Replete with facts, anecdotes, and analogies, this empirical guide to aesthetics offers scientific answers without deflating the wonders of beauty and art.
This discussion considers works by Nietzsche, Deleuze, Žižek, and Foucault. The analysis of surprise and the beginning of recovery after the pause considers works by Fink, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Lyotard, Dufrenne, Bachelard, and Seel.
... Aesthetic the work of art , thanks to the work , with our desires made per- ceptible to us . This is what ... aesthetic practices . The Inuit experience of the land merges with the desires and perceptions of the body . Their first ...
... desires with respect to his material (e.g. marble), his theme (e.g. Antigone) or his model. But he does have such desires as are relevant to his art, e.g. to carve marble. Hegel's intellectualist account of non-aesthetic desires makes ...
... desires may involve aesthetic values . " Good " may refer to a moral action or to an aesthetic experience . In the latter case , we may speak of aesthetic desires or aesthetic emotions . D is not a cause . As D = ( C > F ) , only the ...
... aesthetic structures " in order to acknowledge the dynamism of aesthetic desires and affiliations , which acquire their force and meanings in the context of webs of aesthetic relationality and address . 16 The newly instituted scheme ...
... aesthetic form . Unlike the pleasures of the ear and eye , which are constrained by the physiological function ... desires of unconscious instincts ; among them , Eros , the sexual instinct is most significant . Freud's theory en ...
... aesthetic experience, with the creation and apprecia- tion of beauty and the sublime; and the second rests with a ... desires, but I esteem it because it is an end in itself, something that has a value apart from my desires ...
... wants to do . " 35 Essentially , it represents the aesthetic desires of the collective social body , or artistic Zeitgeist . As in biological evolution , variations occur seemingly at random and causes remain undiscovered . While Riegl ...
... aesthetic projects generate internal aesthetic reasons that outweigh ethical reasons that would move other people to ... desires that generate aesthetic reasons are external, or very close to it. Human beings like symmetry ...