Philosophy: aesthetics books

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The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An Enlightenment Problematic

The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An Enlightenment...

Author: Tony C. Brown
ISBN: 9780816675630
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Tony C. Brown examines ""the inescapable yet infinitely troubling figure of the not-quite-nothing"" in Enlightenment...  Read More >>

Ancient Philosophical Poetics

Ancient Philosophical Poetics

Author: Malcolm Heath (University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9780521168687
Format: Paperback
$51.72

What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them...  Read More >>

John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life

John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life

Author: Ben Eggleston (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas) ,  Dale E. Miller (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Old Dominion University)
ISBN: 9780199931972
Format: Paperback
$80.95

"John Stuart Mill, one of the most influential figures in moral and political philosophy, saw the doctrines he advanced...  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: 9780199658541
Format: Hardback
$117.95

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

Contemporary Street Arts in Europe: Aesthetics and Politics

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

Author: S. Haedicke
ISBN: 9780230220263
Format: Hardback
$84.99

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

Die Erfindung des allgemeinen Wissens

Die Erfindung des allgemeinen Wissens

Author: Ulrich Johannes Schneider
ISBN: 9783050057804
Format: Hardback
$285.09

die Produktion allgemeiner, alle Wissensgebiete abdeckender Enzyklopädien im 18. Jahrhundert markiert den Beginn...  Read More >>

Das Spiel als geschichtsphilosophische Denkfigur in der Moderne: Eine Studie zu den Spielmotiven in Walter Benjamins ""Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert"" und ""Ueber einige Motive bei Baudelaire""

Das Spiel als geschichtsphilosophische Denkfigur in...

Author: Yan Ma
ISBN: 9783631625521
Format: Paperback
$108.68

Walter Benjamins (1892-1940) Faszination für das Spiel durchzieht nahezu sein ganzes Leben, in dem er an zahlreichen...  Read More >>

Ineffability and Philosophy

Ineffability and Philosophy

Author: Professor of Psychology and Philosophy Andre Kukla (University of Toronto) ,  Andr Kukla
ISBN: 9781280106309
Format: Electronic book text
$451.44

Presenting a fascinating analysis of the idea of what can't be said, this book ascertains whether the notion of...  Read More >>

Greek Aesthetic Theory (Rle: Plato)

Greek Aesthetic Theory (Rle: Plato)

Author: J G Warry
ISBN: 9781283861601
Format: Electronic book text
$290.40

This book provides a clear and informed account of aesthetic and callistic concepts as they occur in the works of...  Read More >>

A Philosophy of the Screenplay

A Philosophy of the Screenplay

Author: Ted Nannicelli (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781283972796
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

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

Move Beyond Form, The: Creative Undoing in Literature and the Arts Since 1960

Move Beyond Form, The: Creative Undoing in Literature...

Author: Mary Joe Hughes
ISBN: 9781299406940
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

Fictional narratives of the late twentieth century oftencross boundaries. This study argues that the undoing of...  Read More >>

Aesthetics in Present Future

Aesthetics in Present Future

Author: Alain Cohen ,  Rob Spruijt
ISBN: 9781299613805
Format: Electronic book text
$171.57

The theme of Aesthetics in Present Future concerns the new chances the arts have and the deep changes they are undergoing,...  Read More >>

Urban Public Space: Facing the Challenges of Mobility and Aestheticization

Urban Public Space: Facing the Challenges of Mobility...

Author: Oleg Pachenkov
ISBN: 9781299878297
Format: Electronic book text
$97.55

Urban public space continues to be the focus of debate regarding its conceptualization and how it is designed, (re)produced...  Read More >>

Race, Philosophy, and Film

Race, Philosophy, and Film

Author: Mary K Bloodsworth-Lugo (Washington State University, USA) ,  Dan Flory (Montana State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781299469150
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

This collection fills a gap in the current literature in philosophy and film by focusing on the question: How would...  Read More >>

Inklings - Jahrbuch Fur Literatur Und Asthetik: The Inheritance of the Inklings

Inklings - Jahrbuch Fur Literatur Und Asthetik: The...

Author: Dieter Petzold
ISBN: 9781299549357
Format: Electronic book text
$192.59

-Inklings- nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste...  Read More >>

Assigning Cultural Values

Assigning Cultural Values

Author: Kjerstin Aukrust
ISBN: 9781299550223
Format: Electronic book text
$187.31

Offers a collection of thirteen essays focusing on the analysis of cultural value in light of aestheticization or...  Read More >>

Marxist Aesthetics

Marxist Aesthetics

Author: Pauline Johnson (Macquarie University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781299625211
Format: Electronic book text
$303.60

Originally published in 1984, this study deals with a number of influential figures in the European tradition of...  Read More >>

Sublime Today: Contemporary Readings in the Aesthetic

Sublime Today: Contemporary Readings in the Aesthetic...

Author: Gillian B Pierce
ISBN: 9781299659490
Format: Electronic book text
$214.32

The Sublime Today considers contemporary applications of aesthetic philosophy and earlier theories of the sublime...  Read More >>

Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience

Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience...

Author: Professor G Gabrielle Starr
ISBN: 9781299746183
Format: Electronic book text
$66.00

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Foundations of Aesthetics Vol 1

Foundations of Aesthetics Vol 1

Author: Visiting Research Fellow John Constable (Kyoto University)
ISBN: 9781299866157
Format: Electronic book text
$831.60

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Art and Art-Attempts

Art and Art-Attempts

Author: Christy Mag Uidhir
ISBN: 9781299733510
Format: Electronic book text
$506.88

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Walter Pater: Individualism and Aesthetic Philosophy

Walter Pater: Individualism and Aesthetic Philosophy...

Author: Kate Hext (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781299735828
Format: Electronic book text
$278.12

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Ethics, Design and Planning of the Built Environment

Ethics, Design and Planning of the Built Environment...

Author: Claudia Basta ,  Stefano Moroni
ISBN: 9781299876743
Format: Undefined
$340.56

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