Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Future Nostalgia: Performing David Bowie

Future Nostalgia: Performing David Bowie

Author: Professor of English Shelton Waldrep (University of Southern Maine, USA)
ISBN: 9781501325229
Format: Paperback
$56.99

"Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a ""leper messiah,"" a more appropriate moniker might...  Read More >>

Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of Music

Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of...

Author: Sally Macarthur
ISBN: 9781138274723
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Presents a fresh way of thinking about the absence of women's music. This title encourages us, with the assistance...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying

The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying

Author: Professor Darren Hudson Hick (Furman University, USA) ,  Reinold Schmücker (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Germany)
ISBN: 9781474254519
Format: Hardback
$200.00

The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying responds to the rapidly changing attitudes towards the use of another’s ideas,...  Read More >>

Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography

Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art...

Author: Susan Best (Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781472529787
Format: Hardback
$190.00

By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic...  Read More >>

Counter-Memorial Aesthetics: Refugee Histories and the Politics of Contemporary Art

Counter-Memorial Aesthetics: Refugee Histories and the...

Author: Veronica Tello
ISBN: 9781474252744
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Restrictive border protection policies directed toward managing the flow of refugees coming into neoliberal democracies...  Read More >>

Figural Philology: Panofsky and the Science of Things

Figural Philology: Panofsky and the Science of Things...

Author: Adi Efal (University of Cologne, Germany)
ISBN: 9781474254014
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Though inspired by a Panofskyan legacy, this book diverges at certain points from Erwin Panofsky's declared objectives,...  Read More >>

Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture

Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture

Author: Lene �stermark-Johansen
ISBN: 9781138256781
Format: Paperback
$105.00

A monograph that discusses the Victorian critic Walter Pater's attitude to sculpture. It brings together Pater's...  Read More >>

Theological Aesthetics after von Balthasar

Theological Aesthetics after von Balthasar

Author: Stan Hawkins ,  James Fodor
ISBN: 9781138259584
Format: Paperback
$101.00

A collection of essays, which explore the field of theological aesthetics - from von Balthasar's contribution and...  Read More >>

Poética

Poética

Author: Andrea Gouveia ,  Andrea Gouveia
ISBN: 9781540415417
Format: Paperback
$20.17

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Tolstoy's 'What is Art?'

Tolstoy's 'What is Art?'

Author: Terry Diffey
ISBN: 9781138803411
Format: Paperback
$92.99

With its demand that works of art be judged according to the their morally didactic content, Tolstoy’s reviled aesthetics...  Read More >>

Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study

Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study...

Author: Janko Lavrin
ISBN: 9781138803428
Format: Paperback
$52.99

This volume contains two concise works by the innovative twentieth-century literary critic Janko Lavrin, offering...  Read More >>

Searching for Wisdom In Movies: From the Book of Job to Sublime Conversations

Searching for Wisdom In Movies: From the Book of Job...

Author: Richard Gilmore
ISBN: 9783319398945
Format: Hardback
$206.97

In this volume, Richard Gilmore explores film as a channel through which to engage in philosophical reflection and...  Read More >>

Architecture, Critique, Ideology: Writings on Architecture and Theory

Architecture, Critique, Ideology: Writings on Architecture...

Author: Sven-Olov Wallenstein
ISBN: 9789186883133
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Drawing on a long philosophical tradition from Kant to Adorno and Deleuze, as well on a series of debates in architectural...  Read More >>

Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art: What are Artworks and How Do We Experience Them?

Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology...

Author: Peer F. Bundgaard ,  Frederik Stjernfelt
ISBN: 9783319364551
Format: Paperback
$116.41

​This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects. The first is related to the phenomenology...  Read More >>

Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination: An Approach to Kant's Aesthetics

Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination: An...

Author: Mojca Küplen
ISBN: 9783319366166
Format: Paperback
$142.29

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Teaching Performance: A Philosophy of Piano Pedagogy

Teaching Performance: A Philosophy of Piano Pedagogy...

Author: Jeffrey Swinkin
ISBN: 9783319359335
Format: Paperback
$206.97

The architects of absolute music (Hanslick, Schopenhauer, and others) held that it is precisely because instrumental...  Read More >>

Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis of Filmic Meaning

Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis...

Author: Janina Wildfeuer (University of Bremen, Germany) ,  John A. Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781138911383
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book examines film as a multimodal text and an audiovisual synthesis, bringing together current work within...  Read More >>

Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism: Continuities, Revisions, Speculations

Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism: Continuities,...

Author: Bénédicte Coste ,  Catherine Delyfer
ISBN: 9781138640771
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. Acknowledging both movements’ passion for the...  Read More >>

Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey: The Politics and Aesthetics of Identity and Resistance

Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey: The Politics and...

Author: Suncem Kocer ,  Can Candan
ISBN: 9781443897983
Format: Hardback
$240.11

Without a doubt, this decade's most discussed and developed documentary productions in Turkey come from Kurdistan,...  Read More >>

Heidegger and the Work of Art History

Heidegger and the Work of Art History

Author: Amanda Boetzkes ,  Aron Vinegar
ISBN: 9781138270251
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Heidegger and the Work of Art History explores the impact and future possibilities of Heidegger's philosophy for...  Read More >>

Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship

Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice,...

Author: Jinhee Choi (King's College London, UK) ,  Mattias Frey (University of Kent, UK)
ISBN: 9781138233850
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume looks at the significance and range of ethical questions that pertain to various film practices. Diverse...  Read More >>

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