Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Global Theories of the Arts and Aesthetics

Global Theories of the Arts and Aesthetics

Author: Susan Feagin (Temple University)
ISBN: 9781405173551
Format: Paperback
$74.95

This collection of papers focuses on theories and practices in relation to the arts around the globe, in particular,...  Read More >>

Plastic Intellectual Breeze: The Contribution of Ralph Cudworth to S. T. Coleridge's Early Poetics of the Symbol

Plastic Intellectual Breeze: The Contribution of Ralph...

Author: Cristina Flores
ISBN: 9783039114726
Format: Paperback
$299.63

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Fiction and the Weave of Life

Fiction and the Weave of Life

Author: John Gibson (University of Louisville)
ISBN: 9780199299522
Format: Hardback
$97.95

Philosophers have struggled to explain how literary fiction can be such an important source of insight into the...  Read More >>

Writing through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics

Writing through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and...

Author: Jann Pasler (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States)
ISBN: 9780195324891
Format: Hardback
$133.95

"Drawing on a remarkably diverse interdisciplinary toolbox, Jann Pasler invites us to read as she writes ""through""...  Read More >>

Musical Work Analysis: An Epistemological Debate

Musical Work Analysis: An Epistemological Debate

Author: Maciej Golab ,  Bonkowski Wojciech
ISBN: 9783631573860
Format: Paperback
$142.83

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Schlangenritual

Schlangenritual

Author: Cora Bender ,  Thomas Hensel
ISBN: 9783050042039
Format: Hardback
$155.22

Papers from a conference held April 2002 at the Warburg-Haus, Hamburg.  Read More >>

Das hellenistische Gymnasion

Das hellenistische Gymnasion

Author: Daniel Kah ,  Peter Scholz
ISBN: 9783050043708
Format: Hardback
$374.85

Papers from a symposium held Sept. 27-30, 2001 at the Universit�at Frankfurt am Main.  Read More >>

Against Film Theory

Against Film Theory

Author: Malcolm Turvey ,  Richard Allen
ISBN: 9781405155656
Format: Paperback
$46.55

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The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol

The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol

Author: Nicholas Halmi (, University Lecturer in English Literature of the Romantic Period, University of Oxford Margaret Candfield Fellow, University College)
ISBN: 9780199212415
Format: Hardback
$263.00

The distinctive concept of the symbol, articulated by such writers as Goethe, Schelling, and Coleridge, is of the...  Read More >>

Against Film Theory

Against Film Theory

Author: Malcolm Turvey ,  Richard Allen
ISBN: 9781405155649
Format: Hardback
$142.31

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Aesthetics and Innovation

Aesthetics and Innovation

Author: Leonid Dorfman ,  Colin Martindale
ISBN: 9781847181879
Format: Hardback
$116.41

In this book we attempted to gather together a set of chapters that describe new ways of approaching questions about...  Read More >>

Breviary of Aesthetics: Four Lectures

Breviary of Aesthetics: Four Lectures

Author: Benedetto Croce ,  Hiroko Fudemoto
ISBN: 9780802097712
Format: Hardback
$89.99

In this edition, the Breviary of Aesthetics is presented in a brand new English translation and accompanied by informative...  Read More >>

Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting

Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting...

Author: Elizabeth Prettejohn
ISBN: 9780300135497
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Explores the distinctive role of painting in the debates surrounding the notion of 'art for art's sake' and Aestheticism...  Read More >>

The Blackwell Guide to Mill's Utilitarianism

The Blackwell Guide to Mill's Utilitarianism

Author: Henry West (Macalester College) ,  Henry West (Macalester College)
ISBN: 9781280286100
Format: Electronic book text
$319.31

The Blackwell Guide to Mill's Utilitarianism volume is an ideal commentary for students on Mill's classic essay....  Read More >>

The Art of Theater

The Art of Theater

Author: James R Hamilton (Kansas State University)
ISBN: 9781281069054
Format: Electronic book text
$113.39

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Beauty's Appeal: Measure and Excess

Beauty's Appeal: Measure and Excess

Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
ISBN: 9781281116420
Format: Undefined
$710.16

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Art as Performance

Art as Performance

Author: David Davies, PhD, Cpsych (McGill University, Canada) ,  Dave Davies
ISBN: 9781280198359
Format: Electronic book text
$361.55

Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics: Core Concepts and Problems

An Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics: Core Concepts...

Author: Christian Helmut Wenzel (National Chi Nan University)
ISBN: 9781280238079
Format: Electronic book text
$287.63

In An Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics, Christian Wenzel discusses and demystifies Kant's Critique of the Power...  Read More >>

Cultural Appropriation and the Arts

Cultural Appropriation and the Arts

Author: James O Young (University of Victoria, Canada)
ISBN: 9781281308313
Format: Electronic book text
$278.63

Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to...  Read More >>

From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept

From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary...

Author: Giora Hon ,  Bernard Goldstein
ISBN: 9781281674777
Format: Undefined
$736.56

<p>The concept of symmetry is inherent to modern science. This study is based on primary sources, presented in context:...  Read More >>

Architecture of Happiness

Architecture of Happiness

Author: Alain de Botton
ISBN: 9781299022348
Format: Electronic book text
$142.56

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

Art's Claim to Truth

Art's Claim to Truth

Author: Gianni Vattimo ,  Professor Santiago Zabala
ISBN: 9781280598975
Format: Electronic book text
$42.21

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Self-Expression

Self-Expression

Author: Mitchell S. Green (University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9780199283781
Format: Hardback
$110.95

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Das Vorurteil im Leibe

Das Vorurteil im Leibe

Author: Claudia Schmölders
ISBN: 9783050043920
Format: Hardback
$285.09

Seit Anfang der achtziger Jahre lässt sich eine Renaissance physiognomischer Fragestellungen beobachten: in Kunst-,...  Read More >>

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