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Aesthetics & ethics
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Thomas Claviez |
In the first part, this study analyzes what role “otherness” plays in the most influential moral-philosophical approaches to date - from Aristotle and the Neo-Aristotelians (Alasdair MacIntyre, Marth… |
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Das schwierige Schöne
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Andreas Wirth |
151 p. ; 23 cm |
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Nominalism and its aftermath
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Dena Shottenkirk |
"Nelson Goodman's disparate writings are often written about only within their own particular discipline, such that the epistemology is discussed in contrast to others' epistemology, the aesthetics i… |
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Makings of the Sea
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John Baldacchino |
In Thodor Angelopoulos’s *Ulysses’s Gaze* it is poetically claimed that God’s first creation was the journey after which came doubt and nostalgia. Anyone who knows the Mediterranean will recognise th… |
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Van Gogh
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Cornelia Homburg |
"This sumptuously illustrated book offers a completely new way of looking at the art of Vincent van Gogh, by exploring the artist's approach to nature through his innovative use of the close-up view.… |
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Chrématistique & poièsis
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Fabien Vallos |
"Ce livre commence avec un problème de nomination de ce que l'on appelle économie et avec la disparition du terme chrématistique. Il pose l'hypothèse qu'il s'agit d'un problème métaphysique d'interpr… |
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Saber ver la arquitectura
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Francesca Prina |
A través de dos mil años de construcciones civiles, residenciales, militares y religiosas, el libro propone un estudio de la arquitectura, la composición y los estilos, a la vez que traza un recorrid… |
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I see the world
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Tom Luna |
The wonder of the world is seen through the eyes of a child. Whether under the earth, under the sea, or outside in our backyard, the world is filled with beauty, animals, toys, and the joy of seeing … |
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What Is Art?
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Tiziana Andina |
88 pages ; 24 cm |
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Biographia literaria
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosophical essays. Initia… |
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Judaism and the Visual Image
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Melissa Raphael |
It is now widely agreed that the biblical Second Commandment neither limits Jewish art to the production of ceremonial artifacts nor to abstract or distorted images. Raphael goes further and argues … |
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The aesthetics of the Japanese lunchbox
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Kenji Ekuan |
Kenji Ekuan reveals that a deeper reading for the traditional Japanese lunchbox: seeing the lunchbox as nothing less that a key to an understanding of Japanese civilization, the spirit of form, and t… |
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Introduction to Philosophy
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Brian C. Barnett,Todd R. Long,Monica C. Poole,K. S. Sangeetha,Brian C. Barnett (Book Editor),Christina Hendricks (Series Editor),Daniel Massey,William D. Rowley,Jonathan Lopez,Guy Axtell |
<p><strong><em>Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology</em></strong> engages first-time philosophy readers on a guided tour through the core concepts, questions, methods, arguments, and theories of … |
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Chroniques subjectives du cinéma contemporain
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Thomas Roussot |
Ce recueil de chroniques est né d'une frustration : n'avoir le plus souvent comme alternative que le choix entre des chroniques de cinéphiles, partiales et orientées, tantôt techniques et théoriques,… |
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Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette (Texts & Documents)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi |
"The engraver and designer Giovanni Battista Piranesi published this lively three-part defense of Roman architectural "invention" in 1765, just as the "beautiful and noble simplicity" of ancient Gree… |
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Le montreur d'ombre
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J. Aumont |
Héritier des procédés photographiques, c'est d'abord la lumière qui semble s'imposer dans le cinéma. De la lumière, il en faut pour capter et enregistrer l'image, puis pour la projeter. N'est-il donc… |
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The Politics of Aesthetics
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Marc Redfield |
"In its first part, The Politics of Aesthetics examines aesthetic nationalism and the figure of the body in aesthetic discourse, focusing on writings by Benedict Anderson, J. G.
Fichte, and Matthew … |
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Walker Evans
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Walker Evans,Jeff L. Rosenheim,Douglas Eklund,Mia Fineman,Maria Morris Hambourg |
"In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by the American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals's explicit goal was to expose the corruption of Cuban dictat… |
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A pattern language
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Christopher Alexander |
Alexander and his co-authors present us with over two hundred (roughly 250) "patterns" that they believe must be present in order for an environment to be pleasing, comfortable, or in their words, "a… |
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Quaker aesthetics
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Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner |
"In early America, Quakers dominated the political and social landscape of the Delaware Valley, and, because this region held a position of political and economic strength, the Quakers were tightly c… |
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