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  • The Phenomenology of Audio Drama

    by Clive Cazeaux ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    Audio drama is overlooked by philosophy even though it raises many philosophical questions. It seems to be a contradiction: drama is a form of showing yet the exemplary form of showing a world—visual representation—is absent from it. What kinds of world do we find if we concentrate on what is revealed through sound and the voice? According to fans of the medium, ‘the best pictures are in the head’ ... Read more

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  • Metaphor and Continental Philosophy

    From Kant to Derrida

    by Clive Cazeaux ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    Over the last few decades there has been a phenomenal growth of interest in metaphor as a device which extends or revises our perception of the world. Clive Cazeaux examines the relationship between metaphor, art and science, against the backdrop of modern European philosophy and, in particular, the work of Kant, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. He contextualizes recent theories of the cognitive ... Read more

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  • Art, Research, Philosophy

    by Clive Cazeaux ...
    Art, Research, Philosophy explores the emergent field of artistic research: art produced as a contribution to knowledge. As a new subject, it raises several questions: What is art-as-research? Don’t the requirements of research amount to an imposition on the artistic process that dilutes the power of art? How can something subjective become objective? What is the relationship between art and ... Read more

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  • Multimodality

    A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication

    by Gunther Kress ...
    The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making.Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication represents a long-awaited and much anticipated addition to the study of multimodality from the ... Read more

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  • Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism

    Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his René Descartes Lectures at Tilburg University in 2008. Price contrasts his view with other ... Read more

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  • Reason, Truth and History

    by Hilary Putnam ...
    Hilary Putnam deals in this book with some of the most fundamental persistent problems in philosophy: the nature of truth, knowledge and rationality. His aim is to break down the fixed categories of thought which have always appeared to define and constrain the permissible solutions to these problems. ... Read more

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  • Literacy in the New Media Age

    by Gunther Kress ...
    Series series Literacies
    In this 'new media age' the screen has replaced the book as the dominant medium of communication. This dramatic change has made image, rather than writing, the centre of communication.In this groundbreaking book, Gunther Kress considers the effects of a revolution that has radically altered the relationship between writing and the book. Taking into account social, economic, communication and ... Read more

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  • Semblance and Event

    Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts

    by Brian Massumi ...
    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    An investigation of the “occurrent arts” through the concepts of the “semblance” and “lived abstraction.”Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing. But how do we perceive an experience that encompasses the just-was and the is-about-to-be as much as what is actually present? In Semblance and Event, Brian Massumi, drawing on the work of William James, Alfred ... Read more

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  • Ideas, Concepts, and Reality

    Series Book 58 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
    Do concepts exist independently of the mind? Where does objective reality diverge from subjective experience? John Burbidge calls upon the work of some of the foremost thinkers in philosophy to address these questions, developing a nuanced account of the relationship between the mind and the external world. In Ideas, Concepts, and Reality John Burbidge adopts, as a starting point, Gottlob Frege's ... Read more

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  • Merleau-Ponty for Architects

    by Jonathan Hale ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
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  • Object-Oriented Philosophy

    The Noumenon's New Clothes

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