Sunleif Rasmussen E-books

The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)Baroque Aesthetics

The Theater of fact argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics must be understood as a part of an analogous complicated. The Neobaroque, instead of being a go back to the stylistic practices of a selected time and position, may be defined because the continuation of a cultural method produced as a reaction to a particular challenge of idea that has beset Europe and the colonial global in view that early modernity.

Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts)

Theodor W. Adorno used to be a tremendous twentieth-century thinker and social critic whose writings on oppositional tradition in paintings, song, and literature more and more stand on the heart of up to date highbrow debate. during this very good assortment, Robert Hullot-Kentor, largely considered as the main distinct American translator and commentator on Adorno, gathers jointly 16 essays he has written in regards to the thinker over the last 20 years.

New Takes in Film-Philosophy

This assortment displays a diversity of techniques and modern advancements within the increasing box of film-philosophy. The essays explore significant concerns surrounding the conjunction of movie and philosophy, featuring a diversified but coherent mirrored image at the nature of this conjunction.

Kant on Sublimity and Morality (Political Philosophy Now)

The chic is the event of what's nice in energy, dimension, or quantity. traditionally, from precedent days to the current, this aesthetic event has consistently been linked to morality, yet so one can exclude evil, fascistic or terroristic makes use of of the chic, we require a scientific justification of the declare that there are inner ethical constraints at the elegant.