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  • Imaginative Experience in the Arts

    Promoting Liberal Education

    by Charles Altieri ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry
    In this significant contribution to aesthetic philosophy from one of the foremost writers on American poetry, Charles Altieri champions the neglected, non-cognitive aspects of our encounters with works of art.In contrast to literary critics and philosophers who subordinate the importance of aesthetic experience toknowledge and practical concerns, Altieri defends a view of subjective imaginative ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • The Objectivist Nexus

    Essays in Cultural Poetics

    by Eric Homberger, Alan Golding, Charles Altieri, Yves di Manno, Charles Bernstein, John Seed, Michael Heller, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Nichols, Robert Franciosi, Andrew Crozier, Stephen Fredman, Ming-Qian Ma, Professor Peter Middleton, Professor Burton Hatlen ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    "Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological worldview, Objectivists have retained their outsider status. Despite such status, however, the formal, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Reckoning with the Imagination

    Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience

    by Charles Altieri ...
    Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultimately fall short because too often they fail to account for the values that engage literary texts in the social world. In ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    Introduction to the Theory of Narrative

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  • The Beast in the Nursery

    On Curiosity and Other Appetites

    by Adam Phillips ...
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  • The Entanglement

    How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

    by Alva Noë ...
    Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon—and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselvesIn The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.Life supplies art with its raw materials, but art, Noë argues, remakes life by giving us ... Read more

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  • The World of Perception

    by Maurice Merleau-Ponty ...
    Translated by Oliver Davis ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
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  • Philosophy of Art

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Noël Carroll ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics.It introduces the techniques of analytic philosophy as well as key topics such as the representational theory of art, formalism, neo-formalism, aesthetic theories of art, neo-Wittgensteinism, the Institutional Theory of Art. as well as historical approaches to the nature of art.Throughout ... Read more

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  • Beyond Art

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  • Meaning and Interpretation

    Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge

    by G. L. Hagberg ...
    'What is the meaning of a word?' In this thought-provoking book, Hagberg demonstrates how this question—which initiated Wittgenstein's later work in the philosophy of language—is significant for our understanding not only of linguistic meaning but of the meaning of works of art and literature as well. ... Read more

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  • The Symbolic Order

    A Contemporary Reader On The Arts Debate

    Edited by Peter Abbs ...
    Alongside Living Powers and A is for Aesthetic this book is intended to establish a conceptual frame for the Arts in Education series. The first and primary aim of this symposium is to put teachers of all the arts in touch with some of the most recent and the best writing on the nature of art. ... Read more

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