Author: Toru Takemitsu
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461664845
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relationships between East and West; on traditional Japanese music; and on his own compositions.
Confronting Silence
Author: Toru Takemitsu
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461664845
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relationships between East and West; on traditional Japanese music; and on his own compositions.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461664845
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relationships between East and West; on traditional Japanese music; and on his own compositions.
Selected Writings: 1927-1934
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674945869
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674945869
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.
Culture and Art: Selected Writings, Volume 1
Author: Bauman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781509545452
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Previously unpublished writings on culture and art by one of the most influential social thinkers of our time"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781509545452
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Previously unpublished writings on culture and art by one of the most influential social thinkers of our time"--
Walter Benjamin
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927354117
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of fabricated essays, lectures and interviews, supposedly by Walter Benjamin.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927354117
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of fabricated essays, lectures and interviews, supposedly by Walter Benjamin.
Selected Writings: 1938-1940
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674010765
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674010765
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.
Selected Writings of Walter Pater
Author: Walter Pater
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231054812
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Harold Bloom's selection of Pater's writings brings together in one volume the most important sections and passages from The Renaissance, Imaginary Portraits, Appreciations, Plato and Platonism, Greek Studies, and Sketches and Reviews, as well as "The Child in the House." Pater, the chief aesthetician and literary critic of Victorian England, brought his powerful imagination to bear on a wide range of subjects: from the drama of Euripides to the painters of the Renaissance, from the Romantic poets to the pre-Raphaelites, from Plato to Oscar Wilde. In the twentieth century, Pater's theories of art and literature exerted a strong inluence on the work of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Joyce, and Stevens.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231054812
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Harold Bloom's selection of Pater's writings brings together in one volume the most important sections and passages from The Renaissance, Imaginary Portraits, Appreciations, Plato and Platonism, Greek Studies, and Sketches and Reviews, as well as "The Child in the House." Pater, the chief aesthetician and literary critic of Victorian England, brought his powerful imagination to bear on a wide range of subjects: from the drama of Euripides to the painters of the Renaissance, from the Romantic poets to the pre-Raphaelites, from Plato to Oscar Wilde. In the twentieth century, Pater's theories of art and literature exerted a strong inluence on the work of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Joyce, and Stevens.
Selected Writings: 1913-1926
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674945852
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting and much more.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674945852
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting and much more.
Selected Writings
Author: George Herbert Mead
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226516717
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The book shows ... how Mead's social psychology evolved gradually into a theory of self-consciousness and its social gestalt, an epistemology, and finally a philosophy of history and a realistic ontology of objective relativity.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226516717
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The book shows ... how Mead's social psychology evolved gradually into a theory of self-consciousness and its social gestalt, an epistemology, and finally a philosophy of history and a realistic ontology of objective relativity.
Elective Affinities
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Stoicism Today
Author: Patrick Ussher
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781502401922
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
From Stoic ethics to emotions, from Stoic mayors and mindfulness to practical philosophy, parenting, psychotherapy and prisons, from Star Trek and Socrates to Stoic lawyers, literature and living in general, this book brings together a wide-ranging collection of reflections on living the Stoic life today. You'll read advice on coping with adversity, reflections on happiness and the good life and powerful personal testimonies of putting Stoicism into practise. But you'll also read about the links between Stoicism and psychotherapy, Stoicism and mindfulness meditation and the unexpected places Stoicism can pop up in modern culture. This book will be of interest to both academics and non-academics alike and is about the varied ways in which the 2,300 year old philosophy as a way of life remains relevant to the concerns and needs of the present day.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781502401922
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
From Stoic ethics to emotions, from Stoic mayors and mindfulness to practical philosophy, parenting, psychotherapy and prisons, from Star Trek and Socrates to Stoic lawyers, literature and living in general, this book brings together a wide-ranging collection of reflections on living the Stoic life today. You'll read advice on coping with adversity, reflections on happiness and the good life and powerful personal testimonies of putting Stoicism into practise. But you'll also read about the links between Stoicism and psychotherapy, Stoicism and mindfulness meditation and the unexpected places Stoicism can pop up in modern culture. This book will be of interest to both academics and non-academics alike and is about the varied ways in which the 2,300 year old philosophy as a way of life remains relevant to the concerns and needs of the present day.