Tag: "aesthetics"

Nosferatu

What dark secrets can vampires reveal to us about German Romanticism? Behind the rows of screaming teenagers sits Scott O’Reilly, with a bag of popcorn and the collected works of Friedrich Schelling.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Films]

Do You Really Know How to Cook?

Lisa Heldke sticks up for the pastry chefs against Plato and the physicians.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Food]

Philosophy Regains its Senses

Ray Boisvert describes the disdain which many philosophers down the ages have had for food, and the dire consequences this has had for their philosophy.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Food]

Philosophy & Food

Are we what we eat? Feast your mind on the next few articles, says this issue’s editor Jeremy Iggers, philosopher and restaurant critic.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Food]

Making Sense of Taste: Food & Philosophy by Carolyn Korsmeyer

Is eating “a small exercise in mortality”? Erin McKenna consumes a tasteful but non-fattening book by Carolyn Korsmeyer.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Books]

Time Code

In another intrepid exploration of the possibilities of the silver screen, our very own movie maestro Thomas Wartenberg takes notes on an experimental new film called Time Code.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Films]

Musical Hermeneutics: The ‘Authentic’ Performance of Early Music

What does make a musical performance authentic? What do we mean by authenticity anyway? Michael Graubart looks for some answers.
[Issue 28: August/September 2000: Authenticity]

A Philosophy of Mass Art by Noel Carroll

Bob Sharpe considers art for the masses, the topic of a new book by Noel Carroll.
[Issue 27: June/July 2000: Books]

Arthur Danto

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 27: June/July 2000: The Library of Living Philosophers]

What’s New in… Aesthetics

Kai Hammermeister on the beauty business.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999: Overview]