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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

  • 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

  • Literature, Education, and Society

    Bridging the Gap

    by Charles F. Altieri ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Literature
    In today’s classrooms, educators specializing in literature and the arts have found themselves facing an escalating crisis. Most obviously, they encounter serious budget cuts, largely because students tend in increasing numbers to prefer majoring in disciplines that provide clear, practical knowledge and the promise of relatively lucrative careers. These educators have addressed the crisis by ... Read more

    $29.99 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
    Outstanding poets and critics present cultural readings of the Objectivist poets, a group whose works have been largely unexamined."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, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Beast in the Nursery

    On Curiosity and Other Appetites

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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 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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  • Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

    An Introduction

    by Robert Stecker ...
    Series series Elements of Philosophy
    Praised in its original edition for its up-to-date, rigorous presentation of current debates and for the clarity of its presentation, Robert Stecker's new edition of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art preserves the major themes and conclusions of the original, while expanding its content, providing new features, and enhancing accessibility. Stecker introduces students to the history and ... Read more

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  • The Subject of Semiotics

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  • Understanding Dilthey: Hermeneutics

    Understanding Philosophy, #10

    by Hercules Bantas ...
    Series Book 10 - Understanding Philosophy
    This guide explains Dilthey's theory of hermeneutics in simple, easy to understand language. It covers all the important concepts including the distinction between the natural and human sciences, Dilthey's historical epistemology, and his concepts of interest and 'exegesis'. ... Read more

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  • Artworks

    Meaning, Definition, Value

    by Robert Stecker ...
    What is art? What is it to understand a work of art? What is the value of art? Robert Stecker seeks to answer these central questions of aesthetics by placing them within the context of an ongoing debate criticizing, but also explaining what can be learned from, alternative views. His unified philosophy of art, defined in terms of its evolving functions, is used to explain and to justify current ... Read more

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