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Author : Corrado Federici
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488103
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Beauty and the Abject written by Corrado Federici and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original Scholarly Monograph
Author : Deborah Caslav Covino
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791462324
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Amending the Abject Body written by Deborah Caslav Covino and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the implications and meanings of the makeover and aesthetic surgery industry in American popular culture.
Author : Elaine Scarry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400847354
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book On Beauty and Being Just written by Elaine Scarry and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms. Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society. Presenting us with a rare and exceptional opportunity to witness fairness, beauty assists us in our attention to justice. The beautiful object renders fairness, an abstract concept, concrete by making it directly available to our sensory perceptions. With its direct appeal to the senses, beauty stops us, transfixes us, fills us with a "surfeit of aliveness." In so doing, it takes the individual away from the center of his or her self-preoccupation and thus prompts a distribution of attention outward toward others and, ultimately, she contends, toward ethical fairness. Scarry, author of the landmark The Body in Pain and one of our bravest and most creative thinkers, offers us here philosophical critique written with clarity and conviction as well as a passionate plea that we change the way we think about beauty.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191613606
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Beauty: A Very Short Introduction written by Roger Scruton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and examining how we can compare differing judgements of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely. Is there a right judgement to be made about beauty? Is it right to say there is more beauty in a classical temple than a concrete office block, more in a Rembrandt than in last year's Turner Prize winner? Forthright and thought-provoking, and as accessible as it is intellectually rigorous, this introduction to the philosophy of beauty draws conclusions that some may find controversial, but, as Scruton shows, help us to find greater sense of meaning in the beautiful objects that fill our lives. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Martino Rossi Monti
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152756200X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book What is Beauty? A Multidisciplinary Approach to Aesthetic Experience written by Martino Rossi Monti and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does art need to be beautiful? Can humour be beautiful? What is the relationship between beauty and mimetic behaviour? What does literature have to do with beauty? What are the limitations of neuroscientific approaches to beauty? Are the experience of beauty and the production of “art” confined to anatomically modern humans? Is the experience of beauty confined to humans at all? These are just some of the questions discussed in this volume. It gathers together authors from different areas of research, including philosophy, history of philosophy, history of ideas, cognitive biology, neuroscience, anthropology and paleoanthropology, in order to investigate some of the most debated aspects of the problem of beauty and aesthetic experience. The volume will appeal to both the general reader and the specialist in the humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences.
Author : Julia Kristeva
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231561415
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Powers of Horror written by Julia Kristeva and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors. Kristeva identifies the abject with the eruption of the real and the presence of death. She explores how art and religion each offer ways of purifying the abject, arguing that amid abjection, boundaries between subject and object break down.
Author : Christy Kirk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Finding Cathartic Beauty in Trauma and Abjection written by Christy Kirk and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the dichotomy of beauty and the grotesque in relation to the female body, I set out to both find a balance and interrupt the balance between the two with my artistic practice. Defining beauty as something more significant and meaningful than a pretty image and the abject as something that inspires repulsion, I sought to find connection between the two. Through creating abject textures surrounding nude female forms, I discovered an underlying trauma latent in the artistic expressions of my work. The process of creating abject works of art has lead to catharsis and posttraumatic growth in my personal life and artistic practice. Through the work I have found beauty in the abject and abjection in beauty.
Author : Stewart A. McDowall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107604958
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Beauty and the Beast written by Stewart A. McDowall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1920 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses aesthetic evolution, arguing that the concept of beauty is fundamentally important in the constitution of reality.
Author : Julia Kristeva
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231053471
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (534 download)
Download or read book Pouvoirs de L'horreur (English) written by Julia Kristeva and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse."
Author : Julia Jaeyoon Cho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Abject Bodies on Display written by Julia Jaeyoon Cho and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francette Pacteau
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674859876
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (598 download)
Download or read book The Symptom of Beauty written by Francette Pacteau and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty is not a singular thing, Francette Pacteau tells us, but a generic term for an unspecifiable number of disparate experiences. What these experiences are is the subject of Pacteau's book, an intriguing psychoanalytic study of beauty that looks into the eye of the beholder and to the mind conjuring behind it. Less interested in the contingent object of desire than the fantasy that frames it, Pacteau considers the staging of the aesthetic emotion. Her book is an ambitious attempt to describe the mise-en-scène of beauty within a particular field of representations - that of the beauty of woman. Within this field, which extends from the classical ideals of beauty from Renaissance to the most recent pinups and bionic women, Pacteau analyzes the formulation of beauty in Western culture. -- from back cover.
