Download or read book The Work of Art written by Gérard Genette and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What art is--its very nature--is the subject of this book by one of the most distinguished continental theorists writing today. Informed by the aesthetics of Nelson Goodman and referring to a wide range of cultures, contexts, and media, The Work of Art seeks to discover, explain, and define how art exists and how it works. To this end, Gérard Genette explores the distinction between a work of art's immanence--its physical presence--and transcendence--the experience it induces. That experience may go far beyond the object itself.Genette situates art within the broad realm of human practices, extending from the fine arts of music, painting, sculpture, and literature to humbler but no less fertile fields such as haute couture and the culinary arts. His discussion touches on a rich array of examples and is bolstered by an extensive knowledge of the technology involved in producing and disseminating a work of art, regardless of whether that dissemination is by performance, reproduction, printing, or recording. Moving beyond examples, Genette proposes schemata for thinking about the different manifestations of a work of art. He also addresses the question of the artwork's duration and mutability.
Download or read book The Senses and the intellect written by Alexander Bain and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Commonwealth of the Hebrews written by Petrus Cunaeus and published by Centro Editoriale Toscano. This book was released on 1996 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Revolution of the Saints written by Michael Walzer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolution of the Saints is a study, both historical and sociological, of the radical political response of the Puritans to disorder. It interprets and analyzes Calvinism as the first modern expression of an unremitting determination to transform on the basis of an ideology the existing political and moral order. Michael Walzer examines in detail the circumstances and ideological options of the Puritan intelligentsia and gentry. He sees Puritanism, in sharp contrast to some generally accepted views, as the political theory of intellectuals and gentlemen attempting to create a new government and society.
Download or read book Bentham and the Oppressed written by Lea Campos Boralevi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Papers written by Frank W. Walbank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of Professor F. W. Walbank's papers on classical Greco-Roman subjects.
Download or read book Misurare la storia written by Sahra Talamo and published by Raffaello Cortina Editore. This book was released on 2024-06-11T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’arrivo dell’Homo sapiens in Europa, i processi che ne hanno favorito il successo adattivo e le cause che hanno portato all’estinzione dei neandertaliani sono avvenimenti fondamentali per la storia dell’evoluzione umana, ma siamo lontani dalla ricostruzione di una cronologia chiara di questo periodo cruciale. Il radiocarbonio, il metodo di datazione più utilizzato in archeologia, non permette sempre di ottenere datazioni abbastanza precise e accurate per comprendere a pieno alcuni passaggi rilevanti. La sfida dell’autrice e del suo team di ricerca è quella di migliorare le potenzialità della datazione al radiocarbonio per aumentarne le capacità di risoluzione temporale. Il suo utilizzo per lo studio dei siti archeologici europei potrebbe rivoluzionare gli scenari ipotizzati fino a oggi, permettendoci di rispondere alle tante domande che ancora restano aperte sulla storia di questo periodo fondamentale per l’evoluzione umana.
Download or read book South Indian Horizons written by Collectif and published by Institut français de Pondichéry. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, a tribute to François Gros and a celebration of the field of Tamil studies, demonstrates the international nature of this area and its wide range of topics. The contributors stem from sixteen different countries. They are literary historians and critics, philologists, linguists, cultural anthropologists, political and social historians, archaeologists, epigraphists, numismatists, art and architecture historians, some of them assuming two of these guises, and some having an interest in related languages: Irula, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu. However there is much linkage and this "connexité dans la diversité" binds the different contributions together. François Gros has been the principal standard-bearer for Tamil studies in France. He has also devoted himself to the re-establishment of the École Française d’Extrême-Orient in countries of Southeast Asia. Among his other responsibilities has been the directorship for Tamil studies at the Institut Français in Pondicherry.
Download or read book Sapiens La nascita dell umanit written by Yuval Noah Harari and published by Bompiani. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IL PRIMO VOLUME DELLA VERSIONE ILLUSTRATA DEL BESTSELLER INTERNAZIONALE SULLA STORIA DELL’UOMO. In un mondo alluvionato da informazioni irrilevanti la lucidità è potere. Ma come si fa a cogliere il quadro generale senza perdersi in un’infinità di rivoli e dettagli? Facciamo un passo indietro e guardiamo davvero al quadro generale: la storia della specie umana. Sapiens. La nascita dell’umanità è la storia di come una scimmia insignificante divenne la signora della Terra, capace di scindere il nucleo di un atomo, volare sulla Luna e manipolare il codice genetico della vita. Una squadra di ricercatori – Prehistorik Bill, Dr. Fiction, la detective Lopez – capitanati da Yuval Noah Harari in persona guida il lettore a esplorare il lato selvaggio della storia. L’evoluzione umana viene reinventata come un reality show televisivo; il primo incontro tra Sapiens e Neanderthal è raffigurato attraverso i capolavori dell’arte moderna; l’estinzione dei mammut e delle tigri dai denti a sciabola è raccontata come un giallo. L’adattamento di Sapiens. Da animali a dèi in forma di graphic novel è una rivisitazione radicale e profondamente divertente della storia dell’umanità a partire dal longseller internazionale che ha venduto 16 milioni di copie in 60 lingue. Il tono umoristico è pensato per catturare l’interesse di chi finora ha preferito tenersi alla larga da scienza e storia. Ecco l’occasione giusta per cambiare idea.
Download or read book Alla ricerca del primo uomo written by Cristiana Pulcinelli and published by Giunti Editore. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scavare, setacciare, raccogliere, ricomporre: una passione per l'archeologia e la paleontologia che diviene la missione di una vita, un mix di lavoro, famiglia, impegno e affetti. Il racconto della vita di una scienziata che operò scoperte fondamentali per individuare l'Africa quale culla dell'homo sapiens.
Download or read book Homo Sapiens written by George Soli and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a concise and sequential analysis of both historical and scientific events, the author, a biological scientist, points out that the human species has not evolved ethically and intellectually as much as scientifically and technologically, since the time of ancient Greece. Man has now placed himself into a situation unlike any other in history. For the first time, with his actions, he is threatening the very existence of life on the planet. Especially now when weapons of mass destruction are increasingly available to anybody who wants them, a perilous predicament has been set. Homo sapiens may have reached a final stage that will lead to its disappearance. Soli proposes what could be an effective solution for that predicament: Man can free himself of conceptual boundaries and decide to evolve. He calls the process "forced evolution" and he suggests ways to achieve it. He believes that the process will be successful, because the motivating force behind the decision to evolve will be a rational fear of extinction. For a bookstore to order: inquire with Engel-Pavin Associates, P.O. Box 3654, San Luis Obispo, CA 93403. Phone: 805-534-0307.
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Download or read book Childbirth and the Evolution of Homo Sapiens written by Michel Odent and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
