Aesthetics 100

This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's……続きを見る

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment is widely recognized as a founding document of modern aesthetics, but its legacy has fallen into disrepute. In this book Katalin Makkai calls for the rediscovery……続きを見る

This book presents a counter-history to the relentless critique of the humanist subject and authorial agency that has taken place over the past fifty years. It is both an interrogation of that criti……続きを見る

Cinema was the most important new artistic medium of the twentieth century and modernism was the most important new aesthetic movement across the arts in the twentieth century. However, what exactly……続きを見る

Una ecología de los signos recoge siete ensayos dedicados a interrogar las relaciones entre las configuraciones de los modos de experiencia (artística, vital, corporal) y los modos en los que podemo……続きを見る

Reading Architecture with Freud and Lacan: Shadowing the Public Realm methodically outlines key concepts in psychoanalytic discourse by reading them against key modern and post-modern architects. It……続きを見る

This is an interesting book of conversations, which not only endorses the life and thoughts of Ashok Vajpeyi, but also praises poetry in general. Ashok Vajpeyi is a poet who is at home with the word……続きを見る

An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophy At the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), developed the first ……続きを見る

This volume investigates the role of the arts in character education. Bringing together insights from esteemed philosophers and educationalists, it looks to the arts for insight into human character……続きを見る

This book is a critical introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, but it also advances an argument about the novel in the context of Tolkien’s larger literary and philosophical project. Notwithst……続きを見る

In recent years, neuroscientists have made ambitious attempts to explain artistic processes and spectatorship through brain imaging techniques. But can brain science really unravel the workings of a……続きを見る

Plato (428/427–348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician of the Classic Age who founded the Academy of Athens. Noted as a student of Socrates, Plato has distinguished himself as one of ……続きを見る

Dieses Buch versammelt Beiträge zu einer Ästhetik der Schriftbildakte. Seine pointierten Essays widmen sich – an Beispielen von Werken René Magrittes, Joseph Beuys' und Astrid Kleins – der Frage, wi……続きを見る

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When you are born, the first thing you do is scream. Be it a response to fear, anger, sadne……続きを見る

Torna disponibile al grande pubblico un’opera fondamentale per capire la modernità e gli sviluppi dell’arte e dell’estetica contemporanea. Si tratta di un libro seminale che ha influenzato intere ge……続きを見る

Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their bodies, tools, and utensils for over 100,000 years. The expression of……続きを見る

Many philosophical accounts of reason are geared toward providing rational justifications ex post facto rather than accounting for the role reason plays in actu in the process of creative work. More……続きを見る

The purpose of Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Aesthetics is simple and straightforward: to discuss empty, nothing, opening, white, nature color, blankness, and different delicate senses, in ink……続きを見る

In this book Yoram Lubling and Eric Evans offer a Deweyan reconstruction of our philosophical understanding of well-being. They begin with Dewey’s critique of the «philosophical fallacy» to examine ……続きを見る

In What Is Film?, Julie N. Books critically evaluates three philosophical doctrines of film realism (transparency, illusionism, and perceptual realism) and defends her view that films are creative w……続きを見る

Este libro abarca una crítica del impacto ontológico de la modernidad capitalista desde el Bildungsroman, el ethos barroco y la cultura juvenil que buscó construir un mundo de la vida a partir del r……続きを見る

Este libro permite pensar la estética deleuziana a través del contacto con debates y prácticas artísticas concretas. Los problemas esenciales de la composición artística, expresados a menudo en los ……続きを見る

Archaeology of Play: The Re-Discovery of Platonic-Aristotelian Tripartivism in Interdisciplinary Discourses proposes that play’s antithesis is not seriousness but rather one-dimensionality. This boo……続きを見る

The examination of the transcendentals of truth, beauty and the good in this book stems from the perspective of Christian humanism, transcending ourselves in moral psychology, and perfecting ourselv……続きを見る

Contemporary critical thinking was founded by Karl Marx approximately a century and a half ago. Later, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, various critical thinkers (some Marxist, others no……続きを見る

Interpretation has historically been understood as a method to shrink the distance between the interpreter and the interpreted. This view has dominated the comprehension of the interpretation of art……続きを見る

Artistic Research Methodology argues for artistic research as a context-aware and historical process that works inside-in, beginning and ending with acts committed within an artistic practice. An ar……続きを見る

In this close analysis of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetics in his Critique of Judgment, Dr. Julie N. Books, explains why Kant fails to provide a convincing basis for his desired necessity and universality……続きを見る

Cette étude pose les premiers jalons d’une esthétique de l’automobile au cinéma, en montrant que l’automobile est un motif cinématographique par excellence. Les développements théoriques sont nourri……続きを見る

From Digital to Analog delves into the origins of digitization and its effects on contemporary culture. The book challenges the «common sense» assertion that digitization is just another step in the……続きを見る