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Pursuit of Wisdom is a reflection upon the days of heroes and legends. Pursuit of Wisdom depicts Caryatid, a troubadour, versed in paradoxes and contradictions, who had a bent for wisdom. Together with his wife, Durosinmi, his dream was realized but they continued because they believe that the search for wisdom is like a divine story that never ends.
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Textos que se concentran en las estéticas que celebran el tránsito en las poderosas narraciones en las que se contempla la esperanza, los sueños individuales, las ilusiones, la familia, la comunidad, el hogar y las relaciones humanas, también bajo los ojos agudos de las relaciones de género, tema que se aborda desde una perspectiva socio antropológica y cultural.
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Entre la multiplicidad de afluentes que convergen en el pensamiento de Benjamin, el que proviene del temprano romanticismo alemán ha recibido una atención signicativamente menor. Sin embargo, una parte importante de este pensamiento toma forma a partir de un esfuerzo por radicalizar algunos conceptos fundamentales del círculo de Jena. Así ocurre con el mayor de todos, el de "crítica" y el de "crítica de arte" (si es que fueran dos, si es que...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. We have reached the end of art, states Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in The Philosophy of Art. Hegel charts the progression of art in order to show how it reached its full and final development. But that does not mean that art is dead to us-far from it. Hegel argues for the significance of the philosophy of art, which for him ranks higher than the study of nature...
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a late 18th and early 19th century German philosopher, was one of the foremost thinkers of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism. He created a framework known as Absolute Idealism that was able to account for the relation of the mind, nature, art, the state, and history. Ultimately, he believed...
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From William Blake through to Iain Sinclair, literature has sought to engage with and transform urban space. Architects now seek the input of poets, and storytelling is, employed in urban regeneration. Writing Urban Space investigates this relationship between imaginative writing and the built environment.
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Robert Fludd, o Robertus de Fluctibus, es uno de los personajes más representativos del hermetismo. Dedicó una buena parte de sus trabajos a la música, en la línea de la tradición de la Grecia antigua. Esta edición, con una magnífica introducción del musicólogo Luis Robledo, presenta la traducción de los textos dedicados a la música del propio Fludd y su visión paradigmática de la armonía universal. Un trabajo trascendente, que ha servido...
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Este texto es el resultado de una investigación conceptual sobre los objetos técnicos que conforman nuestros entornos cotidianos, pretende resaltar las consideraciones filosóficas que resultan de estudiarlos bajo las preguntas: ¿qué tipo de entidades son los artefactos técnicos cotidianos? ¿qué papel juegan en la constitución de las culturas humanas?
Los artefactos tienen relaciones y descripciones, dentro de nichos de cultura material,...
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Renowned French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre references artists such as Tintoretto, Calder, Lapoujade, Titian, Raphael, and Michaelangelo in discussing how great art of the past relates to the challenges of his era Essays in Aesthetics is a provocative collection that considers the nature of art and its meaning. Sartre considers the artist's "function," and the relation of art and the artist to the human condition. Sartre integrates his deep concern...
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Despite the prominence of feminist theory in literary, film, and visual arts critique, feminist theories of aesthetics remain rare, obscuring a crucial chapter in women's history. Ewa Plonowska Ziarek redresses this oversight through a full articulation of feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. Her study is one of the first to combine...
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Is it possible to be a committed Christian and a rock superstar? Can political activists make good music? Do hugely successful rock bands really care about AIDS and poverty in Africa, or is it just another image-enhancing schtick? U2 and Philosophy ponders these and other seeming dichotomies in the career of the Irish supergroup. For over two decades, U2 has been one of the biggest acts in rock music. They've produced over a dozen platinum and multiplatinum...
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Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have special kinds of beauty and sublimity that offer aesthetic transcendence. They take us imaginatively beyond our finite limits and even invoke a sense of the divine. Such aesthetic transcendence forges a...
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Examines the role that poets and the poetic word play in the formation of philosophical thinking in the modern German tradition.
Several of the most celebrated philosophers in the German tradition since Kant afford to poetry an all-but-unprecedented status in Western thought. Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Gadamer argue that the scope, limits, and possibilities of philosophy are intimately intertwined with those of poetry. For them, poetic...
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While the other members of his clan enjoy wrestling, throwing spears, and fighting, Leif prefers to hike up the mountain and enjoy the peace of his beautiful fjord; but when clan loyalty demands that he participate in the Viking Games--he does the best he can, but when it comes to comparing clan treasures, Leif has a surprise for everybody.
75) Wabi Sabi
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Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.
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Los ensayos recogidos en el presente volumen reflexionan sobre el valor del arte desde diferentes perspectivas. En primer lugar, se interrogan sobre la existencia de un valor específico del trabajo artístico y las obras de arte. En particular, algunos textos abordan la cuestión central del valor estético y de su conexión con la interpretación, la apreciación y el juicio de las obras de arte. En segundo lugar, ocupa un espacio central del libro...
77) Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy
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Offers a compelling intercultural perspective on body, art, self, and society.
Reconsidering the Life of Power examines Chinese perspectives on bodily self-cultivation and explores how these can be resources for working past the ritual scripts of everyday life. In recent decades, European and American thinkers like Michel Foucault and Judith Butler have called attention to the way that people live out ritual scripts in order to be recognized by...
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Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts afford us of things (not merely, as with logic, the principles of the form of thought in general irrespective of the objects), and, thus interpreted, the course, usually adopted, of dividing it into theoretical and practical is perfectly sound. But this makes imperative a specific distinction on the part of the concepts by which the principles of this rational...
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How To Like Everything is a utopia. 'Utopia' is a word invented five hundred years ago at the start of the modern age as a description of the ideal society. It's composed of Latin parts that taken together mean 'no place' or 'nowhere'. We now use the word utopia to mean an impossible dream of perfection. How To Like Everything recasts the actual world, the forever-changing world we live in, as utopia: to make the impossible possible. This is not a...
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