Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Philosophy And The Arts

Philosophy And The Arts

Author: Andrew Harrison ,  Ray Monk (University of Southampton)
ISBN: 9781855064997
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines how questions of understanding the pictorial and narrative arts relate to central themes in philosophy....  Read More >>

Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics

Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics

Author: Nicholas Martin (Lecturer in Modern Languages, University of St Andrews, Lecturer in Modern Languages, University of St Andrews)
ISBN: 9780198159131
Format: Hardback
$317.95

This is the first ever comparative study of Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and Schiller's Aesthetic Letters, two crucial...  Read More >>

Understanding Pictures

Understanding Pictures

Author: Dominic Lopes (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University at Kokomo)
ISBN: 9780198240976
Format: Hardback
$209.95

This book examines the kinds of visual and cultural skills viewers needs to have to understand pictures. The book...  Read More >>

L'Art Et La Sensibilite de Kant a Michel Henry

L'Art Et La Sensibilite de Kant a Michel Henry

Author: Gabrielle Dufour-Kowalska
ISBN: 9782711612604
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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The Century of Taste: The Philosophical Odyssey of Taste in the Eighteenth Century

The Century of Taste: The Philosophical Odyssey of Taste...

Author: George Dickie (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Chicago)
ISBN: 9780195096804
Format: Hardback
$170.95

An exposition and critical account of the central figures in the early development of the modern philosophy of art...  Read More >>

Menippean Satire and the Poetics of Wit: Ideologies of Self-Consciousness in Dunton, D'Urfey, and Sterne

Menippean Satire and the Poetics of Wit: Ideologies...

Author: Garry Sherbert
ISBN: 9780820424996
Format: Hardback
$174.11

Despite the prominence given to it recently by Mikhail Bakhtin and Northrop Frye, Menippean satire remains a neglected...  Read More >>

Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism

Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism

Author: Paul Crowther (University Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Oxford, and Fellow, University Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Oxford, and Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198236238
Format: Paperback
$76.95

In this monograph Paul Crowther seeks to overcome some of the antagonistic positions taken in recent debates about...  Read More >>

The Vulgarization of Art: The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy

The Vulgarization of Art: The Victorians and Aesthetic...

Author: Linda Dowling
ISBN: 9780813916347
Format: Hardback
$104.28

In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works...  Read More >>

Ursprungliche Und Physikalische Zeit

Ursprungliche Und Physikalische Zeit

Author: Ewald Richter
ISBN: 9783428085224
Format: Paperback
$250.80

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Mimesis: Culture—Art—Society

Mimesis: Culture—Art—Society

Author: Gunter Gebauer ,  Christoph Wulf
ISBN: 9780520084599
Format: Paperback
$55.95

Mimesis, the notion that art imitates reality, has long been recognized as one of the central ideas of Western aesthetics....  Read More >>

'Virgins of God': The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity

'Virgins of God': The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity...

Author: Susanna Elm (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780198150442
Format: Paperback
$135.95

This study explores how Christian women of the classical world initiated ascetic ways of living, and how these practices...  Read More >>

Art Criticism as Narrative: Diderot's Salon de 1767

Art Criticism as Narrative: Diderot's Salon de 1767...

Author: Julie Wegner Arnold
ISBN: 9780820426624
Format: Hardback
$158.27

This study explores how Denis Diderot watches himself dramatize eighteenth-century French art on the stage of his...  Read More >>

Design and Aesthetics: A Reader

Design and Aesthetics: A Reader

Author: Mo Dodson ,  Jerry Palmer
ISBN: 9780415072335
Format: Paperback
$62.00

A student reader on design history and aesthetics.  Read More >>

The Quest for the Fine: A Philosophical Inquiry into Judgment, Worth, and Existence

The Quest for the Fine: A Philosophical Inquiry into...

Author: Michael Gelven
ISBN: 9780847681242
Format: Paperback
$57.95

An assessment of the relationship between refinement and existence. This text uses literary studies to demonstrate...  Read More >>

Design and Aesthetics: A Reader

Design and Aesthetics: A Reader

Author: Mo Dodson ,  Jerry Palmer
ISBN: 9780415072328
Format: Hardback
$284.00

A student reader on design history and aesthetics.  Read More >>

The Quest for the Fine: A Philosophical Inquiry into Judgment, Worth, and Existence

The Quest for the Fine: A Philosophical Inquiry into...

Author: Michael Gelven
ISBN: 9780847681235
Format: Hardback
$154.95

An assessment of the relationship between refinement and existence. This text uses literary studies to demonstrate...  Read More >>

Lacan, Politics, Aesthetics

Lacan, Politics, Aesthetics

Author: Willy Apollon ,  Richard Feldstein
ISBN: 9780791423721
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This is an anthology of psychoanalytic criticism applied to the wider field of cultural studies including class,...  Read More >>

Works and Worlds of Art

Works and Worlds of Art

Author: Nicholas P. Wolterstorff
ISBN: 9780198244264
Format: Paperback
$32.50

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Kant's Intuitionism: Commentary on the Transcendental Aesthetic

Kant's Intuitionism: Commentary on the Transcendental...

Author: Lorne Falkenstein
ISBN: 9780802029737
Format: Hardback
$184.80

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The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism

The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism...

Author: Wendy Steiner
ISBN: 9780226772233
Format: Hardback
$65.87

This study counters the surge in fundamentalist thinking about the arts, with a liberal aesthetic for recent times....  Read More >>

Ästhetik im Widerstreit

Ästhetik im Widerstreit

Author: Professor Wolfgang Welsch (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet, Jena) ,  Christine Pries
ISBN: 9783050039787
Format: Hardback
$406.56

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Ästhetik im Widerstreit"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

Analytiques du Sens: Essais sur la Sociologie de la Culture

Analytiques du Sens: Essais sur la Sociologie de la...

Author: K. Geldof ,  Geldof Ak
ISBN: 9789068318166
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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Namen Als Gezichten. Essay Over de Faam

Namen Als Gezichten. Essay Over de Faam

Author: Dieter Lesage ,  Lesage Ad
ISBN: 9789068317893
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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