Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida

Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida...

Author: Peter Dayan
ISBN: 9780754651932
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Between Terror and Freedom: Philosophy, Politics, and Fiction Speak of Modernity

Between Terror and Freedom: Philosophy, Politics, and...

Author: Simona Goi ,  Frederick M. Dolan
ISBN: 9780739111840
Format: Hardback
$170.95

In this volume, Simona Goi and Frederick M. Dolan gather stimulating arguments for the indispensability of fiction_including...  Read More >>

Nefer: The Aesthetic Ideal in Classical Egypt

Nefer: The Aesthetic Ideal in Classical Egypt

Author: Willie Cannon-Brown
ISBN: 9786611064129
Format: Electronic book text
$728.64

This book provides an original treatment of the concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks to examine...  Read More >>

Kombinatorik Und Die Verbindungskünste Der Zeichen in Der Musik Zwischen 1630 Und 1780

Kombinatorik Und Die Verbindungskünste Der Zeichen in...

Author: Sebastian Klotz
ISBN: 9783050037653
Format: Hardback
$327.33

Die Erfindungen von Athanasius Kircher und Johann Philipp Kirnberger markieren die zeitlichen Eckpunkte des Zeitraumes,...  Read More >>

Seen | Unseen: Art, science, and intuition from Leonardo to the Hubble telescope

Seen | Unseen: Art, science, and intuition from Leonardo...

Author: Martin Kemp (Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199295722
Format: Hardback
$135.95

Presenting an analysis of the interconnections between science and the visual arts, this book takes the reader on...  Read More >>

The End of Art: Readings in a Rumor after Hegel

The End of Art: Readings in a Rumor after Hegel

Author: Eva Geulen ,  James McFarland
ISBN: 9780804744249
Format: Paperback
$37.95

Readings of Hegel, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, and Heidegger trace the role that the discourse on the end of art...  Read More >>

The End of Art: Readings in a Rumor after Hegel

The End of Art: Readings in a Rumor after Hegel

Author: Eva Geulen ,  James McFarland
ISBN: 9780804744232
Format: Hardback
$37.95

Readings of Hegel, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, and Heidegger trace the role that the discourse on the end of art...  Read More >>

Reflections on Aesthetic Judgment and Other Essays

Reflections on Aesthetic Judgment and Other Essays

Author: Benjamin Tilghman
ISBN: 9786611098025
Format: Electronic book text
$528.00

Benjamin Tilghman has been a leading commentator on analytic philosophy for many years. This book brings together...  Read More >>

Contemplating Art

Contemplating Art

Author: Jerrold Levinson (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park)
ISBN: 9780199206186
Format: Hardback
$435.60

Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading figures in aesthetics,...  Read More >>

Historical Dictionary of Aesthetics

Historical Dictionary of Aesthetics

Author: Dabney Townsend
ISBN: 9780810855397
Format: Hardback
$176.95

"Aesthetics is not a ""factual"" discipline; there are no aesthetic facts. The word itself is derived from the Greek...  Read More >>

Approach to Aesthetics: Collected Papers on Philosophical Aesthetics

Approach to Aesthetics: Collected Papers on Philosophical...

Author: Frank Sibley (former Professor of Philosophy, former Professor of Philosophy, Lancaster University) ,  John Benson (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy)
ISBN: 9780199204137
Format: Paperback
$100.95

Collects Frank Sibley's major papers on philosophical aesthetics. This work is concerned with a group of related...  Read More >>

Imagination und Invention

Imagination und Invention

Author: Toni Bernhart ,  Philipp Mehne
ISBN: 9783050042695
Format: Paperback
$147.84

Mit Beiträgen von: Emanuel Alloa, Rainer Bayreuther, Toni Bernhard, Anette Brunner, Lutz Danneberg, Florian Dombois,...  Read More >>

Demands of Taste in Kant's Aesthetics. Continuum Studies in Philosophy.

Demands of Taste in Kant's Aesthetics. Continuum Studies...

Author: Brent Kalar
ISBN: 9786611295264
Format: Electronic book text
$686.40

Typically philosophers have either viewed beauty as objective and judgments of beauty as universally valid, or else...  Read More >>

Art at the Limits of Perception: The Aesthetic Theory of Wolfgang Welsch

Art at the Limits of Perception: The Aesthetic Theory...

Author: Jerome Carroll
ISBN: 9783039105694
Format: Paperback
$163.27

This book traces the significance that the modulations of sensory perception have had for thinking about aesthetics...  Read More >>

On Images: Their Structure and Content

On Images: Their Structure and Content

Author: John V. Kulvicki (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)
ISBN: 9780199290758
Format: Hardback
$95.95

Shows that a properly crafted structural account of pictures has many advantages over the perceptual accounts that...  Read More >>

Wabi Sabi: The Art of Everyday Life

Wabi Sabi: The Art of Everyday Life

Author: Diane Durston
ISBN: 9781580176286
Format: Paperback
$15.99

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Die Reflexion des Wirklichen: Zwischen Hegels absoluter Dialektik und der Philosophie der Endlichkeit von M. Heidegger und H.G. Gadamer

Die Reflexion des Wirklichen: Zwischen Hegels absoluter...

Author: Riccardo Dottori
ISBN: 9783161480904
Format: Hardback
$252.95

Based on the author's Habilitationsschrift, 1984.  Read More >>

Four Essays on Aesthetics: Toward a Global Perspective

Four Essays on Aesthetics: Toward a Global Perspective...

Author: Zehou Li ,  Jane Cauvel
ISBN: 9780739113219
Format: Paperback
$61.95

A classic in Chinese Philosophy of Aesthetics for the last twenty years, Li Zehou's Four Essays on Aesthetics (Meixue-sijiang)...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason

The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and...

Author: Dylan Trigg
ISBN: 9780820486468
Format: Hardback
$218.99

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Kritik der Geschichte: Probleme und Formen seit 1800

Kritik der Geschichte: Probleme und Formen seit 1800...

Author: Jürgen Große
ISBN: 9783161490231
Format: Hardback
$238.05

"Seit der Genese der modernen Prozeßgeschichte wie des zugehörigen Bewußtseins erhebt sich Kritik an ihren ontologischen,...  Read More >>

Wittgenstein's Novels

Wittgenstein's Novels

Author: Martin Klebes (University of New Mexico, USA)
ISBN: 9780415975223
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates...  Read More >>

Selected Writings on Aesthetics

Selected Writings on Aesthetics

Author: Johann Gottfried Herder ,  Gregory Martin Moore
ISBN: 9780691115955
Format: Hardback
$210.00

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Scattering the Seed: A Guide Through Balthasar's Early Writings on Philosophy and the Arts

Scattering the Seed: A Guide Through Balthasar's Early...

Author: Aidan Nichols
ISBN: 9780813214603
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Theology as Performance: Music, Aesthetics, and God in Western Thought

Theology as Performance: Music, Aesthetics, and God...

Author: Philip Stoltzfus
ISBN: 9780567029218
Format: Hardback
$191.95

An examination of the musical aesthetics of Schleiermacher, Barth, and Wittgenstein and the ways that competing...  Read More >>

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