Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Art: For Whom and for What?

Art: For Whom and for What?

Author: Brian Keeble
ISBN: 9781597310604
Format: Hardback
$92.27

What is the bond that unites man, nature and art? Can man survive the process of self-mutilation he has embarked...  Read More >>

The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust

The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust

Author: Thomas Baldwin ,  Peter Collier
ISBN: 9783039103232
Format: Paperback
$129.25

This book describes the development of Proust's treatment of material objects from his earliest work Les Plaisirs...  Read More >>

Law & Ethics for Medical Careers

Law & Ethics for Medical Careers

Author: Karen Judson ,  Carlene Harrison
ISBN: 9780073022635
Format: Paperback
$249.03

Provides an overview of the laws and ethics you should know to help you give competent, compassionate care to patients...  Read More >>

Idee Und Wirklichkeit: Philosophie Deutscher Dichtung

Idee Und Wirklichkeit: Philosophie Deutscher Dichtung...

Author: Ingrid Weier ,  Winfried Weier
ISBN: 9783506713971
Format: Paperback
$179.52

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Sublimity: The Non-Rational and the Rational in the History of Aesthetics

Sublimity: The Non-Rational and the Rational in the...

Author: James Kirwan
ISBN: 9780415966870
Format: Paperback
$62.00

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Sublimity: The Non-Rational and the Rational in the History of Aesthetics

Sublimity: The Non-Rational and the Rational in the...

Author: James Kirwan
ISBN: 9780415966863
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Updating existing treatments of the sublime in the eighteenth century, this book addresses the nature of the sublime...  Read More >>

Lebenswelt Und Kultur Des Bürgertums Im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert

Lebenswelt Und Kultur Des Bürgertums Im 19. Und 20....

Author: Andreas Schulz
ISBN: 9783486557923
Format: Hardback
$129.36

Der Niedergang des Bürgertums seit dem ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert ist vielfach beschrieben worden - literarisch...  Read More >>

Themes in the Philosophy of Music

Themes in the Philosophy of Music

Author: Stephen Davies (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780199280179
Format: Paperback
$132.95

"Is music a language of the emotions? How do recorded pop songs differ from works created for live performance?...  Read More >>

Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures

Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures

Author: Dominic McIver Lopes (Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia)
ISBN: 9780199277346
Format: Hardback
$153.95

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

Novelty

Novelty

Author: Donald A. Crosby
ISBN: 9780739109847
Format: Hardback
$122.95

The question of causality has haunted the history of Western metaphysics since the time of the Pre-Socratic philosophy....  Read More >>

Schiller's  On Grace and Dignity  in Its Cultural Context: Essays and a New Translation

Schiller's On Grace and Dignity in Its Cultural Context:...

Author: Jane V Curran ,  Christophe Fricker
ISBN: 9786611741198
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

An edition of Schiller's pivotal essay, accompanied by a comprehensive commentary on it.  Read More >>

Stammbäume der Kunst: Zur Genealogie der Avantgarde

Stammbäume der Kunst: Zur Genealogie der Avantgarde...

Author: Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt
ISBN: 9783050040660
Format: Paperback
$187.59

Dieses Buch zerstört eine Legende: die vom radikalen Traditionsbruch, wie sie die Avantgarde des 20. Jahrhunderts...  Read More >>

Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics

Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics

Author: Francesco Pellizzi
ISBN: 9780873658461
Format: Paperback
$132.00

""Res"" is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular...  Read More >>

Lebenswelt Und Kultur Des Bürgertums Im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert

Lebenswelt Und Kultur Des Bürgertums Im 19. Und 20....

Author: Andreas Schulz
ISBN: 9783486557909
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Der Niedergang des Bürgertums seit dem ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert ist vielfach beschrieben worden - literarisch...  Read More >>

Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement

Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance...

Author: Andrew Hewitt
ISBN: 9780822335146
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Work links dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to ideas about social order.  Read More >>

The Morality of Laughter

The Morality of Laughter

Author: F.H. Buckley
ISBN: 9780472068180
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A serious look at the meaning of laughter through the ages  Read More >>

Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement

Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance...

Author: Andrew Hewitt
ISBN: 9780822335023
Format: Hardback
$224.27

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Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: An Introduction

Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: An Introduction...

Author: Robert Stecker
ISBN: 9780742514614
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Praised in its original edition for its up-to-date, rigorous presentation of current debates and for the clarity...  Read More >>

Brecht On Art And Politics

Brecht On Art And Politics

Author: Bertolt Brecht
ISBN: 9780413773531
Format: Paperback
$39.99

With each section beginning with a short introductory essay summarizing Brecht's thought in the relevant year, this...  Read More >>

Practicing Mortality: Art, Philosophy, and Contemplative Seeing

Practicing Mortality: Art, Philosophy, and Contemplative...

Author: C. Dustin ,  J. Ziegler
ISBN: 9780230600911
Format: Paperback
$84.99

In this way, by developing a new conception of active visual engagement, the authors propose a way of seeing that...  Read More >>

Practicing Mortality: Art, Philosophy, and Contemplative Seeing

Practicing Mortality: Art, Philosophy, and Contemplative...

Author: C. Dustin ,  J. Ziegler
ISBN: 9781403965912
Format: Hardback
$104.00

In this way, by developing a new conception of active visual engagement, the authors propose a way of seeing that...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Everyday Life

The Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Author: Andrew Light ,  Jonathan Smith
ISBN: 9780231135030
Format: Paperback
$56.95

This imaginative new collection explores the aesthetic qualities of human relationships, sports, taste, smell, food,...  Read More >>

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