Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Dissonance
Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power...
by Maria Alina Asavei
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Should politically concerned and engaged artistic production disregard questions or/and requirements of aesthetic reception and value? Whether art should be “aesthetic” or “political” is not a new question. Therefore, in spite of those several contemporary approaches of this issue, the answer...
Declarations of Dependence
Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Declarations of Dependence rethinks the historical relationship between money and aesthetics in an effort to make critical theory newly answerable to politics. Scott Ferguson regrounds critical theory in the alternative conception of money articulated by the contemporary heterodox school of political...
by Lev Manovich
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
AI plays a crucial role in the global cultural ecosystem. It recommends what we should see, listen to, read, and buy. It determines how many people will see our shared content. It helps us make aesthetic decisions when we create media. In professional cultural production, AI has already been adapted...
The Aesthetics of Food
The Philosophical Debate About What We Eat and Drink
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
The Aesthetics of Food sets out the continuing philosophical debate about the aesthetic nature of food. The debate begins with Plato’s claim that only objects of sight and hearing could be beautiful; consequently, food as something we smell and taste could not be beautiful. Plato’s sceptical position...
Mindful Aesthetics
Literature and the Science of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In the last few decades, literary critics have increasingly drawn insights from cognitive neuroscience to deepen and clarify our understanding of literary representations of mind. This cognitive turn has been equally generative and contentious. While cognitive literary studies has reinforced how central...
Aesthetics in Present Future
The Arts and the Technological Horizon
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Aesthetics in Present Future: The Arts and the Technological Horizon collects essays by specialized scholars and a few artists, who focus on the issue of how deeply the arts change when conveyed by the new media (the web; 3D printers, videos, etc.) or also simply diffused by them. Every author shows...
Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy
An Essay in Political Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Public space is political space. When a work of public art is put up or taken down, it is an inherently political statement, and the work’s aesthetics are inextricably entwined with its political valences. Democracy’s openness allows public art to explore its values critically and to suggest new...
Reckoning with the Imagination
Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultimately fall short because...
Afterness
Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
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...
Michael Fried and Philosophy
Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
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,...
by Georg Lukács
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
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...
Understanding Music
Philosophy and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997)Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the...
by Jerrold Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
This is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson's 1990 book Music, Art, and Metaphysics, which gathers together the writings that made him a leading figure in contemporary aesthetics. Most of the essays are distinguished by a concern with metaphysical questions about artworks and their properties,...