Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in Aesthetics

Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in Aesthetics

Author: Paul Guyer (Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph, University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9780511840876
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Values of Beauty discusses major ideas and figures in the history of aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth...  Read More >>

Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics

Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics

Author: J. M. Bernstein (New School University, New York)
ISBN: 9780511803734
Format: Undefined
$1372.80

This 2002 volume includes the first translation into English of Schiller's Kallias Letters and Moritz's On the Artistic...  Read More >>

Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity

Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity

Author: Iain D. Thomson (University of New Mexico)
ISBN: 9780511976605
Format: Undefined
$594.00

A radical interpretation of Heidegger's later philosophy, developing his argument that art can help lead humanity...  Read More >>

A History of Aesthetic

A History of Aesthetic

Author: Bernard Bosanquet
ISBN: 9781443285650
Format: Paperback
$77.40

Published in 1892 by a leading British philosopher, this book traces aesthetic theory from ancient Greece to the...  Read More >>

Diagonales. Essai sur le theatre et la philosophie

Diagonales. Essai sur le theatre et la philosophie

Author: Olivier Abiteboul
ISBN: 9782950714565
Format: Paperback
$22.41

Difficile de parler de rapports intimes entre le theatre et la philosophie. Difficile de dire que des relations...  Read More >>

The Architecture of Happiness

The Architecture of Happiness

Author: Alain De Botton ,  Simon Vance
ISBN: 9781433222962
Format: Audio
$65.87

This dazzling journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture explores the indelible connection between...  Read More >>

Danto and His Critics

Danto and His Critics

Author: Mark Rollins (Washington University)
ISBN: 9780470673447
Format: Hardback
$208.95

Updated and revised, the Second Edition of Danto and His Critics presents a series of essays by leading Danto...  Read More >>

Reverberations

Reverberations

Author: Michael Goddard ,  Benjamin Halligan (University of Salford, UK)
ISBN: 9786613676825
Format: Electronic book text
$285.12

Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is...  Read More >>

Et in Imagine Ego: Facetten Von Bildakt Und Verkörperung

Et in Imagine Ego: Facetten Von Bildakt Und Verkörperung...

Author: Ulrike Feist ,  Markus Rath
ISBN: 9783050059457
Format: Hardback
$517.44

Bilder besitzen die Fähigkeit, menschliche Handlungen aktiv zu beeinflussen. Dies scheint im Widerspruch zu ihrem...  Read More >>

Der Bilderatlas Mnemosyne

Der Bilderatlas Mnemosyne

Author: Martin Warnke ,  Claudia Brink
ISBN: 9783050059648
Format: Hardback
$406.56

Der Bilderatlas ist eine Zusammenstellung von etwa 2000 Bildern aus Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte in etwa sechzig...  Read More >>

Bilderreihen und Ausstellungen

Bilderreihen und Ausstellungen

Author: Uwe Fleckner ,  Isabella Woldt
ISBN: 9783050042688
Format: Hardback
$586.07

An die Stelle von Büchern oder Aufsätzen tritt im Spätwerk des Kunst- und Kulturhistorikers Aby Warburg seit 1925...  Read More >>

Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor

Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor

Author: Ted Cohen
ISBN: 9780691154466
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity - as essential to...  Read More >>

The Number and the Siren

The Number and the Siren

Author: Quentin Meillassoux (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) ,  Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd)
ISBN: 9780983216926
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study...  Read More >>

Petite philosophie de la litterature

Petite philosophie de la litterature

Author: Olivier Abiteboul
ISBN: 9781475299168
Format: Paperback
$19.77

Sourd comme des cerveaux d'enfants, le public n'entend de toute facon pas ce que dit le chant du poete. N'empeche...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Essays

Aesthetic Essays

Author: Malcolm Budd (Formerly University College London)
ISBN: 9780199596263
Format: Paperback
$92.95

Malcolm Budd presents a selection of his work in aesthetics. Some essays deal with the abstract heart of aesthetics:...  Read More >>

The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Psychoanalysis, Photography, Deconstruction

The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Psychoanalysis,...

Author: Elissa Marder (Department of Comparative Literature Emory University)
ISBN: 9780823240593
Format: Undefined
$277.20

This book grows out of a longstanding fascination with the uncanny status of the mother in literature, philosophy,...  Read More >>

Creative Development in Marcel Proust’s «A la recherche du temps perdu»

Creative Development in Marcel Proust’s «A la recherche...

Author: Jeffrey Johnson
ISBN: 9781433117473
Format: Hardback
$291.98

Creative Development in Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu  Read More >>

How Far Can We Go? Pain, Excess and the Obscene

How Far Can We Go? Pain, Excess and the Obscene

Author: Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis
ISBN: 9781443836432
Format: Hardback
$90.54

The public does not desire horror, yet enjoys it in art and suffers it in life. When we deal with the monstrous...  Read More >>

Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its...

Author: John Lechte (Macquarie University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415887151
Format: Hardback
$305.00

With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some...  Read More >>

Ideas in History, vol. 5. no. 1-2

Ideas in History, vol. 5. no. 1-2

Author: Ben Dorfman
ISBN: 9788763539364
Format: Paperback
$92.40

"Ideas in History (ISSN 1890-1832) is the result of collaborative efforts among nearly a dozen universities and...  Read More >>

The Art of Understanding Art: A Behind the Scenes Story

The Art of Understanding Art: A Behind the Scenes Story...

Author: Irina D. Costache (California State University, Camarillo, USA)
ISBN: 9780470658345
Format: Paperback
$85.95

The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal...  Read More >>

Deleuze and the Diagram

Deleuze and the Diagram

Author: Jakub Zdebik
ISBN: 9786613676900
Format: Electronic book text
$380.16

Deleuze and the Diagram charts Deleuze's corpus according to aesthetic concepts such as the map, the sketch and...  Read More >>

The Art of Understanding Art: A Behind the Scenes Story

The Art of Understanding Art: A Behind the Scenes Story...

Author: Irina D. Costache (California State University, Camarillo, USA)
ISBN: 9780470658321
Format: Hardback
$105.95

The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal...  Read More >>

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