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1) What Is Art?
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While Tolstoy may be best remembered as the talented Russian author of such monumentally great works as "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", he also wrote prolifically in essay format on various subjects. In this volume Tolstoy turns his attention to the study of aesthetics and art in all its forms. Based on fifteen years of research, "What is Art?" is Tolstoy's intellectual exposition into answering the titular question. Rich with criticism for his...
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German philosopher and influential 18th century late Enlightenment thinker Immanuel Kant wrote "Critique of Judgment" in 1790 to solidify his ideas on aesthetics. Often referred to as the "third critique", it follows Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason," published in 1781, and "Critique of Practical Reason", published in 1788 and completes his "Critical" project. Divided into two sections, one on aesthetic judgment and the other on teleological judgment,...
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"Counsels and Maxims: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer" by Arthur Schopenhauer is a thought-provoking collection of philosophical essays that offer profound insights and practical wisdom for navigating the complexities of human existence. In this compelling anthology, Schopenhauer distills his philosophical ideas into concise and memorable aphorisms, providing readers with a guide for living a more fulfilled and enlightened life. With his characteristic...
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18th century German philosopher, poet, and playwright, Friedrich Schiller began writing while he was in the army. Commanded to stop by his superiors he deserted the army, moved to another country, and began writing under a false name. Schiller was a deep-thinker on ethics and aesthetics. His beliefs held that beauty is not just an aesthetic experience, but that it is also connected with goodness. An essay on aesthetics first published in 1794, "On...
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It is remarkably appropriate that this work on aesthetics should have been written by George Santayana, who is probably the most brilliant philosophic writer and the philosopher with the strongest sense of beauty since Plato. It is not a dry metaphysical treatise, as works on aesthetics so often are, but is itself a fascinating document: as much a revelation of the beauty of language as of the concept of beauty.
This unabridged reproduction of the...
6) Intentions
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854—1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Well-known for his sharp wit and extravagant attire, Wilde was a proponent of aestheticism and wrote in a variety of forms including poetry, fiction, and drama. He was famously imprisoned for homosexual acts from 1895 to 1897 and died at the age of 46, just three years after his release. Although...
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Is nothing everything? As strange as that question looks at first sight, it will definitely make sense after reading NOTHING MATTERS. Provocative and accessible, free of jargon, NOTHING MATTERS shows that there is, more to nothing than meets the eye. History, the arts, philosophy, politics, religion, cosmology, all are, touched by nothing. Who, for example, could have believed that nothing held back progress for 600-years, all because of mistaken...
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The relevance of Martin Heidegger's thinking to Paul Celan's poetry is well-known. Between Celan and Heidegger proposes that, while the relation between them is undeniable, it is also marked by irreducible discord. Pablo Oyarzun begins with a deconstruction of Celan's Todtnauberg, written after the poet visited Heidegger in his Schwarzwald cabin. The poem stands as a milestone, not only in the complex relationship between the two men but also in the...
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Contained in this volume is the first part of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgement, which is subtitled The Critique of Aesthetic Judgement and in which Kant discusses aesthetics and how as humans we decide what is beautiful and how in turn we respond to that beauty. Immanuel Kant, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophers of all time gives us much to consider on the nature of beauty in this intriguing exposition on the subject....
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The guiding theme of these essays by aesthetician, musician, and Santayana scholar Morris Grossman is the importance of preserving the tension between what can be unified and what is disorganized, random, and miscellaneous. Grossman described this as the tension between art and morality: Art arrests a sense of change and yields moments of unguarded enjoyment and peace; but soon, shifting circumstances compel evaluation, decision, and action. According...
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Contemplar el arte es una colección de ensayos de Jerrold Levinson, una de las principales figuras de la estética contemporánea. El libro se divide en siete partes dedicadas al arte en general y a diferentes artes como la literatura, la pintura, la música y el cine. Los capítulos dedicados a la música ocupan la parte central del volumen y presentan algunas de las ideas más originales y discutidas del pensamiento de Levinson, sobre la naturaleza...
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Fernández Gonzalo, uno de los pensadores y creadores más valiosos y versálites de las últimas hornadas, afirma en este impresionante ensayo que "es tan fácil contemplar la guerra y sus imágenes como difícil es transcribir verbalmente sus signos: la verdad de la guerra resbala siempre entre las fisuras del discurso".
La guerra se ha convertido en uno de los principales índices de datación histórica. A partir de ella, articulamos la masa de...
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Las imágenes traspasan nuestras vidas, y también las artes, la literatura y el pensamiento. En nuestra época, lo hacen a un ritmo superior a cualquier capacidad de análisis. Este pequeño libro, dirigido a lectores curiosos, observa y compara las consideraciones sobre la imagen en la obra de dos maestros tardíamente reconocidos:
Aby Warburg (1866-1929) y Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Hacer estas relaciones habría resultado extravagante hace...
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Crítica del poder. Fases en la reflexión de una Teoría Crítica de la sociedad es la obra que permitió la consagración de su autor en la primera línea de la filosofía alemana contemporánea y fue el pistoletazo de salida de un brillante itinerario intelectual que ha terminado llevando a Honneth nada menos que a dirigir el célebre Institut für Socialforschung sito en la Goethe Universität frankfurtiana desde el año 2001 y a intervenir, apoyado...
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A complete and original theory of aesthetics based on Marx and Althusser in the modernist Marxist anti-humanist tradition (Brecht, Althusser, Benjamin, Adorno). The main concepts that arise from this work are, the aesthetic level of practice, aesthetic state apparatuses, aesthetic interpellation, and pseudo dialectics, all of which are used to understand the role of aesthetic experience and its place in everyday life. In the space long thought as...
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Against those, who consider architecture to be a wholly optimistic activity, this book shows how the history of modern architecture is inextricably tied to ideas of failure and ruin. By means of an original reading of the earliest origins of modernism, the Architecture of Failure exposes the ways, in which failure has been, suppressed, ignored, and denied, in the way we, design our cities. It examines the 19th century fantasy architecture of the iron...
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Estamos hechos para la belleza, y la belleza está hecha para nosotros. Lo que nosotros hemos olvidado, los antiguos lo sabían bien: la verdadera belleza sana el alma, nos aproxima a lo sobrenatural y nos brinda una felicidad duradera. Estas páginas, repletas de la sabiduría de los clásicos, nos abren los ojos del entendimiento para la belleza que nos rodea. Porque la belleza no está en el ojo del que mira, y no es solamente para los cultos,...
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Las incursiones de Fichte, a diferencia de sus compañeros de generación (Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Schelegel, Schiller?), en el territorio de la estética son, comparativamente, exiguas. Pero estas contadas intervenciones fueron decisivas para comprender los derroteros que seguirá la estética en el idealismo y el romanticismo. La controversia entre los dos grandes filósofos alemanes, iniciada en la revista Las Horas, hacía referencia, en primer...
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Proposes a distinctly American approach to aesthetic judgment and practice.
Although there are distinctly American artists-Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andy Warhol, for example-very little attention has been devoted to formulating any distinctively American characteristics of aesthetic judgment and practice. This volume takes a step in this direction, presenting an introductory essay on the possibility of...
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Philosophers, social scientists, and natural scientists argue over whether a natural scientific account of human being is compatible with uniquely human norms like ethics, justice, art, and the concern for truth. Many attempts at such an account have been tried and failed; others, like evolutionary psychology, have tried but stumbled. “The Emergence of Value” argues that a broad enough understanding of nature and human nature can incorporate human...
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