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  • Daoism, Dandyism, and Political Correctness
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of 'carefree wandering,' deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture. ...
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    44,76 €

  • Daoism, Dandyism, and Political Correctness
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of 'carefree wandering,' deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture. ...
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    127,09 €

  • The New Aesthetics of Deculturation
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    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 of our times.Drawing on the work of Islam scholar Olivier Roy, who argued that religious fundamentalism arises when religion is separated from the indigenous cultural values, Botz-B...
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    52,37 €

  • The Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    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, techno-oriented, and optimistic attitude propagated by Italian Futurism in the early twentieth century. The Islamic State does not only excel through the extensive use of high-tech w...
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    129,02 €

  • Organic Cinema
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    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, this concise and innovative study locates organicity in the work of Béla Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker and pioneer of the 'slow cinema' movement. Through a wholly original...
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    149,80 €

  • Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    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 aesthetic presentations of women over the past thirty years. No longer restricted to biker and sailor culture, tattoos have been sanctioned by the mainstream of liberal societies. Nudity ha...
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    61,28 €

  • Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    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 aesthetic presentations of women over the past thirty years. No longer restricted to biker and sailor culture, tattoos have been sanctioned by the mainstream of liberal societies. Nudity ha...
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    125,09 €

  • The Cool-Kawaii
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    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 favorite youth culture; and the Japanese aesthetics of kawaii or cute, that is distributed internationally by Japan’s powerful anime industry. The USA and Japan are cultural superpowers a...
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    141,60 €

  • Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan: A Comparative Philosophical Study examines the parallels between Russian and Japanese philosophies and religions by revealing a common concept of space in Russian and Japanese aesthetics and political theories. Thorsten Botz-Bornstein shows points of convergence between the two traditions regarding the treatment of space wit...
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    133,48 €

  • Films and Dreams
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    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 which dream theory was originally developed to an environment established by primarily aesthetic concerns. Botz-Bornstein deals with dreams as ’self-sufficient’ phenomena that are inte...
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    64,33 €

  • Films and Dreams
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    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 which dream theory was originally developed to an environment established by primarily aesthetic concerns. Botz-Bornstein deals with dreams as 'self-sufficient' phenomena that are inte...
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    132,16 €