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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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"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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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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First in the series of book form from my blog, The Social Misfit on Blogger. This one has mainly ocean themed articles. Born and raised in an island city with multiple sea front locations, this water body has always been my inspiration. Hope you find my articles as deep and tumultuous as the Arabic ocean which inspires them.
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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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El pecado de gula, como es sabido desde la Edad Media, es un pecado "carnal", en contraposición a los pecados "espirituales", como la envidia y la soberbia. Es carnal porque hunde sus raíces en la corporeidad del hombre y en el placer que siente comiendo y bebiendo y en las sensaciones que acompañan a estas acciones; es carnal porque requiere del necesario soporte de uno o más órganos del cuerpo humano (el vientre, el estómago, la garganta);...
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Fernández Gonzalo, uno de los pensadores y creadores más valiosos y versálites de las últimas hornadas, afirma en este impresionante ensayo que "es tan fácil contemplar la guerra y sus imágenes como difícil es transcribir verbalmente sus signos: la verdad de la guerra resbala siempre entre las fisuras del discurso".
La guerra se ha convertido en uno de los principales índices de datación histórica. A partir de ella, articulamos la masa de...
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Las imágenes traspasan nuestras vidas, y también las artes, la literatura y el pensamiento. En nuestra época, lo hacen a un ritmo superior a cualquier capacidad de análisis. Este pequeño libro, dirigido a lectores curiosos, observa y compara las consideraciones sobre la imagen en la obra de dos maestros tardíamente reconocidos:
Aby Warburg (1866-1929) y Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Hacer estas relaciones habría resultado extravagante hace...
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La ira se expresa mediante rasgos somáticos y psíquicos que podemos observar fácilmente en nosotros mismos y en los demás. Siempre tiene un sabor amargo, comporta sufrimiento en el alma y, si es recurrente, hasta en el cuerpo, porque desemboca en úlcera o hipertensión. Siempre a nivel físico, presenta múltiples síntomas: agitación motora, aceleración del ritmo cardíaco, tensión de músculos del cuello, dilatación de las pupilas, ojos...
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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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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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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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La imagen es un campo problemático en el que conviven percepciones, emociones e ideas. La imagen es a la vez soporte técnico-material y forma expresiva simbólica, y a través de ella podemos trazar universos de sentido que comunican y transfieren diversas temporalidades del devenir humano. Por ello, la imagen exige aproximaciones interdisciplinarias, desde las cuales establecer diálogos y alianzas conceptuales. No es lo mismo la imagen pictórica...
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Si es que existen las historias y los relatos es porque, gracias a sus facultades imaginativas, los seres humanos han sabido crear dimensiones alternativas dentro de la amplia superficie de realidad que habitan. La fascinación por las narraciones, en todo tipo de lenguaje, resulta un foco de permanente atracción para la mente, la que a su vez no puede dejar de preguntarse por esta asombrosa capacidad. Es justamente aquella visión curiosa, novedosa...
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En los albores del tercer milenio se ha obviado el alma. Los poetas y los artistas, en una curiosa sustitución, ya sólo se interesan por su doble, el cuerpo, soma, que antaño significaba el cuerpo "inanimado", sin vida, el cadáver. Los filósofos parecen pensar que se trata de un tema que ya es historia, apenas útil para las antologías. En cuanto a los psicoanalistas, ya no se atreven ni siquiera a nombrarla.
Historia natural del alma es un...
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Crítica del poder. Fases en la reflexión de una Teoría Crítica de la sociedad es la obra que permitió la consagración de su autor en la primera línea de la filosofía alemana contemporánea y fue el pistoletazo de salida de un brillante itinerario intelectual que ha terminado llevando a Honneth nada menos que a dirigir el célebre Institut für Socialforschung sito en la Goethe Universität frankfurtiana desde el año 2001 y a intervenir, apoyado...
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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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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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