SUNY series in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art – serie
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Value(s) of Literature
Häftad, 1990
663 kr
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Discusses the ethical aspects of literature.This book addresses the ethical aspects of literature by discussing three major American poets: Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, and A. R. Ammons. It develops a philosophical framework by which an ethics of literature can be construed, and differentiates …
Suffering Witness
The Quandary of Responsibility after the Irreparable
Häftad, 2000
463 kr
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Conceptualizes the question of witness and responsibility, following the Holocaust, using continental philosophy, theology, and literary theory.Drawing on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, James Hatley uses the prose of Primo Levi and Tadeusz Borowski, as well as the poetry of Paul Celan, to …
Between Ethics and Aesthetics
Crossing the Boundaries
Av Dorota Glowacka, Stephen Boos
Häftad, 2002
371 kr
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Rethinks the existing definitions of aesthetics and ethics and the relations between them.This forum of current discussions of ethics and aesthetics addresses a cross-section of disciplines including literary theory, philosophy, women's studies, postcolonial theory, art history, Holocaust studies, …
Thinking the Limits of the Body
Av Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Gail Weiss
Inbunden, 2003
1040 kr
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Shows the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in discussions of the body.This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories (geographical bodies), and historical texts and …
Aesthetics of Excess
Häftad, 1989
401 kr
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This book investigates the reciprocal and often transgressive relations between rhetorical figures and libidinal activity. The works of Nietzsche, Artaud, Bataille, Klossowski, and Sade are reconsidered in light of the modernist and postmodernist problematics of simulacra, fascination, sublimation …
Contextual Authority and Aesthetic Truth
Häftad, 1992
422 kr
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This book explores the relationship between authority and context and attempts to establish the ways in which authority is a function of a particular agent or set of agents, and the degree to which it is a product of a context rather than an agent. The work is not a sociological or psychological …
Shattered Forms
Art Brut, Phantasms, Modernism
Häftad, 1992
398 kr
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Art Brut, also termed Outsider Art, has long been suppressed from most art historical writing. Why this rejection? The hyperbolic expressions of Romanticism and Symbolism nourished a desire for derangement and dissociation that inspired both Expressionism and Surrealism. Simulated delirium became …
Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art
Contemporary Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Av Dawn Perlmutter, Debra Koppman
Inbunden, 1999
1144 kr
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Examines the role of the sacred in art and makes a compelling case for its continued contemporary relevance.From Walt Disney World to the movie Natural Born Killers, this book explores uncommon indicators of the spiritual in contemporary art and culture. Drawing on a diversity of perspectives in …
Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art
Contemporary Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Av Dawn Perlmutter, Debra Koppman
Häftad, 1999
398 kr
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Examines the role of the sacred in art and makes a compelling case for its continued contemporary relevance.From Walt Disney World to the movie Natural Born Killers, this book explores uncommon indicators of the spiritual in contemporary art and culture. Drawing on a diversity of perspectives in …
Future of Art
An Aesthetics of the New and the Sublime
Häftad, 1999
413 kr
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Draws upon a wide range of aesthetic theories and artworks in order to challenge the view that art is valueless or purely subjective.By analyzing the three loci of aesthetics-the subjective, the objective, and the absolute-the author concludes that only the sublime demonstrates that art is neither …
Between Ethics and Aesthetics
Crossing the Boundaries
Av Dorota Glowacka, Stephen Boos
Inbunden, 2002
1111 kr
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Rethinks the existing definitions of aesthetics and ethics and the relations between them.This forum of current discussions of ethics and aesthetics addresses a cross-section of disciplines including literary theory, philosophy, women's studies, postcolonial theory, art history, Holocaust studies, …
Thinking the Limits of the Body
Av Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Gail Weiss
Häftad, 2003
401 kr
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Shows the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in discussions of the body.This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories (geographical bodies), and historical texts and …
