Written sometime in the 4th Century BC, Aristotle's "Rhetoric" is the definitive treatise on the art of persuasive public speaking. The art of oratorical persuasion was an essential skill for the successful politician during the days of ancient Greece and Aristotle's "Rhetoric" is considered one of the greatest works from antiquity on the subject. Like many of the surviving works attributable to Aristotle, "Rhetoric" was not intended for public dissemination,...

German philosopher and influential 18th century late Enlightenment thinker Immanuel Kant wrote "Critique of Judgment" in 1790 to solidify his ideas on aesthetics. Often referred to as the "third critique", it follows Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason," published in 1781, and "Critique of Practical Reason", published in 1788 and completes his "Critical" project. Divided into two sections, one on aesthetic judgment and the other on teleological judgment,...

"Counsels and Maxims: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer" by Arthur Schopenhauer is a thought-provoking collection of philosophical essays that offer profound insights and practical wisdom for navigating the complexities of human existence. In this compelling anthology, Schopenhauer distills his philosophical ideas into concise and memorable aphorisms, providing readers with a guide for living a more fulfilled and enlightened life. With his characteristic...

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Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Lucchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the predicament of the novella's central character to Western thought's most compelling questions. In Mann's story, the author Gustav von Aschenbach becomes...

The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and encourages the appreciation of not just natural environments but also human-made and human-modified landscapes. Nature and Landscape is an important introduction to this rapidly growing area of aesthetic...

La imagen es un campo problemático en el que conviven percepciones, emociones e ideas. La imagen es a la vez soporte técnico-material y forma expresiva simbólica, y a través de ella podemos trazar universos de sentido que comunican y transfieren diversas temporalidades del devenir humano. Por ello, la imagen exige aproximaciones interdisciplinarias, desde las cuales establecer diálogos y alianzas conceptuales. No es lo mismo la imagen pictórica...

Las imágenes traspasan nuestras vidas, y también las artes, la literatura y el pensamiento. En nuestra época, lo hacen a un ritmo superior a cualquier capacidad de análisis. Este pequeño libro, dirigido a lectores curiosos, observa y compara las consideraciones sobre la imagen en la obra de dos maestros tardíamente reconocidos: Aby Warburg (1866-1929) y Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Hacer estas relaciones habría resultado extravagante hace...

Crítica del poder. Fases en la reflexión de una Teoría Crítica de la sociedad es la obra que permitió la consagración de su autor en la primera línea de la filosofía alemana contemporánea y fue el pistoletazo de salida de un brillante itinerario intelectual que ha terminado llevando a Honneth nada menos que a dirigir el célebre Institut für Socialforschung sito en la Goethe Universität frankfurtiana desde el año 2001 y a intervenir, apoyado...

The guiding theme of these essays by aesthetician, musician, and Santayana scholar Morris Grossman is the importance of preserving the tension between what can be unified and what is disorganized, random, and miscellaneous. Grossman described this as the tension between art and morality: Art arrests a sense of change and yields moments of unguarded enjoyment and peace; but soon, shifting circumstances compel evaluation, decision, and action. According...