Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism

Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism...

Author: Nicholas Brown
ISBN: 9781478001591
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the...  Read More >>

Zweck und Zweckfreiheit: Zum Funktionswandel der Künste im 21. Jahrhundert

Zweck und Zweckfreiheit: Zum Funktionswandel der Künste...

Author: Judith Siegmund
ISBN: 9783476048042
Format: Paperback
$118.77

In der Theoriegeschichte der ästhetischen Theorie hat sich im 20. Die Strategie dieser Operation besteht darin,...  Read More >>

Distributions of the Sensible: Rancière, between Aesthetics and Politics

Distributions of the Sensible: Rancière, between Aesthetics...

Author: Scott Durham ,  Dilip Gaonkar
ISBN: 9780810140288
Format: Hardback
$263.87

"Jacques Rancière's work is increasingly central to several debates across the humanities. Distributions of the...  Read More >>

Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism

Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism...

Author: Nicholas Brown
ISBN: 9781478001249
Format: Hardback
$271.79

Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the...  Read More >>

Zhu Guangqian and Benedetto Croce on Aesthetic Thought: With a Translation of the Wenyi xinlixue       (The Psychology of Art and Literature)

Zhu Guangqian and Benedetto Croce on Aesthetic Thought:...

Author: Mario Sabattini ,  Elisa Levi Sabattini
ISBN: 9789004392199
Format: Hardback
$380.16

In Zhu Guangqian and Benedetto Croce on Aesthetic Thought, Mario Sabattini studies Croce's influence on the aesthetic...  Read More >>

Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides

Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides

Author: Christina Rawls ,  Diana Neiva
ISBN: 9781138351691
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to...  Read More >>

Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance

Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness,...

Author: Norman Roessler ,  Anthony Squiers
ISBN: 9789004404434
Format: Hardback
$324.72

This interdisciplinary anthology unites scholars with the notion that Bertolt Brecht is a missing link in bridging...  Read More >>

Hypermodernity and Visuality

Hypermodernity and Visuality

Author: Peter R. Sedgwick
ISBN: 9781786604903
Format: Hardback
$341.00

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Artistic Creation: A Phenomenological Account

Artistic Creation: A Phenomenological Account

Author: Jeff Mitscherling ,  Paul Fairfield
ISBN: 9781498593533
Format: Hardback
$228.00

Drawing upon a range of insights from Plato and Aristotle to Gadamer and Ingarden, this phenomenological study examines...  Read More >>

René Magritte and the Art of Thinking

René Magritte and the Art of Thinking

Author: Lisa Lipinski (The George Washington University)
ISBN: 9781138054271
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book makes the claim that Magritte’s painting is about vision and the act of viewing, of perception itself,...  Read More >>

Conversations about Beauty with Ordinary Americans: Somebody Loves Us All

Conversations about Beauty with Ordinary Americans:...

Author: Harvey Teres
ISBN: 9781612299532
Format: Paperback
$64.69

This book gives voice to ordinary folks who talk about their personal encounters with beauty. It's a subject of...  Read More >>

Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics

Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics

Author: Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University, Illinois)
ISBN: 9781108483070
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Explores the main concepts of Herder's aesthetics: aesthetic naturalism, where art is natural to and naturally valuable...  Read More >>

Intersections of Value: Art, Nature, and the Everyday

Intersections of Value: Art, Nature, and the Everyday...

Author: Robert Stecker (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Central Michigan University)
ISBN: 9780198789956
Format: Hardback
$109.95

Robert Stecker investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience of the world around us. He examines...  Read More >>

Simply Hygge: Lifestyle for Beginners

Simply Hygge: Lifestyle for Beginners

Author: Lina Lykke
ISBN: 9781099575792
Format: Paperback
$15.81

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Philosophy as Metaphysics: The Torino Lectures

Philosophy as Metaphysics: The Torino Lectures

Author: Günter Figal
ISBN: 9783161557347
Format: Paperback
$59.25

Motivated by the question of what it is that makes philosophy philosophical, Günter Figal shows that philosophy...  Read More >>

Immanence and Immersion: On the Acoustic Condition in Contemporary Art

Immanence and Immersion: On the Acoustic Condition in...

Author: Will Schrimshaw (Edge Hill University, UK)
ISBN: 9781501352034
Format: Paperback
$69.99

A critique of immersive aesthetics in the arts, with particular emphasis placed upon sound and new media art.  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets

The Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets

Author: Professor Julia M. O'Brien ,  Professor Chris Franke
ISBN: 9780567688378
Format: Paperback
$69.99

At the 2006 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Prophetic Texts in their Ancient Contexts...  Read More >>

The Decay of Lying: An Observation

The Decay of Lying: An Observation

Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781099085505
Format: Paperback
$14.52

Oscar Wilde is one of the world's most unique artists. Capable of creating works of wit, he was also capable of...  Read More >>

Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts

Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics,...

Author: Colin Martindale ,  Paul Locher
ISBN: 9780415783699
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Describes fresh approaches to aesthetics, creativity and psychology of the arts, approaching these topics from a...  Read More >>

From Fountain to Moleskine: The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Producibility

From Fountain to Moleskine: The Work of Art in the Age...

Author: Maurizio Ferraris
ISBN: 9789004407565
Format: Paperback
$221.76

The dematerialization of contemporary artworks is only apparent. They highlight their link with contract and a character...  Read More >>

Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics

Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics

Author: Dabney Townsend
ISBN: 9780415772334
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Containing twenty-two essays, including Dabney Townsend's essay on the development of eighteenth century aesthetics...  Read More >>

Grenzgange in Der Philosophie: Denken Darstellen

Grenzgange in Der Philosophie: Denken Darstellen

Author: Alexander Fischer ,  Annett Wienmeister
ISBN: 9783957431462
Format: Paperback
$198.00

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A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics: Enchanted Citizens

A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:...

Author: Roger K. Green
ISBN: 9783030153175
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Arguing that we ought to look to psychedelic aesthetics of the 1960s in relation to current crises in liberal democracy,...  Read More >>

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Author: Immanuel Kant ,  Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
ISBN: 9781950330171
Format: Hardback
$44.75

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is the first of Immanuel Kant's mature works on moral philosophy and remains...  Read More >>

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