Beauty And Sublimity

Author : Patrick Colm Hogan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781316467879

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Beauty and Sublimity by Patrick Colm Hogan Pdf

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in neuroscientific and related research treating aesthetic response. This book integrates this research with insights from philosophical aesthetics to propose new answers to longstanding questions about beauty and sublimity. Hogan begins by distinguishing what we respond to as beautiful from what we count socially as beautiful. He goes on to examine the former in terms of information processing (specifically, prototype approximation and non-habitual pattern recognition) and emotional involvement (especially of the endogenous reward and attachment systems). In the course of the book, Hogan examines such issues as how universal principles of aesthetic response may be reconciled with individual idiosyncrasy, how it is possible to argue rationally over aesthetic response, and what role personal beauty and sublimity might play in the definition of art. To treat these issues, the book considers works by Woolf, Wharton, Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Beethoven, Matisse, and Kiran Rao, among others.

Author : John Steinfort Kedney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UOMDLP:abx8101:0001.001

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The Beautiful and the Sublime by John Steinfort Kedney Pdf

Author : Herbert Grabes
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789042024335

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Making Strange by Herbert Grabes Pdf

This compact, indispensable overview answers a vexed question: Why do so many works of modern and postmodern literature and art seem designed to appear 'strange', and how can they still cause pleasure in the beholder? To help overcome the initial barrier caused by this 'strangeness', the general reader is given an initial, non-technical description of the 'aesthetic of the strange' as it is experienced in the reading or viewing process. There follows a broad survey of modern and postmodern trends, illustrating their staggering variety and making plain the manifold methods and strategies adopted by writers and artists to 'make it strange'. The book closes with a systematic summary of the theoretical underpinnings of the 'aesthetic of the strange', focussing on the ways in which it differs from both the earlier 'aesthetic of the beautiful' and the 'aesthetic of the sublime'. It is made amply clear that the strangeness characteristic of modern and postmodern art has ushered in an entirely new, 'third' kind of aesthetic – one that has undergone further transformation over the past two decades. Beyond its usefulness as a practical introduction to the 'aesthetic of the strange', the present study also takes up the most recent, cutting-edge aspects of scholarly debate, while initiates are offered an original approach to the theoretical implications of this seminal phenomenon.

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : BL:A0021801760

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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke Pdf

Author : Patrick Colm Hogan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 1316469379

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Beauty and Sublimity by Patrick Colm Hogan Pdf

Author : Kant/Goldthwait
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 0520352807

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Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime by Kant/Goldthwait Pdf

When originally published in 1960, this was the first complete English translation since 1799 of Kant's early work on aesthetics. More literary than philosophical, Observations shows Kant as a man of feeling rather than the dry thinker he often seemed to readers of the three Critiques.

Author : Emily Brady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107276260

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The Sublime in Modern Philosophy by Emily Brady Pdf

In The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature, Emily Brady takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful concept in contemporary philosophy. In a reassessment of historical approaches, the first part of the book identifies the scope and value of the sublime in eighteenth-century philosophy (with a focus on Kant), nineteenth-century philosophy and Romanticism, and early wilderness aesthetics. The second part examines the sublime's contemporary significance through its relationship to the arts; its position with respect to other aesthetic categories involving mixed or negative emotions, such as tragedy; and its place in environmental aesthetics and ethics. Far from being an outmoded concept, Brady argues that the sublime is a distinctive aesthetic category which reveals an important, if sometimes challenging, aesthetic-moral relationship with the natural world.

Author : Sir George Ramsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Emotions
ISBN : BL:A0018624166

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Analysis and Theory of the Emotions; with Dissertations on Beauty, Sublimity, and the Ludicrous by Sir George Ramsay Pdf

Author : Charles Hay Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : HARVARD:HNW3GZ

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Two Essays by Charles Hay Cameron Pdf

Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509515134

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Saving Beauty by Byung-Chul Han Pdf

Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty. In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han reinvigorates aesthetic theory for our digital age. He interrogates our preoccupation with all things slick and smooth, from Jeff Koon's sculptures and the iPhone to Brazilian waxing. Reaching far deeper than our superficial reactions to viral videos and memes, Han reclaims beauty, showing how it manifests itself as truth, temptation and even disaster. This wide-ranging and profound exploration of beauty, encompassing ethical and political considerations as well as aesthetic, will appeal to all those interested in cultural and aesthetic theory, philosophy and digital media.

Author : Kedney John Steinfort
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020874120

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The Beautiful and the Sublime by Kedney John Steinfort Pdf

This philosophical treatise explores the concepts of beauty and the sublime, delving into the ways in which these emotions are experienced and how they have been historically understood. The author argues that beauty and the sublime have objective qualities that can be apprehended through aesthetic experience, and provides a framework for understanding these qualities. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Jane Forsey
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527510302

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The Possibility of the Sublime by Jane Forsey Pdf

The notion of the sublime, used to describe a particular kind of overwhelming or exhilarating aesthetic experience, has garnered a great deal of attention by philosophers, critical theorists and literary scholars. In the midst of this growing body of literature, Professor Jane Forsey published an article asking whether an aesthetic theory of the sublime is even possible, and argued provocatively in the negative. Claiming that efforts to explain the sublime inevitably result in theories that are either contradictory or incoherent, Forsey posed a challenge to anyone who takes the sublime seriously as an aesthetic category. This volume brings together an international slate of philosophers and scholars of the sublime, who have been invited to respond to, and critically engage with, Forsey’s article. Unlike other monographs and anthologies that deal broadly with the sublime in aesthetics, this collection examines specific conceptual problems with the very foundations of sublime theory in a manner that is tightly focused and rigorous. It represents a variety of approaches that defend the sublime, and concludes with an original response by Professor Forsey to her critics.

Author : Joshua W Rayman
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780708325070

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Kant on Sublimity and Morality by Joshua W Rayman Pdf

A book considering Kant's account of the overpowering feeling of the sublime, and the moral law within, which exercised an extraordinary influence on the movements of Romanticism, Hegelian phenomenology, and Continental Philosophy.

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415453264

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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke Pdf

Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of "the beautiful", Burke's subject here was the quality he uniquely distinguished as "the sublime" - an all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it. It was an analysis that would go on to inspire some of the leading thinkers of the age, including Immanuel Kant and Denis Diderot. The Routledge Classics edition presents the authoritative text of the first critical edition of Burke's essay ever published, including a substantial critical and historical commentary.

Author : Archibald Alison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJHY4

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Essay 2: Of the sublimity and beauty of the material world by Archibald Alison Pdf