Philosophy: aesthetics books

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John Dewey's Notion of Qualitative Thought

John Dewey's Notion of Qualitative Thought

Author: Julie C Van Camp
ISBN: 9781499259872
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Examination of John Dewey's concept of qualitative thought, challenging his use of thought, language, symbols,...  Read More >>

Warm Flesh, Cold Marble: Canova, Thorvaldsen, and Their Critics

Warm Flesh, Cold Marble: Canova, Thorvaldsen, and Their...

Author: David Bindman
ISBN: 9780300197891
Format: Hardback
$87.95

Focusing on the aesthetic concerns of the two most important sculptors of the early 19th century, the Italian sculptor...  Read More >>

Intimacy

Intimacy

Author: Ziyad Marar
ISBN: 9781844658220
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Wahrheit, Wissen und Erkenntnis in der Literatur: Philosophische Beiträge

Wahrheit, Wissen und Erkenntnis in der Literatur: Philosophische...

Author: Christoph Demmerling ,  Ingrid Vendrell Ferran
ISBN: 9783050062778
Format: Hardback
$57.17

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes werfen die Frage nach dem Erkenntniswert der Literatur auf. Der erste Teil des Bandes...  Read More >>

The Decision Between Us: Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes

The Decision Between Us: Art and Ethics in the Time...

Author: John Paul Ricco
ISBN: 9780226717777
Format: Hardback
$85.95

Combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy...  Read More >>

Philosophischer Surrealismus

Philosophischer Surrealismus

Author: Wolfram Hogrebe
ISBN: 9783110342093
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Mit diesem Buch über Philosophischen Surrealismus ist das anthropologische Quartett Riskante Lebensnähe (2009; engl....  Read More >>

Love, Drugs, Art, Religion: The Pains and Consolations of Existence

Love, Drugs, Art, Religion: The Pains and Consolations...

Author: Brian R. Clack
ISBN: 9781409406761
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Love, Drugs, Art, Religion: The Pains and Consolations of Existence

Love, Drugs, Art, Religion: The Pains and Consolations...

Author: Brian R. Clack
ISBN: 9781409406754
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Architecture of Happiness

The Architecture of Happiness

Author: Alain de Botton
ISBN: 9780241970058
Format: Paperback
$27.99

What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and...  Read More >>

Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics

Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics

Author: Bill Beckley ,  David Shapiro
ISBN: 9781621531111
Format: Electronic book text
$65.87

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Concerning the Spiritual—and the Concrete—in Kandinsky’s Art

Concerning the Spiritual—and the Concrete—in Kandinsky’s...

Author: Lisa Florman
ISBN: 9780804784849
Format: Paperback
$47.95

A radical reassessment of the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, this book contests the traditional understanding...  Read More >>

The Opacity of Narrative

The Opacity of Narrative

Author: Peter Lamarque
ISBN: 9781783480173
Format: Paperback
$113.00

What is narrative? What is distinctive about the great literary narratives? In virtue of what is a narrative fictional...  Read More >>

Concerning the Spiritual—and the Concrete—in Kandinsky’s Art

Concerning the Spiritual—and the Concrete—in Kandinsky’s...

Author: Lisa Florman
ISBN: 9780804784832
Format: Hardback
$166.95

A radical reassessment of the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, this book contests the traditional understanding...  Read More >>

Panaesthetics: On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts

Panaesthetics: On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts...

Author: Daniel Albright
ISBN: 9780300186628
Format: Hardback
$103.95

While comparative literature is a well-recognized field of study, the notion of comparative arts remains unfamiliar...  Read More >>

Must We Kill the Thing We Love?: Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Must We Kill the Thing We Love?: Emersonian Perfectionism...

Author: William Rothman
ISBN: 9780231166027
Format: Hardback
$173.95

A new view of the master’s oeuvre, focusing on his ambivalence toward the Emersonian way of thinking he longed to...  Read More >>

Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture

Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture

Author: Falk Heinrich (Aalborg University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9780415745291
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form which necessitates the...  Read More >>

Essay on Exoticism: An Aesthetics of Diversity

Essay on Exoticism: An Aesthetics of Diversity

Author: Victor Segalen
ISBN: 9781282920279
Format: Electronic book text
$100.06

A series of notes on alterity written by Victor Segalen between 1904 and 1918, and here translated into English...  Read More >>

Newton's Sleep: The Two Cultures and the Two Kingdoms

Newton's Sleep: The Two Cultures and the Two Kingdoms...

Author: Professor Raymond Tallis (University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781283650861
Format: Electronic book text
$818.40

This book examines the contemporary roles of scientific investigation of the world and the creation of art in contemporary...  Read More >>

Against Affective Formalism: Matisse, Bergson, Modernism

Against Affective Formalism: Matisse, Bergson, Modernism...

Author: Todd Cronan
ISBN: 9780816676026
Format: Hardback
$108.00

How the works of Henri Matisse and Henri Bergson reveal contemporary problems of representation and reality.  Against...  Read More >>

An Essay upon Prints: Containing Remarks upon the Principles of Picturesque Beauty

An Essay upon Prints: Containing Remarks upon the Principles...

Author: William Gilpin
ISBN: 9781108066785
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Clergyman, schoolmaster and writer on aesthetics, William Gilpin (1724–1804) is best known for his works on the...  Read More >>

Levinas Faces Biblical Figures

Levinas Faces Biblical Figures

Author: Yael Lin ,  Ephraim Meir
ISBN: 9780739182826
Format: Hardback
$145.95

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Cognitive Media Theory

Cognitive Media Theory

Author: Ted Nannicelli (University of Queensland, Australia) ,  Paul Taberham (University of Kent, UK)
ISBN: 9780415629874
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry has upon the humanities....  Read More >>

L'estetica della forma musicale in Eduard Hanslick

L'estetica della forma musicale in Eduard Hanslick

Author: Giorgio Armato
ISBN: 9788897527251
Format: Paperback
$34.58

Questa monografia è dedicata al musicologo e critico musicale Eduard Hanslick ed esamina il concetto di forma musicale...  Read More >>

Fiktionalität

Fiktionalität

Author: Tobias Klauk ,  Tilmann Köppe
ISBN: 9783110322248
Format: Hardback
$464.61

This volume includes 22 articles that provide an introduction to fundamental issues in the theory of fiction. It...  Read More >>

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