Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts – serie
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Videophilosophy
The Perception of Time in Post-Fordism
Häftad, 2019
306 kr
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The Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato has earned international acclaim for his analysis of contemporary capitalism, in particular his influential concept of immaterial labor and his perceptive writings on debt. In Videophilosophy, he reveals the underpinnings of contemporary subjectivity in …
Doing Aesthetics with Arendt
How to See Things
Inbunden, 2015
520 kr
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Cecilia Sjoholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjoholm begins a vibrant new …
Soul and Form
Av Georg Lukacs, John T. Sanders m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
518 kr
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György Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of …
Under Suspicion
A Phenomenology of Media
Av Boris Groys
Inbunden, 2012
648 kr
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The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, Boris Groys focuses on the media's affect of sincerity and its …
Things Beyond Resemblance
Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno
Häftad, 2008
617 kr
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Theodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate. In this excellent collection, Robert Hullot-Kentor, widely regarded as the most …
Don Giovanni Moment
Essays on the Legacy of an Opera
Av Lydia Goehr, Daniel Herwitz
Häftad, 2008
298 kr
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Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. …
Art’s Claim to Truth
Av Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala
Inbunden, 2008
862 kr
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First collected in Italy in 1985, Art's Claim to Truth is considered by many philosophers to be one of Gianni Vattimo's most important works. Newly revised for English readers, the book begins with a challenge to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, who viewed art as a metaphysical aspect of reality …
Art’s Claim to Truth
Av Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala
Häftad, 2010
221 kr
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First collected in Italy in 1985, Art's Claim to Truth is considered by many philosophers to be one of Gianni Vattimo's most important works. Newly revised for English readers, the book begins with a challenge to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, who viewed art as a metaphysical aspect of reality …
Aesthetics of Uncertainty
Av Janet Wolff
Inbunden, 2008
862 kr
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Feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and Marxism, among other critical approaches, have undermined traditional notions of aesthetics in recent decades. But questions of aesthetic judgment and pleasure persist, and many critics now seek a "return to aesthetics" or a "return to beauty." …
Aesthetics of Uncertainty
Av Janet Wolff
Häftad, 2015
221 kr
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Feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and Marxism, among other critical approaches, have undermined traditional notions of aesthetics in recent decades. But questions of aesthetic judgment and pleasure persist, and many critics now seek a "return to aesthetics" or a "return to beauty." …
Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language
Inbunden, 2008
1385 kr
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In the romantic tradition, music is consistently associated with madness, either as cause or cure. Writers as diverse as Kleist, Hoffmann, and Nietzsche articulated this theme, which in fact reaches back to classical antiquity and continues to resonate in the modern imagination. What John Hamilton …
Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language
Häftad, 2013
692 kr
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In the romantic tradition, music is consistently associated with madness, either as cause or cure. Writers as diverse as Kleist, Hoffmann, and Nietzsche articulated this theme, which in fact reaches back to classical antiquity and continues to resonate in the modern imagination. What John Hamilton …
Literature, Life, and Modernity
Inbunden, 2008
647 kr
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Richard Eldridge explores the ability of dense and formally interesting literature to respond to the complexities of modern life. Beyond simple entertainment, difficult modern works cultivate reflective depth and help their readers order and interpret their lives as subjects in relation to complex …
Elective Affinities
Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory
Av Lydia Goehr
Inbunden, 2008
1767 kr
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As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between philosophy and music from German classicism, romanticism, and …
Elective Affinities
Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory
Av Lydia Goehr
Häftad, 2011
366 kr
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As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between philosophy and music from German classicism, romanticism, and …
Brief History of the Masses
Three Revolutions
Inbunden, 2008
580 kr
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Stefan Jonsson uses three monumental works of art to build a provocative history of popular revolt: Jacques-Louis David's The Tennis Court Oath (1791), James Ensor's Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (1888), and Alfredo Jaar's They Loved It So Much, the Revolution (1989). Addressing, …
Tragic Play
Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett
Inbunden, 2009
1415 kr
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Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernity the age after tragedy. Christoph Menke opposes …
Queer Beauty
Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
Inbunden, 2010
1238 kr
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The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. …
Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism
Inbunden, 2010
724 kr
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Joseph Margolis, known for his considerable contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics, pragmatism, and American philosophy, has focused primarily on the troublesome concepts of culture, history, language, agency, art, interpretation, and the human person or self. For Margolis, the …
Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance
Art as Experiment
Inbunden, 2010
724 kr
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Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an "artist-engineer-scientist," a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincare. Yet a complete portrait of Duchamp and his multiple influences draws a different picture. In his 3 Standard Stoppages …
Sacred Exchanges
Images in Global Context
Inbunden, 2012
580 kr
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As the international art market globalizes the indigenous image, it changes its identity, status, value, and purpose in local and larger contexts. Focusing on a school of Australian Aboriginal painting that has become popular in the contemporary art world, Robyn Ferrell traces the influence of …
Dialectical Passions
Negation in Postwar Art Theory
Av Gail Day
Inbunden, 2010
1230 kr
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Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to theories of "critical …
Soul and Form
Av Georg Lukacs, John T. Sanders m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1385 kr
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Gyorgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of …
Soul and Form
Av Georg Lukacs, John T. Sanders m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
342 kr
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Gyorgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of …
Autonomy of Pleasure
Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution
Inbunden, 2016
648 kr
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What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines experimented clandestinely with this idea during the Enlightenment. In explicit novels, dialogues, poems, and engravings, they wrenched pleasure free …
Hunger for Aesthetics
Enacting the Demands of Art
Inbunden, 2012
1033 kr
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For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these complaints have generated an anti-aesthetic stance prevalent in the contemporary art world. Yet if we examine the motivations for these …
Hunger for Aesthetics
Enacting the Demands of Art
Häftad, 2017
264 kr
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For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these complaints have generated an anti-aesthetic stance prevalent in the contemporary art world. Yet if we examine the motivations for these …
Afterness
Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics
Inbunden, 2011
1230 kr
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Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of "afterness" is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean for something to "follow" something else? Does that which follows mark a clear break with what came before it, or …
Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
Av Ewa Ziarek
Inbunden, 2012
1033 kr
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Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative literary and political practices and the …
Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
Av Ewa Ziarek
Häftad, 2012
264 kr
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Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative literary and political practices and the …
