Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain

Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics...

Author: Declan Kavanagh
ISBN: 9781611488241
Format: Hardback
$279.00

This book traces the development of modern ideas of masculinity and the political subject back to the Enlightenment...  Read More >>

Artforum // Essays

Artforum // Essays

Author: Vilem Flusser ,  Martha Schwendener
ISBN: 9780993327230
Format: Paperback
$76.43

A collection of twenty eight essays written by the philosopher Vilem Flusser for Artforum Magazine, NY. All essays...  Read More >>

How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now

How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now

Author: Rebecca Colesworthy (New York University, New York, USA) ,  Peter Nicholls (New York University, New York, USA)
ISBN: 9781138294974
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, the notion that capitalism has become too abstract for all but...  Read More >>

Beauty, Violence, Representation

Beauty, Violence, Representation

Author: Lisa A. Dickson (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada) ,  Maryna Romanets (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138098435
Format: Paperback
$98.99

This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and...  Read More >>

Music and Aesthetic Reality: Formalism and the Limits of Description

Music and Aesthetic Reality: Formalism and the Limits...

Author: Nick Zangwill (Hull University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138302198
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Nick Zangwill argues for the nature of music and our experience of music that foregrounds its aesthetic properties....  Read More >>

Hegel on Beauty

Hegel on Beauty

Author: Julia Peters (Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781138098701
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Baroque, Venice, Theatre, Philosophy

Baroque, Venice, Theatre, Philosophy

Author: Will Daddario
ISBN: 9783319495224
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book theorizes the baroque as neither a time period nor an artistic style but as a collection of bodily practices...  Read More >>

The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept

The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic...

Author: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (New York University) ,  Stefanos Geroulanos (New York University)
ISBN: 9780231171861
Format: Hardback
$132.95

The Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider...  Read More >>

Entweder ästhetisch – oder religiös?: Søren Kierkegaard textanalytisch

Entweder ästhetisch – oder religiös?: Søren Kierkegaard...

Author: Henrike Fürstenberg
ISBN: 9783110476521
Format: Hardback
$205.83

A close analysis of the writings of Søren Kierkegaard reveals new relationships between the aesthetic and the religious....  Read More >>

Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play

Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play

Author: Michael Y. Bennett ,  Marvin Carlson
ISBN: 9781138239920
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"Theatrical characters’ dual existence on stage and in text presents a unique, challenging case for the analytical...  Read More >>

Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics: Studies in Agency and Embodiment

Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics: Studies...

Author: Katarzyna Lisowska ,  Jaroslaw Wozniak
ISBN: 9781443882811
Format: Hardback
$277.07

Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics views textual and extra-textual worlds as intimately connected, as forming...  Read More >>

The Tragedy of Philosophy: Kant's Critique of Judgment and the Project of Aesthetics

The Tragedy of Philosophy: Kant's Critique of Judgment...

Author: Andrew Cooper
ISBN: 9781438461885
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy.  Read More >>

Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence, Ethics, Imagination, and Poetic Ontology

Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence, Ethics,...

Author: Glen A. Mazis
ISBN: 9781438462301
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Assesses Merleau-Ponty’s contribution to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay between perception and imagination,...  Read More >>

Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated: Philosopher of Science and Imagination

Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated: Philosopher of...

Author: Roch C. Smith
ISBN: 9781438461922
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Comprehensive overview of the entire spectrum of works by one of twentieth-century France’s most original thinkers....  Read More >>

Poetic Fragments

Poetic Fragments

Author: Karoline von Günderrode ,  Anna C. Ezekiel
ISBN: 9781438461984
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Bilingual English-German edition of second collection published by the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher Karoline...  Read More >>

Virtue in Being: Towards an Ethics of the Unconditioned

Virtue in Being: Towards an Ethics of the Unconditioned...

Author: Andrew Benjamin
ISBN: 9781438461625
Format: Paperback
$92.27

A radical rethinking of ethics set within the development of a philosophical anthropology.  Read More >>

The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung

The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the...

Author: Roger Scruton
ISBN: 9780141980720
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The vital, carefullycrafted discussion on Wagner's masterpiece, offering deep insight into both thework itself and...  Read More >>

Shifting Focus: Strangers and Strangeness in Literature and Education

Shifting Focus: Strangers and Strangeness in Literature...

Author: Peter Roberts (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781138057531
Format: Paperback
$67.99

There is a long history of interest in ‘strangers’ and ‘strangeness’ in the West. Literature lends itself particularly...  Read More >>

Interpassivity: The Aesthetics of Delegated Enjoyment

Interpassivity: The Aesthetics of Delegated Enjoyment...

Author: Robert Pfaller
ISBN: 9781474422932
Format: Paperback
$46.55

Robert Pfaller advances a general theory of interpassivity as the wish for delegated consumption and enjoyment in...  Read More >>

The virtual, the actual, and the intensive: contentions, reflections and interpretations: Deleuze Studies Volume 11, Issue 2

The virtual, the actual, and the intensive: contentions,...

Author: Sean Bowden ,  Dale Clisby
ISBN: 9781474425773
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Each of the authors contributing to this special issue problematize in novel ways our ordinary understanding of...  Read More >>

Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Culture: Uncollected Interviews

Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Culture: Uncollected...

Author: Richard G. Smith ,  David B. Clarke
ISBN: 9781474417785
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Originally published between 1968 and 2009, this collection of 25 pieces includes six interviews translated into...  Read More >>

Conquest of Body: Biopower with Biotechnology

Conquest of Body: Biopower with Biotechnology

Author: Polona Tratnik
ISBN: 9783319573236
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This book reflects on the phenomenon of biotechnology and how it affects the body and discusses a number of related...  Read More >>

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