Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Damn Havoc

Damn Havoc

Author: Deacon Sadler
ISBN: 9781432764562
Format: Paperback
$60.59

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Writing Art and Architecture

Writing Art and Architecture

Author: Andrew Benjamin
ISBN: 9780980819700
Format: Paperback
$66.00

In his new book, the eminent philosopher Andrew Benjamin turns his attention to architecture, design, sculpture,...  Read More >>

Art as  Night: An Art-Theological Treatise

Art as Night: An Art-Theological Treatise

Author: Gavin Keeney
ISBN: 9781443824019
Format: Hardback
$103.47

Art as Night proposes a type of a-historical dark knowledge (a-theology and theology, at once) crossing painting...  Read More >>

The Aesthetic Dimension of Visual Culture

The Aesthetic Dimension of Visual Culture

Author: Jakub Stejskal ,  Jakub Stejskal
ISBN: 9781443824286
Format: Hardback
$90.54

How can aesthetic enquiry contribute to the study of visual culture? There seems to be little doubt that aesthetic...  Read More >>

Reason and Controversy in the Arts

Reason and Controversy in the Arts

Author: Mortimer R. Kadish
ISBN: 9781412811231
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This study is a fresh and original attempt to liberate the theory of criticism from the limitations of connoisseurship,...  Read More >>

Liberalismus und gesellschaftliches Handeln: Gesammelte Aufsätze 1888 bis 1937

Liberalismus und gesellschaftliches Handeln: Gesammelte...

Author: John Dewey ,  Achim Eschbach
ISBN: 9783161505294
Format: Paperback
$172.33

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Art Inspiring Transmutations of Life

Art Inspiring Transmutations of Life

Author: Patricia Trutty Coohill ,  Patricia Trutty-Coohill
ISBN: 9789048191598
Format: Hardback
$498.96

Art’s creative perduring constructs are intentional marks of the aesthetic significance attributed to the flux of...  Read More >>

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Author: Professor Roland Barthes (Formerly, University of Paris) ,  Richard Howard (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9780374532338
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes's personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book he published--finds...  Read More >>

The Self-Deceiving Muse: Notice and Knowledge in the Work of Art

The Self-Deceiving Muse: Notice and Knowledge in the...

Author: Alan Singer (Director of Graduate Studies, Temple University)
ISBN: 9780271037219
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception, and proposes a radical revision of our commonplace understanding of...  Read More >>

Erscheinungsdinge: Ästhetik als Phänomenologie

Erscheinungsdinge: Ästhetik als Phänomenologie

Author: Günter Figal ,  Geunter Figal
ISBN: 9783161505225
Format: Hardback
$225.11

Mit diesem Buch legt Günter Figal eine systematisch ausgearbeitete Ästhetik vor. Er erörtert die Kunst als ganze;...  Read More >>

Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide

Author: Christopher Kul-Want ,  Piero Pierini
ISBN: 9781848311671
Format: Paperback
$21.99

A clear and insightful graphic guide to this important branch of philosophy.  Read More >>

Our Own Minds: Sociocultural Grounds for Self-Consciousness

Our Own Minds: Sociocultural Grounds for Self-Consciousness...

Author: Radu J. Bogdan (Tulane University)
ISBN: 9780262026376
Format: Hardback
$84.48

An argument that in response to sociocultural pressures, human minds develope self-consciousness by activating a...  Read More >>

The Emancipation of the Soul: Memes of Destiny in American Mythological Television

The Emancipation of the Soul: Memes of Destiny in American...

Author: Philipp Kneis
ISBN: 9783631608173
Format: Hardback
$73.23

"Analyzes the mythological content of five television franchises within the genre of science fiction, fantasy and...  Read More >>

Das moralphilosophische Experiment: John Deweys Methode empirischer Untersuchungen als Modell der problem- und anwendungsorientierten Tierethik

Das moralphilosophische Experiment: John Deweys Methode...

Author: Herwig Grimm
ISBN: 9783161505300
Format: Paperback
$98.32

John Dewey stellt als Mitbegründer des Pragmatismus konkrete Probleme sozialer Realität programmatisch ins Zentrum...  Read More >>

Creativity and Art: Three Roads to Surprise

Creativity and Art: Three Roads to Surprise

Author: Margaret A Boden (University of Sussex University of Sussex Academy University of Sussex University of Sussex University of Sussex University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9786613950291
Format: Electronic book text
$242.22

Margaret Boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art...  Read More >>

MONDO - Literatura e Democracia: A Metamorfose do Futuro

MONDO - Literatura e Democracia: A Metamorfose do Futuro...

Author: Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta
ISBN: 9781453843055
Format: Paperback
$31.42

MONDO - Literatura e Democracia é uma reflexão sobre o impacto das tecnologias na emergência e na transformação...  Read More >>

The Visual World of French Theory: Figurations

The Visual World of French Theory: Figurations

Author: Sarah Wilson
ISBN: 9780300162813
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Focuses on the series of encounters between the prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s, and the artists...  Read More >>

Studying Edward Scissorhands

Studying Edward Scissorhands

Author: Warren Holmes
ISBN: 9781906733421
Format: Paperback
$39.60

"Initially pitched as ""the story of an uncommonly gentle man,"" ""Edward Scissorhands"" (1990) not only confirmed...  Read More >>

Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond

Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann...

Author: Whitney Davis
ISBN: 9780231146906
Format: Hardback
$107.95

"The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical...  Read More >>

Night Café: The Amorous Notes of a Barista

Night Café: The Amorous Notes of a Barista

Author: Gray Kochhar-Lindgren ,  Bent Sørensen
ISBN: 9788792633019
Format: Paperback
$50.16

"Night Café is a book for the senses that think. Gray Kochhar-Lindgren takes us through a history of coffee as recorded...  Read More >>

Advice, Opinions Never Asked for & Other Stuff: Thoughts, Stories, Travels and More

Advice, Opinions Never Asked for & Other Stuff: Thoughts,...

Author: C M Richardson
ISBN: 9781432757281
Format: Paperback
$42.11

"If you're a fan of common sense and appreciate easy reading about life, love, marriage, politics and religion,...  Read More >>

Causing Human Actions: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action

Causing Human Actions: New Perspectives on the Causal...

Author: Jesús H. Aguilar (Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology) ,  Andrei A. Buckareff (Assistant Professor, Marist College)
ISBN: 9780262514767
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Leading figures working in the philosophy of action debate foundational issues relating to the causal theory of...  Read More >>

Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental...

Author: Joanna Demers (Associate Professor of Musicology, Associate Professor of Musicology, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9780195387667
Format: Paperback
$85.95

Contemporary electronic music has splintered into numerous genres and subgenres, all of which share a concern with...  Read More >>

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