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  • Kant's Aesthetic Cognitivism

    On the Value of Art

    by Mojca Kuplen ...
    Mojca Kuplen connects 18th-century German aesthetics to contemporary theories of self-knowledge in order to highlight the unique cognitive value of art. She does this through revisiting Kant's account of aesthetic ideas, and demonstrating how works of art can increase our understanding of abstract concepts whilst promoting self-knowledge.Addressing some of the most fundamental questions in ... Read more

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  • Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination

    An Approach to Kant's Aesthetics

    by Mojca Küplen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book presents a solution to the problem known in philosophical aesthetics as the paradox of ugliness, namely, how an object that is displeasing can retain our attention and be greatly appreciated. It does this by exploring and refining the most sophisticated and thoroughly worked out theoretical framework of philosophical aesthetics, Kant’s theory of taste, which was put forward in part one ... Read more

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  • Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works

    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    Thomas H. Ogden is the winner of the 2004 International Journal of Psychoanalysis Award for the Most Important Paper of the year and the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize – an international award for "outstanding achievement as a psychoanalytic clinician, teacher and theoretician".Thomas Ogden is internationally recognized as one of the most creative analytic thinkers writing today. In this book he brings ... Read more

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  • Trauma and Human Existence

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  • Meaning and Relevance

    When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts ... Read more

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  • A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory

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    Psychoanalytic theory remains hugely influential to our understanding of the mind and human behaviour. It provides a rich source of ideas for therapeutic practice while offering dramatic insights for the study of culture and society, with applications that extend across film, literature and politics. Taking you step-by-step through Freud's original ideas and their evolution, this book explores the ... Read more

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  • Pre-reflective Consciousness

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