In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations‿torture‿J. M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructions that depend on our experience of suffering itself. Morals, Bernstein argues, not only guide our conduct but also express the depth of mutual dependence that we share as vulnerable and injurable indi...
Questo libro è la prova tangibile di come la cultura possa essere presentata in un linguaggio che può essere capito e apprezzato da chiunque. Anche e soprattutto dai nostri figli, dall'età prescolare in poi. Tratto dalla fortunatissima serie televisiva «Young People's Concerts» di Leonard Bernstein con la New York Philharmonic Orchestra, trasmessa dalla CBC e replicata per più di dieci anni in quaranta paesi, questo libro ci racconta e spiega ...
Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (1970) offers one of the most powerful and comprehensive critiques of art and of the discipline of aesthetics ever written. The work offers a deeply critical engagement with the history and philosophy of aesthetics and with the traditions of European art through the middle of the 20th century. It is coupled with ambitious claims about what aesthetic theory ought to be. But the cultural horizon of Adorno's Aest...
This original and wide-ranging book, now available in paperback, is a major contribution to contemporary philosophy. Bernstein focuses on the work of four key thinkers - Kant, Heidegger, Derrida and Adorno - and provides a powerful new interpretation of their writings on art, aesthetics and politics.
High Speed CMOS Design Styles is written for the graduate-level student or practicing engineer who is primarily interested in circuit design. It is intended to provide practical reference, or `horse-sense', to mechanisms typically described with a more academic slant. This book is organized so that it can be used as a textbook or as a reference book.
High Speed CMOS Design Styles provides a survey of design styles in use in industry, specifi...
Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his contributions to aesthetics and social theory. In this highly original contribution to the literature on Adorno, J. M. Bernstein offers the first attempt in any language to provide an account of the ethical theory latent in Adorno's writings.
The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting--from Pollock to Ryman--that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a materialist account of modernism with detailed discussions of modern aesthetics from Kant to Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, and Adorno.
The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting--from Pollock to Ryman--that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a materialist account of modernism with detailed discussions of modern aesthetics from Kant to Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, and Adorno.
High Speed CMOS Design Styles is written for the graduate-level student or practicing engineer who is primarily interested in circuit design. It is intended to provide practical reference, or `horse-sense', to mechanisms typically described with a more academic slant. This book is organized so that it can be used as a textbook or as a reference book.
High Speed CMOS Design Styles provides a survey of design styles in use in industry, specifi...
This volume brings together major works by German thinkers who were extremely influential in the crucial period of aesthetics prior to and after Kant. It includes the first translation into English of Schiller's Kallias Letters and Moritz's on the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful, and new translations of some of Hö, lderlin's most important theoretical writings and works by Hamann, Lessing, Novalis and Schlegel. The volume features an i...
