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Report copyright infringementby Jacques Maritain (Author) Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 14, 2025

The Political Power of Visual Art: Liberty, Solidarity, and Rights

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Herwitz (Author)Visual art has a ubiquitous political cast today. But which politics? Daniel Herwitz seeks clarity on the various things meant by politics, and how we can evaluate their presumptions or aspirations in contemporary art. Drawing on the work of William Kentridge, drenched in violence, race, and power, and the artworld immolations of Banksy, Herwitz's examples range from the NEA 4 and the question of offense-as-dissent, to the community driv...

Beauty & Ugliness and Other Studies in Psychological Aesthetics

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Report copyright infringementby Vernon Lee (Author), Clementina Anstruther-Thomson (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we...

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by David Whyte (Author) Number of Pages: 119 Dimensions: 0.5 x 7 x 4.2 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: December 06, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Isiyah Fiscuyah (Author)"Divine Modesty: A Woman's Guide to Wisdom, Humility, and Virtue"In a world brimming with negative influences, "Divine Modesty: A Woman's Guide to Wisdom, Humility, and Virtue" offers an inspiring exploration of essential virtues like humility, prudence, and modesty. This invaluable guide emphasizes the importance of reserving oneself for the Lord and future relationships, showcasing how these values empower women and influence the chara...

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Report copyright infringementby Cepada L. Brown (Author)Summary"Come, sit with me. The stage is set, and the performance is about to begin. Watch as We navigates the world they find themselves in-watch how they smile, laugh, bleed, and cry. Witness innocence give way to questions, joy bend to despair, and understanding teeter on the edge of madness. Oblivious to the crowd, blind to the world beyond the stage. We will dance for those who watch. The acts will unfold one by one, and as they do, ...

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Report copyright infringementby J. F. Martel (Author), Donna Tartt (Introduction by)A compelling call to rediscover the transformative power of art in an age of distraction, coercion, and spectacle - featuring an introduction from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donna Tartt In Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, J. F. Martel offers a compelling and incisive meditation on the nature of art in a world dominated by invasive media, rampant consumer culture, and artificial intelligence. Drawing ...

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Report copyright infringementby Eugen Fink (Author), Stefano Marino (Editor), Giovanni Matteucci (Editor)In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published. This first English language edition, updated with an introduction by Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci, makes available Fink's philosophical investigation into fashion to an English-speaking audience. One of the greatest figures in the "phenomenological movement," Fink here investigates fashion at various philosophic...

Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life: Methodologies, History and New Directions

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Giombini (Editor), Adri?n Kvokacka (Editor)Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life surveys current debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, examining its history, methodology and intersections with cognate research areas. Lisa Giombini and Adri?n Kvokacka bring together an international team of renowned scholars who are shaping the present and future of the discipline. They demonstrate how the historical origins of everyday aesthetics emerges across the ...

Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Figure

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Report copyright infringementby Sara Nadal-Melsi? (Author)How the work of several contemporary artists illuminates and challenges the policing of European borders and identity In this stunningly original book, Sara Nadal-Melsi? explores how the work of several contemporary artists illuminates the current crisis of European universalist values amid the brutal realities of exclusion and policing of borders. The "wolf" is the name Baroque musicians gave to the dissonant sound produced in any att...

A Primer on Theatre and Aesthetics: Performance and Social Change

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren D. Friesen (Author), Elizabeth Kattner (Foreword by)A Primer on Theatre and Aesthetics explores the philosophy of arts from the Ancient Greeks to our contemporary world. What began as a debate in a monoculture eventually mushroomed into a vision for aesthetic diversity and inclusion as declarative statements receded in importance and subjective perceptions became fundamental. Studies in aesthetics often focus on music or the visual arts whereas this volu...

Rethinking Aesthetics: The Role of Body in Design

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Report copyright infringementby Ritu Bhatt (Editor)Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to ask you to radically rethink the relationship between body and design. Author BiographyRitu Bhatt received her PhD in history, theory, and criticism of architecture at MIT and has taught at departments of architecture, rhetoric, and comparative literature at UC Berkeley and the University ...

