Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Always More Than One: Individuation's Dance

Always More Than One: Individuation's Dance

Author: Erin Manning
ISBN: 9780822353331
Format: Hardback
$284.99

The philosopher, visual artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept of the ""more than human"" in the context...  Read More >>

Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism: Its Trail from Baumgarten and Kant to Walt Disney and Hitler

Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism: Its Trail from...

Author: Benjamin Bennett
ISBN: 9781611484748
Format: Hardback
$233.00

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Phenomenologies of Art and Vision: A Post-Analytic Turn

Phenomenologies of Art and Vision: A Post-Analytic Turn...

Author: Professor Paul Crowther
ISBN: 9781441119735
Format: Hardback
$300.00

An original study of the intrinsic significance of art, drawing on ideas, thinkers and approaches from phenomenology...  Read More >>

The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency: Revaluating German Aesthetics from Kant to Adorno

The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency: Revaluating German...

Author: Dr Ayon Maharaj (Vedanta Society of Southern California in Hollywood, USA)
ISBN: 9781441140845
Format: Hardback
$300.00

Originally published in hardcover in 2013 by Bloomsbury Academic.  Read More >>

Art and Identity: Essays on the Aesthetic Creation of Mind

Art and Identity: Essays on the Aesthetic Creation of...

Author: Tone Roald ,  Johannes Lang
ISBN: 9789042036345
Format: Paperback
$211.20

Art has the capacity to shape and alter our identities. It can influence who and what we are. Those who have had...  Read More >>

Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ,  W Hastie
ISBN: 9781420947878
Format: Paperback
$23.26

"Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a late 18th and early 19th century German philosopher, was one of the foremost thinkers...  Read More >>

Off Beat: Pluralizing Rhythm

Off Beat: Pluralizing Rhythm

Author: Jan Hein Hoogstad ,  Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen
ISBN: 9789042036161
Format: Paperback
$97.81

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The Art of Reconciliation: Photography and the Conception of Dialectics in Benjamin, Hegel, and Derrida

The Art of Reconciliation: Photography and the Conception...

Author: D. Petersson
ISBN: 9781349440276
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Every dialectical philosophy must account for its own birth, and it is at this point, when it also articulates its...  Read More >>

Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography

Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography

Author: H. Maes
ISBN: 9781349349821
Format: Paperback
$169.00

What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical...  Read More >>

Animals in the Classical World: Ethical Perspectives from Greek and Roman Texts

Animals in the Classical World: Ethical Perspectives...

Author: A. Harden
ISBN: 9781349325269
Format: Paperback
$84.99

This sourcebook presents nearly 200 specially-translated Greek and Roman texts from Homer to Plutarch, revealing...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Spectacle in Early Modern Drama and Modern Cinema: Robert Greene's Theatre of Attractions

The Aesthetics of Spectacle in Early Modern Drama and...

Author: J. Sager
ISBN: 9781349461707
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Examining the work of the Elizabethan playwright, Robert Greene, this book argues that Greene's plays are innovative...  Read More >>

Modernism and Nostalgia: Bodies, Locations, Aesthetics

Modernism and Nostalgia: Bodies, Locations, Aesthetics...

Author: T. Clewell
ISBN: 9781349459841
Format: Paperback
$84.99

This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion,...  Read More >>

The Soul of Film Theory

The Soul of Film Theory

Author: S. Cooper
ISBN: 9781349349432
Format: Paperback
$84.99

In this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected...  Read More >>

Tragically Speaking: On the Use and Abuse of Theory for Life

Tragically Speaking: On the Use and Abuse of Theory...

Author: Kalliopi Nikolopoulou
ISBN: 9780803240919
Format: Paperback
$118.80

From German idealism onward, Western thinkers have sought to revalue tragedy, invariably converging at one cardinal...  Read More >>

The Sense of Semblance: Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust Art

The Sense of Semblance: Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust...

Author: Henry W. Pickford
ISBN: 9780823245406
Format: Hardback
$87.95

Drawing on work in contemporary analytic philosophy and Adorno’s normative aesthetic theory, this book aims to show...  Read More >>

Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering

Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth,...

Author: Sarah LaChance Adams ,  Caroline R. Lundquist
ISBN: 9780823244607
Format: Hardback
$231.95

In this unique philosophical anthology 16 authors- including both established feminists and some of today’s most...  Read More >>

What Is Art?

What Is Art?

Author: Leo Tolstoy ,  Geoffrey Blaisdell
ISBN: 9781433258718
Format: Audio
$79.07

"What Is Art? is the result of fifteen years' reflection on the nature and purpose of art. The book is noteworthy...  Read More >>

Contemporary Street Arts in Europe: Aesthetics and Politics

Contemporary Street Arts in Europe: Aesthetics and Politics...

Author: S. Haedicke
ISBN: 9781349305858
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Street theatre invades a public space, shakes it up and disappears, but the memory of the disruption haunts the...  Read More >>

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France: From Poetics to Aesthetics

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France: From Poetics...

Author: Ann T. Delehanty
ISBN: 9781611484892
Format: Hardback
$142.95

This book, spanning the years 1650-1730 in France and England, looks primarily at the history of literary criticism...  Read More >>

The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein

The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to...

Author: Timothy M. Costelloe (College of William and Mary, Virginia)
ISBN: 9781139023399
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Offers a comprehensive account of British aesthetics from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century...  Read More >>

A Philosophy of the Screenplay

A Philosophy of the Screenplay

Author: Ted Nannicelli (University of Queensland, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415521444
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines—including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies—have...  Read More >>

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