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Philosophy of Sculpture
Historical Problems, Contemporary Approaches
Av Kristin Gjesdal, Fred Rush m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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Sculpture has been a central aspect of almost every art culture, contemporary or historical. This volume comprises ten essays at the cutting edge of thinking about sculpture in philosophical terms, representing approaches to sculpture from the perspectives of both Anglo-American and European …
Aesthetics of Self-Becoming
How Art Forms Empower
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become empowered—by adapting ourselves to what creation in the different art forms makes possible. Paul Crowther argues that the great political task in aesthetics is no longer …
Paintings and the Past
Philosophy, History, Art
Av Ivan Gaskell
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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This book is an exploration of how art—specifically paintings in the European manner—can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings. Ivan Gaskell argues that the search for …
Portraits and Philosophy
Av Hans Maes
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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Portraits are everywhere. One finds them not only in museums and galleries, but also in newspapers and magazines, in the homes of people and in the boardrooms of companies, on stamps and coins, on millions of cell phones and computers. Despite its huge popularity, however, portraiture hasn’t …
Art, Representation, and Make-Believe
Essays on the Philosophy of Kendall L. Walton
Av Sonia Sedivy
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This is the first collection of essays focused on the many-faceted work of Kendall L. Walton. Walton has shaped debate about the arts for the last 50 years. He provides a comprehensive framework for understanding arts in terms of the human capacity of make-believe that shows how different arts – …
Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts
A Philosophical Approach
Av James Young
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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This book radically rethinks the philosophical basis of copyright in the arts. The author reflects on the ontology of art to argue that current copyright laws cannot be justified. The book begins by identifying two problems that result from current copyright laws: (1) creativity is restricted and …
Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts
A Philosophical Approach
Av James Young
Häftad, 2022
704 kr
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This book radically rethinks the philosophical basis of copyright in the arts. The author reflects on the ontology of art to argue that current copyright laws cannot be justified. The book begins by identifying two problems that result from current copyright laws: (1) creativity is restricted and …
Philosophy of Improvisation
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice
Av Susanne Ravn, Simon Høffding m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions connect the theoretical dimensions of improvisation with different viewpoints on its practice in the arts and the classroom. The chapters address the phenomenon of improvisation in two …
Philosophy of Improvisation
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice
Av Susanne Ravn, Simon Høffding m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions connect the theoretical dimensions of improvisation with different viewpoints on its practice in the arts and the classroom. The chapters address the phenomenon of improvisation in two …
Aesthetics of Videogames
Häftad, 2020
733 kr
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This collection of essays is devoted to the philosophical examination of the aesthetics of videogames. Videogames represent one of the most significant developments in the modern popular arts, and it is a topic that is attracting much attention among philosophers of art and aestheticians. As a …
Aesthetics of Virtual Reality
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This is the first book to present an aesthetics of virtual reality media. It situates virtual reality media in terms of the philosophy of the arts, comparing them to more familiar media such as painting, film and photography.When philosophers have approached virtual reality, they have almost always …
Aesthetics of Virtual Reality
Häftad, 2023
646 kr
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This is the first book to present an aesthetics of virtual reality media. It situates virtual reality media in terms of the philosophy of the arts, comparing them to more familiar media such as painting, film and photography.When philosophers have approached virtual reality, they have almost always …
Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment
Av Rupert Read
Häftad, 2020
733 kr
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Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of ‘arthouse’ and Hollywood films. Each …
Thinking with Images
An Enactivist Aesthetics
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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This book advances an enactivist theory of aesthetics through the study of inscrutable artworks that challenge us to think because we do not know what to think about them. John M. Carvalho presents detailed analyses a four artworks that share this unique characteristic: Francis Bacon’s Study After …
Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature
A Philosophical Perspective
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing …
Michael Fried and Philosophy
Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality
Häftad, 2020
733 kr
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This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. It demonstrates that Fried’s work on modernism, artistic intention, the ontology of art, theatricality, …
