Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Body Aesthetic: From Fine Art to Body Modification

Body Aesthetic: From Fine Art to Body Modification

Author: Tobin Siebers
ISBN: 9780472111237
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Establishes the body's undeniable presence and strangeness as the material out of which human beings are made  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics

The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics

Author: Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews, UK) ,  Dominic Lopes (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9781280115110
Format: Electronic book text
$630.43

The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics contains forty-six chapters written by leading international scholars covering...  Read More >>

The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art

The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative...

Author: Jonathan Gilmore (Mellon Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Columbia University, USA)
ISBN: 9780801436956
Format: Hardback
$145.07

What does it mean to say a form of art is ""exhausted""? By exploring such topics as the discovery of perspective,...  Read More >>

Suffering Witness: The Quandary of Responsibility after the Irreparable

Suffering Witness: The Quandary of Responsibility after...

Author: James D. Hatley
ISBN: 9780791447062
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Conceptualizes the question of witness and responsibility, following the Holocaust, using continental philosophy,...  Read More >>

Art and the Brain, II: Investigations into the Science of Art

Art and the Brain, II: Investigations into the Science...

Author: Joseph Goguen ,  Erik Myin
ISBN: 9780907845126
Format: Paperback
$46.45

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The Engine of Visualization: Thinking through Photography

The Engine of Visualization: Thinking through Photography...

Author: Patrick Maynard
ISBN: 9780801486890
Format: Paperback
$73.79

""An extremely fascinating study, packed with insights and illumination and astute observation. It is first-rate...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics

The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics

Author: Berys Gaut (University of St. Andrews, UK) ,  Dominic Lopes (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415207379
Format: Hardback
$528.00

The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics is a guide and reference source to the major thinkers and topics in aesthetics....  Read More >>

Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of...

Author: Alex Potts
ISBN: 9780300087369
Format: Paperback
$49.95

"A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's...  Read More >>

Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life

Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics...

Author: Frank Burch Brown (Frederick Doyle Kershner Professor of Religion and the Arts, Frederick Doyle Kershner Professor of Religion and the Arts, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis)
ISBN: 9780195136111
Format: Hardback
$323.00

The proper role of art in worship and spirituality is a topic of lively debate. Brown addresses both practical and...  Read More >>

The Radical Aesthetic

The Radical Aesthetic

Author: Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9780631220534
Format: Paperback
$76.95

Provides a severe critique of the contemporary anti-aesthetic movement. Points to the democratic and radical potential...  Read More >>

Sublime Understanding: Aesthetic Reflection in Kant and Hegel

Sublime Understanding: Aesthetic Reflection in Kant...

Author: Kirk Pillow
ISBN: 9780262161923
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Makes sublimity the center of an alternative conception of aesthetic response and interpretation.  Read More >>

Provocative Form in Plato, Kant, Nietzsche (and Others)

Provocative Form in Plato, Kant, Nietzsche (and Others)...

Author: Bernard Freydberg
ISBN: 9780820442587
Format: Hardback
$229.55

Provocative Form in Plato, Kant, Nietzsche (and Others) seeks (1) to liberate form from its primary affiliation...  Read More >>

The Risks of Simile in Renaissance Rhetoric

The Risks of Simile in Renaissance Rhetoric

Author: Professor Shirley Sharon-Zisser
ISBN: 9780820445816
Format: Hardback
$312.84

The Risks of Simile in Renaissance Rhetoric is a groundbreaking study of the fascination with simile in Renaissance...  Read More >>

Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste

Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste

Author: Clement Greenberg ,  Charles Harrison
ISBN: 9780195139235
Format: Paperback
$129.33

A giant of 20th century art criticism, Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) set the terms of critical discourse from the...  Read More >>

Die Neue Wissenschaft Über Die Gemeinschaftliche Natur Der Völker: Nach Der Ausgabe Von 1744

Die Neue Wissenschaft Über Die Gemeinschaftliche Natur...

Author: Giambattista Vico ,  Erich Auerbach
ISBN: 9783110168907
Format: Hardback
$231.57

Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was one of the most original and idiosyncratic philosophers before Kant and Hegel....  Read More >>

Zwischen Realismus und Avantgarde: "Drei Paradigmen fuer die Aporien des Entweder-Oder- William Faulkners ""The Sound and the Fury""- Cormac McCarthys ""Suttree""- Toni Morrisons ""Beloved"""

Zwischen Realismus und Avantgarde: "Drei Paradigmen...

Author: Ulf Schulenberg
ISBN: 9783631356234
Format: Paperback
$146.45

Die Studie nimmt sich des immer noch ungelösten Problems des Verhältnisses von Realismus und Avantgarde an und entwickelt...  Read More >>

Plato's Theory of Art

Plato's Theory of Art

Author: Rupert C. Lodge
ISBN: 9780415225212
Format: Hardback
$265.00

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art

Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy...

Author: Herbert Read ,  T. E. Hulme
ISBN: 9780415225601
Format: Hardback
$325.00

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The Continental Aesthetics Reader

The Continental Aesthetics Reader

Author: Clive Cazeaux
ISBN: 9780415200547
Format: Paperback
$118.67

This is an anthology of classic writings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in Continental thought.  Read More >>

The Arts, Popular Culture, and Social Change

The Arts, Popular Culture, and Social Change

Author: Landon E. Beyer
ISBN: 9780820449432
Format: Paperback
$99.92

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The Continental Aesthetics Reader

The Continental Aesthetics Reader

Author: Clive Cazeaux
ISBN: 9780415200530
Format: Hardback
$356.40

This is an anthology of classic writings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in Continental thought.  Read More >>

G. Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy

G. Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy

Author: William C. Madsen
ISBN: 9780415225779
Format: Mixed media product
$504.00

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Aesthetic Order: A Philosophy of Order, Beauty and Art

Aesthetic Order: A Philosophy of Order, Beauty and Art...

Author: Ruth Lorand
ISBN: 9780415236027
Format: Hardback
$210.00

Aesthetic Order challenges contemporary theories of aesthetics, offering the idea of beauty as quantitative yet...  Read More >>

Color Perception: Philosophical, Psychological, Artistic and Computational Perspectives

Color Perception: Philosophical, Psychological, Artistic...

Author: Steven Davis
ISBN: 9780195136685
Format: Paperback
$171.60

"That colour is a quality of perception rather than a ""physical quality"" brings up a host of questions relevant...  Read More >>

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