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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Bread

    by Scott Cutler Shershow ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion: from the homely image of “breaking bread together” to the mysteries of the Eucharist. But bread ... Read more

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    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
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    The book Nietzsche called "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of ... Read more

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  • Sinister Resonance

    The Mediumship of the Listener

    by David Toop ...
    Sinister Resonance begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is ambiguous and whose existence is transitory. The intangibility of sound is uncanny – a phenomenal presence in the head, at its point of source and all around. The close listener is like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there.The history of listening must be ... Read more

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  • Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema

    The Musical Poetry of Motion Pictures Revisited

    by Daniel Barnett ...
    Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein's concepts of ... Read more

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  • Emmanuel Levinas

    by Seán Hand ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Best known for his theories of ethics and responsibility, Emmanuel Levinas was one of the most profound and influential thinkers of the last century. In this clear, accessible guide, Seán Hand examines why Levinas is increasingly fundamental to the study of literature and culture today. Exploring the intellectual and social contexts of his work and the events that shaped it, Hand considers:the ... Read more

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  • Expressiveness in music performance

    Empirical approaches across styles and cultures

    Edited by Dorottya Fabian, Renee Timmers, Emery Schubert ...
    What does it mean to be expressive in music performance across diverse historical and cultural domains? What are the means at the disposal of a performer in various time periods and musical practice conventions? What are the conceptualisations of expression and the roles of performers that shape expressive performance? This book brings together research from a range of disciplines that use diverse ... Read more

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  • Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

    by Georg W. F. Hegel ...
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a late 18th and early 19th century German philosopher, was one of the foremost thinkers of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism. He created a framework known as Absolute Idealism that was able to account for the relation of the mind, ... Read more

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  • Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance

    New Materialisms

    Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance brings cultural studies’ perspectives to bear on Arts practices. Each contribution synthesizes creative approaches to philosophy and new materialist understanding of practice to show how human-nonhuman interaction at the core of Arts practice is a critical post human pedagogy.Across fine art, dance, gallery education, film and philosophy, the book contends ... Read more

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  • Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work

    by P. Stewart ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual propriety and identity politics. ... Read more

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  • Art, Mind, and Narrative

    Themes from the Work of Peter Goldie

    Edited by Julian Dodd ...
    Series series Mind Association Occasional Series
    This volume presents new essays on art, mind, and narrative inspired by the work of the late Peter Goldie, who was Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester until 2011. Its three sections cover Narrative Thinking; Emotion, Mind, and Art; and Art, Value, and Ontology. Within these sections, leading authorities in the philosophy of mind, aesthetics and the emotions offer ... Read more

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  • Sympathetic Sentiments

    Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World

    by Dr John Jervis ...
    Series series The WISH List
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Sympathetic Sentiments develops an innovative interdisciplinary framework to explore the implications of living in a culture of feeling that seems ill at ease with itself, one in which sentiments are frequently denounced for being sentimental and self-indulgent.These ... Read more

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  • Schubert's Late Music

    History, Theory, Style

    Edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Julian Horton ...
    Schubert's late music has proved pivotal for the development of diverse fields of musical scholarship, from biography and music history to the theory of harmony. This collection addresses current issues in Schubert studies including compositional technique, the topical issue of 'late' style, tonal strategy and form in the composer's instrumental music, and musical readings of the 'postmodern' ... Read more

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