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Books: Text Books: Aesthetics
Sculpture in the Age of Doubt (Aesthetics Today)by Thomas McEvilley List Price: $24.95 Available from Amazon $15.72 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page From Library Journal In a series of dense, thoughtful essays on sculpture and sculptors from Duchamp to today, McEvilley (art history, Rice Univ.) argues that the dissolution of belief and trust in this century--the rise of skepticism and doubt about universal truth and common assumptions--is reflected in the interdependent development of sculpture and postmodern theory. He is at his best in showing this interdependence in the works of individual artists such as Jannis Kounellis, Lucas Samaras, and Louise Bourgeois, but the reading will be hard going at times for those not deeply immersed in postmodern critical theory. Still, McEvilley does look at the works of art, which ground his discussion, and the essays do reinforce one another in the end. Recommended for academic collections supporting graduate art studies. -Jack Perry Brown, art Inst. of Chicago Lib. Copyright 2000 Reed business Information, Inc. Arthur C. Danto "As painting was the paradigm for Modernist theory, sculpture is its counterpart for post-Modernist practice. But where the spirit of Modernism was reductive, post-Modernism's is expansive, radically opening the concept of sculpture up, and reinventing sculptural aesthetics. McEvilley has succeeded in seeing our present period of art history synoptically and at the same time in great detail. The book is an essay in speculative art history and in intensely focused critical concentrations on some of the major sculptural figures. That makes it a most valuable guide for the perplexed which means all of us who endeavor to make sense of the moment and its monuments." |
Praxial Music Education: Reflections and Dialogues by David J. Elliott Available from Amazon $45.00 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description Praxial Music Education is a collection of essays by nineteen internationally recognized scholars in music education. Each essay offers critical reflections on a key topic in contemporary music education. The starting point of each essay, and the unifying thread of this collection, is the "praxial" philosophy of music education explained in Elliott's Music Matters: A New philosophy of Music Education (OUP, 1995). This philosophy argues for a socially and artistically grounded concept of music and music education, challenging the field's traditional "absolutist" foundations. Praxial Music Education is both a critical companion to Music Matters, and an independent text on contemporary issues in music education. Among the themes discussed are multicultural music education, the nature of musical understanding, early childhood music education, the nature and teaching of music listening, music curriculum development, and musical creativity. Praxial music education is a living theory; a dedicated web site (http://www.nyu.edu/education/music/musicmat) offers Elliott's reflections and "dialogues" with each author's ideas. This unique collection will not only enrich discussions that already use Music Matters as their core, but will globalize current discussions and applications of the praxial philosophy and emphasize the positive and practical values of collaborative efforts in music education. A companion to Music Matters, this book is designed to spark debate and deeper analysis of this influential theory in music education. |
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)by Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen Available from Amazon $44.95 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description This anthology provides comprehensive coverage of the major contributions of analytic philosophy to aesthetics and the philosophy of art, from the earliest beginnings in the 1950s to the present time. The volume presents the classics of this tradition, and in so doing displays the very foundations of modern debates. Aesthetics and the philosophy of art also features a selection of key papers from subsequent contributors that illustrate how the debates developed and how issues arose as analytic philosophers increasingly turned their attention to this area.The volume is a comprehensive guide for students and researchers in aesthetics and philosophy of art, conveniently making available all those papers most often cited. The papers are grouped into sections, ordered chronologically, and covering theoretical topics - identifying art, ontology, aesthetic properties, intention and interpretation, values of art, fictionality - as well as particular art forms, including pictorial art, literature, music, and the popular arts. A final section looks at the aesthetics of nature. About The Author Peter Lamarque is Professor of philosophy and Head of Department at the University of York. He has published widely on fictionality, philosophy of literature, and aesthetics, including Truth, Fiction, and literature (1994, with Stein Haugom Olsen) and Fictional Points of View (1996). He is Editor of the British journal of Aesthetics and was also philosophy subject editor for the 10-volume encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Stein Haugom Olsen is Chair Professor of Humanities and Head of the Department of philosophy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author of The Structure of Literary Understanding (1978) and The End of Literary Theory (1987), as well as more than forty articles on literary theory, literary criticism, and aesthetics. He is an elected fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysisby Charles Brenner List Price: $13.95 Available from Amazon $11.44 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description This standard introduction to psycho-analysis has been thoroughly revised to clarify and refine the concepts presented, and two new chapters have been added. Comprehensive and lucid, Dr. Brenner's volume is the indispensable orientation to the subject for both laymen and students. Publisher Description This standard introduction to psycho-analysis has been thoroughly revised to clarify and refine the concepts presented, and two new chapters have been added. Comprehensive and lucid, Dr. Brenner's volume is the indispensable orientation to the subject for both laymen and students. |
Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essaysby Christa Wolf and Jan Van Heurck List Price: $14.00 Available from Amazon $11.48 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description In this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of Troy, but from the point of view of the woman whose visionary powers earned her contempt and scorn. Written as a result of the author's Greek travels and studies, Cassandra speaks to us in a pressing monologue whose inner focal points are patriarchy and war. In the four accompanying pieces, which take the form of travel reports, journal entries, and a letter, Wolf describes the novel's genesis. Incisive and intelligent, the entire volume represents an urgent call to examine the past in order to insure a future.
