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Author : Nancy Webb Kelly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Homo Ludens, Homo Aestheticus written by Nancy Webb Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen Dissanayake
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295980532
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Homo Aestheticus written by Ellen Dissanayake and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: �Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked to the origins of religious practices and to ceremonies of birth, death, transition, and transcendence. Drawing on her years in Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea, she gives examples of painting, song, dance, and drama as behaviors that enable participants to grasp and reinforce what is important to their cognitive world.��Publishers Weekly�Homo Aestheticus offers a wealth of original and critical thinking. It will inform and irritate specialist, student, and lay reader alike.��American AnthropologistA thoughtful, elegant, and provocative analysis of aesthetic behavior in the development of our species�one that acknowledges its roots in the work of prior thinkers while opening new vistas for those yet to come. If you�re reading just one book on art anthropology this year, make it hers.��Anthropology and Humanism
Author : Luc Ferry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226244594
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (445 download)
Download or read book Homo Aestheticus written by Luc Ferry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can subjective, individual taste be reconciled with an objective, universal standard? In Homo Aestheticus, Luc Ferry argues that this central problem of aesthetic theory is fundamentally related to the political problem of democratic individualism. Ferry's treatise begins in the mid-1600s with the simultaneous invention of the notions of taste (the essence of art as subjective pleasure) and modern democracy (the idea of the State as a consensus among individuals). He explores the differences between subjectivity and individuality by examining aesthetic theory as developed first by Kant's predecessors and then by Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and proponents of the avant-garde. Ferry discerns two "moments" of the avant-garde aesthetic: the hyperindividualistic iconoclasm of creating something entirely new, and the hyperrealistic striving to achieve an extraordinary truth. The tension between these two, Ferry argues, preserves an essential element of the Enlightenment concern for reconciling the subjective and the objective—a problem that is at once aesthetic, ethical, and political. Rejecting postmodern proposals for either a radical break with or return to tradition, Ferry embraces a postmodernism that recasts Enlightenment notions of value as a new intersubjectivity. His original analysis of the growth and decline of the twentieth-century avant-garde movement sheds new light on the connections between aesthetics, ethics, and political theory.
Author : Markus Gabriel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509546626
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
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Author : Elena I. Lazareva
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811940053
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
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Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668474654
Total Pages : 1509 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)
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Author : Deog-seong Oh
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811257191
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Smart City 2.0: Strategies And Innovations For City Development written by Deog-seong Oh and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost a century since the idea of creating more humane — more human-centric — cities was brought to the fore, how far has mankind progressed towards creating a true 'city with a heart'? How far off are we, and what can we do to close the gap?The first generation of smart cities showed the limits of top-down planning, in which cities contracted out design and implementation to IT providers. As residents resented paying high taxes for 'smart' urban features that they did not want or use, it became plain that smart cities were not sustainable, and needed to be re-thought. 'Smart City 2.0' starts the design process with understanding the needs of human residents. Little has yet been written about smart cities' second wind.This book offers leading-edge, international perspectives on Smart City 2.0. It offers an overview of the sustainable smart city concept, presents leading experts' latest thinking on strategies for a new generation of smart cities, and showcases eight implementation case studies from seven countries. All chapters are contributed by prominent, leading thinkers and practitioners from a dozen countries, representing both the developed and the developing worlds.Related Link(s)
Author : Roberto M. Álvarez del Blanco
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429655452
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Brand Beauty Unleashed written by Roberto M. Álvarez del Blanco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an in-depth, careful study of our understanding of the concept of beauty in everyday objects and its impact on markets and brands. Moving beyond artistic notions of beauty, it demonstrates how beauty is an asset that can be leveraged in the marketplace. Traditionally, beauty has been examined in relation to its influence on painting, sculpture, literature, music, and architecture. However, its value and power in the marketplace is understudied. Álvarez del Blanco provides a systematic analysis of beauty in commonplace objects and brands, drawing on cutting-edge research at the intersection of marketing and neurosciences. Through examining the neuroscientific evidence for how the brain processes beauty, the author articulates the implications this may have on marketing and brand management. He also offers a glimpse of how beauty may evolve, and its marketing implications for firm strategy in the coming decades. Written by a recognized authority in marketing and brand strategy, Brand Beauty Unleashed gives students with an interest in marketing, consumer behavior, branding, and neuromarketing an exciting new perspective on this intangible asset.
