittgenstein, la importancia del concepto de expresión, dándole consistencia desde diferentes momentos de la filosofía.
El uso de un concepto artístico en campos filosóficos es más un experimento que un riguroso estudio de cómo es que el autor dice algo sin temor equivocarse, pretensión que desde el mismo contexto wittgensteiniano pierde toda validez, pues no se puede conocer algo ni interpretarlo, sino...
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La apreciación estética de la naturaleza está dotada de una libertad negada a la apreciación artística: ante el mundo natural somos libres para enmarcar los elementos como nos plazca, para adoptar cualquier posición o movimiento, de cualquier manera, en cualquier momento del día o de la noche, en cualquiera que sean las condiciones atmosféricas, y de utilizar cualquier modalidad sensible, sin por ello incurrir en el error de malinterpretarla....
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Dans cette troisième livraison des « Économies », Alain Deneault suit le mouvement spéculaire entre des œuvres esthétiques qui traitent d'économie marchande et d'argent, et des critiques d'arts qui recourent au vocabulaire économique pour commenter les œuvres. Le mot « économie » ressort de cette analyse fine comme une puissante métaphore, mais surtout comme le nom même d'un régime de production des métaphores.
C'est à l'économie...
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Does God play cards with the universe? Do women have better poker faces than men? What's the most existential poker movie ever made? Is life more meaningful when you go all-in? Is online poker really still poker? Poker and Philosophy ponders these questions and more, pitting young lions against old masters as the brashness of Phil Hellmuth meets the arrogance of Socrates, the recklessness of Doyle Brunson challenges the desperation of Dostoyevsky,...
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"I am no specialist in the study of Lucretius, I am not a Dante scholar nor a Goethe scholar....My excuse for writing about them, notwithstanding, is merely the human excuse which every new poet has for writing about the spring. They have attracted me, they have moved me to reflection, they have revealed to me certain aspects of nature and of philosophy which I am prompted by mere sincerity to express, if anybody seems interested or willing to listen."
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Mi Fausto es una de las obras clásicas del poeta francés. Valéry desarrolla aquí una visión personal del mito de Fausto en dos partes que se articulan de forma autónoma: "Lust. La dama de cristal" y "El solitario". "Cierto día de 1940—explica Valéry—me sorprendí hablando a dos voces y me dejé llevar a escribir cuanto venía. De manera que así, con presteza y sin plan, lo confieso, sin cuidarme de acciones ni dimensiones, esbocé los...
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Contemplar el arte es una colección de ensayos de Jerrold Levinson, una de las principales figuras de la estética contemporánea. El libro se divide en siete partes dedicadas al arte en general y a diferentes artes como la literatura, la pintura, la música y el cine. Los capítulos dedicados a la música ocupan la parte central del volumen y presentan algunas de las ideas más originales y discutidas del pensamiento de Levinson, sobre la naturaleza...
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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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Estamos hechos para la belleza, y la belleza está hecha para nosotros. Lo que nosotros hemos olvidado, los antiguos lo sabían bien: la verdadera belleza sana el alma, nos aproxima a lo sobrenatural y nos brinda una felicidad duradera. Estas páginas, repletas de la sabiduría de los clásicos, nos abren los ojos del entendimiento para la belleza que nos rodea. Porque la belleza no está en el ojo del que mira, y no es solamente para los cultos,...
73) Ética e infinito
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Ética e infinito recoge las conversaciones mantenidas entre Emmanuel Lévinas y Philippe Nemo, a través de las cuales podemos tener una idea resumida pero muy completa del pensamiento del filósofo. La edición se acompaña con una introducción y abundantes notas de Jesús María Ayuso Díez, traductor del texto.
Me pregunto si se puede hablar de una mirada vuelta hacia el rostro, pues la mirada es conocimiento, percepción. Pienso, más bien,...
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Against those, who consider architecture to be a wholly optimistic activity, this book shows how the history of modern architecture is inextricably tied to ideas of failure and ruin. By means of an original reading of the earliest origins of modernism, the Architecture of Failure exposes the ways, in which failure has been, suppressed, ignored, and denied, in the way we, design our cities. It examines the 19th century fantasy architecture of the iron...
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"Para mí, desde un punto de vista filosófico, la pregunta es: ¿qué significaría reconocer, aceptar, cierto tipo de permeabilidad, cierta manera en la que somos afectados por otros a los que no conocemos o por los que no elegimos ser afectados? El mayor peligro para mí es el del sujeto autónomo y monolítico que intenta establecer límites e impermeabilidades absolutas, porque se niega a reconocer su carácter social y su interdependencia. Y...
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A complete and original theory of aesthetics based on Marx and Althusser in the modernist Marxist anti-humanist tradition (Brecht, Althusser, Benjamin, Adorno). The main concepts that arise from this work are, the aesthetic level of practice, aesthetic state apparatuses, aesthetic interpellation, and pseudo dialectics, all of which are used to understand the role of aesthetic experience and its place in everyday life. In the space long thought as...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. We have reached the end of art, states Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in The Philosophy of Art. Hegel charts the progression of art in order to show how it reached its full and final development. But that does not mean that art is dead to us-far from it. Hegel argues for the significance of the philosophy of art, which for him ranks higher than the study of nature...
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Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What's the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a "black" thing? Is it okay for N. W. A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit - and often explicit - in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers...
79) Imaginary Games
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Can games be art? When film critic Roger Ebert claimed in 2010 that videogames could never be art it was, seen as a snub by many gamers. But, from the perspective of philosophy of art this question was topsy turvey, since according to one of the most influential theories of representation all art is a game. Kendall Walton's prop theory explains how we interact with paintings, novels, movies and other artworks in terms of imaginary games, like a child's...
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In this 1922 scholarly landmark, influential British critic I. A. Richards and his colleagues Charles Ogden and James Wood lay out a new theory of harmony and balance in a work of literature-the two mingle with an audience's psychological impulses in order to determine how the work is perceived. This study is a key text of the New Criticism, which forever changed how scholars read and analyze literature.