Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art

Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art

Author: Aileen Ribeiro
ISBN: 9780300124866
Format: Hardback
$118.80

This wide-ranging survey, spanning four centuries, illuminates shifting perceptions of female beauty through works...  Read More >>

Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics

Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics...

Author: Jacques Rancière ,  James Swenson
ISBN: 9780231151023
Format: Hardback
$173.95

"Jacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic...  Read More >>

Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices: Dialogues with Tony O'Connor on Society, Art, and Friendship

Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices: Dialogues...

Author: Francis Halsall ,  Julia Jansen
ISBN: 9786613453402
Format: Electronic book text
$440.35

This publication brings together eminent philosophers to discuss the inter-dependence of critical communities and...  Read More >>

Aesthetics Beyond the Arts

Aesthetics Beyond the Arts

Author: Arnold Berleant
ISBN: 9781283572484
Format: Undefined
$329.87

The essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them...  Read More >>

Ethics of Improvisation

Ethics of Improvisation

Author: Tracey Nicholls
ISBN: 9781280659225
Format: Electronic book text
$224.37

This book explores the intersection of improvised music-making and political community-building, with particular...  Read More >>

The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty

The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty

Author: Dave Hickey
ISBN: 9781280994456
Format: Undefined
$118.80

More manifesto than polite discussion, more call to action than criticism, this book aims squarely at the hyper-institutionalism...  Read More >>

Modernist Impersonalities: Affect, Authority, and the Subject

Modernist Impersonalities: Affect, Authority, and the...

Author: Rochelle Rives
ISBN: 9781283641333
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

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Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices: Dialogues with Tony O Connor on Society, Art, and Friendship

Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices: Dialogues...

Author: Francis Halsall ,  Julia Jansen
ISBN: 9781283453400
Format: Undefined
$419.76

This publication brings together eminent philosophers to discuss the inter-dependence of critical communities and...  Read More >>

On the Animation of the Inorganic

On the Animation of the Inorganic

Author: Spyros Papapetros
ISBN: 9781283550260
Format: Undefined
$118.80

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

Aesthetics After Metaphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor: From Mimesis to Metaphor

Aesthetics After Metaphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor:...

Author: Miguel Beistegui (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781283586269
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno)...  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: 9781283643030
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

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

Dictionary of Visual Discourse

Dictionary of Visual Discourse

Author: Barry Sandywell (University of York, UK)
ISBN: 9781283047548
Format: Undefined
$620.40

This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages and cultures of visual studies. It provides the...  Read More >>

Emotional Minds

Emotional Minds

Author: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer
ISBN: 9781283627832
Format: Electronic book text
$406.56

The thoroughly contemporary question of the relationship between emotion and reason was debated with such complexity...  Read More >>

Deleuze and the Diagram

Deleuze and the Diagram

Author: Jakub Zdebik
ISBN: 9781280699924
Format: Electronic book text
$293.04

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

Arts of Wonder

Arts of Wonder

Author: Jeffrey L Kosky (Washington & Lee University)
ISBN: 9781283610926
Format: Undefined
$118.80

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment...  Read More >>

Questions in Aesthetic Education (Rle Edu K)

Questions in Aesthetic Education (Rle Edu K)

Author: H B Redfern
ISBN: 9781280671500
Format: Electronic book text
$303.60

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Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise

Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics...

Author: Michael Goddard ,  Benjamin Halligan (University of Salford, UK)
ISBN: 9781280699849
Format: Electronic book text
$117.19

A groundbreaking collection that studies noise not merely as a sonic phenomenon but as an essential component of...  Read More >>

Where Heaven and Earth Meet.

Where Heaven and Earth Meet.

Author: Wessel Stoker
ISBN: 9786613922533
Format: Electronic book text
$186.91

Art has always been important for religion or spirituality. Secular art displayed in museums can also be spiritual,...  Read More >>

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France

Author: Ann T Delehanty
ISBN: 9781299184428
Format: Electronic book text
$211.17

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Inklings - Jahrbuch Fur Literatur Und Asthetik: Der Andere Conan Doyle

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

Author: Dieter Petzold
ISBN: 9781299414709
Format: Electronic book text
$189.95

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

Transmission and the Individual Remix

Transmission and the Individual Remix

Author: Tom McCarthy
ISBN: 9781299084148
Format: Electronic book text
$15.76

Sub-titled How Literature Works this essay by the renown novelist is a provocative and entertaining work of postmodern...  Read More >>

Poetica Della Metamorfosi E Poetica Della Conversione: Scelte Formali E Modelli del Divenire Nella Letteratura

Poetica Della Metamorfosi E Poetica Della Conversione:...

Author: Monica Bisi
ISBN: 9781299423343
Format: Electronic book text
$240.11

Il libro mira ad offrire una nuova prospettiva dalla quale leggere la dialettica fra cultura pagano-mitica e cultura...  Read More >>

Baroja: La Novela Como Laberinto

Baroja: La Novela Como Laberinto

Author: Emilio Rosales
ISBN: 9781299425484
Format: Electronic book text
$142.43

El presente libro se aproxima a la obra de Pio Baroja combinando...  Read More >>

Otherness: A Multilateral Perspective

Otherness: A Multilateral Perspective

Author: Susan Yi Sencindiver ,  Marie Lauritzen
ISBN: 9781299436060
Format: Electronic book text
$174.11

In recent decades, theoretical and critical studies have oscillated between, wrestling otherness from a condition...  Read More >>

Carnets Jean Paul Sartre: Reisende Ohne Fahrschein

Carnets Jean Paul Sartre: Reisende Ohne Fahrschein

Author: Peter Knopp ,  Vincent Von Wroblewsky
ISBN: 9781299432628
Format: Electronic book text
$113.39

Reisende ohne Fahrschein, das heisst ohne Rechtfertigung, ohne Legitimierung. Das ist auch eine Metapher, die Sartres...  Read More >>

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