| Author | : Esther Susan Bell |
| Publisher | : Giles |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : ART |
| ISBN | : 9781907804731 |
Celebrates one of Raphael's most beguiling and enigmatic paintings, Woman with a Unicorn of 1506-9
Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime
| Author | : Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe |
| Publisher | : Allworth Press |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 1999-12 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
This book offers an unpredictable, humorous, and politically unconstrained perspective on today's heated debates about the meaning and role of beauty in art and contemporary society.
Nature, Value, Duty
| Author | : Christopher J. Preston |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2006-11-17 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1402048785 |
This is a collection of contemporary writings on the work of Holmes Rolston, III. The authors contributing to this volume are a mixture of senior scholars in environmental ethics and new voices in philosophy and in literature. Together they provide an in depth evaluation of many of the topics discussed by Rolston. Rolston himself, in a detailed reply to each of his critics at the end of the volume, reveals where some of these criticisms sting him the most.
The Highest Meaning of Life
| Author | : Sukhdev Singh |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 2017-11-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1543487939 |
This Book is predominantly - a Sublime Voyage of the Master, new species untouched by time, the fountain head of a sublime lighthouse, embodied with the complete love of Truth, Goodness and Beauty, a life of flawless commitment to evolution. This is the reflection of the species which conjoins secrets in full swing about Meaning of lifethe greatest discovery of man in the domain of scientific philosophy of human life-force with the scientific method. The Spiritual Master born before his time with question mark (?) with his unique sublime consciousness of Truth and Goodness where survival was the serious challenge. Humanity exists but altruism is not matured in every respect, having the influence of pleasure tendencies and the bondage of low-loves and low-hates, there emerged a situation where the Black Pitch of Roundabouts persists; but humanity crucified Him at every moment, heretofore, he still sacrificed everything for the sake of Love of Truth and engenders the Paradise on this earth. To the fullest extent, the book is knitted in suspense - What Type of Heaven Is This? The enigma of the Evolutionary Process; A Blissful Milieu-The Unknown Life of species which was not imagined in bygone ages. Will it be suspense forever-about the psychology and philosophy of new sublime species, the religious revolution, which is uniquely designed to recycle scientific methods to discover human nature and its destiny. His sublime texts are the science of human soul and sublime life. This book is the detailed thought of Psychological aspects, Philosophical prospects and challenges for the survival of the sublime species. The book explains the well-conditioned philosophy of the Master, the only panacea of Revolution, the structural Principles of Truth, Goodness and Beauty in the luminosity of Science. Readers will find the Glimpses of their own bright future, the Secret Taste of Honey on the Tongue which is the last Milestone in the sunshine of Master.
The Sublime Object of Ideology
| Author | : Slavoj Žižek |
| Publisher | : Verso |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780860919711 |
In this provocative and original work, Slavoj _i_ek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. From the sinking of the Titanic to Hitchcock’s Rear Window, from the operas of Wagner to science fiction, from Alien to the Jewish Joke, the author’s acute analyses explore the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society. _i_ek takes issue with analysts of the postmodern condition from Habermas to Sloterdijk, showing that the idea of a ‘post-ideological’ world ignores the fact that ‘even if we do not take things seriously, we are still doing them’. Rejecting postmodernism’s unified world of surfaces, he traces a line of thought from Hegel to Althusser and Lacan, in which the human subject is split, divided by a deep antagonism which determines social reality and through which ideology operates. Linking key psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts to social phenomena such as totalitarianism and racism, the book explores the political significance of these fantasies of control. In so doing, The Sublime Object of Ideology represents a powerful contribution to a psychoanalytical theory of ideology, as well as offering persuasive interpretations of a number of contemporary cultural formations.
Science Fiction Theology
| Author | : Alan P. R. Gregory |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Christianity and literature |
| ISBN | : 9781602584624 |
Explores the sublime in Christian theology and science fiction.
Black Enlightenment
| Author | : Surya Parekh |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 2023-07-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1478027223 |
In Black Enlightenment Surya Parekh reimagines the Enlightenment from the position of the Black subject. Parekh examines the works of such Black writers as the free Jamaican Francis Williams (1697–1762), Afro-British thinker Ignatius Sancho (1729?–1780), and Afro-American poet Phillis Wheatley (1753?–1784), placing them alongside those of their white European contemporaries David Hume (1711-1776) and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). By rethinking the Enlightenment and its canons, Parekh complicates common understandings of the Enlightenment wherein Black subjects could exist only in negation to white subjects. Black Enlightenment points to the anxiety of race in Hume, Kant, and others while showing the importance of Black Enlightenment thought. Parekh prompts us to consider the timeliness of reading Black Enlightenment authors who become “free” in a society hostile to that freedom.
The New Aesthetics of Deculturation
| Author | : Thorsten Botz-Bornstein |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2019-08-22 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1350086355 |
What are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vulgarity of kitsch, is the overriding visual language of our times. Drawing on the work of Islam scholar Olivier Roy, who argued that religious fundamentalism arises when religion is separated from the indigenous cultural values, Botz-Bornstein shows that the production of 'absolute' truths through deculturation also exists in contemporary education. The neoliberal environment has separated learning from culture by emphasizing standardization and quantified learning outcomes. In a globalized environment, the idea of culture is no longer available as a referent; instead we are taught to rely on the culturally neutral term 'excellence'. For Botz-Bornstein, this is an absolute value similar to the 'truth' of religious fundamentalists. Similarly, kitsch is what happens when aesthetic values are separated from cultural contexts. Kitsch is aesthetic fundamentalism. Kitsch aesthetics are an aesthetics of excellence. The consumption of kitsch can be understood as an intrinsically narcissistic impulse, reinforced by social media, individuals recycling their own selves without being confronted with the culture of the “other.” The existence of self-centred “alternative truths”, fake news and conspiracy theories and selfies are linked together in the fundamentalism–neoliberalism–kitsch pattern. Including analysis of the intersections of 'cute', 'excellent', 'sublime', and 'interesting' in contemporary aesthetic culture, this is a journey through philosophy, psychology and cultural theory, redefining a new aesthetics of deculturation.
