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What is the relationship between "image" and human thinking? What is the role of the concept of "form" in human knowledge? Scholars from the fields of philosophy, cultural studies, the history of science, aesthetics, literature, anthropology, mathematics, and biology take historical and theoretical approaches to investigate the connection between the activity of thinking and concepts of image and form.

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No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They orient us upon the natural world. And we even find them in the deepest insights of science and mathematics. For centuries, however, philosophers and other thinkers have identified beauty with what brings pleasure. Concerned that aesthetic hedonism has led us to question beauty's significance, Dominic McIver Lopes offers an entirely new theory of beauty in this volume. Beauty engages us in action, in concert with others, in the context of social networks. Lopes's 'network theory' explains the social dimension of aesthetic agency, the tie between beauty and pleasure, the importance of disagreement in matters of taste, and the reality of aesthetic values as denizens of the natural world. The two closing chapters shed light on why aesthetic engagement is so important to quality of life, and why it deserves (and gets) lavish public support. Being for Beauty offers a fresh contribution to aesthetics but also to thinking about metanormativity, the metaphysics of value, and virtue theory.

Aesthetics --- Philosophy and aesthetics

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Cet ouvrage rassemble des écrits critiques portant sur les avant-gardes du XXe siècle et sur leurs significations esthétiques et philosophiques pour notre monde contemporain. Il analyse tant la littérature que les arts plastiques issus de ces mouvements, du surréalisme à Cobra, en passant par l'Internationale lettriste. Son propos est de montrer l'exceptionnelle diversité d'expression de ces avant-gardes, du poème-manifeste au récit autobiographique, de l'écriture automatique à l'essai, et de la peinture au ready-made. Il inclut en outre un ensemble de photographies personnelles qui illustrent et soulignent l'importance de la thématique du vide pour ces mouvements.

Aesthetics --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)