Until now, most English-language writing on Adorno has attempted to place him in various contexts and to differentiate him from other thinkers. Such work, while important, masks our failure to imaginatively appropriate Adorno's ideas. In Exact Imagination, Late Work, Shierry Weber Nicholsen begins the process of appropriation through the centrality of the aesthetic dimension. Adorno uses the…
Teologi,Filsafat dan spiritualitas Katolik sudah sejak lama mengajarkan bahwa kegembiraan kontemplasi Kristen adalah berukacita dalam kegembiraan yang luar biasa karena cinta ilahi bagi kita dalam segala sesuatu. John NAvone menjelaskan bahwa Hakikat Kebahagiaan Allah sendiri selalu mengetahui kebenarannya dan mencintai kebaikan-Nya serta berkenan pada keindahan-Nya. Karunia penglihatan yang me…
An anthology of contemporary readings in analytic aesthetics, this reference reflects the relationships among the central aesthetic concerns of recent years. Providing a new perspective on the contemporary philosophy of art, this volume examines the challenge of Postmodernism and how it may or may not affect the future of analytic aesthetics ... offers a case study of the progress that has been…
Reprint of Jose Arguelles' widely-acclaimed art and cultural history/planetary treatise. Originally published in 1975, this edition includes a new introduction and full-color cover painting that tie the author's past work to his on-going efforts. The exploration of the split between science and art and the author's call for uniting these two aspects into wholeness within our fragile total envir…
Nonton film itu bukan sekedar mengagumi spesial efek, aktor tampan dan cantik, atau cerita yang menyentuh. Percayalah, kalau anda masih mengharapakan penghiburan macam itu, berarti anda baru 50% nya meresakan manfaat hiburan dari film. Mark Rowland menghadirkan esensi film yang menjadi pelengkap 50%-nya itu. Bahkan film-film terbesar dan paling terkenalpun ternyata memiliki pemikiran yang sa…
Internationally renowned as one of the great French philosophers of the twentieth century, the late Emmanuel Levinas remains a pivotal figure across the humanistic disciplines for his insistence―against the grain of Western philosophical tradition―on the primacy of ethics in philosophical investigation. This first English translation of a series of twelve essays known as Alterity and Transc…
This volume explores some of the more important of Hans-Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is 'The Relevance of the Beautiful', Gadamer's most sustained treatment of philosophical aesthetics. The eleven other essays focus particularly on the challenge issued by modern painting and literature to our customary ideas of art, and in turn revitalize…