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Book Synopsis Redeeming Philosophy from Metaphysics to Aesthetics by : John J. Conley
Download or read book Redeeming Philosophy from Metaphysics to Aesthetics written by John J. Conley and published by Amer Maritain Assn Incorporated. This book was released on 2014 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the Thomism of Jacques Maritain, this collection of essays explores how philosophy can redeem contemporary society from some of its defects and how contemporary philosophy itself can be redeemed through a revival of philosophical realism. Scholarly in form and tone, these essays echo the everyday questions tormenting the American Catholic community.
Book Synopsis Aesthetics After Metaphysics by : Miguel de Beistegui
Download or read book Aesthetics After Metaphysics written by Miguel de Beistegui and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has consistently overlooked, such was its commitment - explicit or implicit - to mimesis and the metaphysics of truth it presupposes. De Beistegui refers to this dimension, which unfolds outside the space that stretches between the sensible and the supersensible - the space of metaphysics itself - as the hypersensible and show how the operation of art to which it corresponds is best described as metaphorical. The movement of the book, then, is from the classical or metaphysical aesthetics of mimesis (Part One) to the aesthetics of the hypersensible and metaphor (Part Two). Against much of the history of aesthetics and the metaphysical discourse on art, he argues that the philosophical value of art doesn't consist in its ability to bridge the space between the sensible and the supersensible, or the image and the Idea, and reveal the sensible as proto-conceptual, but to open up a different sense of the sensible. His aim, then, is to shift the place and role that philosophy attributes to art.
Book Synopsis Philosophy of Art by : David Boersema
Download or read book Philosophy of Art written by David Boersema and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses issues in the philosophy of art through the lenses of the three broad areas of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, and axiology. It surveys many important and pervasive topics connected to a philosophical understanding of art.
Book Synopsis For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife by : Günter Figal
Download or read book For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife written by Günter Figal and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book-length work of the prominent German philosopher Gunter Figal to appear in English offers a radical defense of metaphysical philosophy in the era of postmodern thought. For Figal, metaphysics does not represent an anachronistic and pernicious mode of thought that ought to be overcome but rather is a type of thinking that proceeds from a recognition of the necessary coherence of everything with its opposite. It is this agonistic relationship of opposites that Figal, following Heraclitus, terms strife. Rather than regarding the conflict of opposites as necessarily resulting in the dissolution of meaning and sense, as many contemporary thinkers maintain, Figal contends that sense and meaning can only come into existence metaphysically, that is to say, as a consequence of strife. And, the context within which strife occurs is freedom. Using these concepts of strife and freedom, Figal proposes new and provocative readings of Plato, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard, as well as of some of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century philosophy.
Download or read book Hegel on Art written by Jack Kaminsky and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1962-06-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Kaminsky’s lucid exposition is, surprisingly, the first attempt in English to deal extensively and critically with Hegel’s views on art, as outlined in his difficult volumes on that subject. Hegel on Art thus performs a needed service for those interested in either the philosophy or the history of the fine arts. Hegel’s idealistic metaphysics was the last European endeavor to construct a universal philosophical system on the traditional pattern, and to modern readers it can easily appear more imposing than useful. But in his examination of art, according to Professor Kaminsky, the German philosopher became “the most empirical of the empiricists,” and his observations can be valuable to us quite independent of our commitment to his metaphysics. Moreover, as Professor Kaminsky shows, Hegel’s metaphysical framework does give him an advantage not available under the rigorous skepticism of today’s positivist or symbolist: he can recognize that art mirrors the world of action, and so can provide it with objective validity. As the author concludes in Hegel’s defense: “It may well be that only art can be used to communicate the important episodes that happen to us or others....Without art, we lose one of our great sources of information as to who we are and what we ought to do.”
Book Synopsis The Principles of Aesthetics by : Dewitt H. Parker
Download or read book The Principles of Aesthetics written by Dewitt H. Parker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dewitt H. Parker was a professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan. He published works on metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics. The Principles of Aesthetics is a classic and considered his most important work. He says: This book has grown out of lectures to students at the University of Michigan and embodies my effort to express to them the nature and meaning of art. In writing it, I have sought to maintain scientific accuracy, yet at the same time to preserve freedom of style and something of the inspiration of the subject. While intended primarily for students, the book will appeal generally, I hope, to people who are interested in the intelligent appreciation of art. For the broader philosophy of art, my debt is heaviest, I believe, to the artists and philosophers during the period from Herder to Hegel, who gave to the study its greatest development, and, among contemporaries, to Croce and Lipps. In addition, I have drawn freely upon the more special investigations of recent times.
