Estetik

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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*A Financial Times Book of the Year* 'The first time I opened What Artists Wear, I gasped with pleasure. Imagine it as a kind of punk cousin to John Berger's Ways of Seeing, liberally illustrated with the most astonishing images of artists, decked...

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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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An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets...

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Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way ...

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In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. From Google Images to Instagram, video games to installation art, this transformation is c...

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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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Boken utgår från att estetiken har en kraft. De estetiska uttrycksformerna ger alla medborgare, även de yngsta, möjlighet att kommunicera om både det lilla och det stora, det nära vardagliga och det övergripande existentiella. Hur kan det få plats...

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A revised and updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessible introduction to the range of theories and methods which have been used to study contemporary popular ...

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A Guardian Book of the Year Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, an...

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An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we t...

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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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How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes the aesthetic experiences of fe...

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Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and...

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Widely regarded as the second most-important book to come out of National Socialist Germany (after Mein Kampf ), Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the 20 th Century stands as a monumental work of social and political philosophy. Originally publi...

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Ett grundläggande verk för all pedagogik ock konst. Översatt och kommenterad av Göran Fant.

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From Botticelli to birdsong, Mozart, and the Turner Prize, Roger Scruton explores what it means for something to be beautiful. This thought-provoking introduction to the philosophy of beauty draws conclusions that some may find controversial, but,...

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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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'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward Said Aesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literature and art which informed his engagem...

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Benjamin Höijer är Sveriges första moderna filosof. Hans Avhandling om den filosofisk konstruktionen från 1799 räknas som ett viktigt bidrag till den tyska idealismen, där han försökte vidareutveckla Kants kritiska filosofi i dialog med samtida tä...

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy and The School of Life, The Architecture of Happiness explores the fascinating hidden links ...

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Through the concept of "social choreography" Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization. Bringin...

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Under de senaste åren har begreppet ekopoesi alltmer etablerats i de nordiska samtalen om litteratur. Det har skett dels i förhållande till utvecklingen inom ett växande ekokritiskt forskningsfält, dels som ett resultat av att ett antal poeter, bå...

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What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture first identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius - good construction, func...

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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 justifi...

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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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"Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de Waal The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace se...

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This wide-ranging survey, spanning four centuries, illuminates shifting perceptions of female beauty through works of art and the evolution of cosmetics Throughout the history of the Western world, countless attempts have been made to define beaut...

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