Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Grey on Grey: At the Threshold of Philosophy and Art

Grey on Grey: At the Threshold of Philosophy and Art...

Author: Kamini Vellodi ,  Aron Vinegar
ISBN: 9781474478519
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Inspired by Hegel’s invocation of philosophy as a painting of ‘grey on grey’, this collection of essays explores...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat

The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the...

Author: Patrick Eiden-Offe ,  Jacob Blumenfeld
ISBN: 9789004685451
Format: Hardback
$454.08

In his ground-breaking study, Patrick Eiden-Offe gives romantic anti-capitalism its long-repressed due and liberates...  Read More >>

The Aestheticization of History and the Butterfly Effect: Visual Arts Series

The Aestheticization of History and the Butterfly Effect:...

Author: Nancy Wellington Bookhart
ISBN: 9781648897450
Format: Hardback
$285.12

This book introduces the audience to philosophical concepts that broach the beginning of the history of Western...  Read More >>

Robert Pippin and Film: Politics, Ethics, and Psychology after Modernism

Robert Pippin and Film: Politics, Ethics, and Psychology...

Author: Dr Dominic Lash (University of Bristol, UK) ,  Lucia Nagib
ISBN: 9781350290167
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers...  Read More >>

Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature

Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature...

Author: Alan Singer
ISBN: 9781032469799
Format: Paperback
$64.99

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Fashion: Seductive Play

Fashion: Seductive Play

Author: Eugen Fink (Late of University of Freiburg, Germany) ,  Professor or Dr. Stefano Marino (Associate Professor of Aesthetics, University of Bologna, Italy)
ISBN: 9781350200388
Format: Hardback
$170.00

In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published. This first English language edition, updated...  Read More >>

Affect as Contamination: Embodiment in Bioart and Biotechnology

Affect as Contamination: Embodiment in Bioart and Biotechnology...

Author: Agnieszka Wolodzko (ArtEZ University of the Arts, the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781350333000
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Bringing the concept of contamination into dialogue with affect theory and bioart, Agnieszka Wolodzko urges us to...  Read More >>

Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature

Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature...

Author: Alan Singer
ISBN: 9781032469782
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture

A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture...

Author: Max Ryynänen (Aalto University, Finland) ,  Jozef Kovalčik (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia)
ISBN: 9781032536101
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book seeks to understand culture through the lens of scenes, analyzing them aesthetically and culturally as...  Read More >>

Thinking With—Jean-Luc Nancy

Thinking With—Jean-Luc Nancy

Author: Susanna Lindberg ,  Artemy Magun
ISBN: 9783035805529
Format: Paperback
$82.80

A multifaceted engagement with the thought of Jean-Luc Nancy.   This book continues passionate conversation that...  Read More >>

Considering Deweyan Cultural Naturalism as a Philosophy of Art(s) Education: Restoring Continuity

Considering Deweyan Cultural Naturalism as a Philosophy...

Author: Lauri Väkevä
ISBN: 9783031388163
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book makes a case for cultural naturalism as a basis for a philosophy of art education.  Read More >>

Seismic Shifts in Subject and Style: 19th-Century French Painting and Philosophy

Seismic Shifts in Subject and Style: 19th-Century French...

Author: Dianne L Durante
ISBN: 9781088236079
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Why did subject and style in art change so dramatically over the course of the 19th century? We'll look for an explanation...  Read More >>

The Revival of Beauty: Aesthetics, Experience, and Philosophy

The Revival of Beauty: Aesthetics, Experience, and Philosophy...

Author: Catherine Wesselinoff (University of Notre Dame, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032480756
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century...  Read More >>

Mnemosyne: The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual Arts

Mnemosyne: The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual...

Author: Mario Praz
ISBN: 9780691252186
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual arts In his search for a common...  Read More >>

Painting and Reality

Painting and Reality

Author: Etienne Gilson
ISBN: 9780691251868
Format: Paperback
$89.99

A classic study of the art of painting and its relationship to reality In this book, tienne Gilson puts forward...  Read More >>

Sound Pressure: How Speaker Systems Influence, Manipulate and Torture

Sound Pressure: How Speaker Systems Influence, Manipulate...

Author: Toby Heys, Professor in Digital Media, Manchester Metropolitan University
ISBN: 9781538147948
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Sound Pressure reveals how speaker systems mounted in public, employment, military and entertainment environments...  Read More >>

L'Art Dans La Culture

L'Art Dans La Culture

Author: Laurent Cournarie
ISBN: 9782711631339
Format: Paperback
$47.52

L'art est un fait de culture. Et c'est toujours en termes culturels qu'on aborde la reflexion sur l'art. Mais qu'est-ce...  Read More >>

Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the Ruins

Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning: Communication...

Author: Justin N. Bonanno
ISBN: 9783031370229
Format: Hardback
$343.17

While it is valuable to appreciate Percy as a novelist, Bonanno approaches Percy from the perspective of Continental...  Read More >>

Existential Quest in Selected Plays

Existential Quest in Selected Plays

Author: Vishal Kumar
ISBN: 9781088238066
Format: Paperback
$84.48

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Hegel and the Present of Art’s Past Character

Hegel and the Present of Art’s Past Character

Author: Alberto L. Siani (University of Pisa, Italy)
ISBN: 9781032482958
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book reclaims Hegel’s notion of the “end of art”—or, more precisely, of “art’s past character”—not just as...  Read More >>

Images of Childhood: A Visual History From Stone to Screen

Images of Childhood: A Visual History From Stone to...

Author: Professor Emeritus Paul Duncum (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.)
ISBN: 9781350299948
Format: Paperback
$49.99

By surveying historical constructions of childhood, this book explores how representations of the child in visual...  Read More >>

Images of Childhood: A Visual History From Stone to Screen

Images of Childhood: A Visual History From Stone to...

Author: Professor Emeritus Paul Duncum (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.)
ISBN: 9781350299931
Format: Hardback
$150.00

By surveying historical constructions of childhood, this book explores how representations of the child in visual...  Read More >>

Architectures of Existence: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics

Architectures of Existence: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics...

Author: Chris Younès
ISBN: 9781032429007
Format: Hardback
$105.00

Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage...  Read More >>

Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie

Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie...

Author: Matt Colquhoun
ISBN: 9781914420634
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines...  Read More >>

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