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 inspiration that has beset Europe and the colonial international considering 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 massive twentieth-century thinker and social critic whose writings on oppositional tradition in artwork, song, and literature more and more stand on the heart of up to date highbrow debate. during this first-class assortment, Robert Hullot-Kentor, greatly considered as the main exotic American translator and commentator on Adorno, gathers jointly 16 essays he has written concerning the thinker during the last two decades.

New Takes in Film-Philosophy

This assortment displays a variety of ways and modern advancements within the increasing box of film-philosophy. The essays explore principal matters surrounding the conjunction of movie and philosophy, providing a various but coherent mirrored image at the nature of this conjunction.

Kant on Sublimity and Morality (Political Philosophy Now)

The elegant is the event of what's nice in strength, measurement, or quantity. traditionally, from precedent days to the current, this aesthetic event has continuously been linked to morality, yet with a purpose to exclude evil, fascistic or terroristic makes use of of the elegant, we require a scientific justification of the declare that there are inner ethical constraints at the elegant.