On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Leonhard Purdy (Author)The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science--the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their equal, a genius with godlike creativity. For writers from Descartes to Freud, architectural reasoning provided a method for critically...

Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan

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Report copyright infringementby John Shannon Hendrix (Author)Architecture and Psychoanalysis is an analysis of the relation between psychoanalytic theory and compositional strategies in architecture. In psychoanalysis it focuses on the writing of Jacques Lacan as well as theories of the structure of the psyche, linguistics, and perception. In architecture it focuses on the writings and projects of Peter Eisenman. There are extended discussions on the thought of figures such as Sigmund Freud, ...

The Turkish Cookery Book: A Collection Of Receipts, From The Best Turkish Authorities (1865)

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Report copyright infringementby Turabi Efendi (Translator)The Turkish Cookery Book: A Collection Of Receipts, From The Best Turkish Authorities (1865) is a cookbook written by Turabi Efendi. The book contains a collection of recipes from some of the best Turkish authorities, making it an authentic and reliable source for Turkish cuisine. The book is divided into sections based on the type of dish, including soups, meat dishes, vegetable dishes, and desserts. Each recipe is written in a clear ...

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Report copyright infringementby Fra Elbertus (Author)The Motto Book: Being A Collection Of Epigrams (1920) is a book written by Fra Elbertus. This book is a compilation of epigrams, which are short and witty sayings that convey a profound message. The book contains over 400 epigrams that cover a wide range of topics, including love, life, death, success, failure, and more. Each epigram is presented in a concise and thought-provoking manner, making it easy for readers to understand and appreci...

Absence and Nothing: The Philosophy of What There Is Not - Hardcover

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by Stephen Mumford (Author)Nothing is not. Yet it seems that we invoke absences and nothings often in our philosophical explanations. Negative metaphysics is on the rise. It has been claimed that absences can be causes, there are negative properties, absences can be perceived, there are negative facts, and that we can refer to and speak about nothing. Parmenides long ago ruled against such things. Here we consider how much of Parmenides' view can survive. A soft Parmenidean methodology is ado...

Other Lives & Other Worlds: Philosophy and Modern Fictions

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen R. L. Clark (Author)Stephen Clark's philosophical work has always been inspired by images and arguments drawn from science fiction, as well as by the long Platonic tradition of philosophy. In these papers (written between 1983 and 2023) on the writings of Kipling, Orwell, Lovecraft, Tolkien, and others, the recurring theme is an examination of the apparent conflict between the world as we are compelled to think it and our need for faith in the reality o...

The Cross, the Plow and the Skyline: Science Fiction and Fantasy and the Ecological Imagination (Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Ernest J. Yanarella (Author)The apocalyptic, pastoral, and urban traditions have fundamentally shaped Western history and influenced American religion, culture, and politics. This book argues that these traditions have not only been decisive in giving form and substance to classic and modern American literature, but have been appropriated by contemporary science fiction. As a loosely connected set of cultural narratives, the Cross, the Plow, and the Skyline hav...

Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought - Hardcover

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by Paul Kleinman (Author)Discover the world's greatest thinkers and their groundbreaking notions! Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that even Plato would reject. Philosophy 101 cuts out the boring details and exhausting philosophical methodology, and instead, gives you a lesson in philosophy that keeps you engaged as you explore the fascinating history of human thought and inquisition. From Aristotle and Heidegger ...

Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind - Hardcover

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by Annaka Harris (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"If you've ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fascinating insights await you in these pages." --Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of OriginalsAs concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience.What is consciousness? How does it ar...

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Report copyright infringementby John Berger (Author)A deeply moving exploration of the relationship between thinking and drawing, from the author of the groundbreaking Ways of Seeing The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notes--but no drawings. For years, without knowing what its pages might hold, John Berg...

