Art Origins Otherness

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791486689

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Art, Origins, Otherness by William Desmond Pdf

Though our time is often said to be post-religious and post-metaphysical, many continue to seek some encounter with otherness and transcendence in art. This book deals diversely with the issues of art, origins, and otherness, both in themselves and in philosophical engagements with the works of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Addressing themes such as eros and mania, genius and the sublime, transcendence and the saving power of art, William Desmond tries to make sense of the paradox that too much has been asked of art that now almost nothing is asked of it. He argues that there is more to be said philosophically of art, and claims that art has the power to open up mindfulness beyond objectifying knowledge, as well as beyond thinking that claims to be entirely self-determining.

Author : Thomas McEvilley
Publisher : Recovered Classics
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015028471350

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Art & Otherness by Thomas McEvilley Pdf

"Directly following the internationally acclaimed Art & Discontent, Thomas McEvilley argues in Art & Otherness for an advanced anthropological perspective that contravenes conventional thinking in the visual arts, and leads to a concept of artistic globalization. The description of Western culture as superior and in opposition to other cultures of the world preoccupied our aesthetic philosophy for at least 200 years, whether or not explicitly stated. That argument was undertaken in various guises, especially as the historical determinism of Hegel which proposed to quantify human "progress." Recently, however, the term "multiculturalism" has come to signify a post-Modern understanding of how visual arts transgress artificial boundaries, and of how there may now exist, perhaps for the first time in history, a post-colonial globalism in the arts freed of ethnocentric value judgements. In these ten crucial essays, McEvilley clarifies how the presentation of art can determine its reception, how "influence" can be bi-directional, how "otherness" serves to define "self," and how art need not necessarily lose its meaningfulness when stripped of badges of universality. Once again illustrating his argument by drawing upon an array of sources and cultures, Thomas McEvilley demonstrates that the post-Modern crisis in cultural identity demands an imaginative, integrating response."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Thomas McEvilley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : OCLC:1419319937

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Author : Daniel O. Dahlstrom
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813230702

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Philosophy and Art by Daniel O. Dahlstrom Pdf

The 13 essays in this collection are marked by a diversity of philosophical styles and perspectives on art. While some authors focus on specific forms of art, others are more concerned with the interpretation given to art by past and contemporary philosop

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438400921

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Art and the Absolute by William Desmond Pdf

Art and the Absolute restores Hegel's aesthetics to a place of central importance in the Hegelian system. In so doing, it brings Hegel into direct relation with the central thrust of contemporary philosophy. The book draws on the astonishing scope and depths of Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics, exploring the multifaceted issue of art and the absolute. Why does Hegel ascribe absoluteness to art? What can such absoluteness mean? How does it relate to religion and philosophy? How does Hegel's view of art illuminate the contemporary absence of the absolute? Art and the Absolute argues that these aesthetic questions are not mere theoretical conundrums for abstract analysis. It argues that Hegel's understanding of art can provide an indispensable hermeneutic relevant to current controversies. Art and the Absolute explores the intricacies of Hegel's aesthetic thought, communicating its contemporary relevance. It shows how for Hegel art illuminates the other areas of significant human experience such as history, religion, politics, literature. Against traditional, closed views, the result is a challenge to re-read Hegel's aesthetic philosophy.

Author : Carlee A. Bradbury,Michelle Moseley-Christian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319650494

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Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art by Carlee A. Bradbury,Michelle Moseley-Christian Pdf

This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The text analyzes a vast array of medieval artworks, including Dieric Bouts’s Justice of Otto III, Albrecht Dürer’s Feast of the Rose Garland, Rembrandt van Rijn’s Naked Woman Seated on a Mound, and Renaissance-era transi tombs of French women to illuminate medieval and early modern ideas about gender identity, poverty, religion, honor, virtue, sexuality, and motherhood, among others.

Author : Victor I. Stoichita
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789141054

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Darker Shades by Victor I. Stoichita Pdf

Difference exists; otherness is constructed. This book asks how important Western artists, from Giotto to Titian and Caravaggio, and from Bosch to Dürer and Rembrandt, shaped the imaging of non-Western individuals in early modern art. Victor I. Stoichita’s nuanced and detailed study examines images of racial otherness during a time of new encounters of the West with different cultures and peoples, such as those with dark skins: Muslims and Jews. Featuring a host of informative illustrations and crossing the disciplines of art history, anthropology, and postcolonial studies, Darker Shades also reconsiders the Western canon’s most essential facets: perspective, pictorial narrative, composition, bodily proportion, beauty, color, harmony, and lighting. What room was there for the “Other,” Stoichita would have us ask, in such a crystalline, unchanging paradigm?

