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- Kant's Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment is widely recognized as a founding document of modern aesthetics, but its legacy has fallen into disrepute. In this book Katalin Makkai calls for the rediscovery of Kant's aesthetics, showing that its centerpiece, his investigation of the judgment of taste, paints a compelling portrait of our relationships with works of art that we love. At its heart is a scene of aesthetic encounter in which one feels oneself to be 'animated' - brought to life - by an object, finding there to be something in one's experience of it, beyond what there is to know about it, that one wants to explore and articulate. Tracing Kant's insight that to judge is to reveal one's sense of what bears judging, and hence of what matters, Makkai situates Kant's aesthetics within his larger study, begun in the first Critique, of judgment's fundamental role in the life of the mind.
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About Stories that Disturb: Problems in Philosophy and Narrative
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- Sunday Morning: Unpalatable (Academic Video Online) In this segment, Bill Geist visits the Museum of Bad Art that in some way, teaches people bad art appreciation.
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- Poetics ; New edition / revised by Donald A. Russell. (Loeb Classics) This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature. Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen Halliwell makes this seminal work newly accessible with a reliable text and a translation that is both accurate and readable. His authoritative introduction traces the work's debt to earlier theorists (especially Plato), its distinctive argument, and the reasons behind its enduring relevance.
- Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka The judgment -- The metamorphosis -- In the penal colony -- The Great Wall of China -- A country doctor -- A common confusion -- The new advocate -- An old manuscript -- A fratricide -- A report to an academy -- The hunter Gracchus -- A hunger artist -- Investigations of a dog -- The burrow -- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk.
- Selected Short Stories (Kafka) Introduction / Philip Rahv -- Judgment -- Metamorphosis -- In the penal colony -- Great Wall of China -- Country doctor -- Common confusion -- New advocate -- Old manuscript -- Fratricide -- Report to an academy -- Hunter Gracchus -- Investigations of a dog -- Burrow -- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk.
- The Raven (Poe) During a dark night in December, a man sits in his room sadly thinking about his lost love, Lenore. Suddenly, he hears a tapping on the door, but no one is there. The noise moves to the window and the man opens it, only to see an ominous raven. The raven only has one thing to say and, as the night goes on, his haunting call of "Nevermore" begins to make the man more and more paranoid. This unabridged version of Edgar Allan Poe's eerie poem, first published in 1884, is accompanied by Gustave Doré's stunning woodcut illustrations.
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This guide was originally authored by Chris Smith, April, 2023.