Philosophy: aesthetics books

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The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant’s Aesthetics

The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant’s Aesthetics

Author: Rodolphe Gasche
ISBN: 9780804746137
Format: Hardback
$117.95

The predicate ""beautiful"" indicates that something has minimal form and is cognizable. This book explores this...  Read More >>

Memory and Desire: Painting in Britain and Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Memory and Desire: Painting in Britain and Ireland at...

Author: Kenneth McConkey
ISBN: 9780754632047
Format: Hardback
$369.60

This lavishly illustrated volume draws upon correspondence, diaries and art criticism and analysis to reveal how...  Read More >>

Winckelmann und Seine Zeitgenossen

Winckelmann und Seine Zeitgenossen

Author: Carl Justi
ISBN: 9781843710059
Format: Hardback
$1900.80

A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann(1717-68).  Read More >>

Sense & Senses in Aesthetics

Sense & Senses in Aesthetics

Author: Per Backstrom ,  Troels Degn Johansson
ISBN: 9789188484246
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Addresses several questions regarding sense and the senses in art and aesthetics. This book draws upon a wide range...  Read More >>

Adorno Et Le Jazz: Analyse d'Un Deni Esthetique

Adorno Et Le Jazz: Analyse d'Un Deni Esthetique

Author: Christian Bethune ,  Christian Baethune
ISBN: 9782252033722
Format: Paperback
$68.64

This work, which ventures beyond a study on the conflictual, and ultimately ambiguous, relations that T.W. Adorno...  Read More >>

Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life

Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life

Author: Gregg M. Horowitz
ISBN: 9780804739689
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Sustaining Loss explores the uncanny, traumatic weaving together of the living and the dead in art, and the morbid...  Read More >>

Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life

Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life

Author: Gregg M. Horowitz
ISBN: 9780804739672
Format: Hardback
$93.95

Sustaining Loss explores the uncanny, traumatic weaving together of the living and the dead in art, and the morbid...  Read More >>

Aby Warburgs Theorie der Kultur

Aby Warburgs Theorie der Kultur

Author: Bernd Villhauer
ISBN: 9783050036588
Format: Hardback
$186.27

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Friedrich-Schiller-Universiteat Jena, 1998.  Read More >>

Vom Sinn Der Feindschaft

Vom Sinn Der Feindschaft

Author: Christian Geulen ,  Anne Von Der Heiden
ISBN: 9783050037615
Format: Hardback
$327.33

Sind wir zu natürlicher oder politischer Feindschaft unvermeidlich verurteilt? Der vorliegende Band zeigt, dass...  Read More >>

Wissen und soziale Konstruktion

Wissen und soziale Konstruktion

Author: Claus Zittel
ISBN: 9783050037257
Format: Hardback
$327.33

Papers presented at a workshop held by the Frankfurter DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich ""Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher...  Read More >>

Extreme Beauty

Extreme Beauty

Author: James Swearingen ,  Joanne Cutting-Gray
ISBN: 9781281298652
Format: Electronic book text
$496.32

This text explores art, literature, politics, and philosophy to illuminate how the concept and experience of beauty...  Read More >>

Bertrand Russell on Nuclear War, Peace, and Language: Critical and Historical Essays

Bertrand Russell on Nuclear War, Peace, and Language:...

Author: James T McHugh ,  Alan Schwerin
ISBN: 9781280468926
Format: Electronic book text
$323.93

These essays focus on Russell's positions on the key issues of nuclear war, peace, and language. The contributors...  Read More >>

Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader

Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader

Author: Simon Swaffield
ISBN: 9780812218213
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Venus in Exile

Venus in Exile

Author: Wendy Steiner
ISBN: 9780226772400
Format: Paperback
$53.25

Ever since the renaissance, the female body has been a primary symbol of artistic beauty in the West. With the advent...  Read More >>

The Leafhoppers and Planthoppers of Germany (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha)

The Leafhoppers and Planthoppers of Germany (Hemiptera,...

Author: H Nickel
ISBN: 9786611431341
Format: Electronic book text
$644.16

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Extreme Beauty: Aesthetics, Politics, Death. Textures.

Extreme Beauty: Aesthetics, Politics, Death. Textures....

Author: James Swearingen ,  Joanne Cutting-Gray
ISBN: 9786611298654
Format: Electronic book text
$792.00

What do we mean when we speak of beauty ? What do we experience? Beauty is no longer the human experience of the...  Read More >>

Interpretation and Construction: Art, Speech, and the Law. New Directions in Aesthetics.

Interpretation and Construction: Art, Speech, and the...

Author: Robert Stecker
ISBN: 9786611310943
Format: Electronic book text
$643.90

Interpretation and Construction examines the interpretation of intentional human behavior, focusing primarily on...  Read More >>

Art in Its Time: Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics

Art in Its Time: Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics...

Author: Paul Mattick, Jr.
ISBN: 9781280071416
Format: Electronic book text
$351.12

Art In Its Time takes a close look at the way in which art has become integral to the everyday 'ordinary' life of...  Read More >>

Types of Interpretation in the Aesthetic Disciplines

Types of Interpretation in the Aesthetic Disciplines...

Author: Staffan Carlshamre ,  Anders Pettersson
ISBN: 9781282861077
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

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The New Aestheticism

The New Aestheticism

Author: John J Joughin ,  Simon Malpas (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781280734113
Format: Electronic book text
$248.29

The rise of literary theory spawned the rise of anti-aestheticism, so that even for cultural theorists, discussions...  Read More >>

Making Morality: Pragmatist Reconstruction in Ethical Theory

Making Morality: Pragmatist Reconstruction in Ethical...

Author: Todd Lekan
ISBN: 9781282258778
Format: Electronic book text
$58.05

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Art in Progress: A Philosophical Response to the End of the Avant-Garde

Art in Progress: A Philosophical Response to the End...

Author: Maarten Doorman
ISBN: 9781280958823
Format: Undefined
$106.92

A philosophical essay in support of the argument that progress in art is both possible and necessary.  Read More >>

Introduction to Philosophy of Art

Introduction to Philosophy of Art

Author: Professor Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781282387140
Format: Undefined
$1320.00

In this book Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance...  Read More >>

Band 9

Band 9

Author: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783050035277
Format: Hardback
$353.73

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Band 9"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics. Cambridge Texts...

Author: Professor J M Bernstein (New York New School for Social Research New School University, New York)
ISBN: 9781280433542
Format: Electronic book text
$332.64

This volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously...  Read More >>

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