Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought?: The Traditional View of Art, Revised Edition with Previously Author's Unpublished Notes (Perennial Philosophy)

This re-creation of Coomaraswamy's vintage ebook, thought of his most crucial paintings at the philosophy of paintings, comprises the entire revisions Coomaraswamy had desired to upload to the unique edition.

Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

 With the rising dominance of electronic know-how, the time is ripe to reassess the character of the picture. a few say that there's not a ravishing picture, merely disembodied info (0-1) ready to be configured. For images, this means religion within the precept of an "evidential strength" – of the impossibility of doubting that the topic was once sooner than the lens – isn't any longer believable.

Historia natural del alma (La balsa de la Medusa nº 164) (Spanish Edition)

En los albores del tercer milenio se ha obviado el alma. Los poetas y los artistas, en una curiosa sustitución, ya sólo se interesan por su doble, el cuerpo, soma, que antaño significaba el cuerpo «inanimado», sin vida, el cadáver. Los filósofos parecen pensar que se trata de un tema que ya es historia, apenas útil para las antologías.

Das Ereignis der Form: Zur Analyse des sprachlichen Denkens (German Edition)

Sprechen und Denken - ein schwieriges Verhältnis. Wie formt die Sprache unser Denken, und used to be gewinnen und used to be verlieren wir dabei? Nicht alles Denken ist sprachliches Denken. Bilder und Klänge, Geräusche und Gefühle, Gesichter und Gebärden und vieles andere mehr: all dies taucht in unseren Vorstellungen auf und mischt sich in unser Denken ein.