Philosophy as Descartes Found It: Practice and Theory

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Copenhaver (Author)What was philosophy as Descartes found it around 1620? What was philosophy like before Descartes reformed it after 1637? What features of philosophy did he want to fix, and what tools did he use? To answer such questions, how should philosophers do their work today? One answer is surprising: that Descartes wrote picture books, for example. Another is challenging: that philosophers in the present would be better students of their discipl...

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Report copyright infringementby Annette Aronowicz (Author)The Thought at the Back of the Mind is a plea for the centrality of the humanities as a vehicle of knowledge about ourselves and about the reality around us. It illustrates the interpretative arts through Aronowicz's close reading of Charles Peguy, Don DeLillo, Bernard d'Espagnat, Wyslawa Szymborska, and Marilynne Robinson. Each author exhibits a complex relationship to the narratives emanating from the sciences--wonder, terror, apprec...

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Report copyright infringementby Chris L. Smith (Author), Ian Buchanan (Editor)This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging impact on late 20th- and 21st-century architecture, each chapter focuses on a core Deleuzian/Guattarian philosophical concept and one key work of architecture which evokes, contorts, or extends it. Challenging the idea that a concept or theory defines and then produces the physical w...

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Report copyright infringementby Jean-Luc Nancy (Author), Peggy Kamuf (Translator)This book, by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers, begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones: Why are there several arts and not just one? This question focuses on the point of maximal tension between the philosophical tradition and contemporary thinking about the arts: the relation between the plurality of the human senses--to which the plurali...

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Report copyright infringementby Albena Yaneva (Author)Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories 'flourished' in the 1980s in the aftermath of the structuralism wave and generated new concepts and methodologies for the understanding of the social. In the past decade, Latour and his Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have gained popularity among researchers in the field of architecture. Latour for Arch...

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Report copyright infringementby R. G. Collingwood (Author)"The Principles of Art" is a 1937 treatise by R. G. Collingwood that explores the nature of art and its relationship with history and philosophy in particular. Robin George Collingwood, FBA (1889 - 1943) was an English historian, philosopher, and archaeologist most famous for his philosophical works including "Outlines of a Philosophy of Art " (1925) and the posthumously-published "The Idea of History" (1946). One of his more well-know...

Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form

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Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Biles (Author)In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a "ferociously religious" sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. Ecce Monstrum investigates the content and implications of this religious sensibility by examining Bataille's insistent linking of monstrosity and the sacred.Extending and sometimes challenging major interpretations of Bataille by thinkers like Denis Hollier and Rosalind Krauss the book reveals how his writings b...

One Divine Singularity: The Grand Reunification of Science and Religion

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Report copyright infringementby Farzad Nosrati (Author)One Divine Singularity explores the deep mysteries of the universe by merging science and religion.Beginning with the concept of a divine singularity that sparked the creation everything--matter, energy, and the laws that govern the cosmos--this eye-opening work takes readers on a journey from the formation of the universe to the rise of humanity and mankind's spiritual quest.It delves into the gift of free will, the search for purpose, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Jamie Dunston (Author)The Mystical Gospel of Thomas: Revelation of the Inner ChristBeneath the surface of ordinary life, a hidden voice whispers: The Kingdom is within you. In this luminous and contemplative work, The Mystical Gospel of Thomas unveils the timeless teachings of Christ-not as dogma, but as living revelation, inviting readers into spiritual awakening and the rich depths of mystical theology.Drawing from the ancient Gospel of Thomas-a mysterious co...

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Report copyright infringementby Peggy Boyd (Author)What if the garden could speak? What wisdom would nature share about life, purpose, and the unseen laws that shape our existence? If Plants Could Talk invites readers on a reflective journey through God's creation, using the garden as a sacred metaphor for the spiritual principles that govern life.Just as the natural world operates according to a divine order-seeds planted in good soil, nurtured by light and water, bearing fruit in due season...