Sprezzatura

Paolo D'Angelo

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• Paolo D’Angelo traces the history of concealing art—which Italian calls sprezzatura—from ancient rhetoric to our own times. Finding the precept ... Lees meer

Things Beyond Resemblance

Robert Hullot-Kentor

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• Theodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature inc... Lees meer

The Don Giovanni Moment

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power... Lees meer

The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change

Jason Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• In both politics and art in recent decades, there has been a dramatic shift in emphasis on representation of identity. Liberal ideals of universality ... Lees meer

Hunger for Aesthetics

Michael Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, t... Lees meer

The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism

Hermann Kappelhoff

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique a... Lees meer

Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy

Fred Evans

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• Public space is political space. When a work of public art is put up or taken down, it is an inherently political statement, and the work's aesthetics... Lees meer

Looking Through Images

Emmanuel Alloa

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hard... Lees meer

The Autonomy of Pleasure

James Steintrager

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines ex... Lees meer

Photography and Its Violations

John Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• Theorists critique photography for "objectifying" its subjects and manipulating appearances for the sake of art. In this bold counterargument, John Ro... Lees meer

Art's Claim to Truth

Gianni Vattimo

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• First collected in Italy in 1985, Art's Claim to Truth is considered by many philosophers to be one of Gianni Vattimo's most important works. Newly re... Lees meer

Art and Posthistory

Arthur C Danto, Demetrio Paparoni

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contempo... Lees meer

The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change

Jason Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• In both politics and art in recent decades, there has been a dramatic shift in emphasis on representation of identity. Liberal ideals of universality ... Lees meer

Head Cases

Elaine Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• While philosophy and psychoanalysis privilege language and conceptual distinctions and mistrust the image, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kri... Lees meer

Art's Claim to Truth

Gianni Vattimo

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• First collected in Italy in 1985, Art's Claim to Truth is considered by many philosophers to be one of Gianni Vattimo's most important works. Newly re... Lees meer

Leibnizing

Richard Halpern

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• Why read Leibniz today? Can we still learn from him and not just about him? This book argues that Leibniz offers a powerful, productive model for tran... Lees meer

On Slowness

Lutz Koepnick

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• A counterintuitive take on the deceleration of time and its function in contemporary art and culture. Lees meer

Afterness

Gerhard Richter

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of "afterness" is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues q... Lees meer

Doing Aesthetics with Arendt

Cecilia Sjöholm

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work.... Lees meer

Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth

Owen Hulatt

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• In Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth , Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno's epistemology and its mater... Lees meer

Elective Affinities

Lydia Goehr

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. I... Lees meer

Things Beyond Resemblance

Robert Hullot-Kentor

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• Theodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature inc... Lees meer

Videophilosophy

Maurizio Lazzarato

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• The Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato has earned international acclaim for his analysis of contemporary capitalism, in particular his influential... Lees meer

Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy

Fred Evans

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art
• Public space is political space. When a work of public art is put up or taken down, it is an inherently political statement, and the work's aesthetics... Lees meer