Philosophy: aesthetics Books

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Haunting: Whitehead & Mies is about an architectural design research project based on a study of Mies van der Rohe’s self-proclaimed interest in the thought of the British mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead. The research...

Diese Ausgabe stellt eine Neuausgabe von Johann Jakob Mohrs Aphorismensammlung „Gedanken über Leben und Kunst" dar. Die Erstausgabe erschien anno 1879 im Verlag von Mahlau & Waldschmidt. Für die Neuausgabe wurde die Rechtschreibung behutsam modernisiert...

Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition. Deakin critiques four canonical writers of the English Romantic tradition, Coleridge, Wordsworth, P.B. Shelley and Mary...

This original study examines Jean-François Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to...

Offering a simplified approach to understanding the mechanisms of beautiful performance, this book attempts to design a framework with which to interpret performers and their movement. Beginning as a critique of the modern culture of performance, the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This book is primarily for students and is designed to be used in tandem with the ancient Greek text or with any of the dozens of available translations generally titled The Poetics that cost a few dollars each or that are free on the Internet...

Alain Badiou occupies the place of the teacher whose primary responsibility rests on the transmission of tradition. The transmission occurs as a consequence of the teacher, the master, the professor, or, as it happens, the old man. Clearly, Badiou...

Now back in print, and in paperback, these two classic volumes illustrate the scope and quality of Royce's thought, providing the most comprehensive selection of his writings currently available. They offer a detailed presentation of the viable...

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.Is Harpo Free? is a lively appreciation of film and television's ability to artistically explore concepts...

"Sometimes I have a difficult time accepting my good fortune to be living at this particular time -- nothing has made me feel more that way than reading Dr. Jerome's fascinating, realistic, and informative book. It is a "treasure house" of wonderful...

Aesthetic Collectives works to name, describe, and analyse the notion of collectivity in performance.

This collection of essays challenges the prevailing assumption that eighteenth-century German philosophy prior to Kant was largely defined by post-Leibnizian rationalism and, accordingly, a low esteem of the cognitive function of the senses. It does so...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

De Aristarchi Studiis Homericis est liber auctore Lehrs, Karlo anno MDCCCLXV editus. In hoc libro, auctor Aristarchi commentarios de Homeri carminibus tractat, qui sunt inter primos et maxime celebres Homericorum interpretum. Lehrs Aristarchi studia,...

De Argonavtarvm Reditv Qvaestiones Selectae est liber auctore Edvardo Fitch anno MDCCCXCVI editus. Hic liber quaestiones selectas de Argonavtorvm Reditv tractat, quae fabulam Graecam de Argonavtis et eorum expeditione ad Colchidem secuti sunt. Fitch, qui...

Liber ""De Argonautarum Fabula Quae Veterum Scriptores Tradiderint, Part 1-2: Dissertatio Inauguralis"" auctore Kennerknecht, Daniel, anno 1886 editus est. In hoc libro, auctor fabulam Argonautarum, quae a scriptoribus antiquis tradita est, investigat et...

De Canone Decem Oratorum Atticorum Quaestiones est liber scriptus a Brzoska, Julio anno MDCCCLXXXIII. In hoc libro auctor quaestiones de decem oratoribus Atticis, qui sunt Demosthenes, Aeschines, Lycurgus, Isocrates, Lysias, Andocides, Antiphon,...

De Adagiis D. Erasmi Roterodami est liber qui scriptus est ab Emilio Chasles anno MDCCCLXII. In hoc libro, Chasles agit de adagiis quas Erasmus Roterodamus, humanista et theologiae professor, scripsit. Adagia sunt sententiae breves et memorabiles quae in...

Das Buch ""Das Todtungsverbrechen Im Altromischen Recht"" von Brunnenmeister, Emil wurde im Jahr 1887 ver������ffentlicht. Es behandelt das Thema des T������tungsverbrechens im r������mischen Recht. Der Autor untersucht dabei die verschiedenen Aspekte...

Das Paulinische Evangelium ist ein Buch von Johannes Henricus Scholten, das im Jahr 1881 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es handelt sich um eine theologische Abhandlung �����ber die Schriften des Apostels Paulus und seine Rolle in der Entstehung des...

Dieses Buch untersucht die ästhetische Philosophie von Friedrich Schiller und zeigt, wie er die Wahrnehmung von Kunstwerken und Schönheit in der Natur konzipierte. Der Autor diskutiert Schillers Konzepte der Freiheit und Würde des Menschen sowie seine...

In diesem Buch untersucht Schröter die Ästhetik der Blumen und ihre Bedeutung in der Philosophie. Er diskutiert dabei sowohl die ästhetischen als auch die symbolischen Eigenschaften der Blumen und zeigt, wie sie in verschiedenen philosophischen Schriften...

Essai philosophique sur l'imagination et son rôle dans la création artistique. Charles Victor de Bonstetten aborde également la question de la réception esthétique et décrit la manière dont le récepteur s'approprie l'oeuvre d'art.This work has been...

Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts explores the idea of a Neoplatonic aesthetic, a philosophy of the arts based on the writings of Plato and the Neoplatonists - principally Plotinus, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas Cusanus,...

Appearing in English for the first time, Schelling's 1842 lectures develop the idea that many philosophical concepts are born of religious-mythological notions.Translated here into English for the first time, F. W. J. Schelling's 1842 lectures on the...

Explores how historical, artistic, and technological developments and cross-cultural exchange have altered our conceptions of creativity.Creativity and Beyond offers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary tour of cultures past and present to examine the...

This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour.

The "organic" is by now a venerable concept within aesthetics, architecture, and art history, but what might such a term mean within the spatialities and temporalities of film? By way of an answer, this concise and innovative study locates organicity in...

In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Gabriel soon finds himself at a secret underground anarchist meeting place, under oath not to disclose its existence to...

This vintage book contains the third volume of Arthur Schopenhauer's 1818 treatise, "The World As Will And Idea". One of the most influential philosophical works of the nineteenth century, it is Schopenhauer's greatest endeavour, and constitutes the...

This vintage book contains the second volume of Arthur Schopenhauer's 1818 treatise, "The World As Will And Idea". One of the most influential philosophical works of the nineteenth century, it is Schopenhauer's greatest endeavour, and constitutes the...

This vintage book contains the first volume of Arthur Schopenhauer's 1818 treatise, "The World As Will And Idea". One of the most influential philosophical works of the nineteenth century, it is Schopenhauer's greatest endeavour, and constitutes the...

Johann Gottfried Herder As An Educator is a book written by James Mace Andress and published in 1916. The book explores the life and work of Johann Gottfried Herder, a German philosopher, theologian, and literary critic who lived in the 18th century...

""Astronomische Reiseberichte oder Skizzen der Topographie des Himmels und planetarischen Metempsychose"" ist ein Buch von Joseph Emil Nurnberger aus dem Jahr 1837. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung von Reiseberichten, die sich mit der Astronomie und der...

Atticarum et Romanarum Legum Collatio est opus Valentini Rivaltae, quod anno millesimo nongentesimo editum est. In hoc libro, auctor comparationem facit inter leges Atticas et Romanas, ut legum similitudines et differentiae elucescant. Rivalta haec...

Academicorum Quae Supersunt est opus M. Tullii Ciceronis, oratoris Romani, quod anno 1863 editum est. In hoc libro, Ciceronis disputatio inter Academicos et Stoicos narratur. Academicorum Quae Supersunt est una ex libris philosophicis Ciceronis, quae ad...