Showing titles in Aesthetics

Bloomsbury presents Disparities by Slavoj Žižek, read by Joe Jameson. The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Žižek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has...

当现代生活的极速运转让你深陷焦虑与内耗时，汲取东方哲学的正念智慧，正是你重建内心秩序的破局之法。这套历经千年的心智修炼工具，将高深的思想转化为应对高压日常的实用指南，让你在喧嚣中迅速找回专注与清明。...

تخلص من ضجيج الحياة المعاصرة واستعد هدوءك الداخلي عبر مبادئ التأمل والحضور الذهني المستمدة من الحكمة الشرقية. سواء كنت تستمع أثناء تنقلك المزدحم أو تبحث عن مساحة...

絶え間ない情報と終わりのない不安に疲弊する日々の中で、禅とわびさびの哲学は、完璧主義を手放し、揺るがない心の平穏を取り戻すための最強の自己啓発ツールとなります。満員電車に揺られる通勤時や就寝前の静か...

血塗られた凄惨な戦闘技術が、いかにして息を呑むほど美しい身体芸術へと昇華されたのか、歴史の深淵と心身の調和を紐解く知的な探求へご案内します。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや一人で過ごす移動中に、この深く...

日本民族に独自の美意識をあらわす語「いき（粋）」とは何か．「運命によって〈諦め〉を得た〈媚態〉が〈意気地〉の自由に生きるのが〈いき〉である」――九鬼は「いき」の現象をその構造と表現から明快に把えてみせたあと，こう結論する．

A vigorous call to restore imagination, judgment, and intellectual courage to American culture. In this essay from Civilization in the United States, J. E. Spingarn challenges universities and critics to recover the purpose behind their learning. He questions scholarship reduced to collecting...

Comprenez l'essence du mouvement avec cette philosophie martiale où la violence du combat devient pure esthétique. Que vous soyez en plein trajet quotidien ou en phase de concentration avant l'effort, cette écoute immersive redéfinit votre vision de la maîtrise corporelle. Laissez-vous...

Bloomsbury presents Waste by Brian Thill, read by Kevin Shen. Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it’s also waste—or was...

Neste volume, Rodrigo Duarte parte do ambiente em que vivemos para refletir sobre a vivência da arte. Busca, então, elementos de reflexão no pensamento de autores como Platão, Aristóteles, Santo Agostinho, Santo Tomás, Kant, Hegel, Adorno e Arthur Danto, entre outros...

A compelling call to rediscover the transformative power of art in an age of distraction, coercion, and spectacle – featuring an introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Donna Tartt In Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, J. F. Martel offers a compelling and incisive meditation on...

The Architecture of Happiness is a dazzling journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds...

Uncover the fascinating history of aesthetics and how shifting cultural ideals shape our bodies, art, and power today. Perfect for a thought-provoking commute, this sociological journey traces human desire from ancient cave paintings to modern digital screens. Dive into a reflective exploration...

"A tour de force. It is a thoughtful, subtle, beautifully written discussion of what it takes to live a meaningful life." —Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice Throughout history most of us have looked to faith, relationships, or deeds to give our lives purpose. But in A Significant...

From one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts—musical, literary, and visual—and their unique and unparalleled power to excite, disturb, and inspire us. As people look to the arts to promote a particular ideology...

As an interiors photographer, Penny Wincer found that walking through a stranger’s home, listening to them explaining the history of the space, and the meaning of precious objects, was one of most joyful aspects of her work. And in Home Matters Penny does exactly that, taking us through the houses of 13 artists, designers and writers, inspiring us to reflect on how we want our own homes to feel.

Discover ancient stone wonders and the secrets of architectural preservation through the eyes and hands of one of the world's greatest stonemasons. Around the world and across time, the buildings of the gods and royalty have mostly been made of stone. For more than forty years, the eminent...

A Sounds True Audio Original: Intimate, life-changing programs with the leading voices in spirituality, personal growth, and healing. “The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in...

A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as decluttering, mindfulness, David Cronenberg, sadomasochism, and women who wait. All Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural and literary critic Becca...

Wir tanzen im Club, bei Hochzeiten, auf WG-Partys; gehen ins Ballett, in die Oper, zum Modernen Tanz. Tanzen in all seiner Vielfältigkeit ist immer verbunden mit Lebendigkeit, manchmal sogar mit Ekstase und dem Dionysischem. Die Herausgeber_innen Maximilian Probst und Ursina Tossi nähern sich zusammen mit den 14 Autor_innen einer Philosophie des Tanzens an. Sie erkunden das Politische des Tanzens auf der Straße, nehmen Friedrich Nietzsche mit in den Club oder laden Judith Butler auf Tanzperformances ein und fragen, was aus dem alten Anspruch des Tanzes, Avantgarde zu sein, heute geworden ist.