Philosophy: aesthetics books

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A Galileo Forgery: Unmasking the New York Sidereus Nuncius

A Galileo Forgery: Unmasking the New York Sidereus Nuncius...

Author: Horst Bredekamp ,  Irene Brückle
ISBN: 9783110354645
Format: Hardback
$112.56

Describes how the discovery of forgery was made - a watershed moment in the continuing struggle between forgers...  Read More >>

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic Morals

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic Morals

Author: Thomas Kingsmill Abbott ,  Immanuel Kant
ISBN: 9781497366947
Format: Paperback
$18.45

One of Kant's most well-known and classic philosophical writings, this is well worth reading for any student.  Read More >>

Briefe 1781 Bis Juni 1791

Briefe 1781 Bis Juni 1791

Author: Philip Mattson ,  Wilhelm Von Humboldt
ISBN: 9783050063294
Format: Hardback
$591.36

Seit uber hundert Jahren wartet eine interessierte OEffentlichkeit auf eine umfassende, kritische, kommentierte...  Read More >>

Blindheit und Hellsichtigkeit: Künstlerkritik an Politik und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart

Blindheit und Hellsichtigkeit: Künstlerkritik an Politik...

Author: Cornelia Klinger
ISBN: 9783050052304
Format: Hardback
$147.84

This study examines the place of the arts in contemporary society. Beyond the illusion of autonomy and beyond strategies...  Read More >>

The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty: A Lonergan Approach

The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty: A Lonergan Approach...

Author: John Dadosky
ISBN: 9781442647114
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Deeply engaged with the work of Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kant, among others, The Eclipse and Recovery...  Read More >>

Robotics in Germany and Japan: Philosophical and Technical Perspectives

Robotics in Germany and Japan: Philosophical and Technical...

Author: Michael Funk
ISBN: 9781306560184
Format: Electronic book text
$433.46

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The Severed Head: Capital Visions

The Severed Head: Capital Visions

Author: Julia Kristeva ,  Jody Gladding
ISBN: 9780231157216
Format: Paperback
$46.95

"Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations...  Read More >>

Enlightened Enough: A Buddhist's Look at How We Can Be Happy... at Least Now, Maybe Forever

Enlightened Enough: A Buddhist's Look at How We Can...

Author: Parakrama Chandrasoma (UNIV OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA)
ISBN: 9781478729150
Format: Hardback
$43.86

Is Enlightenment the Road to Heaven, Nirvana...or Nowhere? Many religions believe in some equivalent of Heaven or...  Read More >>

Hume's Aesthetic Theory: Taste and Sentiment

Hume's Aesthetic Theory: Taste and Sentiment

Author: Dabney Townsend
ISBN: 9780415868167
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Mahabharata Now: Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics

Mahabharata Now: Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics

Author: Arindam Chakrabarti (Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA) ,  Sibaji Bandyopadhyay (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India)
ISBN: 9780415710558
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Discussing the contemporary relevance of the famous Indian epic Mahabharata, this volume imaginatively re-interprets...  Read More >>

Environmental Aesthetics: Crossing Divides and Breaking Ground

Environmental Aesthetics: Crossing Divides and Breaking...

Author: Martin Drenthen ,  Jozef Keulartz
ISBN: 9780823254507
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Environmental aesthetics today harbours a wide range of perspectives, and crosses several commonly recognized divides:...  Read More >>

Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition

Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human...

Author: John Kaag
ISBN: 9780823254934
Format: Hardback
$78.95

Traces the concept of the imagination through German idealism of the 18th century, the American philosophy of Charles...  Read More >>

Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life

Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life

Author: Predrag Cicovacki
ISBN: 9781412853835
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Dostoevsky's philosophy of life is unfolded in this searching analysis of his five greatest works: Notes from the...  Read More >>

Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I

Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and...

Author: Michele Aaron
ISBN: 9780748624430
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Reveals the ambivalent place of death in 20th and 21st century culture: the ongoing split between its over- and...  Read More >>

Beyond Art

Beyond Art

Author: Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)
ISBN: 9780199591558
Format: Hardback
$175.95

This book offers a bold new approach to the philosophy of art. General theories of art don't work: they can't deal...  Read More >>

Hegel's Theory of Imagination

Hegel's Theory of Imagination

Author: Jennifer Ann Bates
ISBN: 9780791462089
Format: Paperback
$92.27

A comprehensive account of the role of the imagination in Hegel's philosophy.  Read More >>

The Art-Work of the Future

The Art-Work of the Future

Author: Richard Wagner (Princeton, MA) ,  William Ashton Ellis
ISBN: 9781496087263
Format: Paperback
$18.16

The Artwork of the Future is one of a series which Wagner produced in a period of intensive writing following his...  Read More >>

Kunstpolitik der Berliner Museen 1919-1959

Kunstpolitik der Berliner Museen 1919-1959

Author: Timo Saalmann
ISBN: 9783050061016
Format: Hardback
$199.24

"Die weltberühmten Sammlungen der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin verbinden Kunst und Politik in ganz besonderer Weise....  Read More >>

Scientific Visualisation: Epistemic Weight and Surpluses

Scientific Visualisation: Epistemic Weight and Surpluses...

Author: Marianne Richter
ISBN: 9783631643006
Format: Hardback
$122.13

This book introduces the concept of ad-hoc syntaxes to explain why pictorial means can bear epistemic weight in...  Read More >>

The Madness of Vision: On Baroque Aesthetics

The Madness of Vision: On Baroque Aesthetics

Author: Christine Buci-Glucksmann ,  Dorothy Z. Baker
ISBN: 9780821420935
Format: Paperback
$76.43

In The Madness of Vision, Buci-Glucksmann asserts the important of embodied vision in nine studies of paintings,...  Read More >>

Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices: Dialogues with Tony O’Connor on Society, Art, and Friendship

Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices: Dialogues...

Author: Francis Halsall ,  Julia Jansen
ISBN: 9789400793552
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices brings together eminent international philosophers to discuss the inter-dependence...  Read More >>

The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry

The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical...

Author: Koen Vermeir ,  Michael Funk Deckard
ISBN: 9789401785280
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry,...  Read More >>

Cosmic Passion for the Aesthetics

Cosmic Passion for the Aesthetics

Author: Algis Mickunas ,  Rekha Menon
ISBN: 9781629482002
Format: Hardback
$556.38

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