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  1. <<Der>> wohltemperierte Mensch
    Aufklärungsanthropologien im Widerstreit
    Author: Nowitzki, Hans-Peter
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Walter de Gruyter, Berlin

    Die interdisziplinär angelegte Untersuchung widmet sich der Entstehung und Entwicklung der Anthropologie im 18. Jahrhundert und bietet eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme des nur schwer überschaubaren anthropologischen Denkens vor seinem kultur- und... more

     

    Die interdisziplinär angelegte Untersuchung widmet sich der Entstehung und Entwicklung der Anthropologie im 18. Jahrhundert und bietet eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme des nur schwer überschaubaren anthropologischen Denkens vor seinem kultur- und problemgeschichtlichen Hintergrund. Aus vier in sich abgeschlossenen, zugleich aufeinander aufbauenden Studien ergibt sich so eine Geschichte der Anthropologieentwicklung im 18. Jahrhundert.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110898675
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    RVK Categories: GI 1622 ; CC 6400
    Series: Quellen und Forschungen zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte ; 25 (259)
    Subjects: Anthropology; Anthropology; German literature; Anthropology; Anthropology; Anthropology; Anthropology; Anthropology.; Antropologie.; Aufklärung.; German literature; German literature.; Intellectual life.; Literatur.; Literature; Menschenbild.; PHILOSOPHY; Philosophy; Philosophie.
    Scope: XI, 458 Seiten
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    Dissertation, Universität Jena, 2001
  2. Head Cases
    Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times
    Author: Miller, Elaine P.
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780231537117
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    Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Subjects: Philosophie; Psychoanalysis and the arts; ART / Criticism & Theory; PHILOSOPHY; Ästhetik
    Other subjects: Kristeva, Julia (1941-)
    Scope: 1 online resource (264 pages), illustrations
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  3. Deaths in Venice
    The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach
    Author: Kitcher, Philip
    Published: [2013]; © 2013
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780231536035
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    Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Subjects: Deutsche Literatur; Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Tod in Venedig; Philosophy in literature; Ästhetik; FICTION; PHILOSOPHY; Philosophie <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Mann, Thomas (1875-1955): Der Tod in Venedig
    Scope: 1 online resource (280 pages), illustrations
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  4. The introspective art of Mark Twain
    Author: Anderson, Douglas
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

    "The Introspective Art of Mark Twain is a major new assessment of a towering American writer. Seeking to trace the development of Mark Twain's imagination, Douglas Anderson begins near the end, with the long dialogue What Is Man? that Twain published... more

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    "The Introspective Art of Mark Twain is a major new assessment of a towering American writer. Seeking to trace the development of Mark Twain's imagination, Douglas Anderson begins near the end, with the long dialogue What Is Man? that Twain published anonymously in 1906. In Twain's view, the little-read What Is Man? lies at the heart of his creative life. It is the central aesthetic testament that he employed to tell the story of his artistic evolution. Beginning there, Anderson follow the contours of that story as it unfolds over Twain's career. The portrait that emerges ranges the full length of Twain's writing life, drawing on his autobiographical and travel writings, essays, letters, and little known works, as well as his monumental works of literature, by now deeply embedded in the world literary canon. "Steer by the river in your head," Mark Twain's master pilot, Horace Bixby, once advised him, when the opaque atmosphere of the outer world made it impossible to see the actual Mississippi through which Twain was trying to guide his steamboat. For the purposes of this book, the river in one's head is not a mental construct of the physical world but the riverine networks of consciousness itself: the river that is the mind. The detailed discussions of individual books that structure each chapter are meant to direct the attention of Mark Twain's students and admirers, through inward rather than outward channels, toward a fuller appreciation for his legacy"-- "A new reading of the major themes and concerns of Mark Twain's life and work, tracing the development of his imagination from his earliest works in 1865 to his writings in the early twentieth century"-- Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Thought Experiments -- 1. Inside Excursions -- 2. Interest -- 3. Attention -- 4. Shadings -- Conclusion: Greatnesses in the Brain -- Notes -- Index

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781501329548; 9781501329555
    RVK Categories: HT 4705
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM; LITERARY CRITICISM; PHILOSOPHY; Twain, Mark; Twain, Mark; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
    Scope: xiii, 278 pages, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  5. The celebration of death in contemporary culture
    Author: Chapaeva, Dina Rafailovna
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

