Aesthetic Dilemmas

Author : Marlo Alexandra Burks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228017950

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Aesthetic Dilemmas by Marlo Alexandra Burks Pdf

Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) is frequently portrayed in cultural histories as an aloof writer with a precious style, out of step with modern sensibilities. In Aesthetic Dilemmas Marlo Burks reassesses Hofmannsthal’s oeuvre and its place in twentieth-century European modernist aesthetics. Through an examination of a diverse range of Hofmannsthal’s ekphrastic writings – including poetry, essays, opera libretti, fiction, and letters – Burks argues that Hofmannsthal’s work aims to engage the consciousness and sensibility of readers, listeners, and viewers by way of dynamic encounters with works of art. Aesthetic Dilemmas thereby corrects a long-standing, flawed characterization of Hofmannsthal’s work as escapist and demonstrates how his place in the Modernist movement has been misunderstood in most scholarship. The book is in dialogue with a broad range of critical voices and treats a variety of themes, from aestheticism to money, interpersonal relationships, suffering, poverty, labour, futurity, legacy, and hope. Translating numerous passages into English for the first time, Aesthetic Dilemmas gives English-speaking readers the chance to evaluate Hofmannsthal’s literary merit and his contributions to the enduring conversation about art’s relation to ethics.

Author : Marcia Muelder Eaton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195349887

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Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical by Marcia Muelder Eaton Pdf

To "look good" and to "be good" have traditionally been considered two very different notions. Indeed, philosophers have seen aesthetic and ethical values as fundamentally separate. Now, at the crossroads of a new wave of aesthetic theory, Marcia Muelder Eaton introduces this groundbreaking work, in which a bold new concept of merit where being good and looking good are integrated into one.

Author : David Bartlett,Paul A. Brunton
Publisher : Quintessence Publishing Company Limited
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781850973041

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Aesthetic Dentistry by David Bartlett,Paul A. Brunton Pdf

Aesthetic dentistry is a rapidly developing field of restorative dentistry. It is driven by increasing demands and expectations of patients for functional but aesthetic restorations. This volume is not intended to serve as a definitive textbook on aesthetic dentistry; rather, it provides many hints and tips that practitioners can readily incorporate into their every day practice to improve aesthetic outcomes for their patients. The basic theories underlying the advice presented are also well explained.

Author : Doug Risner,Karen Schupp
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476667171

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Ethical Dilemmas in Dance Education by Doug Risner,Karen Schupp Pdf

The first of its kind, this volume presents research-based fictionalized case studies from experts in the field of dance education, examining theory and practice developed from real-world scenarios that call for ethical decision-making. Dilemmas faced by dance educators in the studio, on stage, in recreation centers and correctional facilities, and on social media are explored, accompanied by activities for humanizing dance pedagogy. These challenges converge from educational policies and mandates developed over the past two decades, including teacher-proof "scripted" curriculum, high-stakes testing, standardization, and methods-centered teacher preparation; difficulties are often perpetuated by those who want to make change happen but do not know how.

Author : K. Mallan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230244559

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Gender Dilemmas in Children’s Fiction by K. Mallan Pdf

This engaging study examines diverse genders and sexualities in a wide range of contemporary fiction for children and young people. Mallan's insights into key dilemmas arising from the texts' treatment of romance, beauty, cyberbodies, queer, and comedy are provocative and trustworthy, and deliver exciting theoretical and social perspectives.

Author : Dominic McIver Lopes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192562111

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Being for Beauty by Dominic McIver Lopes Pdf

No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They orient us upon the natural world. And we even find them in the deepest insights of science and mathematics. For centuries, however, philosophers and other thinkers have identified beauty with what brings pleasure. Concerned that aesthetic hedonism has led us to question beauty's significance, Dominic McIver Lopes offers an entirely new theory of beauty in this volume. Beauty engages us in action, in concert with others, in the context of social networks. Lopes's 'network theory' explains the social dimension of aesthetic agency, the tie between beauty and pleasure, the importance of disagreement in matters of taste, and the reality of aesthetic values as denizens of the natural world. The two closing chapters shed light on why aesthetic engagement is so important to quality of life, and why it deserves (and gets) lavish public support. Being for Beauty offers a fresh contribution to aesthetics but also to thinking about metanormativity, the metaphysics of value, and virtue theory.

