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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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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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"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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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...
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A study of the significance of the visual arts in Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics in relation to the work of five artists not known or discussed by him.
Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological ontology engages deeply with visual art, and this aspect of his work remains significant not only to philosophers, but also to artists, art theorists, and critics. Until recently, scholarly attention has been focused on the artists he himself was inspired by and wrote...
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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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Can games be art? When film critic Roger Ebert claimed in 2010 that videogames could never be art it was, seen as a snub by many gamers. But, from the perspective of philosophy of art this question was topsy turvey, since according to one of the most influential theories of representation all art is a game. Kendall Walton's prop theory explains how we interact with paintings, novels, movies and other artworks in terms of imaginary games, like a child's...
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In this 1922 scholarly landmark, influential British critic I. A. Richards and his colleagues Charles Ogden and James Wood lay out a new theory of harmony and balance in a work of literature-the two mingle with an audience's psychological impulses in order to determine how the work is perceived. This study is a key text of the New Criticism, which forever changed how scholars read and analyze literature.
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Este escrito muestra, de la mano de Wittgenstein, la importancia del concepto de expresión, dándole consistencia desde diferentes momentos de la filosofía.
El uso de un concepto artístico en campos filosóficos es más un experimento que un riguroso estudio de cómo es que el autor dice algo sin temor equivocarse, pretensión que desde el mismo contexto wittgensteiniano pierde toda validez, pues no se puede conocer algo ni interpretarlo, sino...
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En la ingeniosa unión del pasado con el presente reside el secreto de la arrasadora y milagrosa fuerza vital del arte barroco del ingenio, que posee poderes casi divinos: las cosas mudas hablan; viven las insensatas, resurgen las muertas: las tumbas, los mármoles, las estatuas; de esta encantadora de las almas reciben voz, espíritu y movimiento. Razonan ingeniosamente con los hombres de ingenio. En fin, no puede decirse muerto a algo que el ingenio...
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Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content.
Both musicians and laypersons can perceive purely instrumental music without words or an associated story or program as expressing emotions such as happiness and sadness. But how? In this book, Saam Trivedi discusses and critiques the leading philosophical approaches to this question, including formalism,...
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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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What is art? The arts establishment has a simple answer: anything is art if a reputed artist or expert says it is. Though many people are skeptical about the alleged new art forms that have proliferated since the early twentieth century, today's critics claim that all such work, however incomprehensible, is art. A groundbreaking alternative to this view is provided by philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand (1901–1982). Best known as the author of The Fountainhead...
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Can capital be, seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question offered by artists, filmmakers, writers and theorists over the past few decades. It zones in on the crises of representation that have accompanied the enduring crisis of capitalism, foregrounding the production of new visions and artefacts that wrestle with the vastness, invisibility and complexity of the abstractions that rule our lives.
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Does God play cards with the universe? Do women have better poker faces than men? What's the most existential poker movie ever made? Is life more meaningful when you go all-in? Is online poker really still poker? Poker and Philosophy ponders these questions and more, pitting young lions against old masters as the brashness of Phil Hellmuth meets the arrogance of Socrates, the recklessness of Doyle Brunson challenges the desperation of Dostoyevsky,...
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El presente libro tiene por objeto dar a conocer al lector en castellano una pequeña parte de la obra de Jacques Bouveresse y, al mismo tiempo, un aspecto poco conocido del pensamiento de Ludwig Wittgenstein. El texto que da origen a éste corresponde a los dos últimos capítulos de Wittgenstein: la rime et la raison (Paris, Les Éditions du Minuit, 1973) de J. Bouveresse. Los editores son los responsables de la traducción y de la edición crítica...
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Some critics and philosophers have looked at Schiller's works such as the ones present in "Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays" and believed that Schiller's ideas have the potential for being very useful to society. Because Schiller believed that the aesthetic function of beauty could release mankind from struggle, some have argued that his views could ultimately change the world if adopted by all people. While Schiller is not seen as one of the...
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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...
20) 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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