    "The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity and profitability; dark tourism has emerged as a... more

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    "The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity and profitability; dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry; and funerals have become less traditional. "Corpse chic" and "skull style" have entered mainstream fashion, while elements of gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into more conventional genres. Monsters have become pop culture heroes: vampires, zombies, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. This book considers, for the first time, these phenomena as aspects of a single movement, documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. Previous considerations of our fixation on death have not developed a convincing theory linking the mounting demand for images of violent death and the dramatic changes in death-related social rituals and practices. This book offers a conceptual framework that connects the observations of the simulated world of fiction and movies--including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, Night Watch, Hannibal, and the Harry Potter series--to social and cultural practices, providing an analysis of the specific aesthetics and the intellectual and historical conditions that triggered the cult of death. It also considers the celebration of death in the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the role played by 20th-century French theory, as well as by posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights movement, in the formation of the current antihumanist atmosphere. With its critique of movie and book blockbusters and the death-related social rituals, festivals, and fashions that have coalesced into the cult of death, this timely volume will appeal to anyone hoping to better understand a defining phenomenon of our age. Scholars and general readers of cultural studies, film and literary studies, anthropology, and American and Russian studies will find this book thought-provoking"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780472130269
    RVK Categories: EC 5410 ; EC 8780 ; MS 6300 ; LB 43880
    Subjects: Death; Death in popular culture; Civilization, Modern; Culture; Death in literature; Death in motion pictures; Civilization, Modern; Culture; Death; Death in literature; Death in motion pictures; Death in popular culture; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIAL SCIENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCE
    Scope: vi, 256 pages, illustrations, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index
  6. Cultural genealogy
    an essay on early modern myth
    Author: Falco, Raphael
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781472484765
    RVK Categories: EC 5136
    Subjects: PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGY; Philosophical anthropology
    Scope: viii, 221 Seiten, Illustrationen
  7. The limits of fabrication
    materials science, materialist poetics
    Author: Brown, Nathan
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York

    "The Limits of Fabrication engages anew with traditional understandings of poetry as a practice of making or building, putting this approach to the test and radicalizing its implications by studying models of form and structure in twentieth and... more

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    "The Limits of Fabrication engages anew with traditional understandings of poetry as a practice of making or building, putting this approach to the test and radicalizing its implications by studying models of form and structure in twentieth and twenty-first century materialist poetics alongside recent innovations in materials science and engineering"-- Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- Prologue: The Limits Of Fabrication -- Introduction: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics -- 1. The Inorganic Open: Nanotechnology and Physical Being -- 2. Objectism: Charles Olson's Poetics of Physical Being -- 3. Design Science: Geodesic Architecture in Nanoscale Carbon Chemistry and Ronald Johnson's Ark -- 4. Surrational Solids, Surrealist Liquids: Crystallography and Biotechnology in Materials Science and Materialist Poetry -- 5. The Scale of a Wound: Nanotechnology and the Poetics of Real Abstraction in Shanxing Wang's Mad Science in Imperial City -- Conclusion: Techne, Poiesis, Fabrication -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780823272990
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series: Array
    Subjects: Poetics; Form (Philosophy); Architecture in literature; Materialism in literature; Literature and science; Architecture in literature; Form (Philosophy); LITERARY CRITICISM; Literature and science; Poetry; Materialism in literature; PHILOSOPHY; Poetics; Aesthetics; SCIENCE
    Scope: xi, 296 pages, Illustrationen, 24 cm
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 275-292
  8. What we see when we read
    a phenomenology ; with illustrations
    Author: Mendelsund, Peter
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, New York

    "A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading--how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when we... more

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    "A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading--how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page--a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so--and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved--or reviled--literary figures. In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer; his first career, as a classically trained pianist; and his first love, literature--he considers himself first and foremost as a reader--into what is sure to be one of the most provocative and unusual investigations into how we understand the act of reading"-- "An illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading"--

