Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Aesthetic Theory

Aesthetic Theory

Author: Theodor W. Adorno Adorno
ISBN: 9780816617999
Format: Hardback
$217.80

Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is...  Read More >>

Dance-Based Dance Theory: From Borrowed Models to Dance-Based Experience

Dance-Based Dance Theory: From Borrowed Models to Dance-Based...

Author: Judith B Alter
ISBN: 9780820437057
Format: Paperback
$62.10

This book traces the intellectual history of twentieth-century dance theory from its dependence on aesthetics for...  Read More >>

The Elusive Synthesis: Aesthetics and Science

The Elusive Synthesis: Aesthetics and Science

Author: Alfred I. Tauber
ISBN: 9780792339045
Format: Hardback
$572.88

This collection of essays ranges from phenomenological descriptions of the beautiful in science, to analytical explorations...  Read More >>

Rationalität und Kritik

Rationalität und Kritik

Author: Volker Gadenne ,  Hans J Wendel
ISBN: 9783161466588
Format: Paperback
$117.95

Proceedings of a colloquium held in Feb. 1996 in Mannheim, Germany, on the occasion of Hans Albert's 75th birthday....  Read More >>

Aesthetic Ideology

Aesthetic Ideology

Author: Paul De Man ,  Andrzej Warminski
ISBN: 9780816622047
Format: Paperback
$40.95

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Kitsch and Art

Kitsch and Art

Author: Thomas Kulka
ISBN: 9780271015941
Format: Paperback
$89.63

What is kitsch? What is behind its appeal? More important, what is wrong with kitsch? Though central to our modern...  Read More >>

Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing

Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing

Author: Carolyn Bailey Gill
ISBN: 9780415125963
Format: Paperback
$70.00

This timely collection of essays is the first to be written on the work of Maurice Blanchot in English. Blanchot...  Read More >>

Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing

Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing

Author: Carolyn Bailey Gill
ISBN: 9780415125956
Format: Hardback
$210.00

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The Artful Universe: The Cosmic Source of Human Creativity

The Artful Universe: The Cosmic Source of Human Creativity...

Author: John D Barrow ,  John D Barrow
ISBN: 9780316082426
Format: Paperback
$52.77

In this eclectic and entertaining study of the interrelationship between the arts and the sciences, Barrow explains...  Read More >>

Environmental Aesthetics: Ideas, Politics and Planning

Environmental Aesthetics: Ideas, Politics and Planning...

Author: J. Douglas Porteous
ISBN: 9780415137706
Format: Paperback
$98.00

This is the first comprehensive, integrated study of the emerging interdisciplinary field of environmental aesthetics....  Read More >>

Environmental Aesthetics: Ideas, Politics and Planning

Environmental Aesthetics: Ideas, Politics and Planning...

Author: J. Douglas Porteous
ISBN: 9780415137690
Format: Hardback
$322.00

Environmental Aesthetics is a comprehensive introduction. It includes a history of aesthetics, discussing the psychology...  Read More >>

Beauty in Context: Towards an Anthropological Approach to Aesthetics

Beauty in Context: Towards an Anthropological Approach...

Author: Wilfried van Damme
ISBN: 9789004106086
Format: Hardback
$388.08

In surveying the field of the anthropology of aesthetics, the author argues that the phenomenon of cultural relativism...  Read More >>

Philosophische Bewertungsmoglichkeiten Der Abtreibung

Philosophische Bewertungsmoglichkeiten Der Abtreibung...

Author: Manfred Kindl
ISBN: 9783428088164
Format: Paperback
$306.24

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Hirngewebetransplantation Und Personale Identitat

Hirngewebetransplantation Und Personale Identitat

Author: Elisabeth Hildt
ISBN: 9783428086283
Format: Paperback
$269.28

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitèat Tèubingen, 1995.  Read More >>

The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics

The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History...

Author: Martha Woodmansee ,  Arthur Coleman Danto
ISBN: 9780231106016
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature...  Read More >>

The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art

The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art

Author: Stephen David Ross
ISBN: 9780791430088
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Traces the history of the idea of art as an ethical movement, interpreting the good as nature's abundance, giving...  Read More >>

Television Aesthetics: Perceptual, Cognitive and Compositional Bases

Television Aesthetics: Perceptual, Cognitive and Compositional...

Author: Nikos Metallinos
ISBN: 9780805822182
Format: Paperback
$72.00

The aesthetic principles of television images presented are drawn from converging research in academic disciplines...  Read More >>

Picturing Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science

Picturing Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Problems...

Author: Brian Baigrie
ISBN: 9780802029850
Format: Hardback
$250.80

The contributors to this volume examine the historical and philosophical issues concerning the role that scientific...  Read More >>

The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor W. Adorno on Mass Culture

The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor W. Adorno on...

Author: Deborah Cook
ISBN: 9780847681556
Format: Paperback
$68.95

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The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays

The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays

Author: Jerrold Levinson
ISBN: 9780801482267
Format: Paperback
$83.16

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The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays

The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays

Author: Jerrold Levinson
ISBN: 9780801430596
Format: Hardback
$343.20

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