Author : Brian C. Nixon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725285320
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Beauty (and the Banana) written by Brian C. Nixon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it that makes something beautiful? Is beauty solely in the eye of the beholder, or something deeper, more significant? In Beauty (and the Banana), Nixon writes as an introductory book for Christian leaders, providing the reader an overview of the historical, hermeneutical, and heuristic considerations of beauty. Using the artwork Comedian (a banana taped to a wall) by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan as a springboard, Nixon addresses various fundamental factors of beauty—ontology (being), teleology (form and understanding), and immutability (transcendence and eternality). Integrating poetry and classical ideals throughout, Beauty (and the Banana)’s response to the above questions may surprise all who read—beauty is more than meets the eye.
Author : Ernst Peter Fischer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1489961445
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Beauty and the Beast written by Ernst Peter Fischer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing how the aesthetic delights of thought, analysis, research, and discovery are leading components of the scientific mind and process, he examines everything from snowflakes to the overall makeup of the space-time continuum. He explores these concepts and others including the golden mean, evolution, symmetry in nature, as well as imaginary numbers and irrationality as proof of beauty in science. He presents truth as a state of beauty - and beauty as the embodiment of truth. This book will appeal to lay people and scientists alike.
Author : Shakti Maira
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 935264168X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (526 download)
Download or read book The Promise of Beauty and Why It Matters written by Shakti Maira and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A concern for beauty would certainly make us better shapers of the world.' - Roger ScrutonThe idea of beauty is highly conflicted terrain. Does it only have to do with how things look? Is it merely prettiness? Is it entirely subjective? Does it serve a function?Historically, beauty has been held in high esteem: 'beauty is truth, truth beauty,' the poet Keats wrote. Why then do the high priests of the arts and the arguably progressive socio-political thinkers of the day shun it? Shakti Maira explains how the problem lies with the confused understanding of beauty and with beauty becoming superficially located: quite literally, on the skin. What would happen, he asks, if beauty were to become central to every aspect of our lives: environment, education, economics and governance? Maira engages eighteen eminent thinkers in a series of conversations around the difficult, enthralling notion of beauty.Scientists explore whether there is an evolutionary purpose to it. Philosophers examine its relationship to truth and goodness. Artists speak of beauty and its rejection. Brain-mind experts consider whether the experience of it strengthens certain neural pathways connected with the qualities of balance, harmony, rhythm and proportion. Activists probe how beauty works in the context of social systems. What emerges is a deeper understanding of beauty and how it is a key to our world: a radical new way of evaluating problems and finding solutions, from the personal to the political, the individual to the universal.
Author : Maggie Hennefeld
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478003413
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Abjection Incorporated written by Maggie Hennefeld and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the films of Larry Clark to the feminist comedy of Amy Schumer to the fall of Louis C. K., comedic, graphic, and violent moments of abjection have permeated twentieth- and twenty-first-century social and political discourse. The contributors to Abjection Incorporated move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested mode of political and cultural capital—empowering for some but oppressive for others. Escaping abjection's usual confines of psychoanalysis and aesthetic modernism, core to theories of abjection by thinkers such as Kristeva and Bataille, the contributors examine a range of media, including literature, photography, film, television, talking dolls, comics, and manga. Whether analyzing how comedic abjection can help mobilize feminist politics or how expressions of abjection inflect class, race, and gender hierarchies, the contributors demonstrate the importance of competing uses of abjection to contemporary society and politics. They emphasize abjection's role in circumscribing the boundaries of the human and how the threats abjection poses to the self and other, far from simply negative, open up possibilities for radically new politics. Contributors. Meredith Bak, Eugenie Brinkema, James Leo Cahill, Michelle Cho, Maggie Hennefeld, Rob King, Thomas Lamarre, Sylvère Lotringer, Rijuta Mehta, Mark Mulroney, Nicholas Sammond, Yiman Wang, Rebecca Wanzo
Author : Martha Levine
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9535135813
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Perception of Beauty written by Martha Levine and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors in this book ask us to consider whether the perception of beauty has been defined by our genetics and culture over the years - has it grown and changed? Do certain neural connections define our emotional reactions to beauty? Does beauty follow any rules or laws? Can the aspiration toward beauty be detrimental? Can we divorce ourselves from dictates and sink into a mindful connection with our internal beauty? Can we move from the superficial where "beauty is only skin deep" to an intense appreciation of beauty in all of its variations. The Perception of Beauty will lead to a deeper understanding and contemplation of nature, art, and the world around us.
Author : Helen Parkhurst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Beauty written by Helen Parkhurst and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