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780804171632
    RVK Categories: AN 39600 ; AN 69500 ; ES 685 ; EC 2010
    Edition: First Vintage Books edition
    Series: Vintage original
    Subjects: Books and reading; Phenomenology; Visual perception in literature; ART; Books and reading; Books and reading; LITERARY CRITICISM; PHILOSOPHY; Phenomenology; Phenomenology; Visual perception in literature; Visual perception in literature
    Scope: xix, 419 pages, illustrations, music, 21 cm
  9. The new aestheticism
    Contributor: Joughin, John J.; Malpas, Simon
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press ;, Manchester, UK

    Introduces the idea of a new aestheticism - "new" in that it identifies a turn taken by contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focusing on the specifically aesthetic impact of a work of art or literature has the potential to open different ways... more

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    Introduces the idea of a new aestheticism - "new" in that it identifies a turn taken by contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focusing on the specifically aesthetic impact of a work of art or literature has the potential to open different ways of thinking about identity, politics and culture.

     
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    Contributor: Joughin, John J.; Malpas, Simon
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1417578017; 9781417578016; 9781847790354; 1847790356; 1526137828; 9781526137821
    RVK Categories: CC 6900
    Subjects: Literaturtheorie; Ästhetizismus; Ästhetik; Aesthetics; Criticism; PHILOSOPHY; Humanities; Philosophy; Philosophy: aesthetics; LITERARY CRITICISM; Aesthetics; Criticism; Aufsatzsammlung; Ästhetik
    Other subjects: Multi-User
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 242 Seiten)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  10. Aesthetics and subjectivity
    from Kant to Nietzsche
    Author: Bowie, Andrew
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK ; JSTOR, [New York]

    New, completely revised and re-written edition. Offers a detailed, but asccesible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. Looks at recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and... more

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    New, completely revised and re-written edition. Offers a detailed, but asccesible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. Looks at recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities, following the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Ficthe and Holderlin, the early Romantis, Schelling, Hegel, Scleimacher, to Nietzsche. Develops the approaches to subjectivity, aesthetics, music and language in relation to new theoretical developments bridging the divide between the continental and analytical traditions of philosophy. The huge growth of interest in German philosophy as a resource for re-thinking both literary and cultural theory, and contemporary philosophy will make this an indispensible read.

     
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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1417577991; 9781417577996; 9781847790330; 184779033X
    RVK Categories: CC 6700
    Edition: 2nd edition, completely re-written and updated.
    Subjects: Ästhetik; Subjektivität; Aesthetics, German; Aesthetics, German; Aesthetics, Modern; Aesthetics, Modern; Subjectivity; PHILOSOPHY; PHILOSOPHY; Aesthetics, German; Aesthetics, Modern; Subjectivity; Ästhetik; Subjektivität
    Other subjects: Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804); Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 345 Seiten)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-341) and index
  11. History of concepts
    comparative perspectives
    Contributor: Hampsher-Monk, Iain; Tilmans, Karin; Vree, Frank van
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    First introduction to an english-speaking audience of a field of research booming in continental Europe. more

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  12. What we see when we read
    a phenomenology : with illustrations
    Author: Mendelsund, Peter
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, New York

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    ISBN: 9780804171632
    RVK Categories: AN 39600 ; AN 69500 ; ES 685 ; EC 2010
    Edition: First Vintage Books edition
    Series: Vintage original
    Subjects: Design; Lesen; Rezeption; Kognition; Books and reading; Phenomenology; Visual perception in literature; ART; Books and reading; LITERARY CRITICISM; PHILOSOPHY; Phenomenology; Visual perception in literature
    Other subjects: Mendelsund, Peter
    Scope: xix, 419 Seiten, Illustrationen
  13. A companion to aesthetics
    Contributor: Davies, Stephen
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, U.K. ; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

    In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics.:.; Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in... more

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    In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics.:.; Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art.; Features revised and expanded entries from the first edition, as well as new chapters on recent developments in aesthetics and a larger number of essays on non-Western thought about art.; Unique to this edition are six overview essays on the history of aesthetics in the West from antiquity to modern times.

