Strange Beauty, A. Siewers

Автор: McKeown J. C.
Название: A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World`s Greatest Empire
ISBN: 0195393759 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195393750
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities is a serendipitous collection of odd facts and opinions about life and culture in ancient Rome, gleaned from a wide body of ancient evidence.

Автор: Jones Ryan Tucker
Название: Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific`s Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867
ISBN: 0199343411 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199343416
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Empire of Extinction examines the environmental catastrophe resulting from Russia`s expansion into the North Pacific., causing Russians and other Europeans to recognize the threat of species extinction for the first time. This book demonstrates the importance of the North Pacific both for the Russian empire and for global environmental history.

Автор: Denham
Название: Plato on Art and Beauty
ISBN: 0230314406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230314405
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato`s Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic , but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, motivated emotions.

Автор: Konstan David
Название: Beauty
ISBN: 019992726X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199927265
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: What makes something beautiful? In this engaging, elegant study, David Konstan turns to ancient Greece to address the nature of beauty.

Автор: Mojca K?plen
Название: Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination
ISBN: 3319366165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319366166
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Описание: Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Judgments of Taste and Analysis of the Problem of Ugliness in Kant's Aesthetics.- Chapter 3 The Concept of Freedom in the Play of Imagination and Understanding.- Chapter 4 A Positive Account of the Concept of Free Play.- Chapter 5 The Explanation of Ugliness in Kant's Aesthetics.- Chapter 6 The Notion of Disgust in Comparison to Ugliness: A Kantian Perspective.- Bibliography.

Автор: Annelie Ramsbrock
Название: The Science of Beauty
ISBN: 1349504289 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349504282
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Описание: What did the cosmetic practices of middle-class women in the nineteenth century have in common with the repair of men`s bodies mutilated in war? Conceived as a cultural history, this book examines the history of artificially created beauty in Germany from the late Enlightenment to the early days of National Socialist rule.

Автор: Edmonds
Название: Some Greek Poems of Love and Beauty
ISBN: 1107554292 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107554290
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Originally published in 1937, this book presents a selection of some of the most captivating Greek poetry from antiquity and illumines new nuances of meaning through the author`s largely exclusive translations. Ranging between the dates 650 BC and AD 920, the book contains a myriad of poems all concerned with the subjects of love and beauty.

Автор: Ramsbrock
Название: The Science of Beauty
ISBN: 1137489804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137489807
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Описание: Covering a wide swath of German history from the Enlightenment to National Socialism, this book shows that ideals of beauty have always been closely related to a society`s conception of itself, from organ transplants to the manufacture of cosmetics. At the same time, body modification has also presented new ways to subvert the social order.

Автор: Blondell Ruby
Название: Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation
ISBN: 0190263539 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190263539
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Описание: Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a useful perspective for reconsidering aspects of our own.

Автор: Hatzaki, Myrto
Название: Beauty and the male body in Byzantium
ISBN: 0230007155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230007154
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Описание: A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, effeminacy, life and death. Examined as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body, this study of beauty refines our understanding of the Byzantine world.