Overview
- Offers a powerful defense of media difference using a non-essential approach to ontology
- Features an innovative marriage of Gestalt psychology and Austrian ontology
- Presents an important theory of media developed by psychologist Rudolf Arnheim, a famous early critic and theorist of film and radio
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- Roman Ingarden
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Two Elementary Classes of Aesthetic Objects
- Defining Difference in Media
- Media Ontology
- What is a Medium
- Spatial and Temporal Modalities
- Ontology of the Individual Media
- Artistic Composites
- Medial Differentiation
- Ontology of Renaissance Realism
- 20th Century Animation and the Concretization of Make-Believe
- Presence and Virtual Reality
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Book Title: Arnheim, Gestalt and Media
Book Subtitle: An Ontological Theory
Authors: Ian Verstegen
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02970-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02969-2Published: 18 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02970-8Published: 09 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2211-4548
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 136
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Aesthetics, Media and Communication, Architectural History and Theory