     
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    Contributor: Davies, Stephen
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781444310429; 1444310429; 9781405197939; 1405197935; 9781444310436; 1444310437
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    Edition: 2nd edition
    Series: Blackwell companions to philosophy
    Subjects: Ästhetik; Aesthetics; PHILOSOPHY; Aesthetics; Ästhetik; Ästhetik
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 621 Seiten.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  14. Unbekannte Essays
    Author: Hillebrand, Karl
    Published: 1955
    Publisher:  Francke, Bern

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  15. Ausgewählte Werke
    Author: Möbius, Paul J.
    Publisher:  Barth, Leipzig

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  16. Poetics before Plato
    Interpretation and Authority in Early Greek Theories of Poetry
    Author: Ledbetter, Grace M.
    Published: 2003; ©2003
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

    Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an utterly innovative reading of the early history of poetics. It is the first to argue that there is a distinctively Socratic view of poetry and the first to connect the Socratic view... more

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    Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an utterly innovative reading of the early history of poetics. It is the first to argue that there is a distinctively Socratic view of poetry and the first to connect the Socratic view of poetry with earlier literary tradition. Literary theory is usually said to begin with Plato's famous critique of poetry in the Republic. Grace Ledbetter challenges this entrenched assumption by arguing that Plato's earlier dialogues Ion, Protagoras, and Apology introduce a distinctively Socratic theory of poetry that responds polemically to traditional poets as rival theorists. Ledbetter tracks the sources of this Socratic response by introducing separate readings of the poetics implicit in the poetry of Homer, Hesiod, and Pindar. Examining these poets' theories from a new angle that uncovers their literary, rhetorical, and political aims, she demonstrates their decisive influence on Socratic thinking about poetry. The Socratic poetics Ledbetter elucidates focuses not on censorship, but on the interpretation of poetry as a source of moral wisdom. This philosophical approach to interpreting poetry stands at odds with the poets' own theories--and with the Sophists' treatment of poetry. Unlike the Republic's focus on exposing and banishing poetry's irrational and unavoidably corrupting influence, Socrates' theory includes poetry as subject matter for philosophical inquiry within an examined life. Reaching back into what has too long been considered literary theory's prehistory, Ledbetter advances arguments that will redefine how classicists, philosophers, and literary theorists think about Plato's poetics.

     
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    Subjects: Aesthetics, Ancient; Greek poetry; Greek poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM; Poésie grecque; Authority in literature; Poetics; Poetics; PHILOSOPHY
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  17. The Origins of Criticism
    Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece
    Author: Ford, Andrew
    Published: 2002; ©2002
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

    By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art. Aristotle and Plato come to mind. The word "social" does not. Yet, as this book shows, it... more

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    By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art. Aristotle and Plato come to mind. The word "social" does not. Yet, as this book shows, it should--if, that is, we wish to understand where literary criticism as we think of it today came from. Andrew Ford offers a new understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece. He pinpoints when and how, later in the Greek tradition than is usually assumed, poetry was studied as a discipline with its own principles and methods. The Origins of Criticism complements the usual, history-of-ideas approach to the topic precisely by treating criticism as a social as well as a theoretical activity. With unprecedented and penetrating detail, Ford considers varying scholarly interpretations of the key texts discussed. Examining Greek discussions of poetry from the late sixth century B.C. through the rise of poetics in the late fourth, he asks when we first can recognize anything like the modern notions of literature as imaginative writing and of literary criticism as a special knowledge of such writing. Serving as a monumental preface to Aristotle's Poetics, this book allows readers to discern the emergence, within the manifold activities that might be called criticism, of the historically specific discourse on poetry that has shaped subsequent Western approaches to literature.

     
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  18. Fateful Beauty
    Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960
    Author: Mao, Douglas
    Published: 2008; ©2008.
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

    When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in Wilde's day and in our own. In Fateful Beauty,... more

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    When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in Wilde's day and in our own. In Fateful Beauty, Douglas Mao recovers the lost intellectual, social, and literary history of the belief that the beauty--or ugliness--of the environment in which one is raised influences or even determines one's fate. Weaving together readings in literature, psychology, biology, philosophy, education, child-rearing advice, and interior design, he shows how this idea abetted a dramatic rise in attention to environment in many discourses and in many practices affecting the lives of the young between the late nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth. Through original and detailed analyses of Wilde, Walter Pater, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Rebecca West, and W. H. Auden, Mao shows that English-language writing of the period was informed in crucial but previously unrecognized ways by the possibility that beautiful environments might produce better people. He also reveals how these writers shared concerns about environment, evolution, determinism, freedom, and beauty with scientists and social theorists such as Herbert Spencer, Hermann von Helmholtz, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, and W.H.R. Rivers. In so doing, Mao challenges conventional views of the roles of beauty and the aesthetic in art and life during this time.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

