Tag: Aesthetics

Free Download Theodor W. Adorno’s Philosophy, Society, and Aesthetics (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) by Stefano Petrucciani
English | April 23, 2021 | ISBN: 3030719901 | True EPUB/PDF | 182 pages | 0.3/2.8 MB
This book is a complete presentation of the most important themes of Theodor W. Adorno’s critical theory, and of its relevance for the understanding of the modern society.

Free Download Jonathan Freedman, "The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity"
English | ISBN: 022658108X | 2021 | 310 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and literature, philosophic pessimism, and an interest in nonnormative sexualities, decadence was also a smear, whereby Jews were viewed as the source of social and cultural decline. In The Jewish Decadence, Jonathan Freedman argues that Jewish engagement with decadence played a major role in the emergence of modernism and the making of Jewish culture from the 1870s to the present.

Free Download Jadranka Skorin-Kapov, "The Intertwining of Aesthetics and Ethics: Exceeding of Expectations, Ecstasy, Sublimity"
English | ISBN: 1498524567 | 2016 | 216 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Intertwining of Aesthetics and Ethics: Exceeding of Expectations, Ecstasy, Sublimity analyzes the common experiential ground for both aesthetics and ethics by considering experiential environment (both nature and art), the precedents to desire, the notion of experience incorporating a break, and the reverberations of surprise leading to the intertwining of aesthetics and ethics. Jadranka Skorin-Kapov discusses different philosophical positions on the relationship between nature and art, in conversation with Kant, Hegel, Goethe, Gadamer, and Adorno. She argues that Kantian sublimity can carry over from nature to art. As part of the discussions of expectations and authenticity, the author interprets Husserl’s view on expectations, Heidegger’s view on death and authenticity, Blanchot’s view on death, and Arendt’s view on natality. As for understanding the aesthetic experience as the paradigmatic experience, Skorin-Kapov is informed by Dewey’s work on art as experience, Gadamer’s work on experience of art, and Jauss’s work on the aesthetics of reception and the horizon of expectations. After our sensibility and representational capability are broken, recuperation then leads to sublimity and the subsequent feelings of admiration and/or responsibility, allowing for the intertwining of aesthetics and ethics. Additionally, elements of Kantian morality, Foucault’s ethics, and Kierkegaard’s work on interactions between aesthetics and ethics together help to characterize the relation between aesthetics and ethics. Since we often encounter surprise due to unexpectedness in comedy, Skorin-Kapov also interprets philosophical views on the comedy and laughter (including Aristotle, Kierkegaard, Meredith, and Bergson), using the theatrical work of Dario Fo as an example.

Free Download Susan Best, "Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography"
English | ISBN: 1472529782 | 2016 | 232 pages | AZW3 | 13 MB
By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics. The book identifies an innovative aesthetic on the part of women photographers from the southern hemisphere, who against the dominant modes of criticality in political art, look at how cultural production can be reparative.

Free Download Ales? Erjavec, "Art, Philosophy, and Ideology: Writings on Aesthetics and Visual Culture from the Avantgarde to Postsocialism "
English | ISBN: 9004697500 | 2024 | 397 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This volume consists of selected essays on the art and aesthetics of the avantgarde, contemporary art, and postsocialist culture by the internationally renowned Slovenian philosopher and art theorist Aleš Erjavec.

Free Download Keith O’Regan, "Towards a Productive Aesthetics Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht "
English | ISBN: 9004501843 | 2021 | 248 pages | PDF | 1230 KB
This work is a comparative analysis of contemporary and historical interventions in the poetic and dramatic work of William Blake and Bertolt Brecht. Both authors explore how relations of domination shape lived experience under capitalism and mobilise literature as a form of resistance.

Free Download Roman Ingarden’s Ontology and Aesthetics By Jeff Mitsecherling
1997 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 077660435X | PDF | 16 MB
A leading Polish philosopher of the 20th century, Roman Ingarden is principally renowned in Western culture for his work in aesthetics and the theory of literature. Jeff Mitscherling demonstrates, in this extensive work, how Ingarden’s thought constitutes a major contribution to the more fundamental fields of ontology and metaphysics. Unparalleled in existing literature, Mitscherling’s comprehensive survey of Ingarden’s philosophy will give the reader an informed introduction to this major work of phenomenological analysis. Also available in Paperback format.

Free Download Maruška Svašek, "Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe "
English | ISBN: 1785331817 | 2016 | 366 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with ‘innovation’ in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvization.

Free Download Gary Tedman, "Aesthetics & Alienation"
English | 2012 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 1780993013 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
This is an original theory of aesthetics based chiefly on Marx’s theory of alienation and Louis Althusser’s theory of ideology. From this the author puts forward the concept of ‘aesthetic state apparatuses’, which operate on the ‘aesthetic level of practice’. He argues that so far in history the aesthetic level has been discounted in philosophy, so as to support the dominance of ideology, which in its turn supports ruling class aesthetics, and keeps it dominant but unaccountable.

Free Download A History of Six Ideas: An Essay in Aesthetics by Władysław Tatarkiewicz
English | PDF | 1980 | 395 Pages | ISBN : 9400988079 | 44.2 MB
The history of aesthetics, like the histories of other sciences, may be treated in a two-fold manner: as the history of the men who created the field of study, or as the history of the questions that have been raised and resolved in the course of its pursuit. The earlier History of Aesthetics (3 volumes, 1960-68, English-language edition 1970-74) by the author of the present book was a history of men, of writers and artists who in centuries past have spoken up concerning beauty and art, form and crea tivity. The present book returns to the same subject, but treats it in a different way: as the history of aesthetic questions, concepts, theories. The matter of the two books, the previous and the present, is in part the same; but only in part: for the earlier book ended with the 17th century, while the present one brings the subject up to our own times. And from the 18th century to the 20th much happened in aesthetics; it was only in that period that aesthetics achieved recognition as a separate science, received a name of its own, and produced theories that early scholars and artists had never dreamed of.