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Object Lessons Serie de eBooks

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  • Souvenir

    de Rolf Potts ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia of examples-from the relic ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Listening through the Noise

    The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $36.89 USD

  • Hip-Hop and Philosophy

    Rhyme 2 Reason

    de Derrick Darby, Tommie Shelby ...
    Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What’s the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a "black" thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit - and often explicit - in hip-hop ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Listen

    A History of Our Ears

    de Peter Szendy ...
    An enlightening exploration of the concept of listening and the evolving role of the listener from Beethoven to Charlie Parker to contemporary remixing.In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The roles of the composer and the musician are clear, but where exactly does the listener stand in relation to ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Adorno

    Edición de Tom Huhn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The great German philosopher and aesthetic theorist Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903–69) was one of the main philosophers of the first generation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. An accomplished musician, Adorno first focused on the theory of culture and art. Later he turned to the problem of the self-defeating dialectic of modern reason and freedom. In this collection of essays, imbued ... Leer más

    $36.89 USD

  • A History of Light

    The Idea of Photography

    de Junko Theresa Mikuriya ...
    When was photography invented, in 1826 with the first permanent photograph? If we depart from the technologically oriented accounts and consider photography as a philosophical discourse an alternative history appears, one which examines the human impulse to reconstruct the photographic or “the evoking of light”. It's significance throughout the history of ideas is explored via the Platonic ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Panaesthetics

    On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts

    de Daniel Albright ...
    Series series Anthony Hecht Lectures in Humanities
    While comparative literature is a well-recognized field of study, the notion of comparative arts remains unfamiliar to many. In this fascinating book, Daniel Albright addresses the fundamental question of comparative arts: Are there many different arts, or is there one art which takes different forms? He considers various artistic media, especially literature, music, and painting, to discover ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Philosophical Romanticism

    Edición de Nikolas Kompridis ...
    Philosophical Romanticism is one of the first books to address the relationship between philosophy and romanticism, an area which is currently undergoing a major revival. This collection of specially-written articles by world-class philosophers explores the contribution of romantic thought to topics such as freedom, autonomy, and subjectivity; memory and imagination; pluralism and practical ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Michael Fried and Philosophy

    Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality

    Edición de Mathew Abbott ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. It demonstrates that Fried’s work on modernism, artistic intention, the ontology of art, theatricality, and anti-theatricality can throw new light on problems in and beyond philosophical aesthetics. ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Dance Discourse

    Literary and Philosophical Approaches to Dance in the Later Graeco-Roman World

    de Karin Schlapbach ...
    Within the newly thriving field of ancient Greek and Roman performance and dance studies, The Anatomy of Dance Discourse offers a fresh and original perspective on ancient perceptions of dance. Focusing on the second century CE, it provides an overview of the dance discourse of this period and explores the conceptualization of dance across an array of different texts, from Plutarch and Lucian of ... Leer más

    $105.29 USD

  • Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues

    de Omid Tofighian ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book rethinks Plato’s creation and use of myth by drawing on theories and methods from myth studies, religious studies, literary theory and related fields. Individual myths function differently depending on cultural practice, religious context or literary tradition, and this interdisciplinary study merges new perspectives in Plato studies with recent scholarship and theories pertaining to ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • Education and the Kyoto School of Philosophy

    Pedagogy for Human Transformation

    Edición de Paul Standish, Naoko Saito ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The work of the Kyoto School represents one of the few streams of philosophy that originate in Japan. Following the cultural renaissance of the Meiji Restoration after Japan’s period of closure to the outside world (1600-1868), this distinctly Japanese thought found expression especially in the work of Kitaro Nishida, Keiji Nishitani and Hajime Tanabe. Above all this is a philosophy of experience, ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD