Aesthetics

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

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The Metaphysics of Beauty by Nick Zangwill

Contemporary Aesthetics

10 books — 1 voter

Kursbuch Medienkultur. Die maßgeblichen Theorien von Brecht b... by Bertolt Brecht

Zeitgenössische Utopieentwürfe in Literatur und Gesellschaft.... by Rolf Jucker

Von der Stimme zum Internet. by Detlev Schöttker

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

Dialektik der Aufklärung. Philosophische Fragmente by Max Horkheimer

Medienutopien

9 books — 1 voter

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin

The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and S... by Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Foundations of Art History

38 books — 6 voters

The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail Bakhtin

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin

The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin

theLitCritGuy

100 books — 13 voters

The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan Magee

Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics by Bernardo Kastrup

Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy by Rüdiger Safranski

The Riddle of the World by Barbara Hannan

Historical Dictionary of Schopenhauer's Philosophy by David E. Cartwright

On Schopenhauer

97 books — 7 voters

Poses for Artists Volume 4 - Couples Poses by Justin R. Martin

Poses for Artists Volume 3 - Fighting and Various Poses by Justin R. Martin

The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes

Poses for Artists Volume 2 - Standing Poses by Justin R. Martin

Contemporary Art

20 books — 13 voters

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“ We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce, then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light— ...more ”
― Junichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

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“ In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity. ”
― Baruch de Spinoza, Spinoza in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte

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