Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Disney and the Dialectic of Desire: Fantasy as Social Practice

Disney and the Dialectic of Desire: Fantasy as Social...

Author: Joseph Zornado
ISBN: 9783319626765
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book analyzes Walt Disney’s impact on entertainment, new media, and consumer culture in terms of a materialist,...  Read More >>

Antennae 10: A Decade of Art and the Non-Human 07-17

Antennae 10: A Decade of Art and the Non-Human 07-17...

Author: Giovanni Aloi (Antennae)
ISBN: 9789198385601
Format: Hardback
$90.56

This is a collection of essays and interviews originally published by Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual...  Read More >>

Rembrandt as Educator

Rembrandt as Educator

Author: Julius Langbehn
ISBN: 9781909606173
Format: Hardback
$77.60

First ever and fully annotated translation of Langbehn's subtle and detailed analysis of the North German character....  Read More >>

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary...

Author: Richard Rorty ,  Michael Williams
ISBN: 9780691178158
Format: Paperback
$42.99

"Includes the previously unpublished essay ""The philosopher as expert."""  Read More >>

Against Reason: Schopenhauer, Beckett and the Aesthetics of Irreducibility

Against Reason: Schopenhauer, Beckett and the Aesthetics...

Author: Anthony Barron ,  Matthew Feldman
ISBN: 9783838210254
Format: Paperback
$87.98

Anthony Barron explores the relationship between the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the forms and themes of Beckett’s...  Read More >>

Tracking Color in Cinema and Art: Philosophy and Aesthetics

Tracking Color in Cinema and Art: Philosophy and Aesthetics...

Author: Edward Branigan (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
ISBN: 9781138230668
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book develops a compelling framework from which to understand the mobility of color in art and mind, where...  Read More >>

Mud Art Spirit: Explorations in Incarnational Aesthetics

Mud Art Spirit: Explorations in Incarnational Aesthetics...

Author: Jerry H Gill ,  Mari Sorri
ISBN: 9781940447322
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Mud, art, and spirit, the interrelationship of physical reality, creativity, and spirituality, can, and must, be...  Read More >>

Existence, Meaning, Excellence: Aristotelian Reflections on the Meaning of Life

Existence, Meaning, Excellence: Aristotelian Reflections...

Author: Andrius Bielskis (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania) ,  Andrius Bielskis
ISBN: 9781138213906
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This book addresses the question of the meaning of life from the point of view of a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s...  Read More >>

Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought

Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought

Author: Reshef Agam-Segal (Virginia Military Institute, USA) ,  Edmund Dain (Providence College, USA)
ISBN: 9781138745063
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The essays in this collection are united in the claim that Wittgenstein’s thought has much to contribute to our...  Read More >>

Plotinus and the Moving Image

Plotinus and the Moving Image

Author: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ,  Giannis Stamatellos
ISBN: 9789004357037
Format: Paperback
$184.80

Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film. It discusses...  Read More >>

Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience

Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience...

Author: Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter
ISBN: 9789004356955
Format: Paperback
$216.48

In Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter suggests that documentaries are...  Read More >>

The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in 18th-Century English Literature

The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in 18th-Century...

Author: Yvonne Bezrucka
ISBN: 9781527503021
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Free, romantic, and individualistic, Britain's self-image in the eighteenth century constructs itself in opposition...  Read More >>

Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things

Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things

Author: Stephen Bayley
ISBN: 9781911422068
Format: Hardback
$69.99

"Design-guru Stephen Bayley approaches the topic of ""taste"" with typical wit, drawing on his expertise in a number...  Read More >>

Symbolic Articulation: Image, Word, and Body between Action and Schema

Symbolic Articulation: Image, Word, and Body between...

Author: Sabine Marienberg
ISBN: 9783110558128
Format: Paperback
$107.50

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Heidegger on Literature, Poetry, and Education after the ""Turn"": At the Limits of Metaphysics

Heidegger on Literature, Poetry, and Education after...

Author: James M. Magrini (College of Dupage, USA) ,  Elias Schwieler
ISBN: 9781138238916
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Offering new and original readings of literature, poetry, and education as interpreted through the conceptual lens...  Read More >>

Humour as Politics: The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy

Humour as Politics: The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary...

Author: Nicholas Holm
ISBN: 9783319509495
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Through an analysis of humour as a political and aesthetic category, Humour as Politics challenges older models...  Read More >>

Angst und Vernunft - An der Grenze von Rationalem und Nichtrationalem im menschlichen Denken und Handeln

Angst und Vernunft - An der Grenze von Rationalem und...

Author: Wolfgang Wein
ISBN: 9783631729342
Format: Hardback
$133.64

Das Buch untersucht das Verhältnis von Angst und Vernunft auf der individuellen sowie gesellschaftlichen Ebene....  Read More >>

Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

Author: Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation)
ISBN: 9781350040823
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential and revolutionary philosophers of the 20th century. Francis Bacon...  Read More >>

Light in a Socio-Cultural Perspective

Light in a Socio-Cultural Perspective

Author: Ronit Milano ,  Ronit Milano
ISBN: 9781443879071
Format: Hardback
$263.87

The awareness of light as both a concept and a phenomenon existed long before it became a matter of scientific...  Read More >>

A Theory of Minimalism

A Theory of Minimalism

Author: Marc Botha (Durham University, UK) ,  Marco Botha
ISBN: 9781472530301
Format: Hardback
$240.00

The explosion of minimalism into the worlds of visual arts, music and literature in the mid-to-late twentieth century...  Read More >>

Political Theory and the Enlarged Mentality

Political Theory and the Enlarged Mentality

Author: Stephen Acreman (University of Nottingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781138667389
Format: Hardback
$231.00

In this book, Stephen Acreman follows the development and reception of a hitherto under-analyzed concept central...  Read More >>

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