Philosophy: aesthetics books

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The Genius Decision: The Extraordinary and the Postmodern Condition, Second, Revised and Expanded Edition

The Genius Decision: The Extraordinary and the Postmodern...

Author: Klaus Ottmann
ISBN: 9780882145921
Format: Paperback
$63.36

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The Analysis of Beauty

The Analysis of Beauty

Author: William Hogarth
ISBN: 9780486795256
Format: Paperback
$27.99

The great 18th-century artist discusses and illustrates the expression of beauty with serpentine lines. Hogarth...  Read More >>

Senses of Landscape

Senses of Landscape

Author: John Sallis
ISBN: 9780810131095
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living...  Read More >>

Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics

Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics

Author: Jacques Rancière (University of Paris VIII, France) ,  Steven Corcoran
ISBN: 9781472583550
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A brand new collection of Jacques Ranciere's writings on art and politics.  Read More >>

Beyond Speculation: Art and Aesthetics without Myths

Beyond Speculation: Art and Aesthetics without Myths...

Author: Jean-Marie Schaeffer ,  Daffyd Roberts
ISBN: 9780857420428
Format: Hardback
$57.95

Rejecting not only the identification of the aesthetic with the work of art, but also the Kantian association of...  Read More >>

Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy

Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation...

Author: Professor of Philosophy Gyula Klima (Fordham University)
ISBN: 9780823266586
Format: Undefined
$414.48

It is commonly supposed that certain elements of medieval philosophy are uncharacteristically preserved in modern...  Read More >>

Senses of Landscape

Senses of Landscape

Author: John Sallis
ISBN: 9780810131071
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living...  Read More >>

Beckett's Words: The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning

Beckett's Words: The Promise of Happiness in a Time...

Author: David Kleinberg-Levin (Northwestern University, USA)
ISBN: 9781474216852
Format: Hardback
$260.00

"At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word—and...  Read More >>

Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition

Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition

Author: Karl Rosenkranz ,  Andrei Pop
ISBN: 9781472568854
Format: Hardback
$260.00

In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty...  Read More >>

The Dialectic of Taste: On the Rise and Fall of Tuscanization and other Crises in the Aesthetic Economy

The Dialectic of Taste: On the Rise and Fall of Tuscanization...

Author: David Michalski
ISBN: 9781137544278
Format: Hardback
$136.95

The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern...  Read More >>

European Theories in Former Yugoslavia: Trans-theory Relations between Global and Local Discourses

European Theories in Former Yugoslavia: Trans-theory...

Author: Zarko Cvejić ,  Andrija Filipović
ISBN: 9781443877206
Format: Hardback
$216.35

European Theories in Former Yugoslavia shows that there is no such thing as a direct transfer or influence of theories...  Read More >>

The Marriage of Aesthetics and Ethics

The Marriage of Aesthetics and Ethics

Author: Stephane Symons
ISBN: 9789004298828
Format: Hardback
$462.00

In The Marriage of Aesthetics and Ethics, fifteen authors reflect on the nature of friendship and love and on the...  Read More >>

Internationales Kulturmanagement: Zur kulturellen Infra- und Angebotsstruktur der Städte Hagen und Smolensk

Internationales Kulturmanagement: Zur kulturellen Infra-...

Author: Thomas Heinze ,  Lothar Bertels
ISBN: 9783658108236
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Die AutorInnen dieses Sammelbandes widmen sich zum einen empirischen Erhebungen zur kulturellen Infra- und Angebotsstruktur...  Read More >>

Teaching Performance: A Philosophy of Piano Pedagogy

Teaching Performance: A Philosophy of Piano Pedagogy...

Author: Jeffrey Swinkin
ISBN: 9783319125138
Format: Hardback
$206.97

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

Symbolic Misery, Volume 2: The Catastrophe of the Sensible

Symbolic Misery, Volume 2: The Catastrophe of the Sensible...

Author: Bernard Stiegler (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris)
ISBN: 9780745652672
Format: Paperback
$32.95

In this important new book, leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship...  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: 9783319198989
Format: Hardback
$206.97

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Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began

Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began

Author: Ellen Dissanayake
ISBN: 9780295995786
Format: Hardback
$180.95

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Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction

Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction

Author: Jeanette Bicknell (Carleton University)
ISBN: 9781138790667
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction, Jeanette Bicknell explores key aesthetic, ethical, and other...  Read More >>

Sam Shepard and the Aesthetics of Performance

Sam Shepard and the Aesthetics of Performance

Author: E. Creedon
ISBN: 9781137530578
Format: Hardback
$158.95

By concentrating on Sam Shepard's visual aesthetics, Emma Creedon argues that a consideration of Shepard's plays...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition

The Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition

Author: Karl Rosenkranz ,  Andrei Pop
ISBN: 9781472568878
Format: Electronic book text
$826.32

In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty...  Read More >>

Kants Theorie der Erfahrung

Kants Theorie der Erfahrung

Author: Rainer Enskat
ISBN: 9783050050935
Format: Hardback
$214.41

What makes advances in experience possible? Does this question demand a metaphysical, fundamentally epistemological,...  Read More >>

Natur in Der Transzendentalphilosophie: Eine Tagung Zum Gedenken an Reinhard Lauth

Natur in Der Transzendentalphilosophie: Eine Tagung...

Author: Helmut Girndt
ISBN: 9783428145355
Format: Paperback
$382.80

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