Alva Noe (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Univers

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Learning to Look

Dispatches from the Art World

Beschreibung

Learning to Look is a collection of short and accessible essays on how we experience art. In each chapter, Alva Noë starts from an experience of a particular artwork and from there shows how these works open new questions about philosophy, science, and ourselves. This is a companion work to Noe's 2019 volume, Infinite Baseball.

Autor

Alva Noë is a writer and a philosopher living in Berkeley and New York. He works on the nature of mind and human experience. He is the author of Action in Perception (2004); Out of Our Heads (2009); Varieties of Presence (2012); and Strange Tools (2015). His latest book is Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark (2019). Alva received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1995 and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Center for New Media. He previously was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has been philosopher-in-residence with The Forsythe Company and has also collaborated creatively with dance artists Deborah Hay, Nicole Peisl, Jess Curtis, Claire Cunningham, Katye Coe, and Charlie Morrissey. Alva is a 2012 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and a former fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a 2018 recipient of the Judd/Hume Prize in Advanced Visual Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 183mm x 135mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780190928216
• ISBN-10: 0190928212
• Artikelnr.: 61264613