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Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance. This study reflects on what it would mean to take opera’s decisive attributeーvoiceーas the foundation o……続きを見る

This book offers a broad and timely perspective on research on olfaction and its current technological challenges. It specifically emphasizes the interdisciplinary context in which olfaction is inve……続きを見る

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 A critical analysis of contemporary art collections and the value form, this book shows why the nonprofit system is unfit to administer our common collections,……続きを見る

Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language collects together Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on ethics, aesthetics and language. With a substantial introduction by th……続きを見る

The essays in Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real explore the intersections among image, word, and visual habits in shaping realities an……続きを見る

This textbook introduces design students to key principles of three-dimensional form, bridging aesthetics and practical design objectives. It explores how we see and what it is that characterises vi……続きを見る

This book explores the role of material culture in the formation of corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past societies and thus contributes to the cultural relativization of bodily a……続きを見る

Este livro é representativo da posição de relevo que a música ocupa na vida – e na obra – de Rousseau, seja em escritos teóricos ou na composição de obras musicais, que lhe renderam certo prestígio ……続きを見る

Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction. Literature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literat……続きを見る

L'art de se vêtir Dans ce court essai, Théophile Gautier nous livre un éloge de la mode de son temps. L’auteur analyse le costume moderne et, là où certains voient de la pauvreté esthétique, il trou……続きを見る

Étude sur les notions de beau et de sublime. Edmund Burke nous emmène dans un méthodique examen, d'une ambition originale, qui s'attache à osciller entre beau et sublime. Sur nos appréciations et no……続きを見る

L'exploration des interstices Autour de la Baie : au départ le simple thème d’une manifestation d’art contemporain, l’expression est prise au pied de la lettre par Damien Dion, qui propose une épopé……続きを見る

Bringing the image into dialogue with the imagination, mimesis and performativity, Christoph Wulf illuminates the historical, cultural and philosophical aspects of the relationship between images an……続きを見る

Locating poetry in a philosophy of the everyday, Brett Bourbon continues a tradition of attention to logic in everyday utterances through Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, and Cavell, arguing that poems ……続きを見る

The Futility of Philosophical Ethics puts forward a novel account of the grounds of moral feeling with fundamental implications for philosophical ethics. It examines the grounds of moral feeling by ……続きを見る

Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best work on Kant pr……続きを見る

This book looks past the frequently discussed autobiographical nature of John Updike's fiction to consider the role in Updike's work of the most powerful and peculiar human faculty: the imagination.……続きを見る

Throughout his work, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno repeatedly invokes the rhinoceros. Taking its cue from one of these passages in Aesthetic Theory, 'So a rhinoceros, the mute animal, seems to s……続きを見る

Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. He is also an original thinker about – and cr……続きを見る

The book includes a new theoretical synthesis of William Stern’s classic personology published in the 1930s with contemporary cultural psychology of semiotic mediation developed by the author over t……続きを見る

Despite numerous publications on the philosophy of technology, little attention has been paid to the relationship between being and value in technology, two aspects which are usually treated separat……続きを見る

This book examines aesthetic issues based on humanities principles and creates a theory of Chinese aesthetics from a global perspective by applying China’s traditional and cultural history to a West……続きを見る

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 critiq……続きを見る

This book offers a variety of interesting topics such as the beauty of mankind. That the distance of the earth from the center of our galaxy is a contributing factor in our beauty. How is it that a ……続きを見る

Although philosophers have examined and commented on music for centuries, Martin Heidegger, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, had frustratingly little to say about musicーdirectl……続きを見る

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Our sense of smell is crucial to our survival. We can smell fear, disease, food. Fragrance ……続きを見る

A renowned designer of Japanese gardens contemplates wildness, humanity, beauty, the liquid state of the world. From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Kean……続きを見る

Les histoires de la littérature grecque, même les simples manuels à l’usage de la jeunesse studieuse, tiennent souvent bien au delà de ce que promet leur titre. On y voit énumérés, jugés et classés,……続きを見る

本书将休闲置于审美的视域中进行研究，重心落在从休闲到审美这一转换环节，具体考察的是如何获得审美性休闲的问题。全书围绕休闲审美的建构这一中心展开，就休闲本性、休闲构成、休闲制约和休闲文化等方面进行论述……続きを見る

本书以汉魏两晋南北朝佛教及其美学思想因素为研究对象，以佛教中国化、本土化及其审美与文学艺术意识理念的深巨影响为研究重点，凸显了这一历史时期中国佛教美学的民族人文特性和中国化、本土化程度的时代发展轨迹……続きを見る