Estetik

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His influence extends beyond academic philosophy to areas as diverse as anti-colonial movements, youth culture, literary criticism, and artistic developments aro...

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This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract images as a visual language. The contributors demonstrate that abstraction is not primarily an artistic phenomenon, but rather ari...

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The notion of 'the human' is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term 'posthuman' provides an alternative. The philosophic...

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This new edition of The Moral Philosophers has been completely revised and updated, with a new chapter on Nietzsche and an entirely new part III covering contemporary utilitarianism and rights-based ethical theories. The strengths of the first edi...

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Unlike almost any other art form, architecture is part of our everyday life, but its ability to dramatically affect the way we think, feel and interact with one another is often overlooked. This volume brings the focus back to the sensual aspects ...

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Listening through the Noise considers how the experience of listening to electronic music constitutes a departure from the expectations that have long governed music listening in the West.

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'Place in garden, lawn, to beautify landscape.'When Don Featherstone's plastic pink flamingos were first advertised in the 1957 Sears catalogue, these were the instructions. The flamingos are placed on the cover of this book for another reason: to...

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The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.Philosophy valorizes truth, holding that there can never be epistemically good reasons to accept a known falsehood, or to accept modes of justific...

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Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches ...

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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 artistic researcher has three intertwined tasks. Fi...

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Now in paperback, the second volume in the definitive collection of Foucault's shorter writings, a Voice Literary Supplement bestseller. Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. Aesthetics, Meth...

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While much feminist philosophy is enjoying third- and fourth-wave developments building on its scholarly roots forged in the 1960's and 1970's, feminist theoretical work has taken what seems an exceptionally long time to break into the stubborn ar...

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Hur kan instrumentalmusik i all sin abstrakthet vara så värdefull för många människor när den inte verkar ha någon mening? Instrumentalmusik handlar i huvudsak inte om något eller refererar till något. Ändå upplever många att instrumentalmusik fak...

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Längtar du efter ett enklare och lugnare liv? Låt dig inspireras av den uråldriga japanska filosofin wabi sabi och lär dig att se skönheten i det ofullständiga, defekta och det ständigt föränderliga. Föremål och upplevelser behöver inte vara perfe...

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Kjersti Bale ger i denna bok en bred översikt av det estetiska tänkandets utveckling från Platon och Aristoteles över Hume, Kant, Burke och Hegel till Heidegger, Dewey och Gadamer. Hon diskuterar föreställningen om konst som representation, idéern...

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Interest in sensory atmospheres and architectural and urban ambiances has been growing for over 30 years. A key figure in this field is acclaimed German philosopher Gernot Boehme whose influential conception of what atmospheres are and how they fu...

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Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms. Section...

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On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks. The authors discuss genres as diverse as mainst...

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Why does art matter to us, and what makes it good? Why is the role of imagination so important in art? Illustrated with carefully chosen colour and black-and-white plates of examples from Michaelangelo to Matisse and Poussin to Pollock, Revealing ...

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Kant fullbordar här det projekt han påbörjat ett decennium tidigare. Denna "tredje kritik" knyter ihop de två första på så sätt att den behandlar alla slags omdömen, alltså inte enbart kunskapsomdömen eller moraliska omdömen. Därigenom kan omdömes...

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In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce'...

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No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First p...

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Production of Presence is a comprehensive version of the thinking of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, one of the most consistently original literary scholars writing today. It offers a personalized account of some of the central theoretical movements in lit...

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Omnipresent in popular culture, especially in film and literature, the theme of the 'end of the world' is often rejected from contemporary philosophy as hysterical apocalyptism. This volume attempts to show that, on the contrary, it is vital that ...

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Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is a single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the specific connections that have been made between landscape...

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Band 75 der Gesamtausgabe enthält nachgelassene Arbeiten zu Hölderlin, zum Teil nicht abgeschlossen oder im Entwurfstadium verblieben; ferner zwei Niederschriften zu Griechenlandreisen, die "in der Zwiesprache mit Hölderlins Di...

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A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against anot...

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Upplysningens estetik samlar en serie artiklar publicerade i Paletten mellan 2011 och 2016. I centrum står fyra begrepp: estetik, den sköna konsten, kritik och historia. Tillsammans inringar dessa termer det fält på vilket den moderna konsten tar ...

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"Beardsley's book accomplishes to perfection what the writer intended. It illuminates an area of history from a certain perspective as was never done before. . . . The distinguishing feature of his book is a n excitement over everything I aes...

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