Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1980. En El estilo literario de Marx, Ludovico Silva sostiene que gran parte de la confusión en torno a la obra de Marx se debe a una falta de comprensión de su modo de expresión literaria. A través de lecturas meticulosas de pasajes clave de la obra de Marx, Silva aísla los elementos clave de su estilo: su búsqueda de una unidad...
Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1989. — 468 S. Das Schöne, heißt es, ist nicht das Wahre, während die Philosophie auf eine Sehnsucht der menschlichen Seele nach unmittelbarer Nähe zur Wahrheit verweist. Diese Situation änderte sich erst mit Kants kritischem Werk: Objektivität von Vorstellungen hat ihr Kriterium in der Wahrheit von Aussagen über sie; und letztere gründet in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 384 p. — ISBN: 3319974653. This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley Cavell’s lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic understanding. Focusing on various strands of the rich body of Cavell’s philosophical work, the authors explore connections between his wide-ranging writings on literature, music, film, opera, autobiography,...
Scarecrow Press, 2006. — 416 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series 72). Aesthetics is not a 'factual' discipline; there are no aesthetic facts. The word itself is derived from the Greek word for 'feeling' and the discipline arises because of the need to find a place for the passions within epistemology branch of philosophy that...
Seeker & Warburg, 2004. — 418 p. Beauty is neither a history of art nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style, Beauty has been conceived for a vast and diversified readership: taking in painting,...
Hildebrand Press, 2019. — 477 p. "Hildebrand’s thinking deserves the greatest attention from philosophers today…his fine observations will surely stimulate a discussion of which we are all greatly in need." – Sir Roger Scruton. "Dietrich von Hildebrand’s engaging studies of different art forms is a marvelous illustration of the way phenomenology is uniquely accessible to a...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 255 p. What does eating have to do with aesthetic taste? While most accounts of aesthetic history avoid the gustatory aspects of taste, this book rewrites standard history to uncover the constitutive and dramatic tension between appetite and aesthetics at the heart of British literary tradition. From Milton through the Romantics, the metaphor of...
Verso, 2007. — 220 p. An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature. No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics, the...
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. — 581 p. Comintern Aesthetics shows how the cultural and political networks emerging from the Comintern have continued, even after its demise in 1943. Chronology: Comintern Aesthetics – Between Politics and Culture. Editors’ Note. Introduction: Comintern Aesthetics – Space, Form, History. Space: Geopoetics, Networks, Translation....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. — 353 p. Hegel is known as "the father of art history," yet recent scholarship has overlooked his contributions. This is the first comprehensive interpretation of Hegel's philosophy of art in English in thirty years. In a new analysis of Hegel's notorious "end of art" thesis,Hegel's Aesthetics shows the indispensability of Hegel's...
Seeker & Warburg, 2004. — 418 p. — ISBN: 0436205173. Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style, Beauty has been conceived for a vast and diversified readership:...
University Press of America, Inc., 2013. — 175 p. — ISBN: 0761861564. Erman Kaplama explores the principle of transition (Übergang) from metaphysics to physics developed by Kant in his unfinished magnum opus, Opus Postumum. Drawing on the Heraclitean logos and Kant’s notions of sense-intuition (Anschauung) and reflective judgment, Kaplama interprets transition as an aesthetic...
University Press of America, Inc., 2013. — 222 p. — ISBN: 0761861564. Erman Kaplama explores the principle of transition (Übergang) from metaphysics to physics developed by Kant in his unfinished magnum opus, Opus Postumum. Drawing on the Heraclitean logos and Kant’s notions of sense-intuition (Anschauung) and reflective judgment, Kaplama interprets transition as an aesthetic...
Boston: Beacon Press, 1979. — 88 p. — ISBN10: 0807015199; ISBN13: 978-0807015193. Translated by , Erica Sherover. Developing a concept briefly introduced in Counterrevolution and Revolt , Marcuse here addresses the shortcomings of Marxist aesthetic theory and explores a dialectical aesthetic in which art functions as the conscience of society. Marcuse argues that art is the...
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. — 429 p. — ISBN10: 0821412817; ISBN13: 978-0821412817. Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics seeks to locate the aesthetic concern within the larger framework of each thinker's philosophy. In Professor Robert...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002 — 440 p. — ISBN10: 0691048827; ISBN13: 978-0691048826. Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later...
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. — 172 p. — ISBN10: 904202433X; ISBN13: 978-9042024335. This compact, indispensable overview answers a vexed question: Why do so many works of modern and postmodern literature and art seem designed to appear 'strange', and how can they still cause pleasure in the beholder? To help overcome the initial barrier caused by this 'strangeness', the general...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0195146336; ISBN13: 978-0195146332. Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age examines a variety of significant multidisciplinary and multicultural topics within the subject of aesthetics. Addressing the vexed relation of the arts and criticism to current political and cultural concerns, the contributors to this volume attempt...
Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2015. — 344 p. — ISBN10: 0822358727; ISBN13: 978-0822358725. This collection examines key aesthetic avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century and their relationships with revolutionary politics. The contributors distinguish aesthetic avant-gardes — whose artists aim to transform society and the ways of sensing the world through...
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctorate of Philosophy. — University of Washington, 2012. — 257 p. Animation and Reanimation in the Victorian Gothic, establishes the aesthetic of the body in motion as central to ongoing debates about the status of gender and race politics in an increasingly urbane and post-colonial Empire....
N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. - 511 p. ISBN: 978-0870994678. In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement. Director's Foreword by Philippe de Montebello. Lenders to the Exhibition. Explanatory Notes. Artifact as Ideology: The Aesthetic Movement in its American Cultural Context. Roger B. Stein. Decorating Surfaces: Aesthetic Delight, Theoretical Dilemma....
Routledge, 2000. - 640 p. The Continental Aesthetics Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of classic writings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in Continental thought. The Reader is divided into six sections, each clearly placed in its historical and philosophical context: Nineteenth Century German Aesthetics, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Marxism and...
Painting gender, constructivist theory. Circle of Alfred Stieglitz (American photographer (1864-1946), thanks to whom photography became a recognized art) and formalist aesthetics. The MIT Press, 2001. - 391 p. English language. - Introduction Part I Embodied Formalism: The Formation of a Discourse - Puritan Repression and the Whitmanic Ideal: The Stieglitz Circle and Debates...