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The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of history, language use, or the social? How are new works in turn recognizable to already-existing institutions? Tracing the relationship between literature and the problem of newness back to a set of concerns...
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Elements of Criticism (1762) is a philosophical work by Henry Home, Lord Kames. Published at the height of his career as a leading legal and cultural figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, Elements of Criticism has been credited as a crucial academic work in the development of modern English literary studies. "The science of criticism tends to improve the heart not less than the understanding…A just taste in the fine arts, by sweetening and harmonizing...
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If we are to understand why Plato had a theory of Forms, we must explain, firstly, why he thought it necessary to depart from the ontology of the Socratic dialogues, secondly, why he then posited the existence of entities that have the characteristics that he ascribes to Forms (entities that are 'unmixed', 'unchanging', 'in every way being' and so on), and thirdly, why Plato took this course when other philosophers have not done so (and even he himself...
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Extrait: "Il importe avant tout de préciser avec soin ce qui constitue un acte voulu. Voici ce que l'analyse distingue dans la psychologie d'un tel acte: 1° L'idée préconçue d'un acte à réaliser. 2° Un mobile ou stimulant, c'est-à-dire une tendance générale et permanente (instinct, penchant ou inclination) à se procurer une satisfaction qui est considérée par l'agent comme devant résulter de cet acte et, à ce titre, en est pour lui...
205) Dreaming by the Book
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A pathbreaking work about the way literature teaches us to use our imagination.
We often attribute to our imaginative life powers that go beyond ordinary perception or sensation. In Dreaming by the Book, the noted scholar Elaine Scarry explores the apparently miraculous but in fact understandable processes by which poets and writers confer those powers on us: how they teach us the work of imaginative creation.
Writers from Homer to Heaney, Scarry...
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This book explores the role of material culture in the formation of corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past societies and thus contributes to the cultural relativization of bodily aesthetics and related gender norms. The volume does not explore beauty for the sake of beauty, but extensively explores how it serves to form and keep gender norms in place. The concept of beauty has been a topic of interest for some time, yet it is only...
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Wagner, más que un músico y un poeta con nombre, fue también un notable escritor y pensador, así¬ como un ensayista prolífico. Sus ideas y sus propuestas son imprescindibles para captar las relaciones entre la música y la filosofí¬a, o si se quiere, entre la musicología y la historia de las ideas, un aspecto fundamental de la teoría estética. La meta a la que apuntan estos escritos wagnerianos es un nuevo arte que ha de sumar y potenciar...
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Plongez-vous dans l'analyse d'Hippias Majeur de Platon pour approfondir votre compréhension de l'œuvre !
Que retenir d'Hippias Majeur, l'œuvre qui traite du beau dans tous ses états ? Retrouvez toutes les subtilités de cet ouvrage dans un commentaire original et complet pour approfondir votre réflexion sur le livre.
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• Une mise en contexte
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209) Filmosophy
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Upon graduation from an educational institution that provides free room and board and is dedicated to freshman tutorials in applied criminology conducted by its post-graduate students, Gordon aims to build an innovative business with his former cellmate Carl. Then there's the question of pregnant, sullen Deirdre. By accident or design, this dysfunctional trio confronts "the end of the line. "
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La digitalización y virtualización del mundo es un proceso que no da luces de parar, en ello el cine ha sido un testigo privilegiado de estos cambios, desde sus primeros esbozos digitales en los años ochenta hasta las tecnologías 3D y formatos K de la actualidad. Pero ¿qué hay detrás de esto? ¿qué imaginarios, operaciones estético-audiovisuales y discursos se están articulando en las imágenes sintéticas del cine contemporáneo?
Este...
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Embrace a perfectly imperfect life-the practical guide to wabi sabi
With deep roots in Taoism, Shinto, and Buddhism, wabi sabi is a philosophical and spiritual stance that celebrates imperfection, impermanence, contentment, detachment, and natural beauty. The Wabi-Sabi Way can show you how to harness these ancient teachings to help relieve stress and anxiety in your daily life.
From decluttering your home and your life to getting in touch with...
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En busca de las palabras reúne los textos críticos y filosóficos sobre literatura y arte escritos por Oscar del Barco a lo largo de más de cuarenta años. En todos ellos es posible advertir una constante: la concepción del arte como una manifestación de lo sagrado, donde tanto el creador como el receptor no son más que oportunidades para la aparición del misterio de la existencia.
A contrapelo de la mayoría de las corrientes estéticas contemporáneas,...
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While Theodor Adorno has continued to be influential since his death in 1969, his very centrality has led to the left simplifying his ideas while the right placed him at the center of a myriad of wild conspiracy theories, all of them filed under the category of Cultural Marxism. Adorno has wrongly been blamed for everything from the Beatles to postmodernism, but he has continued to be read, if read badly. Stuart Walton's introduction to Adorno attempts...
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Elaine Scarry teaches in the English department at Harvard University, where she is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value. She is the author of The Body in Pain, Resisting Representation, Dreaming by the Book, and many articles on war and social contract.
Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us...
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A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves
In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields,...
217) Rhetoric
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Written sometime in the 4th Century BC, Aristotle's "Rhetoric" is the definitive treatise on the art of persuasive public speaking. The art of oratorical persuasion was an essential skill for the successful politician during the days of ancient Greece and Aristotle's "Rhetoric" is considered one of the greatest works from antiquity on the subject. Like many of the surviving works attributable to Aristotle, "Rhetoric" was not intended for public dissemination,...
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Violet Paget (1856—1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics. She also wrote more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects ranging from music to travel, and today she is best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony. First published in 1913, "The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics" is...
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Shusaku Endo's novel Silence, first published in 1966, endures as one of the greatest works of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Its narrative of the persecution of Christians in seventeenth-century Japan raises uncomfortable questions about God and the ambiguity of faith in the midst of suffering and hostility. Endo's Silence took internationally renowned visual artist Makoto Fujimura on a pilgrimage of grappling with the nature of art, the...
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A compelling and innovative reflection on the way photography captures and condenses time
Two photographs, connected by a ladder, separated by a century. First, William Henry Fox Talbot photographed a faithfully realistic image of a ladder against a haystack in the English countryside.
One hundred years later, an anonymous photographer captured another ladder, "photographed" alongside an incinerated man by the blinding light of the atomic bomb....
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