     
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    Subjects: Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; PHILOSOPHY; Literature; Literature; Literature and society; Literature, Modern
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  19. The State of Speech
    Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome
    Author: Connolly, Joy
    Published: 2007; ©2007.
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

    Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a... more

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    Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. Through new readings of his dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. Rhetoric, Connolly argues, sheds new light on Cicero's deepest political preoccupations: the formation of individual and communal identity, the communicative role of the body, and the "unmanly" aspects of politics, especially civility and compromise. Transcending traditional lines between rhetorical and political theory, The State of Speech is a major contribution to the current debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Instead of a conventional, top-down model of power, it sketches a dynamic model of authority and consent enacted through oratorical performance and examines how oratory modeled an ethics of citizenship for the masses as well as the elite. It explains how imperial Roman rhetoricians reshaped Cicero's ideal republican citizen to meet the new political conditions of autocracy, and defends Ciceronian thought as a resource for contemporary democracy.

     
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    Subjects: Political science; PHILOSOPHY; Political science; Rhetoric, Ancient; LANGUAGE ARTS &amp; LANGUAGE ARTS &amp; REFERENCE
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  20. Ars memorativa
    Zur kulturgeschichtlichen Bedeutung der Gedächtniskunst 1400-1750
    Published: 1993; ©1993.
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783110941593
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    Series: Frühe Neuzeit ; 15
    Subjects: Culture; Memory (Philosophy); Mémoire; Histoire; Mémoire (philosophie); History; PHILOSOPHY; History; Mnémotechnique; Culture; Culture; History; Memory (Philosophy)
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  21. The introspective art of Mark Twain
    Author: Anderson, Douglas
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

    "The Introspective Art of Mark Twain is a major new assessment of a towering American writer. Seeking to trace the development of Mark Twain's imagination, Douglas Anderson begins near the end, with the long dialogue What Is Man? that Twain published... more

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    "The Introspective Art of Mark Twain is a major new assessment of a towering American writer. Seeking to trace the development of Mark Twain's imagination, Douglas Anderson begins near the end, with the long dialogue What Is Man? that Twain published anonymously in 1906. In Twain's view, the little-read What Is Man? lies at the heart of his creative life. It is the central aesthetic testament that he employed to tell the story of his artistic evolution. Beginning there, Anderson follow the contours of that story as it unfolds over Twain's career. The portrait that emerges ranges the full length of Twain's writing life, drawing on his autobiographical and travel writings, essays, letters, and little known works, as well as his monumental works of literature, by now deeply embedded in the world literary canon. "Steer by the river in your head," Mark Twain's master pilot, Horace Bixby, once advised him, when the opaque atmosphere of the outer world made it impossible to see the actual Mississippi through which Twain was trying to guide his steamboat. For the purposes of this book, the river in one's head is not a mental construct of the physical world but the riverine networks of consciousness itself: the river that is the mind. The detailed discussions of individual books that structure each chapter are meant to direct the attention of Mark Twain's students and admirers, through inward rather than outward channels, toward a fuller appreciation for his legacy"-- "A new reading of the major themes and concerns of Mark Twain's life and work, tracing the development of his imagination from his earliest works in 1865 to his writings in the early twentieth century"-- Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Thought Experiments -- 1. Inside Excursions -- 2. Interest -- 3. Attention -- 4. Shadings -- Conclusion: Greatnesses in the Brain -- Notes -- Index

     
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    RVK Categories: HT 4705
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM; LITERARY CRITICISM; PHILOSOPHY; Twain, Mark; Twain, Mark; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  22. Aesthetics on the edge
    where philosophy meets the human sciences
    Author: Lopes, Dominic
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    This book proposes a new methodology for aesthetics, where problems in philosophy are addressed by examining how aesthetic phenomena are understood in the human sciences. Lopes then puts the methodology to work, illuminating the perceptual and... more

