Sam - Aesthetics 1

Stop leaking your mental energy and reclaim your focus. In an age of infinite information and constant connectivity, we are more exhausted than ever. We spend our days worrying about global shifts, ……続きを見る

Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays o……続きを見る

Step into the world as an observer, and rediscover what it means to truly see. The Artist Flâneur invites readers on a contemplative journey through the rhythms of everyday life, where ordinary mome……続きを見る

The Cantos II: The Artist's Book of Hours is an interdisciplinary literary work that merges poetry, prose, and philosophical reflection to examine the ontology of the artist and the process of creat……続きを見る

A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood. An acclaimed poet with a quiet, dignified mode of address. The sonic etiquette and ……続きを見る

Negative Aesthetics and Political Collapse in Eastern European and Balkan Cinema examines the theme of political collapse in select contemporary Eastern European and Balkan art cinema and documentar……続きを見る

Why we enjoy works of art, and how repetition plays a central part in the pleasure we receive. Leonard Bernstein, in his famous Norton Lectures, extolled repetition, saying that it gave poetry its m……続きを見る

The Ethics of Animal Beauty provides a novel account of the aesthetics of animals and explores the ethical implications of recognizing and admiring their beauty. Samantha Vice argues that animation,……続きを見る

Samantha Matherne defends a systematic interpretation of the philosopher Immanuel Kants theory of imagination. In contrast with more traditional theories of imagination, as a kind of fantasy that we……続きを見る

In the first book to examine the overlooked relationship between musical improvisation and philosophical hermeneutics, Sam McAuliffe asks: what exactly is improvisation? And how does it relate to ou……続きを見る

Thinking About Stories is a fun and thought-provoking introduction to philosophical questions about narrative fiction in its many forms, from highbrow literature to pulp fiction to the latest shows ……続きを見る

In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relat……続きを見る

What exactly are comics? Can they be art, literature, or even pornography? How should we understand the characters, stories, and genres that shape them? Thinking about comics raises a bewildering ra……続きを見る

When was photography invented, in 1826 with the first permanent photograph? If we depart from the technologically oriented accounts and consider photography as a philosophical discourse an alternati……続きを見る

If architectural judgment were a city, a city of ideas and forms, then it is a very imperfect city. When architects judge the success or failure of a building, the range of ways and criteria which c……続きを見る

A book on Theology in rejection of the arguments of both theist and atheist groups, answering the old question ''How is God created?'' based on considering the Principle of Causality itself as a cre……続きを見る

An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one. At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and painting all underwent a sea change. Poetry abandoned r……続きを見る

For over forty years, Shyam Benegal has been one the leading forces in Indian cinema. Informed by a rich political and philosophical sensibility and a mastery of the art and craft of filmmaking, Ben……続きを見る

Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham a……続きを見る

Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the o……続きを見る

Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) occupies a unique place in 20th-century philosophy. His view that human beings are not rational but symbolic animals and his famous dispute with Martin Heidegger at Davos ……続きを見る

Reasoning with autobiography is a way to self-knowledge. We can learn about ourselves, as human beings and as individuals, by reading, thinking through, and arguing about this distinctive kind of te……続きを見る

This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention ……続きを見る

"Onde o ausente é comida, as saudades são fome", escreve Antonio Viera no Índice das coisas mais notáveis. Parece dizer bem o "imperador da língua portuguesa" (como o nomeou Fernando Pessoa), essa m……続きを見る

This book explores the transformation of ideas of the material in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century musical composition. New music of this era is argued to reflect a historical moment w……続きを見る

"El libro abre una vía de encuentro entre dos tradiciones filosóficas: la filosofía especulativa, que culmina en el sistema de Hegel, y la filosofía hermenéutica, cuya obra fundacional ampliamente r……続きを見る

This is an impressive and lucid survey of eighteenth-century intellectual life, providing a real sense of the complexity of the age and of the cultural and intellectual climate in which imaginative ……続きを見る

Aesthetics in Present Future: The Arts and the Technological Horizon is a collection of essays by scholars and a few artists who focus on the issue of how arts either change when conveyed by new med……続きを見る