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Thinking Reality and Time through Film
Over the last few decades, film has increasingly become an issue of philosophical reflection from an ontological and epistemological perspective, and the claim “doing philosophy through film” has raised extensive discussion about its meaning. The mechanical reproduction of reality is one of the most prominent philosophical questions raised by the emergence of film at the end of the nineteenth century, inquiring into the ontological nature of both reality and film. Yet the nature of this audio-photographic and moving reproduction of reality constitutes an ontological puzzle, which has widely been disregarded as a main line of enquiry with direct consequences for philosophy. Regarding this...
Image and Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience
"While human beings have probably always been fascinated by images, we live in an image-obsessed age in which images powerfully shape our lives. The writers in this volume are keenly attentive to the ways in which we all are both image bearers and image makers. Although their reflections often arise from and relate explicitly to religious imagery, their explorations have much wider implications. They delve deeply into such issues as the ways in which images both reveal and conceal, the ways in which images are interpreted, and the ways in which we use images to define ourselves and tell our stories. This is a powerful volume, full of thought-provoking analyses of the phenomenon of the image ...
The Iconology of Abstraction
This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract images as a visual language. The contributors demonstrate that abstraction is not primarily an artistic phenomenon, but rather arises from human beings’ desire to imagine, understand and communicate complex, ineffable concepts in fields ranging from fine art and philosophy to technologies of data visualization, from cartography and medicine to astronomy. The book will be of interest to scholars working in image studies, visual studies, art history, philosophy and aesthetics.
The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies
This handbook brings together the most current and hotly debated topics in studies about images today. In the first part, the book gives readers an historical overview and basic diacronical explanation of the term image, including the ways it has been used in different periods throughout history. In the second part, the fundamental concepts that have to be mastered should one wish to enter into the emerging field of Image Studies are explained. In the third part, readers will find analysis of the most common subjects and topics pertaining to images. In the fourth part, the book explains how existing disciplines relate to Image Studies and how this new scholarly field may be constructed using both old and new approaches and insights. The fifth chapter is dedicated to contemporary thinkers and is the first time that theses of the most prominent scholars of Image Studies are critically analyzed and presented in one place.
Real Emotions and Affect in Extended Realities
This volume CCIS 2663 constitues the proceedings of the First International Conference on Real Emotions and Affect in Extended Realities, REALITIES 2024, held in Milan, Italy on July 5, 2024. The 12 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. These papers were organized in following topical sections: Emotions in Virtual and Transformative Natural Environments; Clinical and Psychological Applications in VR; AI, Video Games, and Emotions; Methodologies & Tools for Studying Emotions in VR; Virtual Emotions and Theoretical Concepts.
Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World
Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature. From Proust, Merleau-Ponty developed his conception of “sensible ideas,” from Claudel, his conjoining of birth and knowledge as “co-naissance,” from Valéry came “implex” or the “animal of words” and the “chiasma of two destinies.” Literature also provokes the questions of expression, metaphor, and truth and the meaning of a Merleau-Pontian poetics. The poetic of Merleau-Ponty is, the book argues, a poetic of the flesh, a poetic of mystery, and a poetic of the visible in its relation to the invisible. Ultimately, theoretical figures or “figuratives” that appear at the threshold between philosophy and literature enable the possibility of a new ontology. What is at stake is the very meaning of philosophy itself and its mode of expression.
Diderot. I Salons
NON DISPONIBILE PER KINDLE E-INK, PAPERWHITE, OASIS. Per la prima volta in Italia l'edizione critica completa, a cura di Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis, dei Salons di Denis Diderot, che il philosophe compose con cadenza biennale fra il 1759 e il 1781, con l'eccezione degli anni 1773, 1777 e 1779. A completare questo unicum nel panorama italiano anche l'edizione, per la cura di Massimo Modica, dei Saggi sulla pittura e dei Pensieri sparsi sulla pittura, la scultura, l'architettura e la poesia, per continuare i Salons, che Diderot scrisse rispettivamente nel 1766 e dal 1777 in poi. L'opera è corredata di saggi introduttivi e di presentazioni alle diverse sezioni che portano all'attenzione del lettore...
The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures
This handbook brings together essays in the philosophy of film and motion pictures from authorities across the spectrum. It boasts contributions from philosophers and film theorists alike, with many essays employing pluralist approaches to this interdisciplinary subject. Core areas treated include film ontology, film structure, psychology, authorship, narrative, and viewer emotion. Emerging areas of interest, including virtual reality, video games, and nonfictional and autobiographical film also have dedicated chapters. Other areas of focus include the film medium’s intersection with contemporary social issues, film’s kinship to other art forms, and the influence of historically seminal schools of thought in the philosophy of film. Of emphasis in many of the essays is the relationship and overlap of analytic and continental perspectives in this subject.
Chiasmi International. Ediz. italiana, francese e inglese
De l'Italie au Mexique, et jusqu'au Japon, puis retour aux Etats-Unis. En parcourant l'annus mirabilis qui a vu le centenaire de la naissance de Merleau-Ponty celebre partout, Chiasmi International en restitue quelques-uns des echos les plus significatifs dans ce numero qui presente egalement d'importantes nouveautes dans la structure de la revue. Le transfert de son siege americain et un changement dans la direction accompagnent les contributions des specialistes merleau-pontiens parmi les plus representatifs de quatre generations differentes. Les comptes-rendus et une nouvelle section d'essais autour de la pensee de Merleau-Ponty completent ce volume par lequel Chiasmi International passe le cap de son dixieme anniversaire.
Aesthetics of Values
Within a landscape, such as the contemporary one, in which studies on the notion of the image proliferate through multiple disciplinary fields, the book Aesthetics of Values. Contemporary Perspectives proposes a path dedicated to the analysis of the status of the image, taking its relationship with the notion of value as a starting point. The project stems from the collaboration between the "Art, Critique and Aesthetic Experience" group of the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) of the University of Lisbon and the European Aesthetic Seminar on "images, emotions, values" (http: // sites.unimi.it/eu_aesthetics/). In particular, the proposed chapters intend to develop the contributions made...
