Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction

Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction

Author: Noël Carroll
ISBN: 9780415159647
Format: Paperback
$56.00

This is a textbook for those interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics, introducing the techniques of...  Read More >>

Nietzsche and ′An Architecture oh Our Minds′

Nietzsche and ′An Architecture oh Our Minds′

Author: . Kostka ,  Irvine Wohlfarth
ISBN: 9780892364855
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Thirteen contributors assess the relationship of Nietzschean philosophy to art and architecture.  Read More >>

Der Begriff Der Einbildungskraft Bei Rudolf Kassner

Der Begriff Der Einbildungskraft Bei Rudolf Kassner...

Author: Slawomir Lesniak ,  Slawomir Lesniak
ISBN: 9783631355428
Format: Paperback
$86.68

Die Einbildungskraft ist besonders in der philosophischen Tradition vielfach zum Gegenstand der ästhetischen Spekulation...  Read More >>

After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art & Aestheticism in Victorian England

After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art & Aestheticism in Victorian...

Author: Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn (University of York) ,  Elizabeth P John
ISBN: 9780813527512
Format: Paperback
$68.64

After the Pre-Raphaelites qualifies in some ways as a sequel to the early scores of general treatises on Pre-Raphaelitism,...  Read More >>

Beauty in Arabic Culture

Beauty in Arabic Culture

Author: Doris Behrens- Abouseif
ISBN: 9781558761995
Format: Paperback
$35.20

Doris Behrens-Abouseif provides a panorama of the concepts of beauty in classical and post classical Arabic culture...  Read More >>

Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of Law

Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics...

Author: Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck, University of London) ,  Lynda Nead
ISBN: 9780226569536
Format: Hardback
$163.95

A discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image. The essays draw on the critical procedures...  Read More >>

Beauty in Arabic Culture

Beauty in Arabic Culture

Author: D.Behrens- Abouseif
ISBN: 9781558761988
Format: Hardback
$184.67

Doris Behrens-Abouseif provides a panorama of the concepts of beauty in classical and post classical Arabic culture...  Read More >>

Rhetoric of Machine Aesthetics

Rhetoric of Machine Aesthetics

Author: Barry Brummett
ISBN: 9780275966447
Format: Hardback
$103.00

Introduces a scheme of machine aesthetics, including classical industrial machines, high technology, and decaying...  Read More >>

Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject - A Reader

Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject -...

Author: Fabio Cleto
ISBN: 9780748611713
Format: Paperback
$54.00

Addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to...  Read More >>

Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics

Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics...

Author: Shierry Weber Nicholsen
ISBN: 9780262640404
Format: Paperback
$58.08

In Exact Imagination, Late Work, Shierry Weber Nicholsen begins the process of appropriating Adorno through the...  Read More >>

Appropriation Art,: Die Kopie ALS Kunstform Im 20. Jahrhundert

Appropriation Art,: Die Kopie ALS Kunstform Im 20. Jahrhundert...

Author: Romana Rebbelmund
ISBN: 9783631353431
Format: Paperback
$205.79

Die Kopie wurde in den achtziger Jahren unter dem Begriff -Appropriation Art- als eigenstandige Kunstform proklamiert....  Read More >>

Poetry of Philosophy

Poetry of Philosophy

Author: Michael Davis
ISBN: 9781890318628
Format: Paperback
$31.95

The author puts forward the argument that Aristotle's 'Poetics' pertains as much to philosophy as it does to literary...  Read More >>

The Arts and Sciences of Criticism

The Arts and Sciences of Criticism

Author: David Fuller (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Durham) ,  Patricia Waugh (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Durham)
ISBN: 9780198186397
Format: Hardback
$189.95

What can we expect of literature? And what should the role of criticism be? This collection reflects on developments...  Read More >>

Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics

Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics

Author: Dabney Townsend
ISBN: 9780895031877
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Containing twenty-two essays, including Dabney Townsend's essay on the development of eighteenth century aesthetics...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Music

The Aesthetics of Music

Author: Roger Scruton
ISBN: 9780198167273
Format: Paperback
$52.95

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Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of Law

Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics...

Author: Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck, University of London) ,  Lynda Nead
ISBN: 9780226569543
Format: Paperback
$65.95

A discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image. The essays draw on the critical procedures...  Read More >>

The Man Without Content

The Man Without Content

Author: Giorgio Agamben ,  Georgia Albert
ISBN: 9780804735544
Format: Paperback
$37.95

Agamben considers the status of art in the modern era. He argues that Hegel did not proclaim the 'death of art'...  Read More >>

The Man Without Content

The Man Without Content

Author: Giorgio Agamben ,  Georgia Albert
ISBN: 9780804735537
Format: Hardback
$71.99

Agamben considers the status of art in the modern era. He argues that Hegel did not proclaim the death of art but...  Read More >>

Reconstituting the Body Politic: Enlightenment, Public Culture and the Invention of Aesthetic Autonomy

Reconstituting the Body Politic: Enlightenment, Public...

Author: Jonathan M. Hess
ISBN: 9780814327883
Format: Hardback
$118.67

The concept that art must have no instrumental function is traditionally traced to Kant's Critique of Judgment...  Read More >>

Egotopia: Narcissism and the New American Landscape

Egotopia: Narcissism and the New American Landscape...

Author: John Miller ,  Ashley Montagu
ISBN: 9780817309930
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Miller forges an explanation for the increasing blight of America's built environment - the billboards, malls, and...  Read More >>

The Road to Egdon Heath: The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature

The Road to Egdon Heath: The Aesthetics of the Great...

Author: Richard Bevis
ISBN: 9780773518001
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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Film Theory and Philosophy

Film Theory and Philosophy

Author: Richard Allen (Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University) ,  Murray Smith (Lecturer in Film Studies, Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury)
ISBN: 9780198159889
Format: Paperback
$133.95

A volume of essays on film theory. Topics addressed include genre, authorship, emotion, ideology, representation,...  Read More >>

Das schöne Unendliche: Ästhetik, Kritik, Geschichte der romantischen Musikanschauung

Das schöne Unendliche: Ästhetik, Kritik, Geschichte...

Author: Ulrich Tadday
ISBN: 9783476016645
Format: Hardback
$79.17

"Die Musik gilt seit jeher als die ""romantische"" Kunst schlechthin. In seiner Diskursgeschichte gibt Ulrich Tadday...  Read More >>

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