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The Aesthetics of Ruins de Robert Ginsberg

The Aesthetics of Ruins: Value Inquiry Book Series, cartea 159

Autor Robert Ginsberg
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 dec 2003
This book constructs a theory of ruins that celebrates their vitality and unity in aesthetic experience. Its argument draws upon over 100 illustrations prepared in 40 countries. Ruins flourish as matter, form, function, incongruity, site, and symbol. Ruin underlies cultural values in cinema, literature and philosophy. Finally, ruin guides meditations upon our mortality and endangered world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789042016729
ISBN-10: 9042016728
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 1.01 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Value Inquiry Book Series

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Claire Richter Sherman
Preface
Acknowledgments
ONE The Ruin as Matter
TWO The Ruin as Form
THREE The Ruin as Function
FOUR The Ruin as Incongruity
FIVE The Ruin as Site
SIX The Ruin as Symbol
SEVEN The Ruin as Aesthetic Experience
EIGHT Visit to a Ruin: St. Andrews
NINE Building with Ruin
TEN Nature as Ruin
ELEVEN Sculpture and Other Visual Arts as Ruin
TWELVE Cinema and Television as Ruin
THIRTEEN Literature as Ruin
FOURTEEN Philosophy as Ruin
FIFTEEN The Terminology of Ruin
SIXTEEN Theories of Ruin
SEVENTEEN The Ruining Eye – and Other Senses
EIGHTEEN Fragments of a Chapter on Ruin
NINETEEN Meditations on Humanity, Self, and the World as Ruins
Works Cited
Chronology of Ruin
Appendix Bibliographical Essay on the Literature and Imagery of Ruin
About the Author
Index

Notă biografică

Robert Ginsberg was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1937. From 1952 to 1960, he studied at the University of Chicago, chiefly in aesthetics (B.A., M.A.). Assisted by Fulbright grants, he lived in Paris from 1960 to 1963, continuing his explorations in aesthetics at the Sorbonne. He did additional studies in Sweden, the Netherlands Institute for Art History in The Hague, and the University of Vienna. He returned to America to complete a Ph.D. in philosophy in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania (1966). Ginsberg has engaged in study missions to Italy (classics), Israel (peace studies), and China (Confucianism). In the United States, he pursued post-doctoral studies at The Johns Hopkins University (film), University of California at Irvine (political philosophy), Brandeis University (classics), the Folger Institute in Washington (history of philosophy), and Georgetown University (classics). Research grants have taken him to Norway, the United Kingdom, Spain, Greece, Hungary, and Germany. Ginsberg taught in France and Turkey in the 1960s. In the United States, he served as adjunct professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, and Temple University, Harrisburg. Appointed as the first faculty member at The Pennsylvania State University’s Delaware County Campus in 1967, when it opened its doors in the Philadelphia suburbs, he taught for Penn State for thirty-five years. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Comparative Literature. During a motor tour of Scotland in 1967, Ginsberg first discovered the beauties of ruins. Subsequently, he has traveled extensively to study and photograph ruins and lecture on them (Pl. 94). To gain experience in the field, he participated in archaeological study tours in Egypt, Tunisia, Italy, Yugoslavia, Mexico, and Guatemala. In developing a career as photographer-philosopher, he has exhibited his visual works in Paris, Hong Kong, Montréal, Philadelphia, and Washington. Among Ginsberg’s publications are a handbook for students, Welcome to Philosophy! (1977), and a monograph on sculpture, Gustav Vigeland: A Case Study in Art and Culture (1984). He edited Criticism and Theory in the Arts (1963), A Casebook on the Declaration of Independence (1967), The Critique of War: Contemporary Philosophical Explorations (1969), and The Philosopher as Writer: The Eighteenth Century (1987). Ginsberg edits the book series, New Studies in Aesthetics. Previously, he served as editor of the Social Philosophy Research Institute Book Series (SPRIBS), the Jones and Bartlett Philosophy Series, The Journal of Value Inquiry, and the Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS). As an editor, he has supervised the publication of two hundred volumes. In 1962, Robert Ginsberg and Ellen Sutor wed in Paris. Since 1972, the Ginsbergs have made their home in Takoma Park, Maryland, an historic suburb of Washington, where they direct the International Center for the Arts, Humanities, and Value Inquiry.

Recenzii

"elegantly written, closely argued, richly documented, impressively illustrated, and exceedingly readable … Ginsberg’s book allows us to see ruins as the ever-lasting possibility of the transformation of reality, as a discovery of the past that promises to enrich the future" - in: Soundings - An Interdisciplinary Journal 89, 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2006)
"The Aesthetics of Ruins is both a simulation and rewarding experience in which we learn to reconsider our perspective on ruins and aesthetics simultaneously. With good humor and clarity, Ginsberg reclaims the study of ruins from the margins… A broad work, both in its size and scope…[the] extensive and definitive bibliography … provides an excellent source for further research on ruins." - in: Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 40, No 4 (Winter 2006)
"it has real intellectual thought and quirky insights at every turn … a cheerful discussion with the reader in a very conversational style, a mine of detailed and encyclopaedic information …. As academically and intellectually precise in its detail as it is complex in its thought." - in: The Art Book, Vol. 13 (May 2006)
"Bibliographically, this book is outstanding. Ginsberg knows much and tells it all. The generous last chapter (pp. 449-538) contains solid commentaries on books, besides ample indexes of names, titles, and other clues. The illustrations are numerous, diverse in their cultural and geographic choice, and capably selected for their suggestiveness. More generally, the book is encyclopedically conceived: I can hardly remember a work in which sections on “cinema and television as ruin,” on music, literature, even nature as ruin coexist side-by-side with philosophical and aesthetic chapters, as well as with more predictable considerations on ruins in the narrower traditional sense: buildings, architecture, and the like." - in: The Review of Metaphysics (March 1, 2006)