Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Transculturation and Aesthetics: Ambivalence, Power, and Literature

Transculturation and Aesthetics: Ambivalence, Power,...

Author: Joel Kuortti
ISBN: 9789042039155
Format: Hardback
$237.60

This collection is a timely reflection on the momentous concept of transculturalism. With its historical roots in...  Read More >>

Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema: Beyond Mere Illusions

Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema: Beyond Mere Illusions...

Author: Sylvie Magerstädt, Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire
ISBN: 9781783482504
Format: Hardback
$345.00

This is a philosophical discussion of cinema’s power to create positive illusions and myths, drawing on Nietzsche,...  Read More >>

Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema

Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema

Author: Daniel Yacavone
ISBN: 9780231157698
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Crafting a philosophy of cinematic art from the keenest insights of the continental and analytic traditions.  Read More >>

Creative Deactualization: Rethinking the Idea of Revolution

Creative Deactualization: Rethinking the Idea of Revolution...

Author: Chahid Akoury
ISBN: 9781940813226
Format: Paperback
$49.03

"The premise of this text propounds the arrival to radical change as starting with an admission of the unsolvability...  Read More >>

Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema

Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema

Author: Daniel Yacavone
ISBN: 9780231157681
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Crafting a philosophy of cinematic art from the keenest insights of the continental and analytic traditions.  Read More >>

Objektive Ideen: Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von Idee, Begriff und Begründung bei René Descartes und in der nachkartesischen Philosophie des 17. Jahrhunderts

Objektive Ideen: Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von Idee,...

Author: Holger Gutschmidt
ISBN: 9783161532979
Format: Hardback
$287.21

"Holger Gutschmidt versammelt in diesem Band mehrere Untersuchungen zur Konzeption der Idee und ihrer Beziehung...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels - 30-Volume Set

The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels - 30-Volume...

Author: Walter Scott
ISBN: 9781474407908
Format: Hardback
$6454.80

At last - a complete, critically edited edition of the Waverley Novels as Scott originally wrote them. All 28 of...  Read More >>

Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art

Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art

Author: Gregory Currie (University of York) ,  Matthew Kieran (University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9781107654587
Format: Paperback
$67.25

This collection of essays, originating in a conference at the Leeds Art Gallery in 2012, reviews the role of empirical...  Read More >>

Z(e)ro Spaces: Poïesis and the Art of Collaborative Creativity

Z(e)ro Spaces: Poïesis and the Art of Collaborative...

Author: Gabrielle Collet ,  Alessandro De Francesco
ISBN: 9781940813257
Format: Paperback
$44.12

"An ambitious theoretical experiment whose aim is to produce a general approach to the notion of collaboration through...  Read More >>

The Aesthetico-Political: The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière

The Aesthetico-Political: The Question of Democracy...

Author: Dr. Martín Plot (School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, USA)
ISBN: 9781441196637
Format: Hardback
$280.00

"This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary...  Read More >>

Statues: The Second Book of Foundations

Statues: The Second Book of Foundations

Author: Professor Michel Serres (Stanford University, USA) ,  Randolph Burks
ISBN: 9781472530318
Format: Hardback
$100.00

In this first English translation of one of his most important works, Michel Serres presents the statue as more...  Read More >>

El Arte Poetica

El Arte Poetica

Author: Aristotle ,  Jose Goya y Muniain
ISBN: 9781507561348
Format: Paperback
$21.09

En El arte poetica, Aristoteles hace una especie de guia o manual sobre como escribir una tragedia digna de llevar...  Read More >>

Ignorance: Between Knowing and Not Knowing

Ignorance: Between Knowing and Not Knowing

Author: Gavin Morrison ,  Sigrid Sandström
ISBN: 9789186883331
Format: Hardback
$49.16

"""Ignorance is an intellectual defect, imperfection, privation, or shortcoming."" So begins James Ferrier's ""The...  Read More >>

The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics

The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics

Author: Leora Batnitzky ,  Ilana Pardes
ISBN: 9783110333831
Format: Hardback
$171.51

The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until...  Read More >>

Hegel on Beauty

Hegel on Beauty

Author: Julia Peters (Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781138795952
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Narrative, Philosophy and Life

Narrative, Philosophy and Life

Author: Allen Speight
ISBN: 9789401793483
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This notable collection provides an interdisciplinary platform for prominent thinkers who have all made significant...  Read More >>

Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau

Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom...

Author: Fayçal Falaky
ISBN: 9781438449906
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques...  Read More >>

Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy

Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory...

Author: Alfonsina Scarinzi
ISBN: 9789401793780
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy  Read More >>

Doodling on the Titanic: The Making of Art in a World on the Brink

Doodling on the Titanic: The Making of Art in a World...

Author: Osha Neumann
ISBN: 9780990496908
Format: Paperback
$80.01

DOODLING ON THE TITANIC examines the fate of art in a world falling apart at the seams. Multiplying crises threaten...  Read More >>

The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution

The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution

Author: Stephen Davies (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780198709633
Format: Paperback
$75.95

Stephen Davies presents a fascinating exploration of the idea that art, and our aesthetic sensibilities more generally,...  Read More >>

The Normativity of Nature: Essays on Kant's Critique of Judgement

The Normativity of Nature: Essays on Kant's Critique...

Author: Hannah Ginsborg (University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780199547982
Format: Paperback
$100.95

Hannah Ginsborg presents fourteen essays which establish Kant's Critique of Judgment as a central contribution to...  Read More >>

Lo Bello y Lo Sublime

Lo Bello y Lo Sublime

Author: Immanuel Kant (University of California, San Diego, University of Pennsylvania) ,  Raul Bracho
ISBN: 9781505787603
Format: Paperback
$21.12

Para que desde la experiencia, se pueda comprender y disfrutar del significado de las palabras sublime y bello...  Read More >>

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