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The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym
epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Svetlana Boym [SVETLANA BOYM]

Bohemian Ruins:Tacheles In the good and bad old days of the GDR, Oranienburger Strasse was a street of ruins. The ruin of the New Synagogue stood not far from another ...
( Category: Historical Events July 21,2020 )
Film, Theory and Philosophy by Colman Felicity
epub |eng | | Author:Colman, Felicity

Virilio makes some resolutely militant statements that critically damn the impact of technologies on the human body and its capacity to act, move and think. Because of this critique, his ...
( Category: Aesthetics July 20,2020 )
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
mobi, epub |zho | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edmund Burke

Section V. Proportion Further Considered If I am not mistaken, a great deal of the prejudice in favour of proportion has arisen, not so much from the observation of any ...
( Category: History & Theory July 20,2020 )
What Good are the Arts? by John Carey
epub |eng | 2012-07-14 | Author:John Carey [John Carey]

The most prominent instance of art-worship co-existing with disregard for the fate of humanity is, of course, Adolf Hitler. Art-lovers used to dismiss him as a mere dauber with kitsch ...
( Category: Movements & Periods July 1,2020 )
Gender and Aesthetics by Korsmeyer Carolyn;
epub |eng | | Author:Korsmeyer, Carolyn;

Food in art What about food in art? Obviously food and drink have often been the subject-matter of art, especially in still-life painting that makes them the central subjects for ...
( Category: Aesthetics June 30,2020 )
Where Film Meets Philosophy by Vaughan Hunter;
epub |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Vaughan, Hunter;

FIGURE 3.4 The camera of Hiroshima, mon amour glides through visualized memories. Redirecting these theorists’ argument, then, one could rather see this as Nevers’s coexistence at once as the subject ...
( Category: Aesthetics June 28,2020 )
Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz
epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:Zena Hitz

CHAPTER 2 Learning Lost and Found Action is the pointer of the balance. One must not touch the pointer, but the weights. —SIMONE WEIL, GRAVITY AND GRACE, TRANS. ARTHUR WILLS ...
( Category: Aesthetics June 24,2020 )
Laocoon by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing & Ellen Frothingham
epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing & Ellen Frothingham [Lessing, Gotthold]

I hear a devil speaking, but in the form of an angel of light. When, on the contrary, the Earl of Gloucester says,149— But I,—that am not shaped for sportive ...
( Category: Aesthetics June 12,2020 )
Philosophy and Theatre by Stern Tom
epub |eng | | Author:Stern, Tom

The school of morals D'Alembert was neither the first nor the last to take the view that the theatre could be not merely entertaining, but also a school of morals. ...
( Category: Drama March 25,2020 )
Portraits and Philosophy by Maes Hans;
epub |eng | 2019-11-15 | Author:Maes, Hans;

Conclusion To summarize: Kokoschka claimed that his portraits revealed the truth about his sitters, that this was due to his empathy for his sitters and to the pictorial language or ...
( Category: Portraits March 24,2020 )
Shadow Philosophy by Andersen Nathan;
epub |eng | | Author:Andersen, Nathan;

Art’s potential No one among his interlocutors notes it, but we should consider that this suggestion – if they truly had knowledge they ought to be leaders and educators rather ...
( Category: History & Theory March 22,2020 )
Impossible Objects by Simon Critchley & Carl Cederstrom & Todd Kesselman
mobi |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Simon Critchley & Carl Cederstrom & Todd Kesselman [Critchley, Simon]

CC: An important addition to this formula is comedy, more precisely, how humor opens up new avenues for resistance. How does your notion of the comic subject of politics differ ...
( Category: Aesthetics March 22,2020 )
The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William de Witt Hyde
epub |eng | | Author:William de Witt Hyde

THE ARISTOTELIAN SENSE OF PROPORTION ~ I ARISTOTLE’S OBJECTIONS TO PREVIOUS SYSTEMS OUR PRINCIPLES OF PERSONALITY THUS far, though increasingly complex, have all been comparatively simple. To get the maximum ...
( Category: Aesthetics March 22,2020 )
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music by Gracyk Theodore; Kania Andrew;
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Gracyk, Theodore; Kania, Andrew; [THEODORE GRACYK & ANDREW KANIA]

Music in the Republic The Republic’s main discussion of music occurs in Book 3, 398c–403c. Two general features of this discussion bear out points already adumbrated above: first, the treatment ...
( Category: Ethnic & International March 19,2020 )
The Last Unknowns by John Brockman
epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:John Brockman

Why are people so seldom persuaded by clear evidence and rational argument? TIM MAUDLIN Professor of philosophy, New York University Is love really all you need? ANNALENA MCAFEE Journalist; founding ...
( Category: Aesthetics March 17,2020 )

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