Author : Ruth Ronen
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791476673

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Aesthetics of Anxiety by Ruth Ronen Pdf

Places anxiety at the heart of the aesthetic experience.

Author : Marlo Alexandra Burks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0228016657

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Aesthetic Dilemmas by Marlo Alexandra Burks Pdf

Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) is frequently portrayed in cultural histories as an aloof writer with a precious style, out of step with modern sensibilities. In Aesthetic Dilemmas Marlo Burks reassesses Hofmannsthal's oeuvre and its place in twentieth-century European modernist aesthetics. Through an examination of a diverse range of Hofmannsthal's ekphrastic writings - including poetry, essays, opera libretti, fiction, and letters - Burks argues that Hofmannsthal's work aims to engage the consciousness and sensibility of readers, listeners, and viewers by way of dynamic encounters with works of art. Aesthetic Dilemmas thereby corrects a long-standing, flawed characterization of Hofmannsthal's work as escapist and demonstrates how his place in the Modernist movement has been misunderstood in most scholarship. The book is in dialogue with a broad range of critical voices and treats a variety of themes, from aestheticism to money, interpersonal relationships, suffering, poverty, labour, futurity, legacy, and hope. Translating numerous passages into English for the first time, Aesthetic Dilemmas gives English-speaking readers the chance to evaluate Hofmannsthal's literary merit and his contributions to the enduring conversation about art's relation to ethics.

Author : Jo Ann Asher Thompson,Nancy Blossom
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118532386

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The Handbook of Interior Design by Jo Ann Asher Thompson,Nancy Blossom Pdf

The Handbook of Interior Design explores ways of thinking that inform the discipline of interior design. It challenges readers to consider the connections within theory, research, and practice and the critical underpinnings that have shaped interior design. Offers a theory of interior design by moving beyond a descriptive approach to the discipline to a 'why and how' study of interiors Provides a full overview of the most current Interior Design research and scholarly thought from around the world Explores examples of research designs and methodological approaches that are applicable to interior design upper division and graduate education courses Brings together an international team of contributors, including well established scholars alongside emerging voices in the field – reflecting mature and emergent ideas, research, and philosophies in the field Exemplifies where interior design sits in its maturation as a discipline and profession through inclusion of diverse authors, topics, and ideas

Author : Monroe C. Beardsley
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0915145081

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Aesthetics, Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism by Monroe C. Beardsley Pdf

This second edition features a new 48-page Afterword--1980 updating Professor Beardsley's classic work.

Author : Robin Wallace
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521386349

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Beethoven's Critics by Robin Wallace Pdf

This 1990 book is a survey of the critical reaction to Beethoven's music as it appeared in the major musical journals, French as well as German, of his day, and represents the first published history of Beethoven reception. The author discusses the philosophical and analytical implications of these reviews and reassesses what has come to be the accepted view of a nineteenth-century musical aesthetics rooted in Romantic Idealism. Wallace sees Beethoven's critics as in fact providing a link between two apparently antithetical approaches to music: the eighteenth-century emphasis on expression and extra-musical interpretation and the nineteenth-century emphasis on 'absolute' music and formal analysis. This book thus provides, in addition to a carefully documented study of Beethoven's critical reception, a re-evaluation of his oeuvre and its significance in music history. An index of all reviews cited is provided, and a further appendix contains the quoted material in its original language.

