Imperfection And Defeat: The Role of Aesthetic Imagination in Human Society

✍ Scribed by Virgil Nemoianu

Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 155
Category: Library

⬇ Acquire This Volume

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Imperfection and Defeat: The Role of Aes

📁 Imperfection and Defeat: The Role of Aesthetic Imagination in Human Society

✍ Virgil Nemoianu 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 Central European University Press 🌐 English

Literature is defined in a challenging way as the "science" of imperfection and defeat, or else as a type of discourse that deals with defeat, loss, uncertainty in social life, by contrast with virtually all disciplines (hard sciences or social sciences) that affirm certainties and wish to convin

Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthe

📁 Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition

✍ John Kaag 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Fordham University Press 🌐 English

Traces the concept of the imagination through German idealism of the 18th century, the American philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, and the findings of contemporary cognitive neuroscience in order to argue for the centrality of aesthetics in human cognition.

Thinking through the imagination: aesthe

📁 Thinking through the imagination: aesthetics in human cognition

✍ John J. Kaag 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Fordham University Press 🌐 English

Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthe

📁 Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition

✍ John J. Kaag 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Fordham University Press 🌐 English

Use your imagination! The demand is as important as it is confusing. What is the imagination? What is its value? Where does it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene seems overdone and passé? This book takes up these questions and argues for the centrality of imagina

Alcohol and its Role in the Evolution of

📁 Alcohol and its Role in the Evolution of Human Society

✍ Ian S. Hornsey 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Royal Society of Chemistry 🌐 English

Archaelogists and anthropologists (especially ethnologists) have for many years realised that man's ingestion of alcoholic beverages may well have played a significant part in his transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist. This unique book provides a scientific text on the subject of 'ethan

Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Cultu

📁 Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture: Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination

✍ Debarati Bandyopadhyay, Louis J. Boyle, Jemma Deer, Declan Lloyd, Joshua Lobb, L 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 Lexington Books 🌐 English

Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture: Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination closes the gap between ornithological and humanities knowledge. This book contains fifteen innovative essays that bridge various environment-focused perspectives and methodologies in order to include birds