Philosophy: aesthetics books

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The I  and the  Eye: The Verbal and the Visual in Post-Renaissance Western Aesthetics

The I and the Eye: The Verbal and the Visual in Post-Renaissance...

Author: Pragyan Rath
ISBN: 9781443829243
Format: Hardback
$116.41

The paradigmatic moment of the opposition between the verbal and the visual arts may be seen in Lessing's treatise...  Read More >>

The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond

The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship,...

Author: Boris Groys ,  Charles Rougle
ISBN: 9781844677078
Format: Paperback
$22.99

From the ruins of communism, this book emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such...  Read More >>

Order of Buildings and Cities: A Paradigm of Open Systems Evolution for Sustainable Design

Order of Buildings and Cities: A Paradigm of Open Systems...

Author: Yan Gu
ISBN: 9783034306218
Format: Paperback
$160.91

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Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work

Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work

Author: P. Stewart
ISBN: 9781349291625
Format: Paperback
$84.99

This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul...  Read More >>

Agents and Their Actions

Agents and Their Actions

Author: Maximilian de Gaynesford (College of William and Mary, USA)
ISBN: 9781444339086
Format: Paperback
$38.95

Reflecting a recent flourishing of creative thinking in the field, Agents and Their Actions presents seven newly...  Read More >>

Legacies of Paul de Man

Legacies of Paul de Man

Author: Marc Redfield (Brown University)
ISBN: 9780823240951
Format: Undefined
$290.40

More than twenty years after his death, Paul de Man remains a haunting presence in the American academy. His name...  Read More >>

The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Sthetic Theory

The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Sthetic Theory...

Author: Professor George Santayana
ISBN: 9781179264066
Format: Paperback
$75.90

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing...  Read More >>

The Art of Controversy: And Other Posthumous Papers

The Art of Controversy: And Other Posthumous Papers...

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN: 9781179275291
Format: Paperback
$54.78

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing...  Read More >>

Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry: With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art

Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry:...

Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
ISBN: 9781178966466
Format: Paperback
$73.26

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing...  Read More >>

Essen und Trinken im Mittelalter (1000-1300): Literarische, kunsthistorische und archäologische Quellen

Essen und Trinken im Mittelalter (1000-1300): Literarische,...

Author: Anne Schulz
ISBN: 9783110255157
Format: Hardback
$587.36

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Nietzsche on Instinct and Language

Nietzsche on Instinct and Language

Author: João Constâncio ,  Maria João Mayer Branco
ISBN: 9783110246568
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Offers various considerations of Nietzsche's attempt to connect language to the instinctive activity of the human...  Read More >>

A History of Aesthetic

A History of Aesthetic

Author: Bernard Bosanquet
ISBN: 9781178482898
Format: Paperback
$107.58

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

Blanchot and Literary Criticism

Blanchot and Literary Criticism

Author: Mark Hewson
ISBN: 9786613307712
Format: Electronic book text
$285.12

Blanchot's literary criticism has imposed itself within the canon and syllabi of modern poetics and literary theory,...  Read More >>

The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson

The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education...

Author: Professor Naoko Saito (Graduate School of Education, University of Kyoto) ,  Stanley Cavell (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy)
ISBN: 9780823235728
Format: Undefined
$264.00

In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology andprocedures...  Read More >>

Thoreau's Importance for Philosophy

Thoreau's Importance for Philosophy

Author: Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College) ,  Jonathan Ellsworth
ISBN: 9780823239344
Format: Undefined
$184.80

Explains Thoreau's philosophical significance and argues that we can still learn from his polemical conception of...  Read More >>

The Other Night: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature

The Other Night: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness...

Author: Herschel Farbman (Department of French and Italian University of California Irvine)
ISBN: 9780823235780
Format: Undefined
$264.00

I sleep, but my heart wakes, says the Song of Songs. The other nightnames the sleepless night we spend in dreams.From...  Read More >>

Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form

Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of...

Author: Jeremy Biles (University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9780823235193
Format: Undefined
$264.00

In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a ferociously religioussensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy...  Read More >>

The Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond

The Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaen's...

Author: Professor of Musicology Sander Van Maas (University of Utrecht)
ISBN: 9780823236695
Format: Undefined
$264.00

"Present-day music studies conspicuously evade the question of religion in contemporary music. Although many composers...  Read More >>

The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations

The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality...

Author: Jonathan Goldberg (Department of English Emory University)
ISBN: 9780823235827
Format: Undefined
$369.60

The title of this book translates one of the many ways in which Lucretius names the basic matter from which the...  Read More >>

Heidegger, Holderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language: Toward a New Poetics of Dasein

Heidegger, Holderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language:...

Author: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei (Department of Philosophy Fordham University)
ISBN: 9780823235254
Format: Undefined
$369.60

Heidegger's interpretations of the poetry of Hlderlin are central to Heidegger's later philosophy and have determined...  Read More >>

The Doppelganger: Literature's Philosophy

The Doppelganger: Literature's Philosophy

Author: Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University)
ISBN: 9780823235698
Format: Undefined
$277.20

The Doppelgnger or Double presents literature as the doubleof philosophy. There are historical reasons for this....  Read More >>

Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser

Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy...

Author: Jan Mieszkowski (Department of German Reed College)
ISBN: 9780823235346
Format: Undefined
$224.40

This book is a major new study of the doctrines of productivity and interest in Romanticism and classical political...  Read More >>

Muscially Sublime: Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability

Muscially Sublime: Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability...

Author: Kiene Wurth (University of Utrecht)
ISBN: 9780823235452
Format: Undefined
$316.80

"Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider...  Read More >>

Theatricality as Medium

Theatricality as Medium

Author: Samuel Weber (Avalon Professor of Comparative Literature Northwestern University)
ISBN: 9780823235841
Format: Undefined
$303.60

Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption...  Read More >>

Regard for the Other: Autothanatography in Rousseau, de Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde

Regard for the Other: Autothanatography in Rousseau,...

Author: E S Burt (Department of French & Comparative Literature University of California Irvine)
ISBN: 9780823235575
Format: Undefined
$277.20

Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's...  Read More >>

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