Author : Marcia Muelder Eaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028789142

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Basic Issues in Aesthetics by Marcia Muelder Eaton Pdf

Author : Krzysztof Ziarek
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780810118362

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The Historicity of Experience by Krzysztof Ziarek Pdf

In this groundbreaking volume, Krzysztof Ziarek rethinks modern experience by bringing together philosophical critiques of modernity and avant-garde poetry. Ziarek explores, through selective readings of avant-garde poetry, the key aspects of the radical critique of experience: technology, everydayness, event, and sexual difference. To that extent, The Historicity of Experience is less a book about the avant-garde than a critique of experience through the avant-garde. Ziarek reads the avant-garde in dialogue with the work of some of the major critics of modernity (Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Jean-François Lyotard, and Luce Irigaray) to show how avant-garde experiments bear critically on the issue of modern experience and its technological organization. The four poets Ziarek considers—Gertrude Stein, Velimir Khlebnikov, Miron Biaoszewski, and Susan Howe—demonstrate the broad reach of and variety of forms taken by the avant-garde revision of experience and aesthetics. Moreover, this quartet illustrates how the main operative concepts and strategies of the avant-garde underpinned the practices of canonical writers. A profound philosophical meditation on language, modernity, and the everyday, The Historicity of Experience offers a fundamental reconceptualization of the avant-garde in relation to experience.

Author : Niklas Pramling,Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400716179

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Educational Encounters: Nordic Studies in Early Childhood Didactics by Niklas Pramling,Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson Pdf

Qualitative analyses of young children’s learning in natural settings are rare, so this new book will make educators sit up and pay attention. It lays out a Nordic, or continental European teaching and learning paradigm whose didactic framework is distinct from the Anglo-American system. This analysis, which features contributions and case studies from researchers in a range of subjects, is built on principles such as the learner’s perspective, establishing sufficient intersubjectivity, ‘pointing out’, and informing experience linguistically. After clarifying some historical background, the book discusses the contemporary emphasis in early childhood education on pedagogy/learning. What should ‘didactics’ mean in educating young children? The book examines the opportunities for learning that teachers provide for children in early childhood education, as well as how children respond to these opportunities. It presents empirical studies from a variety of naturalistic settings, including mathematics, making visual art, ecology, music, dance, literacy and story-telling, as well as learning about gender, morality and democracy. The authors seek to answer key questions about the processes involved in both teaching and learning. What challenges do teachers face as they try to expand children’s knowledge in various fields of learning? How do they respond to these challenges, and what can we learn about children’s corresponding uptake? What now requires further research? One key distinction in researching children’s learning is between studies that look at ‘process’ and those that analyze ‘product’. In the tradition of Piaget, Vygotsky and Werner, as well as Mercer and Valsiner’s more recent work, this book advocates the importance and relative rareness of the former type of study.

Author : Assaf Shelleg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199354955

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Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History by Assaf Shelleg Pdf

Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History unfolds the cultural itineraries of modern Jewish and Israeli art music. Extending from modern Jewish art music in Europe through its dislocation to British Palestine and Israel, the book captures the tensions between national rhetoric and nationalized theological tropes through the way they have been recorded in art music. Author Assaf Shelleg begins with the prehistory of Israeli art music in central and Western Europe. He introduces the reader to the various aesthetic dilemmas in the history of modern Jewish art music, ranging from auto-exoticism to Jewish self-hatred. Moving on to consider the Hebrew culture, he discusses the institutionalization of art music in British Palestine and the dilution of romanticist nationalism during the interregnum of Israeli statehood. Delving into the proliferation of styles in the 1950s and '60s, Shelleg examines the collapse of traditional Hebrew templates and the concomitant surge of linear compositional devices inspired by Arab Jewish music. By the 1970s, he reveals, Israeli composers saw musical Judaism as a cultural discourse that transcended the nation; they deterritorialized the national discourse at the same time that religious Zionist circles had been translating theology into politics. Shelleg unearths the various cultural constraints and dialectics that played a pivotal role in the dislocation of modern Jewish art music to Israel, and looks at the Jewish undercurrents of Hebrew culture and how Jewish secularized concepts outgrew their national functions. Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History will be essential reading for scholars of Jewish and Israeli music, culture, and history