Aesthetic Subjectivity

Author : Andrew Bowie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795129
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics and subjectivity written by Andrew Bowie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. New, completely revised and re-written edition. Offers a detailed, but asccesible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. Looks at recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities, following the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Ficthe and Holderlin, the early Romantis, Schelling, Hegel, Scleimacher, to Nietzsche. Develops the approaches to subjectivity, aesthetics, music and language in relation to new theoretical developments bridging the divide between the continental and analytical traditions of philosophy. The huge growth of interest in German philosophy as a resource for re-thinking both literary and cultural theory, and contemporary philosophy will make this an indispensible read

Author : Peder Jothen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131710921X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, and Selfhood written by Peder Jothen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the digital world, Kierkegaard's thought is valuable in thinking about aesthetics as a component of human development, both including but moving beyond the religious context as its primary center of meaning. Seeing human formation as interrelated with aesthetics makes art a vital dimension of human existence. Contributing to the debate about Kierkegaard's conception of the aesthetic, Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, and Selfhood argues that Kierkegaard's primary concern is to provocatively explore how a self becomes Christian, with aesthetics being a vital dimension for such self-formation. At a broader level, Peder Jothen also focuses on the role, authority, and meaning of aesthetic expression within religious thought generally and Christianity in particular.

Author : Tom Huhn
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262581769
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semblance of Subjectivity written by Tom Huhn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays are organized around the twin themes of semblance and subjectivity. Whereas the concept of semblance, or illusion, points to Adorno's links with Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, the concept of subjectivity recalls his lifelong struggle with a philosophy ofconsciousness stemming from Kant, Hegel, and Lukacs.

Author : Ross Wilson
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039111060
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subjective Universality in Kant's Aesthetics written by Ross Wilson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, this book offers a new and comprehensive examination of Kant's argument that aesthetic judgements are combined with a claim to subjective universality. The author gives a detailed account of the background to this claim in Kant's epistemology, logic, and metaphysics, before closely attending to the crucial sections of the Critique of the Power of Judgement. In particular, it is shown that Kant's aesthetics requires that his theory of the subject be rethought. Central to the theory of the subject that begins to emerge from the Third Critique is Kant's enigmatic notion of 'life' which is extensively explored here. This study, therefore, thoroughly examines the central features of Kant's account of aesthetic judgements, suggesting that a new and exciting theory of subjectivity begins to be outlined in Kant's aesthetics. The author argues for the placement of Kant's account of the subjective universality of aesthetic judgement at the centre of contemporary philosophical aesthetics.

Author : Kwan Kiu Leung
Publisher : de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110670639
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncompromising Female Aesthetic Subjectivity written by Kwan Kiu Leung and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a comparison of the work of Tracey Emin and He Chengyao in a global contemporary art context. It demonstrates why their work constitutes not only the self, but they practice an ontological identification relationship between subjectivity and art practice that exhibits three aspects of their subjectivity: performativity, visibility, and univocity. Furthermore, it reveals how their naked self-portraits create a new kind of nude.

Author : Richard Leppert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520962524
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Technologies of Modernity, Subjectivity, and Nature written by Richard Leppert and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. Aesthetic Technologies addresses how music (especially opera), the phonograph, and film served as cultural agents facilitating the many extraordinary social, artistic, and cultural shifts that characterized the new century and much of what followed long thereafter, even to the present. Three tropes are central: the tensions and traumas—cultural, social, and personal—associated with modernity; changes in human subjectivity and its engagement and representation in music and film; and the more general societal impact of modern media, sound recording (the development of the phonograph in particular), and the critical role played by early-century opera recording. A principal focus of the book is the conflicted relationship in Western modernity to nature, particularly as nature is perceived in opposition to culture and articulated through music, film, and sound as agents of fundamental, sometimes shocking transformation. The book considers the sound/vision world of modernity filtered through the lens of aesthetic modernism and rapid technological change, and the impact of both, experienced with the prescient sense that there could be no turning back.

Author : Gregory Loewen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982899786
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Subjectivity written by Gregory Loewen and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination of qualitative data and an hermeneutic interrogation of the discourses of aesthetics and the phenomenology of art renders a detailed re-ordering of the implications of subjective aesthetic experience. The idea that art extends our being into the world of forms is explored by parsing the discursive history of major modern art theories into the affective categories of self-projection, memorialization, the uncanny, and self-identity. Interview and survey material is used to illustrate the philosophical interpretations of Dewey, Focillon, Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Dufrenne and others. This book combines efforts in philosophy, sociology, art theory and psychology to produce a unique model of our interactions with the quasi-subjectivity of the aesthetic object, and thus also our reconstruction of ourselves as a quasi-object in the world of Being.

Author : EL Putnam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501364812
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption written by EL Putnam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together philosophies of the maternal with digital technology may appear to be an arbitrary pairing. However, reading them intertextually through select creative practices reveals how both encompass an aesthetics of interruption that becomes a novel means of understanding subjectivity. EL Putnam investigates how the digital performances of certain artists, creators, and technologists rupture existing representations of the maternal, taking advantage of the formal properties of digital media. What results are interruptions of visual and aural constructions through an immanent merging of the performing body with digital technologies. Putnam bases her analysis on close examinations of the way certain makers use the formal properties of digital imagery, such as the gap, the glitch, and the lag, as means of rendering images of the maternal uncanny in order to challenge mediation, constituting an aesthetics of interruption. The result is a radical critical strategy for engaging with digital technology and subsequent understandings of the subject that defy current modes of assimilation.

Author : Tone Roald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004309012
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Subject of Aesthetics written by Tone Roald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Subject of Aesthetics Tone Roald develops a psychology of art based on people’s descriptions of their own engagement with visual art

Author : Jaś Elsner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691096773
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Eyes written by Jaś Elsner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and terra-cotta statuettes. He examines the different contexts in which images were used, from the religious to the voyeuristic, from the domestic to the subversive. He reads images alongside and against the rich literary tradition of the Greco-Roman world, including travel writing, prose fiction, satire, poetry, mythology, and pilgrimage accounts. The astonishing picture that emerges reveals the mindsets Romans had when they viewed art--their preoccupations and theories, their cultural biases and loosely held beliefs. Roman Eyes is not a history of official public art--the monumental sculptures, arches, and buildings we typically associate with ancient Rome, and that tend to dominate the field. Rather, Elsner looks at smaller objects used or displayed in private settings and closed religious rituals, including tapestries, ivories, altars, jewelry, and even silverware. In many cases, he focuses on works of art that no longer exist, providing a rare window into the aesthetic and religious lives of the ancient Romans.