Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Perceptual Illusions: Philosophical and Psychological Essays

Perceptual Illusions: Philosophical and Psychological...

Author: C. Calabi
ISBN: 9780230347908
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Although current debates in epistemology and philosophy of mind show a renewed interest in perceptual illusions,...  Read More >>

Mimesis: Metaphysics, Cognition, Pragmatics

Mimesis: Metaphysics, Cognition, Pragmatics

Author: Gregory Currie (Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham) ,  Petr Kot'atko
ISBN: 9781848900561
Format: Paperback
$38.81

The concept of mimesis has been central to philosophical aesthetics from Aristotle to Kendall Walton: in plain terms,...  Read More >>

L'Art Dans Tous Ses Extremes

L'Art Dans Tous Ses Extremes

Author: Marc Jimenez
ISBN: 9782252038420
Format: Paperback
$87.12

Seminaire interarts de Paris (2009-2010).  Read More >>

A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art

A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art...

Author: Michael Kelly
ISBN: 9780231152921
Format: Hardback
$107.95

For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or...  Read More >>

Wissensformen Und Wissensnormen Des Zusammenlebens: Literatur - Kultur - Geschichte - Medien

Wissensformen Und Wissensnormen Des Zusammenlebens:...

Author: Ottmar Ette
ISBN: 9783110282863
Format: Hardback
$382.77

Die Debatte um die Frage nach dem Lebenswissen hat weiter an Fahrt aufgenommen, seitdem der Begriff im Jahr 2007...  Read More >>

The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's Poetics

The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's Poetics

Author: Walter Watson
ISBN: 9786613655257
Format: Electronic book text
$142.56

Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics - ancient, medieval, or modern - the most important is indisputably...  Read More >>

Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

Author: Professor Darren Hudson Hick (Furman University, USA)
ISBN: 9781441171030
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Specifically engaging with contemporary art examples, this title offers a comprehensive introduction designed to...  Read More >>

Marxist Aesthetics: The foundations within everyday life for an emancipated consciousness

Marxist Aesthetics: The foundations within everyday...

Author: Pauline Johnson
ISBN: 9780415609098
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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

Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature

Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature...

Author: Ulrich Plass (Wesleyan University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415535908
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Plass argues that Adorno’s essays on literature are of prime importance for an understanding of his aesthetics because...  Read More >>

Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy: Toward a Theory of Self and Social Empowerment

Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy: Toward a Theory of Self...

Author: Yolanda Medina ,  Yolanda Median
ISBN: 9781433117350
Format: Paperback
$129.10

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Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman: On Film as Philosophy

Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman: On Film as Philosophy

Author: Paisley Livingston (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780199655144
Format: Paperback
$79.95

Can cinema be a medium for philosophy? If so, how is the philosophizing done? Paisley Livingston explores the philosophical...  Read More >>

Philosophy-A Beginning

Philosophy-A Beginning

Author: John A Kaufhold
ISBN: 9781432791131
Format: Paperback
$39.47

This book is a basic text on the subject of philosophy. The content ranges from beginning epistemology to metaphysics....  Read More >>

Recherches Philosophiques Sur l'Origine Des Idées Que Nous Avons Du Beau Et Du Sublime (Éd.1765)

Recherches Philosophiques Sur l'Origine Des Idées Que...

Author: Edmund Burke ,  Edmund Burke
ISBN: 9782012621893
Format: Paperback
$52.67

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books...  Read More >>

Leszek Kołakowski in Memoriam

Leszek Kołakowski in Memoriam

Author: Jozef L. Krakowiak ,  Jacek Migasinski
ISBN: 9783631618240
Format: Hardback
$78.66

At the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, Leszek Kolakowski belonged to a group of young intellectuals actively supporting...  Read More >>

Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media

Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media

Author: Boris Groys (Professor für Kunstwissenschaft, Philosophie und Medientheorie, Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung Kahrlruhe) ,  Carsten Strathausen (Associate Professor of German and English, University of Missouri)
ISBN: 9780231146180
Format: Hardback
$124.95

"The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary concern is to...  Read More >>

Wittgenstein's Novels

Wittgenstein's Novels

Author: Martin Klebes (University of New Mexico, USA)
ISBN: 9780415535953
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates...  Read More >>

Bridge to Wonder: Art as a Gospel of Beauty

Bridge to Wonder: Art as a Gospel of Beauty

Author: Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu
ISBN: 9781602583511
Format: Hardback
$35.00

Proposes a method of theological aesthetics allowing readers to mine the depths of creative beauty to discover variegated...  Read More >>

Animality in British Romanticism: The Aesthetics of Species

Animality in British Romanticism: The Aesthetics of...

Author: Peter Heymans (Free University of Brussels, Belguim)
ISBN: 9780415507301
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book shows how the Romantics’ aesthetic views of animality interacted with their moral, scientific and religious...  Read More >>

Asthetische Forschung: Wege Durch Alltag, Kunst Und Wissenschaft. Zu Einem Innovativen Konzept Asthetischer Bildung

Asthetische Forschung: Wege Durch Alltag, Kunst Und...

Author: Helga Kampf-Jansen
ISBN: 9783828828940
Format: Paperback
$110.88

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On the Animation of the Inorganic

On the Animation of the Inorganic

Author: Spyros Papapetros
ISBN: 9786613862716
Format: Electronic book text
$142.56

<p>Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls....  Read More >>

Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers

Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers

Author: Professor Alessandro Giovannelli (Lafayette College, USA)
ISBN: 9781441187772
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. This title includes essays that introduce...  Read More >>

Enjoyment: From Laughter to Delight in Philosophy, Literature, the Fine Arts, and Aesthetics

Enjoyment: From Laughter to Delight in Philosophy, Literature,...

Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
ISBN: 9789048148899
Format: Paperback
$604.56

Philosophy, art criticism and popular opinion all seem to treat the aesthetics of the comic as lightweight, while...  Read More >>

Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers

Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers

Author: Professor Alessandro Giovannelli (Lafayette College, USA)
ISBN: 9781441198785
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. This book reconstructs the history of aesthetics,...  Read More >>

In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters

In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters...

Author: Richard A. Etlin (University of Maryland, College Park)
ISBN: 9781139172790
Format: Undefined
$594.00

In simple, clear language, Richard Etlin articulates the nature of aesthetic experience through analysis of works...  Read More >>

Greek and Roman Aesthetics

Greek and Roman Aesthetics

Author: Oleg V. Bychkov (St Bonaventure University, New York) ,  Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9780511780325
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This anthology brings together works from the late fifth century BC to the sixth century AD that comment on the...  Read More >>

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