London: Verso Books, 1980. — 220 p. — ISBN10: 0860917223; ISBN13: 978-0860917229. Ever since Baumgarten and Winckelmann, Germany has been the classical land of aesthetic thought in Europe. In the 20th century, Marxism itself has repeated the rule. No other country has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the...
Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2008. — 192 p. This book is a first attempt to cover the whole area of aesthetics from the point of view of critical rationalism. It takes up and expands upon the more narrowly focused work of E. H. Gombrich, Sheldon Richmond, and Raphael Sassower and Louis Ciccotello. The authors integrate the arts into the scientific world view and acknowledge...
Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1933. — 289 p. Every reader of this book will find it thought-provoking. Its first appeal is to the analytically-minded aesthetician; but there are questions and implications far beyond any specialist's domain. In Chapter 1, Professor Birkhoff presents the following mathematical formulation of the fundamental problem: "Within each class of...
London: Routledge, 2007. — 186 p. — ISBN10: 075466032X; ISBN13: 978-0754660323. Addressing the essential question of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Deleuze's philosophy this book provides clear indications of the practical implications of Deleuze's approach to the arts through detailed analyses of the ethical dimension of artistic activity in literature,...
London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 225 p. — ISBN: 9781501328978. Svetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architecture, technology, and philosophy in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of Georg Simmel, Henri Bergson, Aby Warburg, and...
London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. — 232 p. This title offers insight into a range of art and performance practices that have emerged as a result a more technological world. These practices are integral to alternative and mainstream performance culture and the author explores their aesthetic theorisation and analyses other approaches, including those offered by research into...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 465 p. Beyond Aesthetics brings together philosophical essays addressing art and related issues by one of the foremost philosophers of art at work today. Countering conventional aesthetic theories – those maintaining that authorial intention, art history, morality, and emotional responses are irrelevant to the experience of art – Noël Carroll...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 204 p. — ISBN 10 0199811806, 13 978-0199811809, ASIN B00FHZZYOU. The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Chatterjee uses neuroscience to probe how an aesthetic sense is etched in our minds and evolutionary psychology to explain why aesthetic concerns feature centrally in our...
New York: BiblioLife, 2008. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0554322870; ISBN13: 978-0554322872. One of the earliest works of this Italian philosopher and literary critic, Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic marks the beginning of Croce's elaboration of his highly influential ideas of aesthetics. Croce defines art in terms of intuition and expression, thus replacing...
Second Edition. — Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 640 p. — (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-6922-6. In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics. Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in...
Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 1996. — 208 p. — ISBN10: 0816622043; ISBN13: 978-0816622047. This book is a rigorous inquiry into the relation of rhetoric, epistemology, anesthetics, one that presents radical notions of materiality. Andrzej Warminski. Introduction: Allegories of Reference The Epistemology of Metaphor Pascal's Allegory of Persuasion Phenomenality and...
New York: Wideview/Perigee Books, 1980. — 445 p. — ISBN10: 0399500251; ISBN13: 9780399500251. Some labyrinths are worth descending into just to get a glimpse of the Minotaur, even if you can't yet defeat him. Art as Experience is one of those. It will require several more descents to get the clearest picture of the Minotaur and more familiarization with the territory in order...
Athenaeum Press, 1990. — 437 p. Language: English. Free Particulars The Law Of Heart: Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke The Kantian Imaginary Schiller and Hegemony The World as Artefact: Fichte, Schelling, Hegel The Death of Desire: Arthur Schopenhauer Absolute Ironies: Soren Kierkegaard The Marxist Sublime True Illusions: Friedrich Nietzsche The Name of the Father: Sigmund Freud The...
Malden, MA: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 — 268 p. — ISBN10: 1472512103; ISBN13: 978-1472512109. This title includes readings that work through tropes disclose the material inscription at the origins of literary texts. Focusing insistently on the practice of rhetorical reading, this book demonstrates how the self-undoing of tropological systems necessarily generates narratives...
Third Edition. Oxon, UK. 2013. 705 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978-0-415-78286-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-78287-6 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-81303-4 (ebk) This companion opens with an historical overview of aesthetics including entries on Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Foucault, Goodman, and Wollheim. The second part covers...
New York: State University of New York Press, 1999. — 220 p. — ISBN10: 0791443167; ISBN13: 978-0791443163. 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 subjective nor objective. The one essential component of art is the new, the sole instrument that can...
London: I.B.Tauris, 2007. — 200 p. — ISBN10: 1845110056; ISBN13: 978-1845110055. This book explores the relationship between religion and the visual arts--and vice versa--within Christianity and other major religious traditions. It identifies and describes the main historical, theological, sociological and aesthetic dimensions of ""religious"" art, with particular attention to...
Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. — 253 p. A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’ Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.orgto learn more. High-Tech Trashanalyzes creative strategies in glitch, noise, and error to chart the development of an aesthetic paradigm rooted in...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2012 — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0231152922; ISBN13: 978-0231152921. 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...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2004. - 368 p. The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and music.Provides a guide to the central traditional and...
Oxford: Oxford University Press — 2006 — 432 p. — ISBN10: 019920618X; ISBN13: 978-0199206186. Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The twenty-four essays range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts--in particular music, film, and literature. It will...
Berlin: Springer, 2011. — 196 p. — ISBN10: 940070030X; ISBN13: 978-9400700307. Artistic Judgement sketches a framework for an account of art suitable to philosophical aesthetics. It stresses differences between artworks and other things; and locates the understanding of artworks both in a narrative of the history of art and in the institutional practices of the art world. Hence...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — xi + 214 p. Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to bring...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — xi + 214 p. Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to bring...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — xi + 214 p. Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to bring...
Continuum, 2012. — 355 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4411-9791-7. Sixteen specially commissioned essays from an international team of experts explore key issues, the latest work and future directions in the field of aesthetics. "The Continuum Companion to Aesthetics" offers the definitive guide to contemporary aesthetics. The book covers all the most pressing and important themes and...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 253 p. — (Political Philosophy and Public Purpose) — ISBN10: 3319523031; ISBN13: 978-3319523033 This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory. In examining the relationship between these two closely intertwined movements,...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 186 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN 978–0–19–955952–7; 978–0–19–922975–8. Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can beexhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. — 184 p. — ISBN: 0-19-2891164-2 Why do people read novels, go to the theater, or listen to beautiful music? Do we seek out aesthetic experiences simply because we enjoy them–or is there another, deeper, reason we spend our leisure time viewing or experiencing works of art? Aesthetics, the first short introduction to the contemporary...
Routledge: New York, 2008. — 206 p. — (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, 10). Experience and the nature of the aesthetic . Aesthetic essence. The aesthetic: from experience to art. Experiential theories of aesthetic value. The dialectic of aesthetics: the new strife between philosophy and art. The value and scope of aesthetic experience . Aesthetic experience: from...
MInneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. — 318 p. In recent years, bioaesthetics has used the latest discoveries in evolutionary studies and neuroscience to provide new ways of looking at art and aesthetics. Carsten Strathausen’s remarkable exploration of this emerging field is the first comprehensive account of its ideas, as well as a timely critique of its...
New York: Continuum, 2002. — 273 p. — ISBN 0–8264–6009–7; ISBN0–8264–6010–0. What do we mean when we speak of "beauty"? What do we experience? Beauty is no longer the human experience of the harmonious object; today an aesthetics of difference has revolutionised our ways of seeing the beautiful. Now, we live in a time of "extreme beauty." This text explores art, literature,...
London, New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2014. — 200 p. — ISBN10: 1783480580; ISBN13: 978-1783480586. By what aesthetic practice might post-politics be disrupted? Now is a moment that many believe has become post-racial, post- national, post-queer, and post-feminist. This belief is reaffirmed by recent events in the politics of diminished expectations, especially...
New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2006. — 265 p. — ISBN10: 0820486469; ISBN13: 978-0820486468. In The Aesthetics of Decay , Dylan Trigg confronts the remnants from the fallout of post-industrialism and postmodernism. Through a considered analysis of memory, place, and nostalgia, Trigg argues that the decline of reason enables a critique of progress to emerge. In this...
5.Baskı. — İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi, 1998. — 282 s. Kitap, onbeş yıl önce Grek Estetik'i adlı kitabımın girişi'nde yaptığın bir çalışma planını uyguluyor. Bu plan, estetik gerçekliğin eksiksiz, tüm öğeleriyle ele alınması gerektiğini öneriyordu. Elimizdeki Estetik de, bu öneriye uyarak, bir yandan estetik süje'yi inceliyor ve bir psikolojik estetik'i temellendiriyor, öbür...
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 9042025484; ISBN13: 978-9042025486. In the history of ideas, the aesthetic categories of the sublime and the grotesque have exerted a powerful force over the cultural imagination. Ambiguous Subjects is one of the first studies to examine the relationship between these concepts. Tracing the history of the sublime from the eighteenth...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 296 p. — ISBN10: 0521839033; ISBN13: 978-0521839037. Lambert Zuidervaart challenges current intellectual trends by proposing a new hermeneutic theory of artistic truth, engaging with both analytic and continental philosophies and clarifying the contemporary cultural scene. Although it is unfashionable to talk about artistic...
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