Author : Sonja Zuba
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527518650

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Reaffirming the Importance of Beauty by Sonja Zuba Pdf

This book argues that beauty challenges us to find meaning in its object, to make critical comparisons, and to examine our own lives and emotions in the light of what we find. The book examines the importance of beauty not only in terms of art and aesthetics, but also within the context of the current post-religious age. It engages with the philosophical works of Roger Scruton and William Desmond, and endorses and addresses many important discussions surrounding art and beauty found in the works of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. It also takes seriously the role of poetry and painting to explore the theme that runs through this research: the idea that beauty is rationally found. Meditations on the art of Manet, Van Gogh, Delacroix, Rembrandt, and other artists, together with the voices of several poets, show us that beauty cannot be reduced to aesthetics only. Irreducible to philosophy, religion, or aesthetics, the notion of beauty is deeply examined in all its forms and spiritual meaning.

Author : Shaun Gallagher
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438403687

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Hegel, History, and Interpretation by Shaun Gallagher Pdf

Hegel, History, and Interpretation is a collection of essays that extend critical discussions of Hegel into contemporary debates about the nature of interpretation and theories of philosophical hermeneutics. Essays by Susan Armstrong, John D. Caputo, William Desmond, Robert J. Dostal, Shaun Gallagher, Philip T. Grier, H. S. Harris, Walter Lammi, George R. Lucas Jr., Michael Prosch, Tom Rockmore, and P. Christopher Smith explore difficult issues concerning historical interpretation, the nature of hermeneutics at the end of metaphysics, the social and critical function of reason, and the inadequacy of Hegel's interpretation of the experience of otherness. In the course of these essays Hegel is made to converse with Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Heidegger as well as with contemporary theorists such as Gadamer, Habermas, Foucault, and Derrida. Thus the contributors explore both the themes that form the common ground between Hegelian philosophy and contemporary interpretation theory and the mixed reception of Hegel's philosophy into contemporary discussions about history, deconstruction, critical theory, and alterity.

Author : William Maker
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791492727

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Hegel and Aesthetics by William Maker Pdf

Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics present a systematic and historical overview of the nature and development of art in light of its meaning and philosophical significance. This book considers Hegel's aesthetics from a variety of perspectives. With a strong and clear introduction by William Maker, the individual essays address Hegel's treatment of music, painting, comedy, and architecture, as well as his earlier writings on art, his relations to Schiller and to Schlegel, his treatment of romanticism, the place of aesthetics in the system, and his controversial claims about the overcoming of art. Several perspectives focus specifically on the contemporary relevance of Hegel's aesthetics in light of developments in art since his time, and especially in connection with modernism, postmodernism, and deconstruction. Contributors include William Desmond, Brian K. Etter, Andrew G. Fiala, Martin Gammon, Edward Halper, Stephen Houlgate, David Kolb, Stephen C. Law, Judith Norman, Carl Rapp, Jere Surber, and Richard D. Winfield.

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674976450

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The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison Pdf

What is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America’s foremost novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy her work and dominate politics: race, fear, borders, mass movement of peoples, desire for belonging. Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Toni Morrison’s most personal work of nonfiction to date.

Author : André Cloots
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9061869862

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Framing a Vision of the World by André Cloots Pdf

Since for Jan Van der Veken our vision of the world, and especially the placing of God and religion in it, has been the basic concern in all his work and thought, this problem is also at the core of this volume.

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498241540

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The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being by William Desmond Pdf

This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic authenticity. Beauty seems bland and lacks the more visceral thrill of the ugly, indeed the excremental. We crave what disrupts and provokes us, not what gives delight or even consoles. By contrast, attention is given to how beauty arouses enigmatic joy in us, and we enjoy an elemental rapport with it as other. Surprised by beauty, our breath is taken away, but we are more truly there with the beautiful when we are taken outside of ourselves. We are first receivers of the gift of surprise and only then perceivers and conceivers. My attention to the passion of being stresses a patience, a receptivity to what is other. What happens is not first our construction. There is something given, something awakening, something delighting, something energizing, something of invitation to transcendence. The theme is amplified in diverse reflections: on life and its transient beauty; on soul music and its relation to self; on the shine on things given in creation; on beauty and Schopenhauer's dark origin; on creativity and the dynamis in Paul Weiss's creative ventures; on redemption in Romanticism in the thought of Stanley Cavell; on theater as a between or metaxu; on redeeming laughter and its connection with the passion of being.

Author : Anja Eisenbeiss,Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : 3422070699

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Images of Otherness in Medieval and Early Modern Times by Anja Eisenbeiss,Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch Pdf

From French miniature paintings to the work of Pope Pius II, this collection of essays explores the philosophical history behind medieval European art. The essays reveal how a visual vocabulary was established among French miniature painters to express the concepts of personal identity and alterity in their work and how Pope Pius II helped spread these metaphysical ideologies across the eastern Christian world. An exhaustive and articulate guide to European art in the Middle Ages, this book is essential reading for art students and enthusiasts alike.

Author : Madeleine Schechter
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 9783826039539

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Semiotics and Art Theory by Madeleine Schechter Pdf