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    This book proposes a new methodology for aesthetics, where problems in philosophy are addressed by examining how aesthetic phenomena are understood in the human sciences. Lopes then puts the methodology to work, illuminating the perceptual and social-pragmatic capacities involved in responding to works of visual art, literature, and music Part I. Methods -- Aesthetics in three dimensions -- Feckless reason -- Shikinen sengu: the ontology of architecture in Japan -- Aesthetic theory and aesthetic science: prospects for integration / with Vincent Bergeron -- Part II. Modes -- Art media and the sense modalities: tactile pictures -- Vision, touch, and the value of pictures -- Hearing and seeing musical expression / with Vincent Bergeron -- In the eye of the beholder -- Part III. Means -- Directive pictures -- Drawing in a social science: lithic illustration -- An empathic eye

     
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    ISBN: 9780198796657
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Aesthetics; PHILOSOPHY
    Scope: 234 Seiten, Illustration, 22 cm
  23. Walter Benjamin
    a critical life
    Author: Eiland, Howard; Jennings, Michael W.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. ; London

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    Subjects: Authors, German; Deutsche Literatur; Authors, German; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; LITERARY CRITICISM; PHILOSOPHY
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  24. Wir sind nicht auf der Welt, um zu Schweigen
    eine Einleitung in die Rhetorik
    Author: Kopperschmidt, Josef
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  De Gruyter Mouton, Boston

    "This somewhat unconventional "introduction to rhetoric" does not engage in a historical or systematic survey. Rather, it explores the specific substantive concern of rhetoric: how does persuasive speech help to achieve cooperation based on... more

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    "This somewhat unconventional "introduction to rhetoric" does not engage in a historical or systematic survey. Rather, it explores the specific substantive concern of rhetoric: how does persuasive speech help to achieve cooperation based on understanding? In light of this question, the author describes the current status of rhetoric as a modern principle for establishing validity that is based on persuasion"-- "Wir sind nicht auf der Welt um zu schweigen ist der Titel einer etwas unkonventionellen "Einleitung in die Rhetorik". Sie ist keine Einführung in deren Geschichte oder System, sondern legt das spezifische Frageinteresse der Rhetorik frei. Seit der Antike fragt die Rhetorik nach den Bedingungen überzeugter Zustimmungsnötigung als Basis überlebensnotwendiger Kooperation. Der notorische Konflikt der Rhetorik mit der Philosophie resultierte aus der unterschiedlichen Funktionalisierung dieser Zustimmungsnötigung: Soll sie bloss als Konzession an die intellektuelle Schwäche von Menschen geduldet werden, um sie so für die Akzeptanz von Wahrheitsansprüchen zu gewinnnen (so Platon), oder muss man in der überzeugten Zustimmungsnötigung vielmehr den eigentlichen Grund möglicher Wahrheitsgeltung sehen (so die Sophistik)? Entschieden wurde dieser Konflikt nach Hans Blumenberg erst, als sich direkte Wege zur Wahrheit philosophisch nicht mehr seriös versprechen liessen. Dadurch konnte das rhetorische Prinzip überzeugter Zustimmungsnötigung endlich auch philosophisch zu einem attraktiven Geltungsprinzip unter Bedingungen der Moderne werden. Wenn daher heute etwas Rhetorik aktuell macht, dann ist es die Modernität dieses überzeugungs- bzw. zustimmungsabhängigen Geltungsprinzips"--

     
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  25. Fateful Beauty
    Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960
    Author: Mao, Douglas
    Published: 2008; ©2008.
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

    When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in Wilde's day and in our own. In Fateful Beauty,... more

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    When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in Wilde's day and in our own. In Fateful Beauty, Douglas Mao recovers the lost intellectual, social, and literary history of the belief that the beauty--or ugliness--of the environment in which one is raised influences or even determines one's fate. Weaving together readings in literature, psychology, biology, philosophy, education, child-rearing advice, and interior design, he shows how this idea abetted a dramatic rise in attention to environment in many discourses and in many practices affecting the lives of the young between the late nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth. Through original and detailed analyses of Wilde, Walter Pater, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Rebecca West, and W. H. Auden, Mao shows that English-language writing of the period was informed in crucial but previously unrecognized ways by the possibility that beautiful environments might produce better people. He also reveals how these writers shared concerns about environment, evolution, determinism, freedom, and beauty with scientists and social theorists such as Herbert Spencer, Hermann von Helmholtz, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, and W.H.R. Rivers. In so doing, Mao challenges conventional views of the roles of beauty and the aesthetic in art and life during this time.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

     
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