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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"History of Aesthetics"”.
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Aesthetics in the Ecotheology of Sallie McFague: A Critique and a Proposal for a Theological Aesthetics of Nature
… dissertation focuses on the ecological theology of Sallie McFague, who, as part of her work, employs the use of aesthetics. This study recognizes her contribution and then seeks to build upon it. <br /> In aim of this goal, a limited history of aesthetics in the Western tradition is surveyed and …
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In between empathy and wonder lies the contamination that makes us human
… thesis reinspects the biological subjectivity of empathy, to reconstruct the act of empathic projection through its "auto-hetero-subjects," encountering the microbial universe via empathy as an aesthetic experience. Empathy is a term that is often taken for granted, referring to a capacity to …
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Toward feminist aesthetics: feminist provocations to German idealist aesthetics
<p>This dissertation is composed of three imagined dialogues: one between Alexander Baumgarten and Sara Ahmed about aesthetics and happiness, one between María Lugones and Immanuel Kant about play and common sense, and one between Audre Lorde and Friedrich Schiller about feeling, thinking, and the …
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The refusal of the work of art: aesthetics and autonomy in Italy, 1965-1985
The Refusal of the Work of Art: Aesthetics and Autonomy in Italy, 1965-1985, explores the nature of doing things together through a cultural history of aesthetics and politics in post-1968 Italy, organized around a theoretical investigation of the concept of work. During this period the political …
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Culture : a dimension in design
Building is one of the earliest activities of man, whether building for shelter or for more complex symbolic needs the act of building was not a simple reactionary performance but rather was a behavioural process which embodied the total pattern of physical and intellectual forces acting from …
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Adaptations of the Beautiful: Natural Theological Aesthetics from Paley to Darwin
The goal of this thesis is to reassess our understanding of Charles Darwin’s theory of beauty by tracing the history of a distinctive aesthetic philosophy within the British natural theological tradition. I propose two new critical concepts as a way of characterising the common features of this …