Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Uncanny: - Philosophy and Cultural Studies Journal n.2

Uncanny: - Philosophy and Cultural Studies Journal n.2...

Author: Anselm Jappe ,  Edmundo Balsemao
ISBN: 9781514805558
Format: Paperback
$16.42

TheUncanny is a Journal that aims to publish texts (in blind and peer reviews) essentially essayistic around various...  Read More >>

A Syncretistic Theory of Depiction

A Syncretistic Theory of Depiction

Author: A. Voltolini
ISBN: 9781137263285
Format: Hardback
$181.95

What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction...  Read More >>

The Practices of the Enlightenment: Aesthetics, Authorship, and the Public

The Practices of the Enlightenment: Aesthetics, Authorship,...

Author: Dorothea von Mücke
ISBN: 9780231172462
Format: Hardback
$140.95

"Rethinking the relationship between eighteenth-century Pietist traditions and Enlightenment thought and practice,...  Read More >>

Schelling's Practice of the Wild: Time, Art, Imagination

Schelling's Practice of the Wild: Time, Art, Imagination...

Author: Jason M. Wirth
ISBN: 9781438456799
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Reconsiders the contemporary relevance of Schelling’s radical philosophical and religious ecology.  Read More >>

The Silent Sound Designer: Rediscovering Cinema Through Quietness

The Silent Sound Designer: Rediscovering Cinema Through...

Author: Danny Hahn
ISBN: 9780993338601
Format: Paperback
$31.05

Danny Hahn is The Silent Sound Designer - a film-writer like no other, passionately unmasking cinema's audio-visual...  Read More >>

The Vulgarization of Art: The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy

The Vulgarization of Art: The Victorians and Aesthetic...

Author: Linda Dowling
ISBN: 9780813929323
Format: Paperback
$92.40

In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works...  Read More >>

Modern Thought in Pain: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Modern Thought in Pain: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis...

Author: Simon Morgan Wortham
ISBN: 9780748692415
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Through a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is,...  Read More >>

Art and Contemporaneity

Art and Contemporaneity

Author: Frank Ruda ,  Jan Voelker
ISBN: 9783037342091
Format: Paperback
$58.22

Art is often said to be timeless, but specific works of art always take place within time and maintain a dynamic...  Read More >>

The Experimental Psychology of Beauty

The Experimental Psychology of Beauty

Author: C.W. Valentine
ISBN: 9781138899827
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Music and Aesthetic Reality: Formalism and the Limits of Description

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

Author: Nick Zangwill
ISBN: 9781135105099
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

In this volume, Zangwill develops a view of the nature of music and our experience of music that foregrounds the...  Read More >>

Dialectics of Spontaneity: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Su Shi (1037-1101) in Poetry

Dialectics of Spontaneity: The Aesthetics and Ethics...

Author: Zhiyi Yang
ISBN: 9789004298491
Format: Hardback
$414.48

In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines the aesthetic and ethical theories of Su Shi, the primary poet,...  Read More >>

Aesthetics After Metaphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor

Aesthetics After Metaphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor...

Author: Miguel Beistegui (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781138921467
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno)...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Companion to Aesthetics

The Bloomsbury Companion to Aesthetics

Author: Dr Anna Christina Ribeiro (Texas Tech University, USA)
ISBN: 9781474236379
Format: Paperback
$74.99

The Bloomsbury Companion to Aesthetics presents a practical study guide to emerging topics and art forms in aesthetics...  Read More >>

Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind

Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind...

Author: Dr. Chris Danta (University of New South Wales, Australia) ,  Prof. Helen Groth (University of New South Wales, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501308673
Format: Paperback
$76.99

In the last few decades, literary critics have increasingly drawn insights from cognitive neuroscience to deepen...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Sexuality: A Literary History of Sadomasochism

Aesthetic Sexuality: A Literary History of Sadomasochism...

Author: Dr. Romana Byrne (Independent Scholar, France)
ISBN: 9781501308697
Format: Paperback
$76.99

To understand why the concept of aesthetic sexuality is important, we must consider the influence of the first...  Read More >>

Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation And Design

Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation And Design...

Author: D. Berry ,  M. Dieter
ISBN: 9781137437198
Format: Hardback
$204.95

Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics...  Read More >>

Race, Philosophy, and Film

Race, Philosophy, and Film

Author: Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo (Washington State University, USA) ,  Dan Flory (Montana State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138921900
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This collection fills a gap in the current literature in philosophy and film by focusing on the question: How would...  Read More >>

The Age of Figurative Theo-humanism: The Beauty of God and Man in German Aesthetics of Painting and Sculpture (1754-1828)

The Age of Figurative Theo-humanism: The Beauty of God...

Author: Franco Cirulli
ISBN: 9783319099996
Format: Hardback
$194.04

One accusation directed at 18th century aesthetics has been that it realised into “Art” what had previously been...  Read More >>

Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience

Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the...

Author: Charles Altieri
ISBN: 9780801456701
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Charles Altieri argues for a reconsideration of the Kantian tradition of Idealist ethics, which he believes can...  Read More >>

Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience

Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the...

Author: Charles Altieri
ISBN: 9780801453748
Format: Hardback
$279.45

Charles Altieri argues for a reconsideration of the Kantian tradition of Idealist ethics, which he believes can...  Read More >>

The Negritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea

The Negritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas,...

Author: Reiland Rabaka
ISBN: 9781498511353
Format: Hardback
$374.00

The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also...  Read More >>

Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language: Essays on Heidegger and Gadamer

Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language: Essays on Heidegger...

Author: Stefano Marino
ISBN: 9781443876506
Format: Hardback
$108.65

Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer undoubtedly belong among the most important representatives of twentieth-century...  Read More >>

A Companion to Michael Oakeshott

A Companion to Michael Oakeshott

Author: Paul Franco (Bowdoin) ,  Leslie Marsh (Assistant Director, University of New England, Institute of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Studies)
ISBN: 9780271054087
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A collection of critical essays by leading scholars on British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott. Essays cover...  Read More >>

Counsels and Maxims

Counsels and Maxims

Author: T Bailey Saunders ,  Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN: 9781514327340
Format: Paperback
$20.99

Collected here, are five short essays, General Rules, Our Relation to Ourselves, Our Relation to Others, Worldly...  Read More >>

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