Essays in Aesthetics
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Books for Libraries
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Books for Libraries
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Zehou Li
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780739113219
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Available for the first time in English, Li Zehou's philosophical aesthetics interpret the historical origins and evolution of aesthetic experience and their significance to the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth of human beings. Although LI's ideas have been debated in China for more than two decades, his conversations with Jane Cauvel will now allow Western students and philosophers to re-encounter Chinese and Western conceptions of aesthetics, and the way art shapes indiciduals, societies, technology, and the future of humankind.
Author: Noël Carroll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-04-30
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780521786560
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Claims authorial intention, art history, and morality play a role in our encounter with art works.
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2012-01-17
Total Pages: 107
ISBN-13: 145322856X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DIVDIVRenowned 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/divDIVEssays 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 for the sensibilities of the artist with a fascinating analysis of the techniques of the artist as creator. The result is a vibrant manifesto of existentialist aesthetics./divDIV /divDIVBy looking at existentialism through the lens of great art, Essays in Aesthetics is just as valuable a read to the artist as it is to the philosopher./divDIV /div/div
Author: A. Minh Nguyen
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2017-12-29
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 0739180827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection begins with an engaging historical overview of Japanese aesthetics and offers contemporary multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Japan and the central themes in Japanese art and aesthetics.
Author: John M. Dunaway
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780865545007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Beauty That Saves, a collection of essays by many of the most prominent American and European scholars on Weil, begins with a foreword by well-known writer Vladimir Volkoff who discusses, in a very moving manner, "What Simone Weil Means to Me". An introductory essay by Eric O. Springsted highlights the general character of Weil's thought and introduces the specific problematic of this collection. The first section addresses the subject of Weil on language. A key to understanding Weil's aesthetic is grasping how she understood language and its various usages. From within that understanding is contained a point d'appui of her philosophical thought as a whole. Her universe of meaning, its hierarchies, its subjection to necessity, its mystical intimacies, is not something she simply wrote about, it is contained in the way she wrote. With Weil's language established, the second section deals with Weil's explicit reflections on aesthetics, including essays on her sacramental imagery, morality and literature, music, and her classical reading of tragedy. As these essays point out, her aesthetic demands a moral and religious reading of the universe. The third section presents a number of specific Weilan readings of art, where what has been discussed in previous essays receives concrete application and illustration through essays on Weil and Wallace Stevens, music, and Georges Bernanos.
Author: Jerrold Levinson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780801482267
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Agnes Heller
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0739141317
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays around the topics of aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy, aesthetic reception, and embodiment. The essays draw on Heller's deep appreciation of aesthetics in all its forms from the classical to the Renaissance and the contemporary periods. Heller's recent work on aesthetics explores the complex status of artworks within the context of the history of modernity, and she engages this task with a critical recognition of modernity's pitfalls. This collection highlights these pitfalls in the context of continuing possibilities for aesthetics and our relationship with works of art, and it throws light on Heller's theory of emotions and feelings and her theory of modernity. Aesthetics and Modernity collects the essential essays of Agnes Heller and is a must-read for anyone interested in Heller's major contributions to philosophy. John Rundell is associate professor of social theory at the University of Melbourne. "--Book jacket.
Author: Arnold Berleant
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1351903705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essays, collected by Berleant in this volume all express the impulse to reject the received wisdom of modern aesthetics: that art demands a mode of experience sharply different from others and unique to the aesthetic situation, and that the identity of the aesthetic lies in keeping it distinct from other kinds of human experience, such as the moral, the practical, and the social. Berleant shows, on the contrary, that the value, the insight, the force of art and the aesthetic are all enhanced and enlarged by recognizing their social and human role, and that this recognition contributes both to the significance of art and to its humanizing influence on what we like to call civilization.
Author: Georg Simmel
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 022662109X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book is a first of its kind: an edited collection bringing the finest of Georg Simmel's writing on art and aesthetics together, and bringing many of these essays into English for the first time. Simmel is considered one of the founding fathers of modern sociology but he, like his contemporary Walter Benjamin, wrote about many aspects of life and culture. Simmel's intellectual contributions have long been recognized and he is a keystone in cultural theory of the early 20th century. The essays in this collection are gathered topically and show the wide range of Simmel's thinking even within the arts: aesthetics, landscape, theater, sculpture, literature, and more. Austin Harrington is the brilliant guide behind this substantial volume. He served as editor and translator and also wrote an introduction. Richly informative and thoroughly familiar with Simmel's life and work, Harrington's introduction will itself be an important contribution to the scholarship on Simmel"--