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1) Leviathan
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Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy. Claiming that man's essential nature is competitive and selfish, Hobbes formulates the case for a powerful sovereign--or 'Leviathan'--to enforce peace and the law, substituting security for the anarchic freedom he believed human beings would otherwise experience. This world view shocked many of Hobbes's contemporaries, and...
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Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century. In Unnatural Wonders the renowned critic finds himself at a point when contemporary art has become wholly pluralistic, even chaotic-with one medium as good as another-and when the moment for the "next...
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"The Garden Of The Prophet" is Khalil Gibran's 1933 sequel to "The Prophet", published posthumously. Intended to be a companion to his masterpiece, it represents a lyrical celebration of life, nature and love. Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese-American poet, writer, and artist best known as the author of "The Prophet" (1923), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Gibran's work covers such themes as justice, religion, science,...
5) What Is Art?
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While Tolstoy may be best remembered as the talented Russian author of such monumentally great works as "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", he also wrote prolifically in essay format on various subjects. In this volume Tolstoy turns his attention to the study of aesthetics and art in all its forms. Based on fifteen years of research, "What is Art?" is Tolstoy's intellectual exposition into answering the titular question. Rich with criticism for his...
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"A guide to living fully and humanely by learning the wisdom of authentic manual work. Many of us live in a world of constant abstraction, immersed in our heads and our screens. But there is a deeper wisdom to be found in working with our hands in the real world. In The Wisdom of Our Hands, craftsman and educator Doug Stowe shows how working with our hands, either professionally or as a hobby, is essential for a full education and a full life. Based...
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It is remarkably appropriate that this work on aesthetics should have been written by George Santayana, who is probably the most brilliant philosophic writer and the philosopher with the strongest sense of beauty since Plato. It is not a dry metaphysical treatise, as works on aesthetics so often are, but is itself a fascinating document: as much a revelation of the beauty of language as of the concept of beauty.
This unabridged reproduction of the...
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From amassing sacred relics to collecting celebrity memorabilia, the impulse to hoard has gripped humankind throughout the centuries. But what is it that drives people to possess objects that have no conceivable use? To Have and To Hold is a captivating tour of collectors and their treasures from medieval times to the present, from a cabinet containing unicorn horns and a Tsar's collection of teeth to the macabre art of embalmer Dr. Frederick Ruysch,...
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This book, first published in 1957, was the first in English to provide a full and clear introduction to one of the most significant of Indian gods, and stresses his supreme role in Indian religion and art. The book relates the full Krishna story, explaining his role in Indian religion, and traces the history of Krishna in Indian painting. There are 39 plates of Indian pictures, each accompanied by a commentary by the author, revealing a wealth of...
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In "Marks on Paper", Suzanne Visser presents a collection of short essays that delve into the intricacies of drawing, seeing, and looking. Through her
philosophical lens, Visser challenges readers to question their assumptions about perception and reality.
Drawing on her years of experience as an artist and writer, Visser offers a sharp and deep exploration of the creative process, inviting readers to consider the act of drawing as a powerful tool...
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Los rostros de Morfeo es una reflexión sobre conceptos centrales del cine de no ficción, tales como "imagen", "realidad", "ficción", "objetividad", "subjetividad", entre otros. El libro propone, por tanto, un concepto semiótico para entender el género mientras que, desde una perspectiva filosófica, establece conexiones entre el cine de ficción y el de no ficción, caracterizando los rasgos icónicos y los efectos en la interpretación de la...
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Timothy Morton acuñó el término "hiperobjeto" para referirse a las cosas que se distribuyen masivamente en tiempo y espacio en relación con los humanos. Un agujero negro, un campo petrolero, la biosfera o el sistema solar, todos los materiales nucleares de la Tierra, son hiperobjetos. Un hiperobjeto podría ser un producto de manufactura humana de larga duración, como el poliestireno, o también la suma de toda la maquinaria chirriante del capitalismo....
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Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883 — 1931) was a Lebanese-American poet, writer, and artist best known as the author of "The Prophet" (1923), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Gibran's work covers such themes as justice, religion, science, free will, love, happiness, the soul, the body, and death. He is widely considered to have been one of the most important figures in Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of the twentieth...
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Drone and Apocalypse is an exhibit catalog for a retrospective of twenty-first-century art. Its narrator, Cynthia Wey, is a failed artist convinced that apocalypse is imminent. She writes critical essays delineating apocalyptic tendencies in drone music and contemporary art. Interspersed amid these essays are "speculative artworks", Wey's term for descriptions of artworks she never constructs that center around the extinction of humanity. Wey's favorite...
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We are, told our lives are too fast, subject to the accelerating demand that we innovate more, work more, enjoy more, produce more, and consume more. That's one familiar story. Another, stranger, story is told here: of those who think we haven't gone fast enough. Instead of rejecting the increasing tempo of capitalist production, they argue that we should embrace and accelerate it. Rejecting this conclusion, /Malign Velocities/ tracks this 'accelerationism'...
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La revolución digital ha aumentado este abismo: ¿qué sentido tiene ir al museo cuando podemos ver los cuadros por el ordenador? ¿Podrá una inteligencia artificial crear arte? ¿Cómo afecta nuestra continua exposición a pantallas y estímulos a nuestra experiencia estética actual?
Este libro es una respuesta coral a estas preguntas. Una respuesta que abarca diferentes formatos, desde el ensayo hasta la ilustración, pasando por el poema o...
17) Along the Road
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First published in 1925, Huxley reveals his thoughts on the subject of travelling in general and tourism in particular. He compares walking to motoring, looks for the traveller's-eye view in literature, weighs up his selection of guidebooks, analyzes the effects of sunglasses on the landscape, dissects our attitudes towards town and country and recommends some reading matter for a journey.
18) Aretephos
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Aretephos offers a new way of understanding art, music and language. Your ideas about art and the world around you may never be the same again. Aretephos Studio emerged as a medium of symbolic art-'Aretephos'-where works are defined and motivated by geometric shapes and script. Quotes are by various philosophers, scientists, musicians, spiritualists, poets, and dramatists that have shaped humanity into what it is today.
Artist Apostolos Stefanopoulos...
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¿Puede el arte ser utilizado para desplegar la crítica social? Esta es la pregunta que guía las reflexiones del presente libro, dirigido a personas interesadas en la estética, la filosofía o las ciencias sociales. En la primera parte de esta obra se explican sus hitos más destacados, entre los que se encuentran K. Marx, S. Kracauer, W. Benjamin, M. Horkheimer, T. W. Adorno y J. Habermas. En la segunda parte, centrada en la formulación de la...
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Este libro ofrece una reflexión en torno a la artesanía a partir de sus propios referentes, esto es, la vida cotidiana del hombre inmersa en la cultura y el territorio. Aquí el problema estético es abordado de manera positiva e interdisciplinar, ya que por su carácter cultural es necesario detallar los aportes hechos desde las diferentes ciencias humanas, y postular preguntas que no se generan en estas ciencias. Así mismo, se plantea la idea...
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