Book Synopsis Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language by : Stefano Marino
Download or read book Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language written by Stefano Marino and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer undoubtedly belong among the most important representatives of twentieth-century phenomenological hermeneutics, which represents, in turn, one of the major traditions within so-called continental philosophy. Respectively teacher and pupil, during their long and philosophically intense lives and careers Heidegger and Gadamer greatly contributed to the development of philosophical thought in our age, providing significant and often decisive contributions in various fields of philosophical inquiry. Their main works, Being and Time (1927) and Truth and Method (1960), respectively amount to the great “classics” of contemporary philosophy, both being extraordinarily influential books without which the history of twentieth- and also twenty-first century philosophy as we know it would not be conceivable. This book addresses a number of problems concerning aesthetics, metaphysics, language and philosophical anthropology, by focusing on Heidegger’s and Gadamer’s specific contributions in these fields, and by establishing fruitful and original comparisons between their views and those of other relevant thinkers of our time, such as Hannah Arendt, Richard Rorty and John McDowell. The book adopts a comparative approach that portrays the complex philosophical problems and concepts at the core of this investigation from various points of view, thus broadening the philosophical horizon, generating a more comprehensive perspective, and underlining the compatibility of different philosophical views.
Book Synopsis Redeeming Philosophy by : Vern S. Poythress
Download or read book Redeeming Philosophy written by Vern S. Poythress and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who am I? Why am I here? Where do I find meaning? Life is full of big questions. The study of philosophy seeks answers to such questions. In his latest book, prolific author Vern Poythress investigates the foundations and limitations of Western philosophy, sketching a distinctly Christian approach to answering basic questions about the nature of humanity, the existence of God, the search for meaning, and the basis for morality. For Christians eager to engage with the timeless philosophical issues that have perplexed men and women for millennia, this is the place to begin.
Book Synopsis The Paradox of Existence by : Leonardo V. Distaso
Download or read book The Paradox of Existence written by Leonardo V. Distaso and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-09-27 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay reconstructs Schelling's philosophical development during the years 1794-1800. It emphasizes the role of Kant's heritage within Schelling's early philosophy, and the strong relationship between Schelling and Hölderlin during their Tübingen years. The central question it explores is how the Absolute relates to Finiteness - a relation that constitutes the basis of transcendental idealism as well as the essence of a transcendental philosophy, here radically understood as a philosophy of finitude and as a critical aesthetics. The essay shows the young Schelling as he presents a rich and novel field of inquiry, which provides a credible and engaging alternative to Hegelian thinking and anticipates themes from twentieth-century philosophy (Phenomenology, Existentialism, Critical Thinking). The volume thus provides both a historical and a contemporary look at Schelling's early philosophy, and at its original and speculative approach.
Book Synopsis The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being by : William Desmond
Download or read book The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being written by William Desmond and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic authenticity. Beauty seems bland and lacks the more visceral thrill of the ugly, indeed the excremental. We crave what disrupts and provokes us, not what gives delight or even consoles. By contrast, attention is given to how beauty arouses enigmatic joy in us, and we enjoy an elemental rapport with it as other. Surprised by beauty, our breath is taken away, but we are more truly there with the beautiful when we are taken outside of ourselves. We are first receivers of the gift of surprise and only then perceivers and conceivers. My attention to the passion of being stresses a patience, a receptivity to what is other. What happens is not first our construction. There is something given, something awakening, something delighting, something energizing, something of invitation to transcendence. The theme is amplified in diverse reflections: on life and its transient beauty; on soul music and its relation to self; on the shine on things given in creation; on beauty and Schopenhauer's dark origin; on creativity and the dynamis in Paul Weiss's creative ventures; on redemption in Romanticism in the thought of Stanley Cavell; on theater as a between or metaxu; on redeeming laughter and its connection with the passion of being.
