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A visit to Krakow intended to test a new relationship turns out to be fraught with danger when two Americans encounter a man pursuing a dark ambition in the waning months of the last millennium. Adam Kasper is a historian delving into the archives of an old museum, traveling with him is Joan Templeton, a journalist. Although they have come to Poland together in hopes that their new romance might flourish, Adam's work is all-consuming, and Joan...

Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to "embody" their histories. Such genuine or "real" things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience-an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is not a perceptually detectable property.

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Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to "embody" their histories. Such genuine or "real" things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience-an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is not a perceptually detectable property.

This illustrated introductory text looks at the key theories and thinkers within art from a philosophical viewpoint. Focusing on the role gender plays, the book covers the most pertinent topics within feminist aesthetics.

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Disgust is a strong aversion, yet paradoxically it can constitute an appreciative aesthetic response to works of art. Artistic disgust can be funny, profound, sorrowful, or gross. This book examines numerous examples of disgust as it is aroused by art and offers a set of explanations for its aesthetic appeal.

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Taste is recognized as one of the most evocative senses. The flavors of food play an important role in identity, memory, emotion, desire, and aversion, as well as social, religious and other occasions. Yet despite its fundamental role, taste is often mysteriously absent from discussions about food. Now in its second edition, The Taste Culture Reader examines the sensuous dimensions of eating and drinking and highlights the centrality of taste...

Carolyn Korsmeyer is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author or editor of several books in aesthetics and philosophy of art, feminist philosophy, and emotion theory, including, most recently, Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction.

Insignito del Premio Internazionale d'Estetica conferito dalla Società Italiana d'Estetica, il volume di Carolyn Korsmeyer "Il senso del gusto. Cibo e filosofia" costituisce un "classico" dell'estetica del cibo, imprescindibile termine di riferimento, sia per gli specialisti del tema sia per coloro che intendono avvicinare per la prima volta questa nuova area di studi estetologici. La Korsmeyer, da un lato, descrive le vicende del gusto del pa...

Disgust is a strong aversion, yet paradoxically it can constitute an appreciative aesthetic response to works of art. Artistic disgust can be funny, profound, sorrowful, or gross. This book examines numerous examples of disgust as it is aroused by art and offers a set of explanations for its aesthetic appeal.

Philosophers have considered questions raised by the nature of art, of beauty, and critical appreciation since ancient times, and the discipline of aesthetics has a long tradition that stretches from Plato to the present.

Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including art theory, cultural and visual studies, and philosophy. "Gender and Aesthetics" is an introduction to the major theories and thinkers within art and aesthetics from a philosophical perspective, carefully introducing and examining the role that gender plays in forming ideas about art. It is ideal for anyone coming to the topic for...

El sentido del gusto, quizás el más íntimo de nuestros cinco sentidos, ha sido tradicionalmente considerado como poco adecuado para analizarlo con una cierta seriedad: demasiado físico, demasiado particular y personal. No obstante, además de provocar placer físico, comer y beber son acciones que atesoran un valor simbólico y estético en la vida de las personas, e inspiran continuamente a escritores y artistas. Carolyn Korsmeyer explica cómo ha...