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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

Concentrating on the role of the imagination in Updike's works, this book shows him to be an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimes accused of being. Th……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

An examination of Herbert Marcuse’s political claim for the aesthetic dimension, focusing on defamiliarization as a means of developing radical sensibility. In Uncommon Sense, Craig Leonard argues f……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

Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relationsopens up the notion of the popular, drawing useful links between wide-ranging aspects of popular culture, through the lens ……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

From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives. How the names ……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

本书包括美从何处寻、我见青山多妩媚、人物的品藻、审美距离和移情、美乡的醉梦者、美学散步、从西南联大的校歌谈起、浪漫主义美学的“片段”、企业的美学管理、艺术的“不用之用”等十五讲。 続きを見る

本书以“美是有价值的乐感对象”为核心观点，以本质论、现象论、美感论为基本构架，分析论述了美的语义、美的范畴、美的原因、美的规律、美的特征与美的形态、美的领域、美的风格等，构建起一个全新的“乐感美学”理论……続きを見る

本书采用人类学视野，直面本土现实，依循新人文学科的建设路径，在中西当代学术思想的碰撞和融会中，对于马克思主义文艺理论的中国范式、民族艺术与文明冲突、美学意识形态、中国当代悲剧问题、人文精神建设、全球……続きを見る

本书尝试从“自然”出发，重构1950-1960年代中国社会主义文化政治，所采取的具体路径是：聚焦于1949年新中国成立之后尤其是1956年“社会主义改造基本完成”之后继续改造“内外自然”这一历史时期，以此一时期涌现出的新……続きを見る

本书选取了朱先生围绕这些问题所写的一些精彩篇章，分“星光”、“化境”、“妙悟”和“生趣”四编，配以精美插图，展现了美学大师的穆然深思和悠然遐想。 続きを見る

本书作者以美学是什么为主题，将“伊斯特テキ克”、“优美与崇高”、“杜尚的质疑”、“诗可以怨”、“时亦越发有所纵”、“看蒙娜丽莎”等十个小话题，布置成一个个带风景的小房间，让读者阅读本书成为一次愉悦的美学风景的浏……続きを見る

本书共分十部分，内容包括：伊斯特テキ克、“初发芙蓉”与“错彩镂金”、美与崇高、杜尚的质疑、这不是一只烟斗、诗可以怨、有意味的形式、时亦越法有所纵等。 続きを見る

本书从中西方关于美的概念的差别入手，作者发掘出了与‘美’直面相见的现代艺术所可能遭遇的其他丰富内涵，把美从我们惯常的领域和表述中解放出来，重新还美以奇特性。 続きを見る

全书十五讲，包括：游鱼之乐、不二法门、逝者如斯、骚人遗韵、气化宇宙、落花无言、灵的空间、四时之外、以小见大、大巧若拙、华严境界、饮之太和、妙悟玄门、形神之间、颐养情性。 続きを見る

哈尼族歷史悠久，其身體審美文化異彩紛呈，尤其是奕車支系女性的身體審美更是獨具特色。從古自今奕車女性頭戴尖頂白布帽，上身穿靛青色套裝，小臂外露，下著短褲，腰系彩色腰帶，喜歡多層衣服與滿身的銀飾。本書以……続きを見る

This volume stages a series of encounters between the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and leading scholars of his work along four major themes of Nancy’s thought: sense, experience, existence, and……続きを見る

Muovendo da un’indagine sistematica sui canoni e i principi d’autorita classico-rinascimentali – la prospettiva, le proporzioni, l’idea – Panofsky ripercorre qui la vicenda delle diverse risposte da……続きを見る

If we are to understand why Plato had a theory of Forms, we must explain, firstly, why he thought it necessary to depart from the ontology of the Socratic dialogues; secondly, why he then posited th……続きを見る