Ästhetik

Cet essai, consacré à l uvre artistique de Paul Ahyi, a une visée, tout à la fois, esthétique et éminemment pratique. D une part, la réflexion philosophique que l auteur propose sur le plasticien togolais et son uvre, se focalise sur les principales techniques esthétiques nouvelles, la signification des thèmes des uvres dans leurs rapports avec les traditions orales africaines, leur enracinement dans le terroir, etc. Et d autre part, une telle réflexion présente l intérêt d être empiriquement documentée. Elle s appuie en particulier sur la Révolution, une uvre sculpturale de Paul Ahyi, et procède à un décryptage de sa vérité immanente. Elle ambitionne d arracher le voile idéologique qui dissimule son contenu de vérité et de dévoiler sa vérité. L auteur de cet essai est pleinement conscient que, chez l artiste qu il a étudié, il y a incontestablement un pont entre l ordre des techniques esthétiques nouvelles et l ordre de la conscience ou de la représentation de la révolution.

Spätestens seit Anfang der 2000er Jahre boomen Studien zu Qualitätsserien - diese verbleiben jedoch meist auf der inhaltlichen Ebene. Medienphilosophische Fragen werden ausgeklammert, sodass eine Theorie des Fernsehens bis heute Desiderat bleibt. Cecilia Valenti leistet an dieser Stelle einen Beitrag zum Denken des Fernsehens, indem sie sich auf eines der eigenartigsten Formate der TV-Geschichte konzentriert: die italienische Sendung Blob. Sie arbeitet heraus, wie sich das Amorphe im Titel des Formats mit einer televisuellen Ästhetik verknüpft, die aus filmischer Montage politisches Potential schöpft und dabei zeigt, dass Medien erst in der Relation mit anderen Medien erscheinen.

Was ist ein Dandy? Und was hat diese Figur mit Technologie zu tun? Felix Hüttemann extrapoliert ausgehend von diesen Fragen eine (Medien-)Ästhetik, die dandyistische Prozesse für die Auseinandersetzung mit smarten Technologien (ubiquitous computing, calm technology, Internet der Dinge) fruchtbar macht. Die Relationen der Literatur, des Interieurs, der Dinge, der Technik und Medien sind hierbei Bezüge, anhand derer sich die Studie dem ästhetischen Paradigma 'Dandyismus' annähert und zeigt: Die heutigen environmentalen Settings der Umgebungstechnologie revitalisieren Subjektivierungsprozesse, die im 19. Jahrhundert dandyistischen Figuren und Formierungen zu eigen waren.

Ein Mann und seine Familie haben ein Meer aus Feuer überlebt, das ihre Heimat zu Asche verbrannt hat. Die Tage sind nun dunkel und düster. Es gibt kaum noch Nahrungsmittel und Trinkwasser. In den Nächten herrscht eine undurchdringliche Finsternis. Die Ehefrau des Mannes ermordet schließlich ihre beiden Kinder und begeht Selbstmord. Der Mann folgt ihnen nicht in den Tod. Er glaubt, dass es irgendwo noch eine bunte, lebendige Welt gibt, die er finden muss, um leben zu können und nicht sterben zu müssen. So macht er sich auf den Weg durch die Asche der verbrannten Erde, um diese Welt zu suchen. Doch der Tod lässt ihn nicht mehr aus den Augen und jeden Tag muss er um sein Leben kämpfen. Aber durch die Kämpfe, die er zu bestehen hat und durch die Menschen, die er auf seinem Weg trifft, zeigt ihm diese neue und dunkle Welt aus Asche, was es in Wahrheit bedeutet, ein Mensch zu sein. So wird seine Suche nach einer nicht zerstörten, heilen Welt auch zu einer Reise in sein innerstes Selbst, zu einer Reise in das kalte Herz der Finsternis...

Explores the importance of the body and the senses in educational encounters, drawing out the aesthetic and political dimensions of educational practices.How are educational encounters understood, experienced, and lived? How are they conceptualized? How do they shape our being in and of the world? In this time of apparent distance and disconnect, this volume emphasizes the role of contact and connectedness in education, above all by understanding education as encounters, as embodied, sensory experiences. Drawing on a range of theoretical positions that highlight our profound interconnection with things and other bodies-from feminism to Buddhism to new materialism and beyond-Sharon Todd argues that educational encounters are formations of "touching" and "being touched by." They are singular in their eventfulness and yet bring us into relation with our environment. Focusing particular attention on two key issues for teachers and students today-the climate emergency and online education-The Touch of the Present offers unique insights into the aesthetics and politics of educational practices, seeing them as embodied processes that not only contribute to how one is socialized into a given order but also carry the transformative potential for "becoming" beyond the cultural scripts we are given.

