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Uniquely bridges the aesthetics of imperfection with areas of
philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art
theory, and cultural studies. Divided into seven thematic sections
to offer a comprehensive study of how imperfectionist aesthetics
connect to art and everyday life. As an interdisciplinary study,
this book will appeal to a broad range of scholars and advanced
students working in philosophical aesthetics, cultural studies, and
across the humanities.
Uniquely bridges the aesthetics of imperfection with areas of
philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art
theory, and cultural studies. Divided into seven thematic sections
to offer a comprehensive study of how imperfectionist aesthetics
connect to art and everyday life. As an interdisciplinary study,
this book will appeal to a broad range of scholars and advanced
students working in philosophical aesthetics, cultural studies, and
across the humanities.
Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and
dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of
scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of
aesthetic experience-particularly in sociology, cultural and media
theory, and literary studies-has yet to explore this fundamental
category. This book furthers the discussion of rhythm beyond the
discrete conceptual domains and technical vocabularies of
musicology and prosody. With original essays by philosophers,
psychologists, musicians, literary theorists, and
ethno-musicologists, The Philosophy of Rhythm opens up wider-and
plural-perspectives, examining formal affinities between the
historically interconnected fields of music, dance, and poetry,
while addressing key concepts such as embodiment, movement, pulse,
and performance. Volume editors Peter Cheyne, Andy Hamilton, and
Max Paddison bring together a range of key questions: What is the
distinction between rhythm and pulse? What is the relationship
between everyday embodied experience, and the specific experience
of music, dance, and poetry? Can aesthetics offer an understanding
of rhythm that helps inform our responses to visual and other arts,
as well as music, dance, and poetry? And, what is the relation
between psychological conceptions of entrainment, and the humane
concept of rhythm and meter? Overall, The Philosophy of Rhythm
appeals across disciplinary boundaries, providing a unique overview
of a neglected aspect of aesthetic experience.
'PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas' as S. T.
Coleridge understood it, is the theme of this book. It considers
the most vital and mature vein of Coleridge's thought to be the
contemplation of ideas objectively, as existing powers. A theory of
ideas emerges in critical engagement with thinkers including Plato,
Plotinus, Boehme, Kant, and Schelling. A commitment to the
transcendence of reason, central to what he calls the spiritual
platonic old England, distinguishes him from his German
contemporaries. The book also engages with Coleridge's poetry,
especially in a culminating chapter dedicated to the Limbo
sequence. This book pursues a theory of contemplation that draws
from Coleridge's theories of imagination and the Ideas of Reason in
his published texts and extensively from his thoughts as they
developed throughout unpublished works, fragments, letters, and
notebooks. He posited a hierarchy of cognition from basic sense
intuition to the apprehension of scientific, ethical, and
theological ideas. The structure of the book follows this thesis,
beginning with sense data, moving upwards into aesthetic
experience, imagination, and reason, with final chapters on formal
logic and poetry that constellate the contemplation of ideas.
Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy is not just a work of history
of philosophy, it addresses a figure whose thinking is of
continuing interest, arguing that contemplation of ideas and values
has consequences for everyday morality and aesthetics, as well as
metaphysics. The volume will be of interest to philosophers,
intellectual historians, scholars of religion, and of literature.
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