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Author : Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801482267
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Aesthetics written by Jerrold Levinson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351302787
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sense of Beauty written by George Santayana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity to the present, many have written on the subject of beauty, but precious few have done so with the capacity themselves to write beautifully. The Sense of Beauty is that rare exception. This remarkable early work of the great American philosopher, George Santayana, features a quality of prose that is as wondrous as what he had to say. Indeed, his summation remains a flawless classical statement. "Beauty seems to be the clearest manifestation of perfection, and the best evidence of its possibility. If perfection is, as it should be, the ultimate justification of being, we may understand the ground of the moral dignity of beauty. Be'auty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good." The editor of this new edition, John McGormick, reminds us that The Sense of Beauty is the first work in aesthetics written in the United States. Santayana was versed in the history of his subject, from Plato and Aristotle to Schopenhauer and Taine in the nineteenth century. Santayana took as his task a complete rethinking of the idea that beauty is embedded in objects. Rather beauty is an emotion, a value, and a sense of the good. In this, aesthetics was unlike ethics: not a correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous. Rather it is a pleasure that resides in the sense of self. The work is divided into chapters on the materials of beauty, form and expression. A good many of Santayana's later works are presaged by this early effort. And this volume also anticipates the development of art as a movement as well as a value apart from other aspects of life. The work is written without posturing, without hectoring. Santayana is nonetheless able to give expression to strong views. His preferences are made perfectly plain. Perhaps the key is a powerful belief that beauty is an adornment not a material necessity. But that does mean art is trivial. Quite the contrary, the good life is precisely the extent to which such "adornments" as painting, poetry or music come to define the lives of individuals and civilizations alike. This is, in short, a major work that can still inform and move us a century after its first composition.
Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521844901
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book Values of Beauty written by Paul Guyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the context and content of aesthetics as they relate to philosophical history and imagination.
Author : Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191079987
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aesthetic Pursuits written by Jerrold Levinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today, presents a new collection of essays, following on from his four previous collections, Music, Art and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), Contemplating Art (2006), and Musical Concerns (2015). Aesthetic Pursuits specifically complements Levinson's last volume, Musical Concerns, by collecting recent essays not concerned with music, but instead focusing on literature, film, and visual art, while addressing issues of humour, beauty, and the emotions. The essays in Aesthetic Pursuits, which are wide-ranging, will appeal strongly to aestheticians, art lovers, and philosophers alike. The volume contains seven previously unpublished essays by Levinson, in which the author critically engages with notable contemporary contributions to aesthetic theory.
Author : Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199206171
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contemplating Art written by Jerrold Levinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Contemplating Art' is a compendium of writings by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The 24 essays range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts - in particular music, film, and literature.
Author : Paul Duncum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350193410
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Popular Pleasures written by Paul Duncum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's many popular aesthetic pleasures have a very long history. Paul Duncum considers the historical critical discourses, and socio-political issues raised by aesthetic pleasures in fifteen thematic chapters. Using illustrative examples from the past, present, and across cultures, he challenges the idea of any decline of cultural standards and argues that no grounds exist for cultural pessimism. Refusing to condemn popular culture on the basis of taste, he reserves critique for the socio-political ideologies aesthetics invariably serve. Art history, film, cultural studies, and philosophical aesthetics are each employed to show that the sensory/emotional lures of today's popular culture are mostly identical to those of premodern fine art. They include the violent, the horrific, the sentimental, the exotic, the erotic, and the humorous. Some of these pleasures derive from our evolutionary biology; they are all an important part of what it means to be human, and central to understanding contemporary society. Examples are wide-ranging, including British seaside postcards, Disney films, Nazi propaganda, burlesque, modern advertising, as well as many exemplars of fine art. The book reveals fresh insights for all those studying visual culture, art history, aesthetics, media studies, and media and art education.
Author : Charles Kay Ogden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Foundations of Aesthetics written by Charles Kay Ogden and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eva Schaper
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521349673
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pleasure, Preference and Value written by Eva Schaper and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1983 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meeting of the varying strands of philosophy that contribute to the conceptual problems specific to philosophical aesthetics.
Author : Todd Berliner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190658746
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hollywood Aesthetic written by Todd Berliner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood makes the most widely successful pleasure-giving artworks the world has ever known. The industry operates under the assumption that pleasurable aesthetic experiences, among huge populations, translate into box office success. With that goal in mind, Hollywood has systematized the delivery of aesthetic pleasure, packaging and selling it on a massive scale. In Hollywood Aesthetic, Todd Berliner accounts for the chief attraction of Hollywood cinema worldwide: its entertainment value. The book examines films such as City Lights and Goodfellas that have earned aesthetic appreciation from both fans and critics. But it also studies some curious outliers, cult films, and celebrated Hollywood experiments, such as The Killing and Starship Troopers. And it demonstrates that even ordinary popular films, from Tarzan and His Mate to Rocky III, as well as action blockbusters, like Die Hard and The Dark Knight, offer aesthetic pleasure to mass audiences. Hollywood Aesthetic explains how Hollywood engages viewers by satisfying their aesthetic desires. Visit the companion website at www.oup.com/us/hollywoodaesthetic
