Tag: Nothingness

The Architecture of Nothingness An Explanation of the Objective Basis of Beauty in Architecture and the Arts


Free Download Frank Lyons, "The Architecture of Nothingness: An Explanation of the Objective Basis of Beauty in Architecture and the Arts"
English | 2019 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 1138214159, 1138214124 | PDF | 10,8 mb
It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones can make us feel insecure, depressed or even threatened. We may instantly decide that we ‘like’ one building more than another, in the same way that without thinking we choose one work of art or music over another. But what is going on when we make these instant decisions? The process is so complex that it remains an area rarely examined, often considered unfathomable, or for some mysterious, bordering even on the spiritual. Frank Lyons seeks to unpick the complex relationships that go to make up great works of architecture, to reveal a set of principles that are found to apply not only to architecture but also to art, music and culture in general. One of the major complications at the heart of culture is that because the arts are generated subjectively, it is assumed that the finished cultural artefact is also subjective. This is a myth that this book seeks to dispel. The arts are indeed created from the personal subjective space of an individual but what that individual has to say will only be shareable if expressed in coherent (objective) form.

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Being and Nothingness An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology


Free Download Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology"
English | ISBN: 0415529115 | 2018 | 848 pages | PDF | 32 MB
First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend of "the excitement – I remember nothing like it since the days of discovering Keats and Shelley and Coleridge". This new translation, the first for over sixty years, makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers.

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Kant and the Problem of Nothingness A Latin American Study and Critique (EPUB)


Free Download Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla, "Kant and the Problem of Nothingness: A Latin American Study and Critique "
English | ISBN: 1350277789 | 2024 | 208 pages | EPUB | 311 KB
The Latin American philosopher Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla published the first study of Kant’s concept of nothingness in 1965. This translation of Mayz Vallenilla’s ground-breaking work makes it available in English for the first time.

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Heidegger and Dao Things, Nothingness, Freedom


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English | November 30, 2023 | ISBN: 1350411906 | True EPUB/PDF | 262 pages | 15.3/3.8 MB
In this innovative contribution, Eric S. Nelson offers a contextualized and systematic exploration of the Chinese sources and German language interpretations that shaped Heidegger’s engagement with Daoism and his thinking of the thing, nothingness, and the freedom of releasement (Gelassenheit). Encompassing forgotten and recently published historical sources, including Heidegger’s Daoist and Buddhist-related reflections in his lectures and notebooks, Nelson presents a critical intercultural reinterpretation of Heidegger’s philosophical journey.

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