In diesem Buch stellt der Autor seine kleine Sammlung persönlich erfundener Gnome, Aphorismen und Sentenze vor, die im Laufe seiner Erfahrungen ihren Sinn in ihm fanden.

The notion of harmonia occupies a central position for the early Greeks in their writings on cosmology, society, and the self. As Emile Benveniste (1973, pp. 101-102) has noted, "order" is, in general, an extremely important concept for Indo-Europeans and is denoted by the Greek harmonia, the Sanskrit ¿ta (order), Avestan äa (order), and the Old Persian arta (truthful order), all of which descend from the same Indo-European root - *H2er. For the Pythagoreans - and, arguably, for other pre-Socratics such as Heraclitus and Empedocles - harmonia described the structure of a unified world order and, moreover, a particular kind of order, not only in the universe but in many other domains, including mathematics, cosmology, psychology, ethics, poetics, and music. What differentiates harmonia from some other notions of order is the fact that, although it joins entities together, it does not simply unite them into a homogeneity - it consists, rather, in alliance of multiple entities wherein both their similarity and their dissimilarity is recognized. I hope to clarify what this means in the chapters that follow.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERON HUMAN NATURE: ESSAYS A collection of essays from one of the great philosophers of the modern era, Arthur Schopenhauer. The German thinker contemplates subjects such as free-will, morality, ethics, government, character, and the nature of being human. Arthur Schopenhauer is an entertaining author to read, easy to understand, with a sly, dry wit. No need for footnotes or explanations of tricky terms, Schopenhauer's prose style is refreshingly clear. Arthur Schopenhauer was born in 1788 (on February 22nd) in Gdansk and died in 1860 in Frankfurt (on September 20th). Schopenhauer is known for his major work The World As Will and Idea, his philosophy of transcendental idealism, his studies of pessimism, his collections of essays and aphorisms, his incorporation of Eastern religion and metaphysics in his philosophy, and his impressive posthumous in¿uence on philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Henri Bergson and Oswald Spengler, psychologists such as Otto Rank, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, and a host of writers and artists such as Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, Rainer Rilke, André Gide, Hugo von Hoffmansthal, Stéphane Mallarmé, W.B. Yeats, Italo Svevo, Ivan Turgenev, Robert Musil, Jorge Borges, George B. Shaw, Karl Kraus, J.-K. Huysmans, Edgar Allan Poe, August Strindberg, Guy de Maupassant, Frank Wedekind, Antonin Dvorak, Arnold Schönberg, Gustav Mahler, Charles Baudelaire, Jacob Burckhardt, George Gissing, Emile Zola, Richard Wagner, Sergei Prokoviev, Leo Tolstoy, Hermans Melville and Hesse, and Thomases Mann and Hardy. European Writers Series. Illustrated. Includes a 16-page biographical sketch of Schopenhauer, and an additional introduction to his work. 144pp. www.crmoon.com

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Case.- Chapter 3: Culture.- Chapter 4: Process.- Chapter 5: Presencing.- Chapter 6: Impression and Expression.- Chapter 7: Method.- Chapter 8: Contributions and Connections

This book investigates the ontological state of relations in a unique way. Starting with the notion of system, it shows that the system can be understood as a relational structure, and that relations can be assessed within themselves, with no need to transform relations in elements. "Relations" are understood in contrast to "relational property": without a relation there is no identity, therefore no existence. What allows us to do that without hypostatizing the relation, and without immediately taking it simply as a causal relation, can be better grasped, possibly, in reference to a few entities that make best display of their systemic nature, for example images, works of art, and virtual bodies.This book shows how virtual bodies are ontological hybrids representing a type of entity that has never appeared in the world before. This entity becomes a phenomenon in interactivity and evades the dichotomy between "external" and "internal"; it is neither a cognitive product of theconsciousness, nor an image of the mind. The user is well aware of experiencing anotherreality, also in the sense of a paradoxical reduplication of perceptual synthesis. The virtual body-environment is therefore simultaneously external and internal, with virtual bodies-environments to be seen as artificial windows to an intermediary world. In this intermediary world, the space itself is the result of interactivity; the world takes place in the sense or feeling of immersion experienced by the user; and the body, perceived as "other", takes upon itself the sense of its reality, of its effectiveness, as an imaginary and pathic incision, as a production of desire and emotion, to the point that the feeling of reality conveyed by a virtual environment will rely significantly on how this environment produces emotions in the users.

NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSBenedetto Croce: An Introduction To His Philosophy With A Foreword By H. Wildon CarrThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

Kann Religion den Tod Gottes, ihres bisherigen Hauptdarstellers, überleben? Brauchen wir sie noch? Geht nicht alles ohne sie geradeso gut, ja inzwischen sogar deutlich besser? Im Augenblick sieht es fast danach aus; zumindest in den fortgeschritteneren Gebieten des Planeten scheint für Religionen, wie wir sie bisher kennen, Spätherbst, wenn nicht gar Winter angebrochen zu sein. In einigen Regionen der Erde mag in ihre welken Ballone noch die Heißluft politischer Agenden geblasen werden, doch auf diese Art entsteht allenfalls eine künstliche Religiosität, die kurzfristig eine kollektive Identität erzeugen und den Widerstandsgeist anfeuern mag, aber ihren Anlass gewöhnlich nicht lange überdauert.Was also kann heute Religion noch leisten? Wie hätte eine Religion auszusehen, die überhaupt noch etwas leisten kann, außer Flaggen und Parolen für letztlich machtpolitisch motivierte Kulturkämpfe zu liefern? Auf diese Frage soll hier eine Antwort versucht werden. Dabei werden wir zunächst Bilanz ziehen aus der bis in jüngste Zeit bei uns dominierenden Religion, dem Christentum. Welche Rolle hat es in der Geschichte Europas gespielt? Welche Haltungen und Einstellungen hat es in den Menschen herangebildet? Hat es dabei vielleicht Defizite hinterlassen, denen eine neue Religion sich zu stellen, die sie gegebenenfalls abzuarbeiten hätte?Bei einer solchen Abrechnung kann es eine neue Religion aber nicht belassen: Sie hat uns vielmehr neue Ziele zu setzen, um die Chancen zu nutzen, die sich aus dem Stand der geschichtlichen Entwicklung ergeben, und so unserem Leben eine zusätzliche Bedeutung zu verleihen. Und bei dieser Aufgabe hat sie uns dann auch hinauszuführen über die Märchenwelt erbaulicher Fabeln sowie die Bevormundungen eines moralischen Zuchtmeisters, um uns auf neue Wege zu lenken: die Wege einer reifen Religion - einer Religion für Reife.

This book deals with the philosophy of Daya Krishna, an Indian philosopher of the twentieth century. It discusses the central issues in Daya Krishna's early philosophy as a synthesis of the Indian and Western philosophical methods. It presents problems of the past and the present in a holistic frame of creative philosophizing. It provides a glimpse into the issues human beings face in all vital areas of human civilization. It discusses the nature of philosophy and the philosophical method in Daya Krishna's syncretic philosophy. Issues such as self and freedom and ethics and religion are explored in the chapters. It is of interest to those who are engaged with Indian philosophy and Indian philosophers of the twentieth century and especially to those whose interest lies in understanding the cultural East and its philosophical responses to the cultural West.

This book offers a broad and timely perspective on research on olfaction and its current technological challenges. It specifically emphasizes the interdisciplinary context in which olfaction is investigated in contemporary research. From aesthetics to sociology, from bioengineering to anthropology, the different chapters discuss a wide variety of issues arising from olfaction research and its application in different contexts. By highlighting the overlaps between different areas of research, the book fosters a better communication between disciplines and leads towards a better understanding of the role of olfaction in human perception and cognition. This inspiring read is of interest to students, researchers and practitioners in psychology, philosophy, bioengineering, and cultural studies.

This Key Concepts pivot explores the aesthetic concept of 'imaginative contemplation.' Drawing on key literature to provide a comprehensive and systematic study of the term, the book offers a unique analysis and definition of the connotations of the term, describing its aesthetic mentality and examining the issue of imaginative contemplation versus imagination in artistic creative thinking, especially as regards the characteristics of contingent thinking in aesthetics. It focuses on drawing parallels between imaginative contemplation and aesthetic emotions, aesthetic rationality, and artistic expression as well as aesthetic form. Examining the relationship between imaginative contemplation and the aesthetic configuration, the book provides a valuable introduction to aesthetic theory in Chinese philosophy and art.