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  • The Work of Difference

    Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form

    by Audrey Wasser ...
    The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of history, language use, or the social? How are new works in turn recognizable to already-existing institutions? Tracing the relationship between ... Read more

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    Music and Literature Against the Grain

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists."These studies . . . buzz with excitement and intelligence and demonstrate...the extraordinary range of Said’s intellectual interests.” —Frank Kermode, London Review of Books**Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, ... Read more

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  • Aisthesis

    Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art

    by Jacques Ranciere ...
    Translated by Zakir Paul ...
    Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis–Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic–takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarmé to the Folies-Bergère, attend a lecture by Emerson, visit exhibitions in Paris and New York, factories in Berlin, and film sets in Moscow and ... Read more

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  • Introducing Modernism

    A Graphic Guide

    by Chris Rodrigues ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of Bertolt Brecht or Samuel Beckett. But what really defines modernism? Why did it begin and how long did it last? ... Read more

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  • Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts

    Edited by Richard Allen, Malcolm Turvey ...
    This is the first full exploration of the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. These original essays by philosophers and critics address key philosophical topics in the study of the arts and culture, such as humanism, criticism, psychology, painting, film and ethics. All exemplify Wittgenstein's method of conceptual investigation and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Nature and Landscape

    An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics

    by Allen Carlson ...
    The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and encourages the appreciation of not just natural environments but also human-made and human-modified landscapes.Nature and Landscape is an ... Read more

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  • Responding to Loss

    Heideggerian Reflections on Literature, Architecture, and Film

    by Robert Mugerauer ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to loss, Robert Mugerauer responds with close, detailed readings that seek to clarify the particularity of the intense force such works bring forth. ... Read more

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  • The Aesthetic Imperative

    Writings on Art

    by Peter Sloterdijk ...
    Translated by Karen Margolis ...
    In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Moving between the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, his analyses span the centuries, from ancient civilizations to contemporary Hollywood. With great verve and insight ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption

    Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

    by Sam Girgus ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute responsibility engenders a transcendence of being and self.In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam B. Girgus applies Levinas's ethics to a ... Read more

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  • Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel

    Genre and Ideology in R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie

    by Fawzia Afzal-Khan ...
    Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel focuses on the novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels between ideology and the generic fictive strategies that shape ideology or are shaped by it. Fawzia Afzal-Khan raises the important question of how much the usage of certain ideological strategies actually helps the ex ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • John Dewey and the Artful Life

    Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality

    by Scott R. Stroud ...
    Series series American and European Philosophy
    Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a human’s interaction with nature or art frequently has been conceptualized as separate from issues of practical activity or moral value. This book examines how art can be seen as a way of moral cultivation. Scott Stroud uses the thought of the American pragmatist John Dewey ... Read more

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  • Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

    by Efrat Biberman, Shirley Sharon-Zisser ...
    Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis examines the relationship between art and death from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It takes a unique approach to the topic by making explicit reference to the death drive as manifest in theories of art and in artworks.Freud’s treatment of death focuses not on the moment of biological extinction but on the recurrent moments in life which he ... Read more

    $63.99 USD