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    by Georg Hegel ...
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    No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity faced complicating - and ultimately disabling - questions. Christianity, with its code of unworldliness, ... Read more

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  • Aesthetic Theory

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    Edited by Mark Foster Gage ...
    A collection of pivotal ideas about beauty from throughout history, with an introduction and critical headnotes.This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia:Plato • Aristotle • Vitruvius • Alberti • Kant • Burke • Fiedler • Nietzsche • Wilde • Bergson • Bell • Scott • Benjamin • Bataille • Sontag • Jameson • Scarry ... Read more

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  • The Poetics

    by By Aristotle ...
    Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama—comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play—as well as lyric poetry, epic poetry, and the dithyramb). He examines its ... Read more

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  • Beauty

    The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea

    by David Konstan ...
    Series series Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture
    What does it mean to say something is beautiful? On the one hand, beauty is associated with erotic attraction; on the other, it is the primary category in aesthetics, and it is widely supposed that the proper response to a work of art is one of objective contemplation. At its core, then, beauty is a contested concept, and both sides feel comfortable appealing to the authority of Plato, and via him ... Read more

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  • Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller

    Enriched edition. Exploring Philosophical Insights Through Literary Letters

    by Friedrich Schiller, Beatrice Winthrop ...
    In "Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller," the esteemed German poet and philosopher engages with the complexities of aesthetics, ethics, and human freedom. Written in a compelling epistolary style, Schiller articulates his thoughts on the interplay between beauty and morality, emphasizing how art can elevate the human spirit and cultivate our moral sensibilities. Set against the backdrop of ... Read more

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  • What Art Is Like, In Constant Reference to the Alice Books

    by Miguel Tamen ...
    What Art Is Like is a comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art. It provides welcome relief from prevailing modes of explaining art that involve definitions, philosophical claims, and critical judgments put forth by third parties. Scrapping all such chatter, Miguel Tamen’s aphoristic lark with aesthetic questions proceeds by taking its technical vocabulary only from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s ... Read more

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  • The Topological Imagination

    Spheres, Edges, and Islands

    by Angus Fletcher ...
    Boldly original and boundary defining, The Topological Imagination clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining two commonly opposed domains, literature and mathematics, Angus Fletcher maps the imagination’s ever-ramifying contours and dimensions, and along the way compels us to re-envision our human existence on the most unusual sphere ever imagined, ... Read more

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  • In Other Shoes

    Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence

    by Kendall L. Walton ...
    In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L. Walton wrestles with philosophical issues concerning music, metaphor, empathy, existence, fiction, and expressiveness in the arts. These subjects are intertwined in striking and surprising ways. By exploring connections among them, appealing sometimes to notions of imagining oneself in shoes different ... Read more

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  • The Visible and the Invisible in the Interplay between Philosophy, Literature and Reality

    Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Merleau-Ponty's categories of the visible and the invisible are investigated afresh and with originality in this penetrating collection of literary and philosophical inquiries. Going beyond the traditional and current references to the mental and the sensory, mind and body, perceptual content and the abstract ideas conveyed in language, etc., these studies range from the `hidden spheres of reality ... Read more

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  • Ibsen's Hedda Gabler

    Philosophical Perspectives

    Edited by Kristin Gjesdal ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit
    Since its publication in 1890, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has been a recurring point of fascination for readers, theater audiences, and artists alike. Newly married, yet utterly bored, the character of Hedda Gabler evokes reflection on beauty, love, passion, death, nihilism, identity, and a host of other topics of an existential nature. It is no surprise that Ibsen's work has gained the attention of ... Read more

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  • Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida

    The Screenplay and Commentary

    by Martin McQuillan, Joanna Callaghan ...
    Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida’s book The Post Card. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film director, alongside insights from critics and philosophers.Theo Marks works in a university department that is soon to be closed. His wife Sophie, enigmatic and distant, is in analysis. Filmmaker Joanna ... Read more

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