Philosophy: aesthetics books

9306 books were found.

Art and Multitude

Art and Multitude

Author: Antonio Negri (University of Padua)
ISBN: 9780745648996
Format: Hardback
$82.95

Antonio Negri is an internationally famous political thinker. The book consists of nine letters on art written...  Read More >>

Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music

Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature...

Author: Peter Kivy (Rutgers University)
ISBN: 9780199596294
Format: Paperback
$83.95

Peter Kivy presents a fascinating critical examination of the two rival ways of understanding instrumental music....  Read More >>

Music in German Philosophy: An Introduction

Music in German Philosophy: An Introduction

Author: K Unstlerhaus
ISBN: 9781283058582
Format: Undefined
$323.14

Though many well-known German philosophers have devoted considerable attention to music and its aesthetics, surprisingly...  Read More >>

Beauty and Being: Thomistic Perspectives

Beauty and Being: Thomistic Perspectives

Author: Piotr Jaroszynski ,  Hugh McDonald
ISBN: 9780888447333
Format: Hardback
$224.40

This book represents an attempt to distinguish and define what beauty is in metaphysical terms, to arrive at a better...  Read More >>

Singolarita E Formularita

Singolarita E Formularita

Author: Stefano D'Urso ,  Davide Miccione
ISBN: 9788896732243
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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Georg Lukacs Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics

Georg Lukacs Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics,...

Author: Michael J Thompson (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London)
ISBN: 9781441151001
Format: Electronic book text
$343.20

An international team of contributors explore contemporary insights into the work of Georg Lukacs in political theory,...  Read More >>

The Music of Our Lives

The Music of Our Lives

Author: Kathleen Marie Higgins
ISBN: 9780739120859
Format: Paperback
$66.95

Kathleen Higgins argues that the arguments that Plato used to defend the ethical value of music are still applicable...  Read More >>

Music, Art, and Metaphysics

Music, Art, and Metaphysics

Author: Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9780199596621
Format: Paperback
$83.95

This is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson's 1990 book which gathers together the writings that made him...  Read More >>

Art and the Platonic Matrix

Art and the Platonic Matrix

Author: Jurgen Lawrenz ,  Jurgen Lawrenz
ISBN: 9781443828536
Format: Hardback
$103.47

For two millennia philosophy has restlessly stalked a fundamental problem-the answer to the question what is art,...  Read More >>

Music, Art, and Metaphysics

Music, Art, and Metaphysics

Author: Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9780199596638
Format: Hardback
$206.00

This is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson's 1990 book which gathers together the writings that made him...  Read More >>

Exploring Textual Action

Exploring Textual Action

Author: Anders M Gullestad ,  Patrizia Lombardo
ISBN: 9788779344600
Format: Paperback
$145.20

This book questions how we analyse works of art after the performative turn and shows how the interplay of performativity...  Read More >>

Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema

Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema

Author: Todd McGowan
ISBN: 9780816669967
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A new temporal aesthetic in films such as Memento, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2046, and The Hangover....  Read More >>

Ethics at the Cinema

Ethics at the Cinema

Author: Ward Jones (Associate Professor in Philosophy, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Rhodes University) ,  Samantha Vice (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Rhodes University)
ISBN: 9780195320398
Format: Hardback
$106.95

This volume of contributed, previously unpublished essays focuses on general theoretical, meta-ethical, and aesthetic...  Read More >>

Ruskin's Educational Ideals

Ruskin's Educational Ideals

Author: Sara Atwood
ISBN: 9781409408376
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Focusing on John Ruskin as a teacher and on his greatest educational work, Fors Clavigera, the author examines Ruskin's...  Read More >>

Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art

Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art...

Author: Dr Devin Zane Shaw (University of Ottawa, Canada)
ISBN: 9781441156242
Format: Hardback
$182.00

Schelling is often thought to be a protean thinker whose work is difficult to approach or interpret. This title...  Read More >>

A Pathognomy of Performance

A Pathognomy of Performance

Author: S. Bayly
ISBN: 9780230271692
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy,...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music

Author: Theodore Gracyk ,  Andrew Kania (Trinity University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415486033
Format: Hardback
$462.00

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics,...  Read More >>

L' Esthetique Antique

L' Esthetique Antique

Author: Giovanni Lombardo
ISBN: 9782252037942
Format: Paperback
$71.28

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Ethics at the Cinema

Ethics at the Cinema

Author: Ward Jones (Associate Professor in Philosophy, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Rhodes University) ,  Samantha Vice (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Rhodes University)
ISBN: 9780195320404
Format: Paperback
$73.79

This volume of contributed, previously unpublished essays focuses on general theoretical, meta-ethical, and aesthetic...  Read More >>

Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension

Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive...

Author: Andy Clark (, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780199773688
Format: Paperback
$51.95

In Supersizing the Mind, Andy Clark argues that the human mind is not bound inside the head but extends into body...  Read More >>

New Takes in Film-Philosophy

New Takes in Film-Philosophy

Author: H. Carel ,  G. Tuck
ISBN: 9780230250284
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy....  Read More >>

Lukács and Brecht

Lukács and Brecht

Author: David Pike
ISBN: 9780807865811
Format: Paperback
$132.00

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