Author: Martino Rossi Monti Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 152756200X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 256
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Does art need to be beautiful? Can humour be beautiful? What is the relationship between beauty and mimetic behaviour? What does literature have to do with beauty? What are the limitations of neuroscientific approaches to beauty? Are the experience of beauty and the production of “art” confined to anatomically modern humans? Is the experience of beauty confined to humans at all? These are just some of the questions discussed in this volume. It gathers together authors from different areas of research, including philosophy, history of philosophy, history of ideas, cognitive biology, neuroscience, anthropology and paleoanthropology, in order to investigate some of the most debated aspects of the problem of beauty and aesthetic experience. The volume will appeal to both the general reader and the specialist in the humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences.
Author: Romana Andò Publisher: Edizioni Nuova Cultura ISBN: 8833653056 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 316
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This collection of contributions was created to prove both the complexity of the contemporary fashion system as well as the richness and openness of an interdisciplinary approach to the field, that is the same that inspires the Master programme in Fashion Studies at Sapienza, University of Rome. All the authors – either scholars or professionals in their fields – are deeply involved in this educational project and they have conceived each contribution as a pedagogic tool for supporting students in better understanding the social, cultural, economic, technological, creative, environmental aspects of fashion. Therefore, this collection aimed at providing readers with a kaleidoscopic approach, a multitude of voices and perspectives; a set of blended methodologies as well as theories that try to address the challenges of the permanent and accelerating transformations of the fashion system. To understand the future of fashion we have to foster creative as well as critical thinking, working on the knowledge we got from the past and identifying changes in advance, in order to be ready – and prepared – for the challenges that are in front of us.
Author: Andrea Borsari Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031366670 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 177
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of forces shaping urban renewal and the sustainable and inclusive transformation of contemporary cities. It discusses temporariness and uncertainty of citizenship, participation, and inclusion, as well as the energy and digital transformation, merging different perspectives, such as the social, philosophical, economic, and architectural ones. Based on revised and extended contributions to the International Congress “TEMPORARY: Citizenship, Architecture and City", held virtually on November 20-21, 2022, from the University of Bologna, this book offers extensive information and a thought-provoking reading to researchers in architecture, anthropology, social and environmental policy, as well as to professionals and policy makers involved in planning the city of the future.
Author: Giacomo Fronzi Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443867497 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 260
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The musical universe of the 20th and 21st centuries is a force-field in which styles, instruments, personalities and stories can be found that are ascribable to conceptual frameworks that may differ greatly one from another. Such complexity cannot be traced back to single theories or all-encompassing interpretations, but may be tackled, philosophically, starting from certain characteristics. This book identifies nine such characteristics: namely, Extremes, Noise, Silence, Technology, Audience, Listening, Freedom, Disintegration, and New Media. Each of these permits us to open up unforeseen philosophical-cultural paths and interpret, in its multifarious variety, the developments of contemporary music, profoundly interwoven with the history of thought, culture and society.
Author: Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110278715 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 3064
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Particularly in the humanities and social sciences, festschrifts are a popular forum for discussion. The IJBF provides quick and easy general access to these important resources for scholars and students. The festschrifts are located in state and regional libraries and their bibliographic details are recorded. Since 1983, more than 659,000 articles from more than 30,500 festschrifts, published between 1977 and 2011, have been catalogued.
Author: Rocco Rubini Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022618627X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 407
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A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In The Other Renaissance, Rocco Rubini achieves what many have attempted to do since: bring them back together. Telling the story of modern Italian philosophy through the lens of Renaissance scholarship, he recovers a strand of philosophic history that sought to reactivate the humanist ideals of the Renaissance, even as philosophy elsewhere progressed toward decidedly antihumanist sentiments. Bookended by Giambattista Vico and Antonio Gramsci, this strand of Renaissance-influenced philosophy rose in reaction to the major revolutions of the time in Italy, such as national unity, fascism, and democracy. Exploring the ways its thinkers critically assimilated the thought of their northern counterparts, Rubini uncovers new possibilities in our intellectual history: that antihumanism could have been forestalled, and that our postmodern condition could have been entirely different. In doing so, he offers an important new way of thinking about the origins of modernity, one that renews a trust in human dignity and the Western legacy as a whole.
Author: Andrea Gatti Publisher: Mimesis ISBN: 8855198548 Category : Social Science Languages : it Pages : 130
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Il volume affronta alcuni temi e problemi dell’estetica legati alle pratiche e ai linguaggi delle forme espressive e comunicative. Le questioni relative alla critica e all’interpretazione dei contenuti rappresentati e dei valori espressi – o mantenuti impliciti – da immagini, manufatti e opere sono analizzate in relazione anche ai contesti intellettuali e sociali entro cui essi vengono prodotti e consumati. In prospettiva analitica e critica, vengono qui considerate alcune delle specifiche modalità che regolano la creazione e la fruizione delle forme. L’umorismo, la sorpresa, la finzione sono solo alcuni dei dispositivi estetici che il volume indaga e approfondisce, spesso risalendo in chiave storiografica al loro primo determinarsi e seguendone lo sviluppo fino alla relazione con l’attuale contesto storico e sociale, oltre che con ambiti eterogenei della cultura moderna e contemporanea.
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