Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Montage, Découpage, Mise en scène: Essays on Film Form

Montage, Découpage, Mise en scène: Essays on Film Form...

Author: Laurent Le Forestier ,  Timothy Barnard
ISBN: 9781927852071
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Starts from the premise that the concept montage does not exist in the absolute but must always be considered...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies

The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies

Author: Krešimir Purgar
ISBN: 9783030718329
Format: Paperback
$517.47

This handbook brings together the most current and hotly debated topics in studies about images today. In the fourth...  Read More >>

Labyrinths of Language: Philosophical and Cultural Investigations

Labyrinths of Language: Philosophical and Cultural Investigations...

Author: Franson Manjali
ISBN: 9781032364971
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Thirteen essays in the book explore and investigate diverse contemporary philosophically current themes and issues....  Read More >>

The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature

The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature...

Author: Peter J. Kalliney
ISBN: 9780691230634
Format: Hardback
$69.99

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean How did superpower...  Read More >>

The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics

The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics...

Author: Zrinka Božić
ISBN: 9783031115561
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book rethinks the concept of community taking Jean-Luc Nancy’s influential essay “La communauté désoeuvrée”...  Read More >>

Reading Architecture with Freud and Lacan: Shadowing the Public Realm

Reading Architecture with Freud and Lacan: Shadowing...

Author: Lorens Holm (Dundee University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367077990
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book methodically outlines key concepts in psychoanalytic discourse by reading them against key modern and...  Read More >>

The Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables: Integrating Theology, Philosophy, and Film

The Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables: Integrating...

Author: Joel Mayward
ISBN: 9781032302072
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables examines the work of Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne,...  Read More >>

Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema: Screening Composite Spaces

Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema:...

Author: Jennifer Kirby
ISBN: 9781032119465
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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The Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations

The Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations...

Author: Samuel Hazo
ISBN: 9780268206949
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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Reading Architecture with Freud and Lacan: Shadowing the Public Realm

Reading Architecture with Freud and Lacan: Shadowing...

Author: Lorens Holm (Dundee University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367077983
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book methodically outlines key concepts in psychoanalytic discourse by reading them against key modern and...  Read More >>

The Legitimacy of Poetic Reason

The Legitimacy of Poetic Reason

Author: O. Bradley Bassler
ISBN: 9783031123139
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Many philosophical accounts of reason are geared toward providing rational justifications ex post facto rather than...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Friendship

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Friendship

Author: Diane Jeske
ISBN: 9780367440022
Format: Hardback
$452.00

A superb compilation that explores the history, major topics, and controversies in philosophical work on friendship....  Read More >>

Art, Ethics and the Human-Animal Relationship

Art, Ethics and the Human-Animal Relationship

Author: Linda Johnson
ISBN: 9783030788353
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book examines the works of major artists between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as important barometers...  Read More >>

Beyond Nihilism: The Turn in Heidegger’s Thought from Nietzsche to Hölderlin

Beyond Nihilism: The Turn in Heidegger’s Thought from...

Author: Dominic Kelly
ISBN: 9781350133754
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Martin Heidegger’s (1889-1976) criticism of Friedrich Nietzsche’s nihilism represented a ‘turn’ in his thought....  Read More >>

Lyotard and Critical Practice

Lyotard and Critical Practice

Author: Dr Kiff Bamford ,  Professor Margret Grebowicz
ISBN: 9781350192027
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the previous century’s most provocative thinkers. Can his work help...  Read More >>

Being of Two Minds: Modernist Literary Criticism and Early Modern Texts

Being of Two Minds: Modernist Literary Criticism and...

Author: Jonathan Goldberg
ISBN: 9781531501617
Format: Paperback
$57.25

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Being of Two Minds: Modernist Literary Criticism and Early Modern Texts

Being of Two Minds: Modernist Literary Criticism and...

Author: Jonathan Goldberg
ISBN: 9781531501600
Format: Hardback
$217.80

Being of Two Minds examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T....  Read More >>

The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement: Beyond the Arab Uprisings

The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement: Beyond the...

Author: Pénélope Larzillière
ISBN: 9789004518445
Format: Hardback
$377.52

Are artistic engagements evolving, or attracting more attention? The range of artistic protest actions shows how...  Read More >>

"J. R. R. Tolkien's ""The Hobbit""": Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion

"J. R. R. Tolkien's ""The Hobbit""": Realizing History...

Author: Robert T. Tally Jr.
ISBN: 9783031112652
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Drawing on Marxist literary criticism and narrative theory, this book examines the form and content of Tolkien’s...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics

The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics

Author: Marcos Nadal (University of the Balearic Islands) ,  Oshin Vartanian (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780198824350
Format: Hardback
$323.44

The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics provides the most comprehensive coverage of the domain of empirical...  Read More >>

A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1895–1959

A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1895–1959

Author: Dan Geva
ISBN: 9783030794682
Format: Paperback
$232.85

and second, that only the structured assemblage of the entire set of definitions successfully depicts the true ethical...  Read More >>

The Representation of Economics in Cinema: Scarcity, Greed and Utopia

The Representation of Economics in Cinema: Scarcity,...

Author: Santiago Sanchez-Pages
ISBN: 9783030801830
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book studies how films have portrayed trade unions, scarcity, money, businesses, innovators, migrant workers,...  Read More >>

Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable

Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable...

Author: Timothy Cleveland
ISBN: 9781793614841
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Beyond Words argues that some works of fiction and poetry are especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding...  Read More >>

Music as Cultural Heritage and Novelty

Music as Cultural Heritage and Novelty

Author: Oana Andreica
ISBN: 9783031111457
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Alongside themes of general interest, such as classical repertoire, the music of well-established composers and...  Read More >>

Mimetische Milieus: Eine Asthetik Der Reproduktion

Mimetische Milieus: Eine Asthetik Der Reproduktion

Author: Maria Muhle
ISBN: 9783770570638
Format: Paperback
$73.92

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