Philosophy: aesthetics books

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A Theory of Art

A Theory of Art

Author: Karol Berger (Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780195128604
Format: Hardback
$190.95

A feature of the book is its argument that music exemplifies the current condition of art in a revealing fashion....  Read More >>

Mediterranean Perspectives: Philosophy, Theology, Aesthetics

Mediterranean Perspectives: Philosophy, Theology, Aesthetics...

Author: Robert M. Berchman
ISBN: 9781868405688
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Characterize several lines of intellectual development by which some of the fundamental features of ancient, medieval,...  Read More >>

Between Literature and Science: Poe, LEM and Explorations in Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, and Literary Knowledge

Between Literature and Science: Poe, LEM and Explorations...

Author: Peter Swirski (University of Missouri, St Louis, University of Hong Kong University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. University of Hong Kong University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781282858565
Format: Electronic book text
$300.96

Through close analysis of Eureka and The Purloined Letter, Swirski evaluates Poe's epistemological theses in the...  Read More >>

Making Sense

Making Sense

Author: Paul Thom (Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781299785533
Format: Electronic book text
$68.61

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The Music of Silence

The Music of Silence

Author: Sir John Tavener ,  Brian Keeble
ISBN: 9780571200887
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A study of the philosophy and spiritual world behind the music of one of the leading present-day composers.  Read More >>

Perictione In Colophon

Perictione In Colophon

Author: Roger Scruton
ISBN: 9781890318598
Format: Hardback
$49.95

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Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste

Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste

Author: Greenberg Clement
ISBN: 9786610655175
Format: Electronic book text
$65.21

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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: 9781280317972
Format: Electronic book text
$398.64

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

The Aesthetic Turn: Reading Eliot Deutsch on Comparative Philosophy

The Aesthetic Turn: Reading Eliot Deutsch on Comparative...

Author: Roger T. Ames
ISBN: 9780812694055
Format: Hardback
$77.99

Celebrating Eliot Deutsch's project promoting understanding of Asian philosophical ideas among Westerners, these...  Read More >>

Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture

Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of...

Author: Allen Carlson
ISBN: 9780415206839
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy

Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy

Author: Carolyn Korsmeyer
ISBN: 9780801436987
Format: Hardback
$150.35

Taste has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy - too bound to the body, too personal...  Read More >>

Aesthetics, Method, And Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984

Aesthetics, Method, And Epistemology: Essential Works...

Author: Michel Foucault ,  James D. Faubion
ISBN: 9781565845589
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The second in a three-volume definitive collection of articles, interviews, and seminars from one of the century's...  Read More >>

The Aesthetic Relation

The Aesthetic Relation

Author: Gerard Genette ,  Geoffrey M. Goshgarian
ISBN: 9780801435119
Format: Hardback
$279.45

One of the best-known continental theorists writing today, Gerard Genette here explores our aesthetic relation to...  Read More >>

On Trust: Art and the Temptations of Suspicion

On Trust: Art and the Temptations of Suspicion

Author: Gabriel Josipovici
ISBN: 9780300079913
Format: Hardback
$118.80

In this book, a novelist, playwright, and literary critic explores the question that has troubled artists and philosophers...  Read More >>

Kant and the Ends of Aesthetics

Kant and the Ends of Aesthetics

Author: G. Banham
ISBN: 9780333732229
Format: Hardback
$196.00

This work presents a rethinking of Critical Philosophy through the recovery of a larger sense of 'aesthetics' in...  Read More >>

Widerstände Der Systemtheorie: Kulturtheoretische Analyse Der Werke Von Luhmann

Widerstände Der Systemtheorie: Kulturtheoretische Analyse...

Author: Albert Koschorke ,  Cornelia Vismann
ISBN: 9783050034775
Format: Hardback
$285.09

Wie kaum eine andere soziologische Theorie der vergangenen Jahrzehnte bietet die Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns kulturwissenschaftliche...  Read More >>

Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction

Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction

Author: Noël Carroll
ISBN: 9780415159630
Format: Hardback
$210.00

A textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics, this book introduces...  Read More >>

Beauty and Revolution in Science

Beauty and Revolution in Science

Author: James W. McAllister
ISBN: 9780801486258
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory

Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance...

Author: Susan Broadhurst
ISBN: 9780304705863
Format: Paperback
$79.99

"An analysis of liminal performance. It surveys traditional and contemporary aesthetics, followed by a series of...  Read More >>

The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, 1890-1934

The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic,...

Author: Irina Gutkin
ISBN: 9780810115453
Format: Hardback
$184.67

In this book, Gutkin brings together the best work written on the subject of Soviet aesthetic ideology.  Read More >>

Redemption or Annihilation?: Love Versus Power in Wagner's Ring

Redemption or Annihilation?: Love Versus Power in Wagner's...

Author: John Tietz
ISBN: 9780820441481
Format: Hardback
$137.15

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Art and the Brain

Art and the Brain

Author: Joseph Goguen
ISBN: 9780907845454
Format: Paperback
$46.45

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