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This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity, environmental justice and activism, and human moral responsibility for the environment, these contributions demonstrate that beauty is not only a meaningful dimension of our experience, but also...
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According to Greek mythology, Laocoon was a Trojan priest who, along with his two sons, offended the gods. As punishment, the three were strangled by sea serpents. The discovery in 1506 of an ancient Greek sculpture showing the three figures in their death agony not only gave rise to renewed interest in the classical period but also created repercussions in the art world. It was this work of art that German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing used...
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Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy.
In The Tragedy of Philosophy Andrew Cooper challenges the prevailing idea of the death of tragedy, arguing that this assumption reflects a problematic view of both tragedy and philosophy-one that stifles the profound contribution that tragedy could provide to philosophy today. To build this case, Cooper presents a novel reading of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment. Although...
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La filosofía de la decoración, es un artículo poco conocido de Edgar Allan Poe, originalmente escrito para ser publicado en una revista. Sin embargo, fue leído atentamente y recuperado por autores tan relevantes como Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Mario Praz , e incluso, Roberto Bolaño.
La habitación ideal, de Pablo Chiuminatto y Begoña Alberdi, recupera los escritos de estos intelectuales, a través de un acucioso recorrido por el texto...
45) El gusto
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Se ofrece ahora la edición española de Il gusto, publicado en italiano, en 1996, dentro de la serie Lessico dell'estetica, dirigida por Remo Bodei. La edición actual ha sido considerablemente ampliada y corregida, y, aunque conserva la estructura inicial, puede ser considerada como un libro nuevo. Bozal plantea en su estudio sobre el gusto algunos de los problemas fundamentales de la estética contemporánea, las posibles relaciones entre estética...
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This is the first book on the role of cognition in the aesthetic theory of Li Zehou (1930—2021), one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers. The cognitive dimension and its integration with practice is discussed by examining one of Li's pivotal concepts: "subjectality," a human subject shaped by the world in which they live, including beauty and aesthetic experience. Li's theory is also contextualized in the threefold...
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Este libro es una invitación a jugar filosofando y viceversa. Las autoras proponen entrar al mundo de Amanda, que, como cualquer otro niño o niña, se hace preguntas y nos pregunta acerca de su entorno personal, que es también el nuestro. Con una guía para padres, talleristas, mediadores, este libro ilustrado pretende abrir la puerta para salir a pensar el mundo y las personas que en él habitan.
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Selección de una vasta obra de la filosofía alemana que ejerció una gran influencia en el pensamiento europeo de la época y que había caído prácticamente en el olvido. En el volumen se abordan aspectos como la apariencia estética y los sentimientos, la metafísica de la belleza y las formas que adopta la belleza artística. Esta segunda edición de la obra incluye numerosas ampliaciones y correcciones que Richard Müller-Freienfels añadió,...
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A critical study of the concept of form in Adorno's writings on art and literature.
Adorno's Poetics of Form is the first book-length examination of the elusive deployment of the concept of form in Adorno's writings on art and literature, and the first monograph to offer a comprehensive account of the relation of these writings to his broader philosophical project. It examines form within the constellation of concepts that exist around it, considering...
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From the 1970s cult TV show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, to the current hit musical Spamalot, the Monty Python comedy troupe has been at the center of popular culture and entertainment. The Pythons John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam are increasingly recognized and honored for their creativity and enduring influence in the worlds of comedy and film. Monty Python and Philosophy extends that recognition...
51) Thinking the Inexhaustible: Art, Interpretation, and Freedom in the Philosophy of Luigi Pareyson
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Essays address the major themes of Pareyson's hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.
What if the inexhaustible were the only mode of self-revelation of truth? The question of the inexhaustibility of truth, and its relation to being and interpretation, is the challenge posed by the philosophy of the prominent Italian thinker Luigi Pareyson (1918-1991). Art, the interpretation of truth, and the theory of...
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Carl, or Karl, Ludwig Michelet was a 19th century German philosopher and doctor of philosophy educated in the doctrine of Hegel to which he spent his life defending and continuing the tradition of. In this short work, "The Philosophy of Art" we find a treatise similar to Hegel's "Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics." In his introduction to the work Michelet states that "art has for its object the production and realization of the beautiful, and the...
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Explores the full extent of Hegel's interest in tragedy and comedy throughout his works and extends from more literary and dramatic issues to questions about the role these genres play in the history of society and religion.
No philosopher has treated the subject of tragedy and comedy in as original and searching a manner as G. W. F. Hegel. His concern with these genres runs throughout both his early and late works and extends from aesthetic issues...
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A finales del siglo xix y comienzos del xx, Viena experimentó una eclosión cultural de tal magnitud que acabó convirtiéndose en uno de los principales hitos culturales de la historia de la humanidad. Sin embargo, la I Guerra Mundial acabó de un plumazo con el espíritu de la Viena fin-de-siècle. Es cierto que nos quedan las obras de los genios que la capital del Imperio Austro-húngaro acogió en su seno, pero ya no podemos verlos como contemporáneos...
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Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Lucchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the predicament of the novella's central character to Western thought's most compelling questions. In Mann's story, the author Gustav von Aschenbach becomes...
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The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and encourages the appreciation of not just natural environments but also human-made and human-modified landscapes. Nature and Landscape is an important introduction to this rapidly growing area of aesthetic...
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This book, a collection of newly commissioned essays by leading environmental philosophers, was originally to be published by Seven Bridges, a small scholarly press started by former editors at Stanford University Press. Seven Bridges is folding due to poor financing, and this book is now available. It is already in pages, with a cover design, and each chapter has been double-blind peer-reviewed and revised. Andrew Light is a professor of applied...
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The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan's ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial attitudes toward religion. All phases of Dylan's output are covered, from his early acoustic folk ballads and anthem-like protest songs to his controversial...
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Intuition and Mind. Are they mutually exclusive terms? Or can a science of aesthetics help us understand the way our mind and emotions work together to create art?
George Lowell Tollefson discusses these issues in light of literature, sculpture, music, and painting in this excerpt from his longer work, Unbridled Democracy.
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Taste as Experience puts the pleasure of food at the center of human experience. It shows how the sense of taste informs our preferences and relationship to nature, pushes us toward ethical practices of consumption, and impresses upon us the importance of aesthetics. Eating is often dismissed as a necessary aspect of survival, and our personal enjoyment of food is considered a quirk. Nicola Perullo sees food as the only portion of the world we take...
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