Author : Eric Ziolkowski
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810135981
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts written by Eric Ziolkowski and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume fifteen eminent scholars illuminate the broad and often underappreciated variety of the nineteenth-century Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard’s engagements with literature and the arts. The essays in Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts, contextualized with an insightful introduction by Eric Ziolkowski, explore Kierkegaard’s relationship to literature (poetry, prose, and storytelling), the performing arts (theater, music, opera, and dance), and the visual arts, including film. The collection is rounded out with a comparative section that considers Kierkegaard in juxtaposition with a romantic poet (William Blake), a modern composer (Arnold Schoenberg), and a contemporary singer-songwriter (Bob Dylan). Kierkegaard was as much an aesthetic thinker as a philosopher, and his philosophical writings are complemented by his literary and music criticism. Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts will offer much of interest to scholars concerned with Kierkegaard as well as teachers, performers, and readers in the various aesthetic fields discussed. CONTRIBUTORS: Christopher B. Barnett, Martijn Boven, Anne Margrete Fiskvik, Joakim Garff, Ronald M. Green, Peder Jothen, Ragni Linnet, Jamie A. Lorentzen, Edward F. Mooney, George Pattison, Nils Holger Petersen, Howard Pickett, Marcia C. Robinson, James Rovira
Author : Ekbert Faas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521811828
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)
Download or read book The Genealogy of Aesthetics written by Ekbert Faas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : John Hartley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470671017
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Download or read book Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies written by John Hartley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to it Investigates the uses of multimedia by creative and productive citizen-consumers to provide new theories of communication that accommodate social media, participatory action, and user-creativity Leads the way for new interdisciplinary engagement with systems thinking, complexity and evolutionary sciences, and the convergence of cultural and economic values Analyzes the historical uses of multimedia from print, through broadcasting to the internet Combines conceptual innovation with historical erudition to present a high-level synthesis of ideas and detailed analysis of emergent forms and practices Features an international focus and global reach to provide a basis for students and researchers seeking broader perspectives
Author : Fernando Enns
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666713813
Total Pages : 479 pages
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Download or read book A Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace written by Fernando Enns and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume includes contributions by scholars, ministers, artists, and NGO workers from around the world who are interested in topics of Mennonitism, peacebuilding, and theologies of nonviolence. The papers published together here reflect the richness and diversity of peacebuilding interests and approaches within the current global Mennonite family and offer interdisciplinary explorations of peace and conflict with attention to historical, theological, and lived perspectives. The book includes papers based upon research and insights that were shared at the Second Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival (2019) at Mennorode in the Netherlands. The findings presented here are structured thematically with attention to key points of current concern and research—including, among others, studies on historical and current peacebuilding efforts pertaining to migration and refugee care, ecological justice, gender justice, interreligious dialogue, church-state relations, and racial justice.
Author : McKenzie Wark
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781689415
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book The Beach Beneath the Street written by McKenzie Wark and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the SI now demands to be told in a contemporary voice capable of putting it into the context of twenty-first-century struggles. McKenzie Wark delves into the Situationists' unacknowledged diversity, revealing a world as rich in practice as it is in theory. Tracing the group's development from the bohemian Paris of the '50s to the explosive days of May '68, Wark's take on the Situationists is biographically and historically rich, presenting the group as an ensemble creation, rather than the brainchild and dominion of its most famous member, Guy Debord. Roaming through Europe and the lives of those who made up the movement-including Constant, Asger Jorn, Michle Bernstein, Alex Trocchi and Jacqueline De Jong-Wark uncovers an international movement riven with conflicting passions. Accessible to those who have only just discovered the Situationists and filled with new insights, The Beach Beneath the Street rereads the group's history in the light of our contemporary experience of communications, architecture, and everyday life. The Situationists tried to escape the world of twentieth-century spectacle and failed in the attempt. Wark argues that they may still help us to escape the twenty-first century, while we still can.
Author : Galit Wellner
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739198491
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
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Author : Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821061
Total Pages : 269 pages
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004516069
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
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Author : Dani‰l J. Louw
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920689125
Total Pages : 338 pages
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