Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Professor Botz-Bornstein is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait. He is the author of numerous philosophy books, including The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Dandyism and New World Modernity (2010), Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan (2009), and Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, Wong Kar-wai (2007).
19 Ebooks bởi Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Films and Dreams
Films and Dreams considers the essential link between films and the world of dreams. To discuss dream theory in the context of film studies means moving from the original, clinical context within whi …
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Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Cool-Kawaii
At the turn of the millennium, international youth culture is dominated by mainly two types of aesthetics: the African American cool, which, propelled by Hip-Hop music, has become the world’s favorit …
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€120.96
A. Minh Nguyen: New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics
This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a co …
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€56.62
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Inception and Philosophy
You have to go deeper. Inception is more than just a nail-biting heist story, more than just one of the greatest movies of all time. The latest neuroscience and philosophy of mind tell us that shared …
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€21.99
N. Abdullah-Khan & Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: The Veil in Kuwait
The Veil in Kuwait explores the complex reasons behind why women veil and how they are perceived by those that do not veil. Religion, culture, family, tradition, and fashion are all explored to provi …
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€53.49
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos
At first sight, tattoos, nudity, and veils do not seem to have much in common except for the fact that all three have become more frequent, more visible, and more dominant in connection with aestheti …
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€52.71
Hassan Bashir & Kevin Gray: Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East
This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the glob …
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€115.55
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism
Through empirical analysis and theoretical reflection, this book shows that the aesthetics and politics of the Islamic State is ‘;futurist.’ ISIS overcomes postmodern pessimism and joins the modern, …
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€154.54
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Organic Cinema
The “organic” is by now a venerable concept within aesthetics, architecture, and art history, but what might such a term mean within the spatialities and temporalities of film? By way of an answer, t …
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€34.99
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Transcultural Architecture
Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, ”modern” elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures. This book s …
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€58.94
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Transcultural Architecture
Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, ”modern” elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures. This book s …
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€59.32
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Crisis of the Human Sciences
Centralization and over-professionalization can lead to the disappearance of a critical environment capable of linking the human sciences to the "real world." The authors of this volume sug …
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Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: The Philosophy of Lines
This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards. Lines can be physical phenomena, cognitive responses to observed processes, …
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Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Culture, Nature, Memes
This collection of essays on cognition, which involves continental as much as analytical approaches, attempts to observe cognitive processes in three areas: in culture, in nature, and in an area that …
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€65.46
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Daoism, Dandyism, and Political Correctness
How would Zhuangzi, a Chinese philosopher who lived in the fourth century BCE, have reacted to the recent linguistic reforms commonly referred to as ‘political correctness’? Zhuangzi was a language s …
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€35.99
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: The New Aesthetics of Deculturation
What are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vulgarity of kitsch, is the overriding visual language …
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Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: The New Aesthetics of Deculturation
What are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vulgarity of kitsch, is the overriding visual language …
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€36.58
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: How Much Religion is Good for Us?
How Much Religion is Good for Us? is a provocative book which examines parallels between play and religion from a philosophical, theological, and anthropological perspective.Understanding "relig …
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€46.07
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: How Much Religion is Good for Us?
How Much Religion is Good for Us? is a provocative book which examines parallels between play and religion from a philosophical, theological, and anthropological perspective.Understanding "relig …
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