Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Why Dance Matters

Why Dance Matters

Author: Mindy Aloff
ISBN: 9780300204520
Format: Hardback
$33.95

A passionate and moving tribute to the captivating power of dance, not just as an art form but as a language that...  Read More >>

Mahler's Nietzsche: Politics and Philosophy in the Wunderhorn Symphonies

Mahler's Nietzsche: Politics and Philosophy in the Wunderhorn...

Author: Leah Batstone
ISBN: 9781837650019
Format: Hardback
$181.13

Examines how Nietzschean ideas influenced the composition of Mahler's first four, so-called Wunderhorn, symphonies....  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language...

Author: Ernst Cassirer ,  Steve G. Lofts
ISBN: 9781032474298
Format: Paperback
$62.99

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. This major new translation brings his magnum...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2: Mythical Thinking

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2: Mythical...

Author: Ernst Cassirer ,  Steve G. Lofts
ISBN: 9781032474304
Format: Paperback
$62.99

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. This major new translation brings his magnum...  Read More >>

Essays on Beauty and the Arts

Essays on Beauty and the Arts

Author: Bernard Bolzano ,  Dominic Lopes
ISBN: 9781647920913
Format: Paperback
$23.95

Bernard Bolzano's (17811848) writings in aesthetics are clear, concise, and explicit about method. Provocative and...  Read More >>

Horsinn Und Ton: Asthetische Anthropologie Der Musik, Nach Herder Und Handel

Horsinn Und Ton: Asthetische Anthropologie Der Musik,...

Author: Rainer Schmusch
ISBN: 9783825348670
Format: Hardback
$190.08

"Musik wird fur uns Menschen wichtig, weil (und wenn) wir sie als Subjekte auffassen. Wir erleben sie horend, wir...  Read More >>

Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: A Case-Driven Approach

Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: A...

Author: Professor Darren Hudson Hick
ISBN: 9781350256767
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Aesthetics and the philosophy of art are about things in the world – things like the Mona Lisa, but also things...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century

The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long...

Author: Heidi Schlipphacke
ISBN: 9781684484546
Format: Hardback
$209.00

By focusing on kinship constellations instead of ‘family plots’ in seminal literary works of the period, this book...  Read More >>

Minimalist Boho Coloring Book

Minimalist Boho Coloring Book

Author: Henriette Wilkins
ISBN: 9798889354628
Format: Paperback
$34.29

"Escape into a world of chic and trendy coloring with our Minimalist Boho Coloring Book for Adults. Filled with...  Read More >>

Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: A Case-Driven Approach

Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: A...

Author: Professor Darren Hudson Hick
ISBN: 9781350256750
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Aesthetics and the philosophy of art are about things in the world – things like the Mona Lisa, but also things...  Read More >>

The Turn to Provisionality in Contemporary Art: Negative Work

The Turn to Provisionality in Contemporary Art: Negative...

Author: Raphael Rubinstein (University of Houston, USA)
ISBN: 9781350243712
Format: Hardback
$170.00

"In his influential essay “Provisional Painting,” Raphael Rubinstein applied the term “provisional” to contemporary...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Aristotle

The Poetics of Aristotle

Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9789359320083
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Epps has attempted to provide a translation of the Poetics to which all students could have access and thus gain...  Read More >>

Neo-Spiritual Aesthetics: Embodied Transformation in the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga

Neo-Spiritual Aesthetics: Embodied Transformation in...

Author: Lina Aschenbrenner
ISBN: 9781350272873
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Tracing embodied transformation in the context of Gaga, the Israeli dance improvisation practice, this book demystifies...  Read More >>

Kenosis Creativity Architecture: Appearance through Emptying

Kenosis Creativity Architecture: Appearance through...

Author: Randall S. Lindstrom (University of Tasmania, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367522209
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Kenosis Creativity Architecture locates and explores creativity’s grounding in the concept of kenosis, an ‘emptying’,...  Read More >>

Knowledge and Beauty in Classical Islam: An Aesthetic Reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn

Knowledge and Beauty in Classical Islam: An Aesthetic...

Author: Giovanna Lelli
ISBN: 9780367567682
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation...

Author: Alessandro Bertinetto ,  Marcello Ruta
ISBN: 9781032016498
Format: Paperback
$83.99

An authorativie colection of 48 original chapters on the philosophy of improvisation in music, theatre, dance, poetry,...  Read More >>

New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity

New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies...

Author: Samuel Wilson
ISBN: 9780367489113
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Arguing that new music in this era reflects a historical moment when the idea of materiality itself is in flux,...  Read More >>

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic...

Author: Simonetta Moro (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts)
ISBN: 9781032052045
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls...  Read More >>

Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts: Theology, Aesthetics, and Practice

Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts: Theology,...

Author: Sheona Beaumont ,  Madeleine Emerald Thiele
ISBN: 9780367776084
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how...  Read More >>

Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics

Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism:...

Author: Gavin Rae (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) ,  Emma Ingala (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
ISBN: 9780367624064
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This volume reconsiders poststructuralism historically and demonstrates the ways in which it remains relevant, especially...  Read More >>

Visual Art and Self-Construction

Visual Art and Self-Construction

Author: Katrina Mitcheson
ISBN: 9781399511186
Format: Paperback
$54.31

Drawing on the work of a range of visual artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise...  Read More >>

Chinese Aesthetics in a Global Context

Chinese Aesthetics in a Global Context

Author: Zhirong Zhu ,  Xurong Kong
ISBN: 9789811677496
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book examines aesthetic issues based on humanities principles and creates a theory of Chinese aesthetics from...  Read More >>

The Sound of Žižek: Musicological Perspectives on Slavoj Žižek

The Sound of Žižek: Musicological Perspectives on Slavoj...

Author: Antonio Garcia ,  Rex Butler
ISBN: 9781433178986
Format: Hardback
$237.47

Over the last three decades Slavoj Žižek has become an iconic figure of intellectuel engagé and his works have engendered...  Read More >>

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