Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics.Written by prominent sch...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This monumental collection of new and recent essays from an international team of eminent scholars represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to both literary and philosophical studie...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume explores the relationship between Kant's aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology as articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The essays,...
Author: Stecker, Robert Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Praised in its original edition for its up-to-date, rigorous presentation of current debates and for the clarity of its presentation, Robert Stecker's new edition of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of A...
Author: Wenzel, Christian Helmut Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In An Introduction to Kant’s Aesthetics, Christian Wenzel discusses and demystifies Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment, guiding the reader each step of the way and placing key points...
Author: Eldridge, Richard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art. Drawing on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy as we...
Author: Davies, Dave Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial period of aesthetics. These texts include the first tr...
Author: Carroll, No?l Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Comedy Incarnate, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton’s unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton’s films. Bold and provoca...
Author: Elliott, Brian Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Constructing Community examines community from the particular perspective of the shaping and control of urban space in contemporary liberal democracies. Following a consideration and critique of influ...
Author: Young, James O. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise. Cultural appropriation is a pervasive feature...
Author: Sandywell, Barry Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Exploring the languages and cultures of visual studies and offering a theoretical introduction to the many languages of visual discourse, this substantial dictionary explains the foundations of curren...
Author: Mandoki, Katya Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Starting from Dewey's pragmatism and biologically inspired philosophy, Mandoki updates key debates in aesthetics to project them into the realm of a socioaesthetic inquiry. She argues that in every pr...
Author: Bateman, Chris Publisher: O-Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 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 ...
Author: Stecker, Robert Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Interpretation and Construction examines the interpretation and products of intentional human behavior, focusing primarily on issues in art, law, and everyday speech.Focuses on artistic interpretation...
Author: Allison, Henry E. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Kant, Henry Allison, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and phi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Open Court Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: From the 1970s cult TV show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, to the current hit musical Spamalot, the Monty Python comedy troupe has been at the center of popular culture and entertainment. The Pythons ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Open Court Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the 1970s cult TV show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, to the current hit musical Spamalot, the Monty Python comedy troupe has been at the center of popular culture and entertainment. The Pythons ...
Author: Wirth, Keine Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the...
Author: Carlson, Allen Publisher: Columbia University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfie...
Author: Green, Ronald Publisher: O-Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Is nothing everything? As strange as that question looks at first sight, it will definitely make sense after reading NOTHING MATTERS. Provocative and accessible, free of jargon, NOTHING MATTERS shows ...
Author: Kivy, Peter Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Drawing comparisons with other art forms, this book examines the role of aesthetic features in silent reading, such as narrative structure, and the core experience of reading a novel as a story rather...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Philosophy of Literature presents six newly-commissioned essays from international scholars that address some of the key issues relating to the philosophy of literature, a thriving and increasingly in...
Author: Graham, Gordon Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the ideal up-to-date textbook for students of philosophy, art or literature, coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time.
Author: Kaiser, David Aram Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This ambitious study argues that our modern conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from conflicts between competing models of the liberal state and...
Author: Herder, Johann Gottfried Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A seminal figure in the philosophy of history, culture, and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) also produced some of the most important and original works in the history of aesthetic theory...
Author: Herder, Johann Gottfried Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A seminal figure in the philosophy of history, culture, and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) also produced some of the most important and original works in the history of aesthetic theory...
Author: Berleant, Arnold Publisher: Cybereditions Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Arguing that traditional answers to the question ?What is art?? are partial at best, Arnold Berleant contends that we need to understand art as a complex aesthetic field encompassing all the factors t...
Author: Hamilton, James R. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Art of Theater argues for the recognition of theatrical performance as an art form independent of dramatic writing. Identifies the elements that make a performance a work of art Looks at the compe...
Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Whatever might have been be the basis for this dubious book, it must have been a question of the utmost importance and charm, as well as a deeply personal one. Testimony to that effect is the time in ...
Author: Hammermeister, Kai Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the only available systematic critical overview of German aesthetics from 1750 to the present. The book begins with the work of Baumgarten and covers all the major writers on German aesthetics...
Author: Nancy, Jean-Luc Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relati...
Author: N/A Publisher: Birkbeck Law Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? A...
Author: N/A Publisher: Birkbeck Law Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? A...
Author: Goldberg, Jonathan Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The title of this book translates one of the many ways in which Lucretius names the basic matter from which the world is made in De rerum natura. In Lucretius, and in the strain of thought followed in...
Author: Weber, Samuel Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or ...
Author: Cohen, Chapman Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Excerpts from the book: .It is one aim of this book to press home the point that the logical issue is between Theism and Atheism. That there is no logical halting place between the two, and that any a...
Description: This is the first full exploration of the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. These original essays by philosophers and critics address key phi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first full exploration of the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. These original essays by philosophers and critics address key phi...
Author: Mattick, Paul Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What is the role of art in everyday life? Art writing normally contrasts art with "everyday life." This book explores art as integral to the everyday life of modern society, providing materials to rep...
Author: Bateman, Chris Publisher: O-Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 ...
Description: Ever wondered about Gunk, Brains in a Vat or Frankfurt's Nefarious Neurosurgeon? With complete explanations of these terms and more Metaphysics: The Key Concepts is an accessible and engaging introduc...
Author: Dadlez, E. M. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austen’s literary themes and characters with David Hume’s views on morality and human nature.Argues that the normative perspectives endo...
