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"La querella de los bufones" surgida en un momento de crisis tanto poética como institucional del modelo francés de teatro musical, desborda ampliamente los márgenes de una de aquellas controversias sobre el gusto dirimidas hasta entonces en los salones de moda. Cuando los enciclopedistas se juntan en torno a la enseña de la ópera bufa italiana y critican la tragedia musical francesa, lo hacen en tanto que símbolo de una monarquía abocada al...
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Some critics and philosophers have looked at Schiller's works such as the ones present in "Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays" and believed that Schiller's ideas have the potential for being very useful to society. Because Schiller believed that the aesthetic function of beauty could release mankind from struggle, some have argued that his views could ultimately change the world if adopted by all people. While Schiller is not seen as one of the...
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From the 1970s cult TV show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, to the current hit musical Spamalot, the Monty Python comedy troupe has been at the center of popular culture and entertainment. The Pythons John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam are increasingly recognized and honored for their creativity and enduring influence in the worlds of comedy and film. Monty Python and Philosophy extends that recognition...
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This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity, environmental justice and activism, and human moral responsibility for the environment, these contributions demonstrate that beauty is not only a meaningful dimension of our experience, but also...
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According to Greek mythology, Laocoon was a Trojan priest who, along with his two sons, offended the gods. As punishment, the three were strangled by sea serpents. The discovery in 1506 of an ancient Greek sculpture showing the three figures in their death agony not only gave rise to renewed interest in the classical period but also created repercussions in the art world. It was this work of art that German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing used...
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Se ofrece ahora la edición española de Il gusto, publicado en italiano, en 1996, dentro de la serie Lessico dell'estetica, dirigida por Remo Bodei. La edición actual ha sido considerablemente ampliada y corregida, y, aunque conserva la estructura inicial, puede ser considerada como un libro nuevo. Bozal plantea en su estudio sobre el gusto algunos de los problemas fundamentales de la estética contemporánea, las posibles relaciones entre estética...
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A critical study of the concept of form in Adorno's writings on art and literature.
Adorno's Poetics of Form is the first book-length examination of the elusive deployment of the concept of form in Adorno's writings on art and literature, and the first monograph to offer a comprehensive account of the relation of these writings to his broader philosophical project. It examines form within the constellation of concepts that exist around it, considering...
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Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy.
In The Tragedy of Philosophy Andrew Cooper challenges the prevailing idea of the death of tragedy, arguing that this assumption reflects a problematic view of both tragedy and philosophy-one that stifles the profound contribution that tragedy could provide to philosophy today. To build this case, Cooper presents a novel reading of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment. Although...
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Selección de una vasta obra de la filosofía alemana que ejerció una gran influencia en el pensamiento europeo de la época y que había caído prácticamente en el olvido. En el volumen se abordan aspectos como la apariencia estética y los sentimientos, la metafísica de la belleza y las formas que adopta la belleza artística. Esta segunda edición de la obra incluye numerosas ampliaciones y correcciones que Richard Müller-Freienfels añadió,...
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La filosofía de la decoración, es un artículo poco conocido de Edgar Allan Poe, originalmente escrito para ser publicado en una revista. Sin embargo, fue leído atentamente y recuperado por autores tan relevantes como Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Mario Praz , e incluso, Roberto Bolaño.
La habitación ideal, de Pablo Chiuminatto y Begoña Alberdi, recupera los escritos de estos intelectuales, a través de un acucioso recorrido por el texto...
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Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What's the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a "black" thing? Is it okay for N. W. A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit - and often explicit - in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers...
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Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content.
Both musicians and laypersons can perceive purely instrumental music without words or an associated story or program as expressing emotions such as happiness and sadness. But how? In this book, Saam Trivedi discusses and critiques the leading philosophical approaches to this question, including formalism,...
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Este escrito muestra, de la mano de Wittgenstein, la importancia del concepto de expresión, dándole consistencia desde diferentes momentos de la filosofía.
El uso de un concepto artístico en campos filosóficos es más un experimento que un riguroso estudio de cómo es que el autor dice algo sin temor equivocarse, pretensión que desde el mismo contexto wittgensteiniano pierde toda validez, pues no se puede conocer algo ni interpretarlo, sino...
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En la ingeniosa unión del pasado con el presente reside el secreto de la arrasadora y milagrosa fuerza vital del arte barroco del ingenio, que posee poderes casi divinos: las cosas mudas hablan; viven las insensatas, resurgen las muertas: las tumbas, los mármoles, las estatuas; de esta encantadora de las almas reciben voz, espíritu y movimiento. Razonan ingeniosamente con los hombres de ingenio. En fin, no puede decirse muerto a algo que el ingenio...
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In this 1922 scholarly landmark, influential British critic I. A. Richards and his colleagues Charles Ogden and James Wood lay out a new theory of harmony and balance in a work of literature-the two mingle with an audience's psychological impulses in order to determine how the work is perceived. This study is a key text of the New Criticism, which forever changed how scholars read and analyze literature.
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Textos que se concentran en las estéticas que celebran el tránsito en las poderosas narraciones en las que se contempla la esperanza, los sueños individuales, las ilusiones, la familia, la comunidad, el hogar y las relaciones humanas, también bajo los ojos agudos de las relaciones de género, tema que se aborda desde una perspectiva socio antropológica y cultural.
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From William Blake through to Iain Sinclair, literature has sought to engage with and transform urban space. Architects now seek the input of poets, and storytelling is, employed in urban regeneration. Writing Urban Space investigates this relationship between imaginative writing and the built environment.
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Robert Fludd, o Robertus de Fluctibus, es uno de los personajes más representativos del hermetismo. Dedicó una buena parte de sus trabajos a la música, en la línea de la tradición de la Grecia antigua. Esta edición, con una magnífica introducción del musicólogo Luis Robledo, presenta la traducción de los textos dedicados a la música del propio Fludd y su visión paradigmática de la armonía universal. Un trabajo trascendente, que ha servido...
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a late 18th and early 19th century German philosopher, was one of the foremost thinkers of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism. He created a framework known as Absolute Idealism that was able to account for the relation of the mind, nature, art, the state, and history. Ultimately, he believed...
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Intuition and Mind. Are they mutually exclusive terms? Or can a science of aesthetics help us understand the way our mind and emotions work together to create art?
George Lowell Tollefson discusses these issues in light of literature, sculpture, music, and painting in this excerpt from his longer work, Unbridled Democracy.
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