Book Synopsis William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics by : Dennis Vanden Auweele
Download or read book William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics written by Dennis Vanden Auweele and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects seventeen new essays by well-established and junior scholars on the philosophical relevance of metaxological philosophy and its main proponent, William Desmond. The volume mines metaxological thought for its salience in contemporary discussions in Continental philosophy, specifically in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and aesthetics. Among others, topics under discussion include the goodness of being, the existence and nature of God, and the aesthetic dimensions of human becoming. Interest in metaxological philosophy has been on the rise in recent years, and this volume provides both a practical introduction and thorough engagements with it by experts in the field. The volume concludes with a series of responses by William Desmond on the issues raised by the contributors.
Book Synopsis Aesthetics and Ethics in Eastern and Western Philosophy by : Edward Williams
Download or read book Aesthetics and Ethics in Eastern and Western Philosophy written by Edward Williams and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivation for this book is to examine the concept of value within the context of the metaphilosophy developed in Metaphysics and Epistemology in Eastern and Western Philosophy. We approach historical aesthetics and ethics in the same way we treated metaphysics and epistemology. We are not concerned with outlining the differences between philosophers on these subjects, but rather finding a relational metaphilosophy capable of explaining their apparently divergent views (or in other words not how are they all wrong, but how they are all right). In this manner we hope to uncover the ontological structure of aesthetics and ethics in the context of the Relational Totality.In this previous work we posited Being and consciousness are essentially relational, with the relationality of consciousness manifesting itself as the power (what Lao Tzu refers to as the Te) to recognize and create relations in the world (what Heidegger calls the ready at hand). Philosophy was thus reinterpreted as the study of relationality. In contrast, conventional philosophy generally posits consciousness as the awareness of individual substances, and its "world" the sum total of these entities. In an abstract sense consciousness can also conceive of the Relational Totality, which is the totality of all potential and actual relations. Modes of the Relational Totality in Eastern philosophy include the Tao, Brahman, and Uji and in Western philosophy include the Apeiron, the Form of the Good, and Being. Eastern and Western metaphysics diverge in what is considered the ontical elements of this Relational Totality. Eastern philosophy models these elements as temporal relations, while in Western philosophy these are framed as the eternal relations between relations.In contrast with the truth values studied in epistemology, axiology is the branch of philosophy that studies quality values (or what we consider worthy). Axiology is conventionally divided into aesthetics and ethics. We analyze Eastern and Western philosophy to find commonalities in theories of value with regard to consciousness, which include:* The theory of an ill-defined higher form of ethics (Yājnavalkya, Chuang Tzu, Sri Aurobindo, Nietzsche)* The social / transactional nature of conventional ethics (Yājnavalkya, K'ung Fu Tzu, Socrates, Aristotle, Kant)* The dynamic and ineffable nature of the free aesthetic experience (Chuang Tzu, Kant, Sartre, Pirsig)* The basing of conventional ethics on the aesthetic experience (Nishitani, Nietzsche, Santayana).* The association of the free aesthetic experience with an altered sense of space and time (Dōgen, Black Elk, Nishitani, Nietzsche, Santayana, Sartre)* The translation of this freedom to action (Black Elk, Nishitani, Nietzsche, Sartre)We argue aesthetics is the higher form of ethics discussed by these philosophers. We posit conventional ethics is an objectified form of aesthetics simplified into theology, politics, and economics. We propose a temporal model for the aesthetic experience and draw parallels between our altered sense of space and time within the aesthetic experience and the concepts of space and time in physics. We then argue the modality inherent in this ontological structure of the aesthetic experience consists in the relation between ontical elements of the Relational Totality and the Relational Totality itself.This book is dedicated to my Mom and Dad, who taught me the value of free play; and to Sheila, Abigail, and Madelyn, who make life a great adventure!
Book Synopsis Heidegger's Transcendental Aesthetic by : Tristan Moyle
Download or read book Heidegger's Transcendental Aesthetic written by Tristan Moyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an original and thought provoking interpretation of Heidegger's philosophical anthropology, this book offers a comprehensive interpretation of the conception of human sensibility in early and later Heidegger. Beginning by isolating Heidegger's understanding of the Kantian idea of pure intuition, Moyle suggests that the early and later work present radically different answers to the underlying problem that this idea generates. This book offers an original perspective on the relation between early and later Heidegger and a distinctively different approach to later Heidegger's ontology of language. Moyle acknowledges Heidegger's significant debt to the Romantic tradition and takes seriously his later philosophical claim that thinking is the highest affirmation of life. On the other hand, Moyle challenges the assumption that Heidegger's later work falls back from philosophy into a poetic form of mysticism and argues that the work on language can be used constructively in contemporary philosophy, especially in relation to the recent work of John McDowell.
