Estetik

From the bestselling author of Purple Cow and This is Marketing comes an elegant little book that will inspire artists, writers, and entrepreneurs to stretch and commit to putting their best work out into the world. Creative work doesn't come with...

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"Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de Waal The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. Th...

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Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes befo...

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The Moral Philosophers adopts a historical approach to moral philosophy, taking in chronological sequence some of the major ethical philosophers of the past. Richard Norman introduces the thought of each figure as a coherent and comprehensive ethi...

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A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against anot...

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Wassily Kandinskys Om det andliga i konsten tillhör 1900-talets viktigaste teoretiska texter om konst. Den skapade ett stort intresse för abstraktion och anknyter trots sin modernism till äldre tiders traktat om måleri. Här presenteras den återige...

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Ellen Key (1849-1926) var en svensk författare, pedagog och kvinnosaksideolog. Under tidigt 1900-tal var Key en av Sveriges mest omtalade samhälls- och kulturdebattörer. Hon skrev böcker, artiklar och pamfletter om ämnen som fred, feminism och fol...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young? If it was only the other way!' Wilde's first and only publish...

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**AS SEEN ON BBC2's BETWEEN THE COVERS** A Guardian Book of the Year Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing Bluets winds its way ...

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Aisthesis: Estetikens historia del 1 samlar centrala texter i det estetiska fältet från 1700-talet till 1940. För första gången föreligger en antologi på svenska som presenterar estetiken som en egen disciplin, representerad av filosofer och förfa...

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Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in life This landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music ...

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One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh published as part of the 'Penguin on Design' series ...

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy and The School of Life, The Architecture of Happiness explores the fascinating hidden links ...

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Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way ...

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Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game designers sculpt alternate agencies, and game players submerge themselves in those alternate agencies. T...

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Den levande materien. Naturfilologiska perspektiv på hylozoiska och panteistiska estetiker¿ är en undersökning av vad det får för estetiska följder att tänka natur och konst som en och samma storhet. Vad innebär det att utgå från att det inte före...

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The new colour bible: a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze, from an award-winning designer 'One of the best books on colour I've read. A layered tapestry of stories, insights and ideas, each beautifully and clearly wr...

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Det vanliga är att människor skriver böcker för andra människor om hästar. I den här boken är det istället hästarna som talar direkt till oss människor. Hästarna ber oss att lyssna! Om ni bara visste vad som döljer sig i deras inre! Om ni bara vis...

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Kjersti Bale ger i denna bok en bred översikt av det estetiska tänkandets utveckling från Platon och Aristoteles över Hume, Kant, Burke och Hegel till Heidegger, Dewey och Gadamer. Hon diskuterar föreställningen om konst som representation, idéern...

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Hur kan det vara så härligt att skratta åt det fula, det skeva, åt tillvarons gräsligheter? Att roas av det som brister? I sju essäer undersöker filosofen Stina Bäckström denna humorns grundkonflikt. Begreppet kul, som vanligtvis betraktas som för...

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An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists.

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In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand the rich origins and ongoing significance of Darwin's sexual selection theory. 'FASCINATING' The Times 'Matt Ridley is one of ...

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*A Financial Times Book of the Year* 'The first time I opened What Artists Wear, I gasped with pleasure. Imagine it as a kind of punk cousin to John Berger's Ways of Seeing, liberally illustrated with the most astonishing images of artists, decked...

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Why do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is sur...

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the D...

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Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with aesthetics make powerful use of it. Journalists and leg...

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Introduktion: Hans-Georg Gadamer ; översättning och efterord: Sven-Olof Wallenstein

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