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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Philosophy and aesthetics"”.
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The problem of experience in Adorno's philosophy and aesthetics
… relationship between his concept of experience and metaphysical thinking. Contrary to the standard picture, I argue that rather than inadvertently or naïvely metaphysical, Adorno purposefully draws from and transforms metaphysical thinking within the context of his own material philosophy. By …
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The Immanent Body: A Thematic Study of the Logic of Immanence in Christology, Philosophy and Aesthetics
… analysis of late ancient christology, Stoicism and philosophy; 2) "The Extended Body: Aesthetics": depictions of monastic bodies in late medieval, Renaissance and contemporary art.</p> <p>I. The thesis of this dissertation can be stated as follows: the conditions under which immanence is …
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The Problem of the "Virtual": Virtual Reality, Digital Dualism, and Religious Experience
… mischaracterizes how we experience the spatial and temporal connections to our body in digital-virtual worlds and contributes to a false sense of subjective singularity rather than multiplicity that destabilizes how we relate to ourselves and others. Using the study of religion, philosophy, and …
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Libertas Reborn: A Legend of Florence and Leigh Hunt's Literary Revival
… the premature deaths of Keats, Shelley, and Byron in the 1820s, literature in England fell into a sort of slumber until the late 1830s and early 1840s, when a new generation-a generation we now call the Victorians-came on the scene. Literary scholarship has tended to ignore this period …
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Op. 34: Evidence of Arnold Schoenberg's Musikalische Gedanke
… expounds on the Gedanke principle for his atonal and twelve-tone repertoires. This study reevaluates Schoenberg's compositional philosophy and aesthetics including Gedanke, comprehensibility, Grundgestalt, and developing variation in light of his compositional practices in Begleitungsmusik zu …
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The Enlightening Supernatural: Ghost Stories in the Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
… they play a central role in the Enlightenment and its ideal of progress. The key texts analyzed in this context include three versions of the story of the Weiße Frau, as well as works by Immanuel Kant, Karl Philipp Moritz, Friedrich Schiller, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In various ways, …
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Admonition and the academy : installation, video, and performance art in Reform Era China
… has seen the reinvigoration of academic, and artistic practice, and a rapprochement between the Chinese Communist Party and the intellectual elite. At its beginnings in the early- to mid-1980s the new availability of foreign texts and media led to Culture Fever, a widespread phenomenon …
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The Beat Avant-Garde, The 1950's, and the Popularizing of Zen Buddhism in the United States
Connections between Zen and writers associated with the Beat movement have been evident to critics and public alike ever since Jack Kerouac's publication of The Dharma Bums in 1958. This synergy between the two would be continuous over the remainder of the 1950's, one almost seeming to imply or be …
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Controversy in aesthetics : implications for metacriticism in art education.
Aesthetic controversy over the link between art and criticism is investigated with a view to exploring implications for metacriticism in art education. Artistic intention is defined as a principal controversy on the assumption that it is representative of disputes in aesthetics as a whole …
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Techniques of Sensual Perception: The Creation of Emotional Pathways
… contain strong sensual attributes. Thus, understanding how to design an art form to contain strong sensual attributes may increase the possibility of an aesthetic experience. Since aesthetics is an experience of sensations perceived when in contact with a creative form in any artistic discipline, …
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Search for the self: redefining the jazz language : a personal perspective.
… application by the author of philosophical and aesthetic ideas practiced by three visual artists and one musician. In response to these ideas, the author devised exercises and strategies that served to enhance his own creative and personal expression. This expanded creativity and …
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The use of principles and techniques derived from meditation for the design and creation of co-participatory musical systems
… to enhance their accessibility, interactivity, and experiential impact, In order to adequately address this subject, a number of investigative steps have been taken. First, a workable list of definitions for what meditation actually is was made by comparing the practices and philosophies of a …
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The roots of musical meaning with special reference to Leonard B. Meyer's theory
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Artistic Expression in Music and Poetry
… emotions, feelings, affections, nuances and aural perceptions of expressions and utterances, for understanding human artistic possibilities historically and contemporarily in the fraternal arts of music and poetry, with reference to sounds, silences, sequences, rhythms, rhymes, …
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"Roll over Beethoven" : the reaction of classical music recording divisions to the continuing emergence of a consumer culture in America between 1956 and 1982.
… disparity between sales of classical recordings and those of popular music? This study seeks to understand if the situation in today's record market is a result of actions taken by classical recording companies in the critical time period between 1956 and 1982. Profound cultural, as well as …
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Presença feminina na produção de Fernando Pessoa: desconstruindo estereótipos misóginos
… as representações do feminino nas obras de Fernando Pessoa, particularmente nos heterónimos de Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis e do semi-heterónimo Bernardo Soares. O primeiro capítulo, "Reflexos do feminino nas perspetivas de Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis e …