Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics
Title | Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Zuckert |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2019-04-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108483070 |
Provides an overview of Johann Gottfried Herder's aesthetics, interpreted as a naturalist theory with transformative historical significance for European philosophy.
Sculpture
Title | Sculpture PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Gottfried Herder |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2002-10-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0226327558 |
Herder combines rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of sources - from the classics to Norse legend, Shakespeare to the Bible - to illuminate the ways we experience sculpture.
Herder
Title | Herder PDF eBook |
Author | Anik Waldow |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0198779658 |
J. G. Herder is enjoying a renaissance in philosophy and related disciplines and yet there are, as yet, few books on him. This unprecedented collection fills a large gap in the secondary literature, highlighting the genuinely innovative and distinctive nature of Herder's philosophy. Not only does Herder offer highly original answers to important philosophical questions, such as the mind-body problem and the role of sensibility in cognition and ethics, he also opens up rich resources for thinking about philosophy itself and connections to other fields in the humanities and social sciences. Herder: Philosophy and Anthropology brings together a set of original essays that centre on the question at the heart of Herder's philosophical thought: How can philosophy enable an understanding of the human being not simply rationalistically as an intellectual and moral agent, but also as a creature of nature who is fundamentally marked by an affective openness and responsiveness to the world and other persons. The first part of the volume examines the various dimensions of Herder's philosophical understanding of human nature through which he sought methodologically to delineate a genuinely anthropological philosophy. The second part then examines further aspects of this understanding of human nature and what emerges from it: the human-animal distinction; how human life evolves over space and time on the basis of a natural order; the fundamentally hermeneutic dimension to human existence; and the interrelatedness of language, history, religion, and culture.
The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment
Title | The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Stefanie Buchenau |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2013-02-28 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1107311179 |
When, in 1735, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten added a new discipline to the philosophical system, he not only founded modern aesthetics but also contributed to shaping the modern concept of art or 'fine art'. In The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment, Stefanie Buchenau offers a rich analysis and reconstruction of the origins of this new discipline in its wider context of German Enlightenment philosophy. Present-day scholars commonly regard Baumgarten's views as an imperfect prefiguration of Kantian and post-Kantian aesthetics, but Buchenau argues that Baumgarten defended a consistent and original project which must be viewed in the context of the modern debate on the art of invention. Her book offers new perspectives on Kantian aesthetics and beauty in art and science.
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Pages | 389 |
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ISBN | 0674971760 |
Art as Human Practice
Title | Art as Human Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Georg W. Bertram |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2019-01-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1350063169 |
How is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it? This central yet overlooked question in contemporary philosophy of art is at the heart of Georg Bertram's new aesthetic. Drawing on the resources of diverse philosophical traditions – analytic philosophy, French philosophy, and German post-Kantian philosophy – his book offers a systematic account of art as a human practice. One that remains connected to the whole of life.
The Geographic Imagination of Modernity
Title | The Geographic Imagination of Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Chenxi Tang |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0804758395 |
This book is a study of the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western thought around 1800.