Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy

Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy

Author: Thomas E. Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College, USA)
ISBN: 9780415774314
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Thinking On Screen: Film as Philosophy is an accessible and thought-provoking examination of the way films raise...  Read More >>

Aesthetics and Material Beauty: Aesthetics Naturalized

Aesthetics and Material Beauty: Aesthetics Naturalized...

Author: Jennifer A. McMahon (University of Adelaide, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415378307
Format: Hardback
$237.00

In this book, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking...  Read More >>

Encountering Nature: Toward an Environmental Culture

Encountering Nature: Toward an Environmental Culture...

Author: Thomas Heyd
ISBN: 9780754654230
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Argues that an attentive encounter with nature is of key importance for the development of an environmentally appropriate...  Read More >>

Knowing Art: Essays in Aesthetics and Epistemology

Knowing Art: Essays in Aesthetics and Epistemology

Author: Matthew Kieran ,  Dominic McIver Lopes
ISBN: 9781402067853
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Collects ten original essays written by some of the leading philosophers who distill and build upon the work at...  Read More >>

Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures

Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures

Author: Dominic McIver Lopes (Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia)
ISBN: 9780199230440
Format: Paperback
$94.95

Explores the impact of images on what we know, how we see, and the moral assessments we make. This book shows how...  Read More >>

Visual Literacy

Visual Literacy

Author: James Elkins (Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9780415958103
Format: Hardback
$315.00

What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the developed...  Read More >>

The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference

The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference

Author: Christine Battersby (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9780415148115
Format: Paperback
$56.00

In this important new work, Christine Battersby undertakes an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the...  Read More >>

Composing for the Films

Composing for the Films

Author: Theodor W. Adorno ,  Hanns Eisler
ISBN: 9780826499028
Format: Paperback
$65.87

An account of the nature of film music aesthetics. This book is a contribution to the study of modern, industrialised...  Read More >>

Visual Literacy

Visual Literacy

Author: James Elkins (Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9780415958110
Format: Paperback
$83.99

What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the developed...  Read More >>

The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference

The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference

Author: Christine Battersby (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9780415148108
Format: Hardback
$168.00

In this important new work, Christine Battersby undertakes an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the...  Read More >>

Artworld Metaphysics

Artworld Metaphysics

Author: Robert Kraut (The Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9780199228126
Format: Hardback
$227.00

Robert Kraut turns a critical eye upon aspects of the artworld, articulating problems, principles, and norms implicit...  Read More >>

The Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation

The Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation...

Author: Robin Le Poidevin (University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9780199265893
Format: Hardback
$122.95

The Images of Time is a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it....  Read More >>

Aesthetic Experience

Aesthetic Experience

Author: Richard Shusterman (Temple University, Atlantic University Florida Atlantic University Florida Atlantic University) ,  Adele Tomlin
ISBN: 9781281062697
Format: Electronic book text
$440.35

This book re-examines the notion of aesthetic experience as well as its value. A team of internationally respected...  Read More >>

Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates

Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates...

Author: Alex Neill ,  Aaron Ridley
ISBN: 9780415424516
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates

Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates...

Author: Alex Neill ,  Aaron Ridley
ISBN: 9780415424509
Format: Hardback
$368.00

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Bellissima: feminine beauty and the idea of Italy

Bellissima: feminine beauty and the idea of Italy

Author: S Gundle
ISBN: 9780300123876
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Feminine beauty has been more discussed, appreciated, represented in art and associated with national cultural identity...  Read More >>

Theatermaschine und Festungsbau

Theatermaschine und Festungsbau

Author: Jan Lazardzig
ISBN: 9783050043418
Format: Hardback
$327.33

Theatermaschine und Festungsbau - diese Artefakte des 17. Jahrhunderts dienen Jan Lazardzig als heuristische Schlüssel,...  Read More >>

The Re-Enchantment of the World: Art Versus Religion

The Re-Enchantment of the World: Art Versus Religion...

Author: Gordon Graham
ISBN: 9786611164324
Format: Electronic book text
$573.33

This is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Experience

Aesthetic Experience

Author: Richard Shusterman (Temple University) ,  Adele Tomlin
ISBN: 9786611062699
Format: Electronic book text
$691.68

Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presuppositions of what constitutes aesthetic experience,...  Read More >>

Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology

Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology

Author: Steven M. Cahn (CUNY Graduate Centre) ,  Aaron Meskin (University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9781405154352
Format: Paperback
$176.75

"""Steven Cahn and Aaron Meskin have put together an unrivalled collection of great work in philosophical aesthetics,...  Read More >>

Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era

Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global...

Author: Russ Castronovo
ISBN: 9780226096292
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics...  Read More >>

Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era

Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global...

Author: Russ Castronovo
ISBN: 9780226096285
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics...  Read More >>

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