Book Synopsis Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysics and Aesthetics by : Reinier Munk
Download or read book Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysics and Aesthetics written by Reinier Munk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an extended dialogue in essay form between specialists in the work of Moses Mendelssohn, and experts in important trends in related late-seventeenth and eighteenth century thought. The first group of contributors explores themes in Mendelssohn’s metaphysics and aesthetics, presenting both their internal argumentative coherence and their historical context. The second outlines the context of Mendelssohn’s views on specific topics, and describes his contribution to the discussion of them. The essays are organized in four sections. The first pairs two essays on Mendelssohn’s theory of language and writing. The second section offers three essays addressing a number of topics in Mathematics and philosophy in Mendelssohn. A group of eight essays follows, dealing with Metaphysics in a historical context. The fourth section presents five essays discussing Mendelssohn’s Aesthetics in a historical context. Moses Mendelssohn’s Metaphysics and Aesthetics arises from a conference held in Amsterdam in 2009, which gathered numerous authorities to address the central theme. Taken together, these eighteen essays present a sophisticated portrait of Mendelssohn, packed with detail and rich in complexity.
Download or read book Aesthetic Realism written by Inês Morais and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book defends realism concerning the aesthetic—in particular, concerning the aesthetic properties of works of art (including works of literature). Morais lucidly argues that art criticism, when referring to aesthetic properties, is referring not ultimately to the critic’s subjective reactions, but to genuine properties of the works. With a focus on contemporary discussion conducted in the analytic tradition, as well as on arguments by Hume and Kant, this book characterizes the debate in aesthetics and the philosophy of art concerning aesthetic realism, examining attacks on the objectivity of values, the ‘autonomy thesis’, and Hume’s sentimentalism. Considering and defusing scepticism concerning the significance of the ontological debate about aesthetic realism, Morais discusses two powerful attacks on aesthetic realism before defending the doctrine against them and providing a positive realist account of aesthetic properties.
Book Synopsis Wittgenstein and the Problem of Metaphysics by : Michael Smith
Download or read book Wittgenstein and the Problem of Metaphysics written by Michael Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the rupture between Wittgenstein's early and late phases, Michael Smith provides an original re-assessment of the metaphysical consistencies that exist throughout his divergent texts. Smith shows how Wittgenstein's criticism of metaphysics typically invoked the very thing he was seeking to erase. Taking an alternative approach to the inherent contradiction in his work, the 'problem of metaphysics', as Smith terms it, becomes the organizing principle of Wittgenstein's thought rather than something to overcome. This metaphysical thread enables further reflection on the poetic nature of Wittgenstein's philosophy as well as his preoccupation with ethics and aesthetics as important factors mostly absent from the secondary literature. The turn to aesthetics is crucial to a re-assessment of Wittgenstein's legacy, and is done in conjunction with an innovative analysis of Nietzsche's critique of Kantian aesthetics and Kant's 'judgments of taste'. The result is a unique discussion of the limits and possibilities of metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics and the task of the philosopher more generally.
Book Synopsis Wittgenstein and the Problem of Metaphysics by : Michael R. Smith
Download or read book Wittgenstein and the Problem of Metaphysics written by Michael R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring the rupture between Wittgenstein's early and late phases, Michael Smith provides an original re-assessment of the metaphysical consistencies that exist throughout his divergent texts. Smith shows how Wittgenstein's criticism of metaphysics typically invoked the very thing he was seeking to erase. Taking an alternative approach to the inherent contradiction in his work, the 'problem of metaphysics', as Smith terms it, becomes the organizing principle of Wittgenstein's thought rather than something to overcome. This metaphysical thread enables further reflection on the poetic nature of Wittgenstein's philosophy as well as his preoccupation with ethics and aesthetics as important factors mostly absent from the secondary literature. The turn to aesthetics is crucial to a re-assessment of Wittgenstein's legacy, and is done in conjunction with an innovative analysis of Nietzsche's critique of Kantian aesthetics and Kant's 'judgments of taste'. The result is a unique discussion of the limits and possibilities of metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics and the task of the philosopher more generally."--
