A Return to Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Return to Aesthetics write by Jonathan Loesberg. This book was released on 2005. A Return to Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Return to Aesthetics confronts postmodernism's rejection of aesthetics by showing that this critique rests on central concepts of classical aesthetic theory, namely autonomous form, disinterest, and symbolic discourse. The author argues for the value of these concepts by recovering them through a historical reinterpretation of their meaning prior to their distortion by twentieth-century formalism. Loesberg then applies these concepts to a discussion of two of the most significant critics of the ideology of Enlightenment, Foucault and Bourdieu. He argues that understanding the role of aesthetics in the postmodern critique of Enlightenment will get us out of the intellectual impasse wherein numbingly repeated attacks upon postmodernism as self-contradictory match numbingly repeated defenses. Construing postmodern critiques as examples of aesthetic reseeing gives us a new understanding of the postmodern critique of the Enlightenment.
Aesthetics of Change
Aesthetics of Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aesthetics of Change write by Bradford P. Keeney. This book was released on 2017-02-13. Aesthetics of Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fundamental concern of psychotherapy is change. While practitioners are constantly greeted with new strategies, techniques, programs, and interventions, this book argues that the full benefits of the therapeutic process cannot be realized without fundamental revision of the concept of change itself. Applying cybernetic thought to family therapy, Bradford P. Keeney demonstrates that conventional epistemology, in which cause and effect have a linear relationship, does not sufficiently accommodate the reciprocal nature of causation in experience. Written in an unconventional style that includes stories, case examples, and imagined dialogues between an epistemologist and a skeptical therapist, the volume presents a philosophically grounded, ecological framework for contemporary clinical practice.
20th Century Aesthetics
20th Century Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 20th Century Aesthetics write by Mario Perniola. This book was released on 2012-12-27. 20th Century Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by one of Italy's leading contemporary thinkers and available in English for the first time, this book surveys the key themes in Continental aesthetics.
The Aesthetics of Uncertainty
The Aesthetics of Uncertainty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aesthetics of Uncertainty write by Janet Wolff. This book was released on 2008. The Aesthetics of Uncertainty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abstract:
Philosophical Aesthetics
Philosophical Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophical Aesthetics write by Oswald Hanfling. This book was released on 1992-04-08. Philosophical Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume contains surveys of the main issues in philosophical aesthetics, as discussed by thinkers from ancient Greece to modern times. It is written by members of the Open University and the intention throughout is to make the issues intelligible and interesting to as wide an audience as possible, including those readers with a general interest in the arts as well as more advanced students. The volume begins with questions about the nature of art and beauty. Are there any limitations to what may count as a work of art? Are imitations and forgeries really less valuable than original works? This is followed by discussions of aesthetic experience, truth and the 'imitation of nature' in works of art. In later chapters the emphasis is on the value and evaluation of art. Should art exist for the good of society? What justification is there for censorship in the case of pornography? The final chapters deal with Marxist theories of art, and with structuralist and post-structuralist views in recent continental writings.