Philosophy of Fiction
Imagination and Cognition
Av Patrik Engisch, Julia Langkau
Inbunden, 2022
2445 kr
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This book presents new research on the crucial role that imagination plays in contemporary philosophy of fiction.The first part of the book challenges the main paradigm set by Kendall Walton and Gregory Currie, according to which there is a necessary connection between fiction and a prescription …
Philosophy of Fiction
Imagination and Cognition
Av Patrik Engisch, Julia Langkau
Häftad, 2024
742 kr
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This book presents new research on the crucial role that imagination plays in contemporary philosophy of fiction.The first part of the book challenges the main paradigm set by Kendall Walton and Gregory Currie, according to which there is a necessary connection between fiction and a prescription …
Fictive Narrative Philosophy
How Fiction Can Act as Philosophy
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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What is the philosophical voice within literature? Does literature have a voice of its own? Can this voice really be philosophical in its own right? In this book, Michael Boylan argues that some literary works indeed can make their own unique claims in different areas of philosophy. He calls this …
Pleasure of Pictures
Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation
Av Jérôme Pelletier, Alberto Voltolini
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. In particular, it is concerned with the character and intimacy of this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between pictorial experience and aesthetic …
Phenomenology of Audio Drama
Inbunden, 2026
2504 kr
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Audio drama is overlooked by philosophy even though it raises many philosophical questions. It seems to be a contradiction: drama is a form of showing yet the exemplary form of showing a world—visual representation—is absent from it. What kinds of world do we find if we concentrate on what is …
Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick
Close Readings and Critical Perspectives
Av Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2504 kr
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This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslick’s influential aesthetic treatise, On the Musically Beautiful (1854). The contributions reveal the philosophical foundations and subtleties of his aesthetic approach.The collection features …
Art, Representation, and Make-Believe
Essays on the Philosophy of Kendall L. Walton
Av Sonia Sedivy
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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This is the first collection of essays focused on the many-faceted work of Kendall L. Walton. Walton has shaped debate about the arts for the last 50 years. He provides a comprehensive framework for understanding arts in terms of the human capacity of make-believe that shows how different arts – …
Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Aesthetics
Art as a Performative, Dynamic, Communal Event
Inbunden, 2022
2126 kr
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This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer’s reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines fundamental themes in Gadamer’s hermeneutical aesthetics such as play, festival, symbol, contemporaneity, enactment, art’s performative ontology, and hermeneutical identity. The …
Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Aesthetics
Art as a Performative, Dynamic, Communal Event
Häftad, 2024
631 kr
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This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer’s reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines fundamental themes in Gadamer’s hermeneutical aesthetics such as play, festival, symbol, contemporaneity, enactment, art’s performative ontology, and hermeneutical identity. The …
Objects of Authority
A Postformalist Aesthetics
Inbunden, 2022
2504 kr
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Is the celebrated elegance of Cycladic marble figurines an effect their Early Bronze Age producers intended? Can one adequately appreciate an Assyrian regal statue described by a cuneiform inscription as beautiful? What to make of the apparent aesthetic richness of the traditional cultures of …
Phenomenology of Aesthetic Consciousness and Phantasy
Working with Husserl
Inbunden, 2022
2504 kr
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This is the first book dedicated to Husserl’s aesthetics. Paul Crowther pieces together Husserl’s ideas of phantasy and image and presents them as a unified and innovative account of aesthetic consciousness. He also shows how Husserl’s ideas can be developed to solve problems in aesthetics, …
Phenomenology of Aesthetic Consciousness and Phantasy
Working with Husserl
Häftad, 2024
646 kr
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This is the first book dedicated to Husserl’s aesthetics. Paul Crowther pieces together Husserl’s ideas of phantasy and image and presents them as a unified and innovative account of aesthetic consciousness. He also shows how Husserl’s ideas can be developed to solve problems in aesthetics, …
Paintings and the Past
Philosophy, History, Art
Av Ivan Gaskell
Häftad, 2021
706 kr
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This book is an exploration of how art—specifically paintings in the European manner—can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings. Ivan Gaskell argues that the search for …
Philosophy and Film
Bridging Divides
Av Christina Rawls, Diana Neiva m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
706 kr
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This volume collects twenty original essays on the philosophy of film. It uniquely brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to broaden and advance debates on film and philosophy. The book includes contributions from a number of prominent …
