Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Contemporary Art

Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Contemporary...

Author: Alana Jelinek
ISBN: 9781350100497
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Written from the perspective of a practising artist, this book proposes that, against a groundswell of historians,...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Michel Foucault
ISBN: 9780241435113
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Presents a collection of Michel Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars. This work focuses primarily upon the...  Read More >>

Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Contemporary Art

Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Contemporary...

Author: Alana Jelinek
ISBN: 9781350100480
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Written from the perspective of a practising artist, this book proposes that, against a groundswell of historians,...  Read More >>

Explaining Imagination

Explaining Imagination

Author: Peter Langland-Hassan (Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati)
ISBN: 9780198815068
Format: Hardback
$202.95

Imagination will remain a mystery--we will not be able to explain imagination--until we can break it into parts...  Read More >>

Pixel

Pixel

Author: Ian Epstein (Apple News, USA)
ISBN: 9781501333521
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The...  Read More >>

Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige

Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige...

Author: Barbara Carnevali ,  Zakiya Hanafi
ISBN: 9780231187060
Format: Hardback
$198.95

In this strikingly original book, Barbara Carnevali offers a philosophical examination of the roles that appearances...  Read More >>

I Appeared to the Madonna

I Appeared to the Madonna

Author: Carmelo Bene ,  Carole Viers-Andronico
ISBN: 9781940625355
Format: Paperback
$41.40

I Appeared to the Madonna is an incendiary testament of actor Carmelo Bene's life. Featuring tales of his combative...  Read More >>

Secrets of Creation

Secrets of Creation

Author: Robin Mackay
ISBN: 9780957529519
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Franz Ficker (1782 - 1849): Oesterreichische Aesthetik unter Staatsaufsicht vor dem Herbartianismus

Franz Ficker (1782 - 1849): Oesterreichische Aesthetik...

Author: Wynfrid Kriegleder ,  Jürgen Ostmeyer
ISBN: 9783631819418
Format: Hardback
$169.09

Erste Monografie über Franz Fickers Ästhetik. Die Ästhetik des institutionell wichtigsten Universitätsästhetikers...  Read More >>

The Aesthetic Clinic: Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary Writing, Psychoanalysis, and Art

The Aesthetic Clinic: Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary...

Author: Fernanda Negrete
ISBN: 9781438480213
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding...  Read More >>

Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity

Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity

Author: Maria Voyatzaki
ISBN: 9781474474542
Format: Paperback
$72.42

This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians...  Read More >>

Affect in Artistic Creativity: Painting to Feel

Affect in Artistic Creativity: Painting to Feel

Author: Jussi Saarinen
ISBN: 9780367522476
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Why do painters paint? Obviously, there are numerous possible reasons. They paint to create images for others’ enjoyment,...  Read More >>

The Visible, the Sublime and the Sensus Communis: Kant’s Theory of Perception

The Visible, the Sublime and the Sensus Communis: Kant’s...

Author: Tamar Japaridze
ISBN: 9783030514198
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book argues that Kant develops a theory of perception in the Critique of Judgment from which one can redefine...  Read More >>

Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou

Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe,...

Author: Sarah Hickmott
ISBN: 9781474458313
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Analyses the role of music in the work of Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe and Badiou, and the role of gender in the history...  Read More >>

Affect in Artistic Creativity: Painting to Feel

Affect in Artistic Creativity: Painting to Feel

Author: Jussi Saarinen
ISBN: 9780367522490
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Why do painters paint? Obviously, there are numerous possible reasons. They paint to create images for others’ enjoyment,...  Read More >>

Dangerous Art: On Moral Criticisms of Artwork

Dangerous Art: On Moral Criticisms of Artwork

Author: James Harold (Mount Holyoke College)
ISBN: 9780197519790
Format: Undefined
$171.60

Dangerous Art takes up the problem of judging works of art using moral standards. When we think that a work is racist,...  Read More >>

Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers

Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers

Author: Mathijs Peters
ISBN: 9783030430993
Format: Hardback
$194.04

This book explores the ways in which popular music can criticise political, social and economic structures, through...  Read More >>

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative Aesthetics in Video Games

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative Aesthetics...

Author: Deniz Denizel ,  Deniz Eyüce Şansal
ISBN: 9781799854098
Format: Paperback
$240.90

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative Aesthetics in Video Gamesis a collection of contemporary research and...  Read More >>

On Noise! Philosophy – Art – Organization

On Noise! Philosophy – Art – Organization

Author: Luc Peters
ISBN: 9781527554283
Format: Hardback
$263.87

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Antigone Uninterrupted: Antigone's Biographical Tale of Learning from Tragic Counsel

Antigone Uninterrupted: Antigone's Biographical Tale...

Author: Wendy Bustamante
ISBN: 9781648890703
Format: Paperback
$116.16

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Noël Carroll and Film: A Philosophy of Art and Popular Culture

Noël Carroll and Film: A Philosophy of Art and Popular...

Author: Mario Slugan (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350175013
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Noël Carroll is one of the most prolific, widely-cited and distinguished philosophers of art, but how, specifically,...  Read More >>

The Invention of the Self: Personal Identity in the Age of Art

The Invention of the Self: Personal Identity in the...

Author: Andrew Spira
ISBN: 9781350091054
Format: Hardback
$320.00

This book is an examination of personal identity, exploring both who we think we are, and how we construct the sense...  Read More >>

Simulated Selves: The Undoing of Personal Identity in the Modern World

Simulated Selves: The Undoing of Personal Identity in...

Author: Andrew Spira (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350091092
Format: Hardback
$320.00

The notion of a personal self took centuries to evolve, reaching the pinnacle of autonomy with Descartes’ ‘I think,...  Read More >>

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