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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Hair

    by Scott Lowe ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is an extraordinary indicator of economic and social standing, political orientation, religious affiliation, marital status, and cultural leanings, among other things. The meanings of hair are deep, powerful, and so strongly embedded in cultural ... Read more

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    Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life

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    Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century. In Unnatural Wonders the renowned critic finds himself at a point when contemporary art has become wholly pluralistic, even chaotic-with one ... Read more

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  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Edited by Christopher Grau ...
    Series series Philosophers on Film
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the most widely discussed and thought-provoking films of recent years.This is the first book to explore and address the philosophical aspects of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Beginning with a helpful introduction that places each essay in context, specially commissioned chapters examine the following topics:philosophical issues surrounding ... Read more

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  • Listening through the Noise

    The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    by Joanna Demers ...
    Contemporary electronic music has splintered into numerous genres and subgenres, all of which share a concern with whether sound, in itself, bears meaning. Listening through the Noise considers how the experience of listening to electronic music constitutes a departure from the expectations that have long governed music listening in the West. ... Read more

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  • A Philoshophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

    by Edmund Burke ...
    A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke, is a foundational work in aesthetics and philosophy, first published in 1757. In this treatise, Burke distinguishes between the concepts of the beautiful—associated with harmony, softness, and pleasure—and the sublime, which evokes awe, terror, and a sense of vastness or power beyond comprehension. ... Read more

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  • On the New

    by Boris Groys ...
    Translated by G M Goshgarian ...
    On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture from profanity, is at the center of Boris Groys's investigation which aims to map the uncharted ... Read more

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  • Doing Aesthetics with Arendt

    How to See Things

    by Cecilia Sjöholm ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjöholm begins a vibrant new chapter in Arendt scholarship that expands her relevance for contemporary philosophers.Arendt wrote ... Read more

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  • Thinking of Others

    On the Talent for Metaphor

    by Ted Cohen ...
    Series series Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
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  • The Concept of the Beautiful

    by Agnes Heller ...
    The main purpose of this book is to explicate the problematic relationship between the heterogeneity of what is experienced as beautiful and the homogeneity of the conceptualization of that experience, or attempt at such a conceptualization in the era of modern philosophy. While the heterogeneity of what is experienced as beautiful was permitted, and indeed celebrated, in the dominant ancient ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music

    Edited by Theodore Gracyk, Andrew Kania ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
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  • Shadow Philosophy: Plato's Cave and Cinema

    by Nathan Andersen ...
    Shadow Philosophy: Plato’s Cave and Cinema is an accessible and exciting new contribution to film-philosophy, which shows that to take film seriously is also to engage with the fundamental questions of philosophy. Nathan Andersen brings Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange into philosophical conversation with Plato’s Republic, comparing their contributions to themes such as the nature of ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics and Modernity

    Essays by Agnes Heller

    Edited by John Rundell ...
    Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays around the topics of aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy, aesthetic reception, and embodiment. The essays draw on Heller's deep appreciation of aesthetics in all its forms from the classical to the Renaissance and the contemporary periods. Heller's recent work on aesthetics explores the complex ... Read more

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