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Artworld Metaphysics
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 34.99Artworld Metaphysics turns a critical eye upon aspects of the artworld, and articulates some of the problems, principles, and norms implicit in the actual practices of artistic creation, interpretation, evaluation, and commodification. Aesthetic theory is treated as descriptive and explanatory, rather than normative: a theory that relates to artworld... more...
Mimesis oder "ästhetische Wahrheit"
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 182.00The author discusses theories from antiquity to the 18th century. By applying both a systematic and a historical approach,her examination unveils the preconditions in cultural and intellectual history as well as the validity conditions for an aesthetic concept of truth. She reconstructs the philosophico-theological appropriation and transformation... more...
Kulturen und Werte
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 154.00An eminent part of Wittgenstein's work is his bequest.The present volume launches a discussion aboutthe significance of the so-called Kringel-Buch, as well as about the constitution of the text, and about Wittgenstein's cultural and moral philosophy. more...
Action, Art, History
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 54.99Renowned philosophers and art historians revisit Danto's theories of art, action, and history, and the depth of his innovation as a philosopher of culture. more...
Aesthetics & Alienation
John Hunt Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99A complete and original theory of aesthetics based on Marx and Althusser in the modernist Marxist anti-humanist tradition (Brecht, Althusser, Benjamin, Adorno). The main concepts that arise from this work are: the aesthetic level of practice, aesthetic state apparatuses, aesthetic interpellation, and pseudo dialectics, all of which are used to... more...
Militant Modernism
John Hunt Publishing 2009; US$ 9.99Militant Modernism is a defence against Modernism's many detractors. It looks at design, film and architecture - especially architecture ? and pursues the notion of an evolved modernism that simply refuses to stop being necessary. Owen Hatherley gives us new ways to look at what we thought was familiar ? Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, even Vladimir... more...
Kvantefilosofi
Aarhus University Press 2010; US$ 18.48Hvad fortæller videnskabelige teorier os om verden ud over, hvad vi kan observere? Dette filosofiske spørgsmål er særdeles påtrængende i lyset af kvantemekanikken. Og dets besvarelse er grundlaget for kvantefilosofien.Kvantemekanikken er fysikernes teori om atomerne og deres mindste dele. Ingen fysisk teori har vist sig mere succesrig i sine forudsigelser... more...
Tværæstetisk læring
Aarhus University Press 2004; US$ 13.52Animationen udfordrer et stadigt mere stresset forbrugersamfund ved sin insisteren på at blive noget materielt.I animationsteateret må scenografi sammentænkes med dramaturgi.Det sker i et synergetisk møde mellem mange kunstarter og fagområder.Teaterformen repræsenterer en mulighed for tværæstetisk læring.I rapporten dokumenteres animationsteaterets... more...
Historien som værk
Aarhus University Press 2006; US$ 33.06Vi har ingen tradition for filosofisk æstetik i Danmark. Da den filosofiske æstetik er filosofien om den æstetiske erfaring forstået som en form for sand erkendelse, er det en hel erkendelsesteori, vi savner. Det er oven i købet en væsentlig del af vor erfaringsverden, vi dermed forsømmer at reflektere systematisk over. For æstetiske erfaringer er... more...