Language Notes Text: English, German (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
Debating World Literatureby Christopher Prendergast and Benedict R. O'G Anderson Available from Amazon $22.00 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Book Description In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of "literature" has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. Its starting point is Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, from which it travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. Its concerns include the legacy of Goethe's idea, variable understandings of the term "literature" itself, cross-cultural encounters (the contact of the oral and the written, the paradoxes of "exoticism"), the nature of "small literatures", and the cultural politics of literary genres (poetry and the novel). The underlying objective of the volume is to transcend the pieties and simplifications of polemic in a reach for the complexity embodied in the linking of the two terms "world" and "literature". Contributors: Benedict Anderson, Emily Apter, Stanley Corngold, Nicholas Dew, Simon Goldhill, Stephen Heath, Stephan Hoesel-Uhlig, Peter Madsen, Franco Moretti, Christopher Prendergast, Timothy J. Reiss, Bruce Clunies Ross, John Sturrock, Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela.
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Handbook of Energy Engineering (5th Edition)by Thumann Available from Amazon $139.95 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Book Description This comprehensive reference guides readers step-by-step in applying the principles of energy engineering and management to the design of electrical, HVAC, utility, process, and building systems for both new and retrofit projects. Detailed presentations cover electrical system optimization, lighting and lighting controls, thermal storage, cogeneration, HVAC system optimization, HVAC and building controls, and computer technologies. The fifth edition includes a new chapter covering codes, standards, and legislation, as well as a new chapter on compressed air systems. The text is thoroughly illustrated with tables, graphs, diagrams, and sample problems with worked-out solutions. Book Info (The Fairmont Press, Inc.) Comprehensive reference of energy engineering, offering a chapter on codes, standards and legislation and a chapter on compressed air. Guides the reader through the application of principles of energy engineering in the design of HVAC, electrical, utility, process and building systems. DLC: Power resources--Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics: Core Concepts and Problemsby Christian Helmut Wenzel Available from Amazon $24.95 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame, 2005 "The reconstruction of arguments is clear and concise; the annotated bibliography is remarkably knowledgeable and helpful" --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Book Description Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment is one of the most important and enduring contributions to philosophical aesthetics. It is also notoriously difficult. In An Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics, Christian Wenzel discusses and demystifies this seminal work, guiding the reader each step of the way, placing key points of discussion in the context of Kant's other work.The starting point of Kant's aesthetics, and Wenzel's treatment, is the observation that aesthetic judgments seem to hover uneasily between subjective and objective domains. On the one hand, there appear to be standards of taste, such that aesthetic judgments demand some kind of consensus; on the other hand, there simultaneously seem to exist no specific rules governing what is beautiful. Beginning with this premise, Kant delineates four moments of aesthetic judgment, considers the question of the beautiful, the sublime, and the ugly, and from this groundwork creates a new philosophical theory that reveals the essence of taste, and much else, about human nature besides.Wenzel artfully guides readers through Kant's work with thoroughness and clarity, making Kant's aesthetics accessible to newcomers and more rewarding for those returning to the subject. |
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