Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Kritik der Urteilskraft
Die dritte Kritik (vorherig: Die Kritik der reinen Vernunft und Kritik der praktischen Vernunft)
Language: German
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Dieses eBook: "Kritik der Urteilskraft" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfŠltig korrekturgelesen. Die Kritik der Urteilskraft (KdU) ist Immanuel Kants drittes Hauptwerk nach der Kritik der reinen Vernunft und der Kritik der praktischen...
by Immanuel Kant
Language: German
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Aus dem Buch: "Die Gestalt der Personen, die durch ihr äußeres Ansehen gefallen, schlägt...
Das Passagen-Werk
Die Straßen von Paris: Einer der Grundlagentexte materialistischer Kulturtheorie - Blick in die Jetztzeit des Spätkapitalismus
Language: German
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) war ein deutscher Philosoph, Literaturkritiker und Übersetzer der...
Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit. Dritte Fassung (Autorisierte Endfassung)
Ein Gründungsdokument der modernen Medientheorie
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit ist der Titel eines Aufsatzes, den Walter Benjamin 1935 im Pariser Exil verfasste. Er erschien erstmals 1936 unter dem Titel "L'oeuvre d'art à l'époque de sa reproduction mécanisée" in der Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung,...
Art Rethought
The Social Practices of Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Human beings engage works of the arts in many different ways: they sing songs while working, they kiss icons, they create and dedicate memorials. Yet almost all philosophers of art of the modern period have ignored this variety and focused entirely on just one mode of engagement, namely, disinterested...
Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain
One Hundred Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This book marks the centenary of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain by critically re-examining the established interpretation of the work. It introduces a new methodological approach to art-historical practice rooted in a revised understanding of Lacan, Freud and Slavoj Žižek. In weaving an alternative...
Gesture of Awareness
A Radical Approach to Time, Space, and Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
From a major mind of Buddhism today comes this unique philosophical work, which hearkens back to the classical verse-form, but in a modern voice that speaks directly to the twenty-first century reader and practitioner.
Gesture of Awareness involves a fascinating philosophical exploration of...
by W. Deakin
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition. Deakin critiques four canonical writers of the English Romantic tradition, Coleridge, Wordsworth, P.B. Shelley and Mary Shelley, arguing that they, as Hegel, are engaged in a struggle towards philosophical recognition.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
The essays in this book respond to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s recent call to explore the relationship between the evolution of the universe and the process of self-individuation in the ontopoietic unfolding of life. The essays approach the sensory manifold in a number of ways. They show that theories...
What is a Picture?
Depiction, Realism, Abstraction
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art, art history and perceptual psychology, this book places seeing at the centre of an original theory of pictorial representation and explores the ramifications such a theory has for the visual arts.
by David Brown, Gavin Hopps
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us. Arguing against approaches that limit the religious significance of music to an illustrative function, The Extravagance of Music sets...
Specter of the Monolith
Nihilism, the Sublime, and Human Destiny in Space-From Apollo and Hubble to 2001, Star Trek, and Interstellar
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Science geeks and space film fans, take a journey through the questions from your favorite movies that may continue to haunt or puzzle you. Specter of the Monolith offers a radically original critique of how humans have confronted the majesty of the vast universe—via art, media, science, pop culture,...
by vittorio mazzucconi, Vittorio Mazzucconi
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Il libro comincia con una visita a Pompei. Già durante il viaggio, in treno, l'autore rifletteva sul senso della vita, simile appunto a un viaggio, in quella linea di meditazione che gli è propria, ma è davanti alle rovine dell'antica città che la domanda su tale senso diventa drammatica e pressante....
by Dario Lodi
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 9, 2012
La ricerca di riferimenti esistenziali attraverso riflessioni e osservazioni: un insieme di ipotesi vissute sino in fondo con stupore e meraviglia di poterle concepire e di dover concepire la mancanza di risposte convincenti. L’incanto del divenire con coscienza.