Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art

Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining the very notions of art and the aesthetic as special products of Western modernity, they suggest that postmodern challenges to traditional high culture pose a devastating danger to art's future. Richard Shusterman's new book cuts through the seductive confusions of these views by traci…

Institutions of Art: Reconsiderations of Georg Dicke's Philosophy

George Dickie has been one of the most innovative, influential, and controversial philosophers of art working in the analytical tradition in the past twenty-five years. Dickie's arguments against the various theories of aesthetic attitude, aesthetic perception, and aesthetic experience virtually brought classical theories of the aesthetic to a halt. His institutional theory of art was perhaps t…

Exact Imagination, Late Work on Adorno's Aesthetics

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…

Contemporary Philosophy of Art: Readings in Analytic Aesthetics

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…

The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Exp…

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…

Alterity & Transcendence

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…

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ISBN/ISSN

983624638X

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xii + 152 hlm.; 21,5 cm.

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111.85 ABD p