Philosophical Conceptualization and Literary Art

Philosophical Conceptualization and Literary Art

Author: Phillip Stambovsky

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780838640265

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"In sum, this original inquiry uniquely respects the cognitional diversity that distinguishes the revelatory poetic spirit from the discursively speculative spirit, even as it demonstrates their deep affinities and mutual implications in the life of the imaginative intelligence."--BOOK JACKET.


New Directions in Philosophy and Literature

New Directions in Philosophy and Literature

Author: David Rudrum

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-08-22

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1474449166

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This forward-thinking volume draws on new developments in philosophy including speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, the new materialisms, posthumanism, analytic philosophy of language and metaphysics, and ecophilosophy alongside close readings of a range of texts from the literary canon.


The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy

The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy

Author: George Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-07-11

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1317287169

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In The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy, Smith argues that Western Metaphysics has indeed come to what Heidegger describes as “an end.” That is hardly to say philosophy as such is over or soon to disappear; rather, its purpose as a medium of cultural change and as a generator of history has run its course. He thus calls for a New Philosophy, conceptualized by the artist-philosopher who “makes” or “poeticizes” New Philosophy, spanning literary and theoretical discourses and operating across art in all its forms and across culture in all its locations. To this end, Smith proposes the establishment of schools and social networks that advance the training and development of artist-philosophers, as well as global digital networks that are themselves designed toward this “ever-becoming community.”


Techne Theory

Techne Theory

Author: Henry Staten

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-02-21

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1472592913

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Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, and the art-maker as endowed with an inexplicable power of creation. From the Greeks to the 18th century, art was conceived as techne--the skill and know-how by which things and states of affairs are ordered. Techne Theory shows how to use this concept to cut through the Romantic notion of art as a kind of magic by returning to the original sense of art as techne, the standpoint of the person who actually knows how to make a work of art. Understood as techne, art-making, like all other cultural accomplishments, is a form of work performed by an artisan who has inherited the know-how of previous generations of artisans. Along the way, Techne Theory cuts through the humanist-structuralist impasse over the question of artistic agency and explains what 'form' really means.


Mythic Paradigms in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts

Mythic Paradigms in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts

Author: Robert G. Eisenhauer

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780820472522

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Mythic Paradigms in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts approaches literary and visual texts from the perspective of Hesperian identification and representation. Included is the first translation into English of Fichte's Supplement of 1801, a document whose content sheds light not only on the atheism controversy of the 1790s, but also on literary/philosophical polarizations in the «Republic of Letters». Condensed from the Hesperian atmospherics of Italy and Latin elegy, Faust II entails a Goethean celebration of auditory and visual sensation. In a text devoted to Shelley, Gregory Corso is seen elaborating a prosopopoeia involving Hypnos, god of sleep, a figure dispelling the effects of reading - the hypnoticon. Eisenhauer reads Hölderlin in the context of Pindar, philosophical idealism, and autobiographical projection.


WITTGENSTEINIAN (adj.)

WITTGENSTEINIAN (adj.)

Author: Shyam Wuppuluri

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-22

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 3030275698

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“Tell me," Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth." Wittgenstein replied, "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?” What would it have looked like if we looked at all sciences from the viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s philosophy? Wittgenstein is undoubtedly one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His complex body of work has been analysed by numerous scholars, from mathematicians and physicists, to philosophers, linguists, and beyond. This volume brings together some of his central perspectives as applied to the modern sciences and studies the influence they may have on the thought processes underlying science and on the world view it engenders. The contributions stem from leading scholars in philosophy, mathematics, physics, economics, psychology and human sciences; all of them have written in an accessible style that demands little specialist knowledge, whilst clearly portraying and discussing the deep issues at hand.


Sounding/Silence

Sounding/Silence

Author: David Nowell Smith

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2013-09-02

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0823251535

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Goku's life is hanging by a thread. Gohan and Kuririn must use the seven Dragon Balls of Namek to summon the mighty Dragon Lord.


A Philosophy of Cinematic Art

A Philosophy of Cinematic Art

Author: Berys Gaut

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-01-14

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0521822440

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A wide-ranging and accessible study of cinema as an art form, discussing traditional photographic films, digital cinema, and videogames.


The Utopian Function of Art and Literature

The Utopian Function of Art and Literature

Author: Ernst Bloch

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1989-03-06

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780262521390

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Essays in aesthetics by the philosopher Ernst Bloch that belong to the tradition of cultural criticism represented by Georg Lukács, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin. The aesthetic essays of the philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) belong to the rich tradition of cultural criticism represented by Georg Lukács, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin. Bloch was a significant creative source for these thinkers, and his impact is nowhere more evident than in writings on art. Bloch was fascinated with art as a reflection of both social realities and human dreams. Whether he is discussing architecture or detective novels, the theme that drives his work is always the same—the striving for "something better," for a "homeland" that is more socially aware, more humane, more just. The book opens with an illuminating discussion between Bloch and Adorno on the meaning of utopia; then follow twelve essays written between 1930 and 1973 on topics such as aesthetic theory, genres such as music, painting, theater, film, opera, poetry, and the novel, and perhaps most important, popular culture in the form of fairy tales, detective stories, and dime novels. The MIT Press has previously published Ernst Bloch's Natural Law and Human Dignity and his magnum opus, The Principle of Hope. The Utopian Function of Art and Literature is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.


Devotional Intelligence and Jewish Religious Thinking

Devotional Intelligence and Jewish Religious Thinking

Author: Phillip Stambovsky

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-07-05

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1498590624

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This volume introduces an original philosophy of Jewish religious thinking as devotional intelligence. It establishes the intellectual warrant of such thinking in light of two related principles: relativity v. intelligence—the metaphysical principle that knowing is of being—and the normative principle of sacral attunement.