Philosophy: aesthetics books

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The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau: Ethics, Politics, and Nature

The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau: Ethics, Politics, and...

Author: Professor Lester H. Hunt (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
ISBN: 9781350254022
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Henry Thoreau is widely considered to be one of the greatest nature writers, among whose best-known works are Walden...  Read More >>

Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili: Towards a Critical Contemporaneity

Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang...

Author: Paul Gladston (University of New South Wales, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350254015
Format: Paperback
$64.99

In recent decades the previously assumed dominance within the international art world of western(ized) conceptions...  Read More >>

Thinking on Thinking: Studies in Mind, Meaning, and Subjectivity

Thinking on Thinking: Studies in Mind, Meaning, and...

Author: Robert M Berchman
ISBN: 9781725273825
Format: Hardback
$179.52

Aristotle and Plotinus set the horizon of inquiry--thinking is thinking on thinking. Discussion of mind, meaning,...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Susanne Langer: Embodied Meaning in Logic, Art and Feeling

The Philosophy of Susanne Langer: Embodied Meaning in...

Author: Adrienne Chaplin (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350254039
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This book is a comprehensive study of one of the most insightful and fertile but also most neglected philosophers...  Read More >>

Sound and Affect: Voice, Music, World

Sound and Affect: Voice, Music, World

Author: Judith Lochhead ,  Eduardo Mendieta
ISBN: 9780226751832
Format: Hardback
$187.95

There is no place on earth that does not echo with the near or distant sounds of human activity. More than half...  Read More >>

Encounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy: Chance and Choice

Encounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy:...

Author: Dr Jérôme Brillaud (The University of Manchester, UK) ,  Professor Virginie Greene (Harvard University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350160903
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Encounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy focuses on chance and scripted encounters as sites of tensions...  Read More >>

Perceptual Illusions: Philosophical and Psychological Essays

Perceptual Illusions: Philosophical and Psychological...

Author: C. Calabi
ISBN: 9781349594986
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Although current debates in epistemology and philosophy of mind show a renewed interest in perceptual illusions,...  Read More >>

Japanese Architecture: A Whole Aesthetic Horizon: Insight Into Some Of Japan'S Cultural History

Japanese Architecture: A Whole Aesthetic Horizon: Insight...

Author: Jeni Bardsley
ISBN: 9798511949406
Format: Paperback
$23.73

The ultimate, highly important articulation of the Japanese philosopher and aesthete's theory of folkcrafts has...  Read More >>

An Ikigai Journey: Lessons From The Oldest To Find Purpose In Life: Slow Down The Process Of Aging

An Ikigai Journey: Lessons From The Oldest To Find Purpose...

Author: Rubi Naderi
ISBN: 9798511967776
Format: Paperback
$23.73

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L'arte che schiude il senso. La filosofia dell'arte di Wittgenstein e Heidegger

L'arte che schiude il senso. La filosofia dell'arte...

Author: Michele Ragno
ISBN: 9788833634760
Format: Paperback
$27.79

"""Proprio per preservare la sensibilità in quanto tale, dev'essere compiuto ancora una volta il passo indietro...  Read More >>

Kant and the Claims of Taste

Kant and the Claims of Taste

Author: Paul Guyer (Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph, University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781139173025
Format: Undefined
$620.40

Kant and the Claims of Taste, published here for the first time in paperback in a revised version, has become, since...  Read More >>

Thinking Out of Sight: Writings on the Arts of the Visible

Thinking Out of Sight: Writings on the Arts of the Visible...

Author: Jacques Derrida ,  Joana Masó
ISBN: 9780226140612
Format: Hardback
$79.95

Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today—and for more than three...  Read More >>

Kant's Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life

Kant's Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life

Author: Katalin Makkai
ISBN: 9781108497794
Format: Hardback
$214.76

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Figural Space: Semiotics and the Aesthetic Imaginary

Figural Space: Semiotics and the Aesthetic Imaginary...

Author: William D. Melaney
ISBN: 9781538147856
Format: Hardback
$322.08

This study provides a philosophical overview of select classics of Renaissance to contemporary literature to show...  Read More >>

Wabi Sabi: 3 en 1- Guia completa para principiantes para aprender los reinos de Wabi-Sabi de la A-Z+ Consejos efectivos para vivir una vida larga y significativa+ Metodos simples y efectivos

Wabi Sabi: 3 en 1- Guia completa para principiantes...

Author: Robert Miller
ISBN: 9798508425203
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Este libro ofrece una mirada completa a la cosmovision japonesa conocida como Wabi-Sabi y como se puede utilizar...  Read More >>

The Political Power of Visual Art: Liberty, Solidarity, and Rights

The Political Power of Visual Art: Liberty, Solidarity,...

Author: Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan, USA)
ISBN: 9781350182370
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Visual art has a ubiquitous political cast today. But which politics? Daniel Herwitz seeks clarity on the various...  Read More >>

Philosophy, Literature and Understanding: On Reading and Cognition

Philosophy, Literature and Understanding: On Reading...

Author: Dr Jukka Mikkonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
ISBN: 9781350163966
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Challenging existing methodological conceptions of the analytic approach to aesthetics, Jukka Mikkonen brings together...  Read More >>

Future Theory: A Handbook to Critical Concepts

Future Theory: A Handbook to Critical Concepts

Author: Patricia Waugh (Durham University, UK) ,  Marc Botha (Durham University, UK)
ISBN: 9781472567352
Format: Hardback
$300.00

By interrogating the terms and concepts most central to cultural change, Future Theory interrogates how theory can...  Read More >>

An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought

An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical...

Author: Benjamin Steege
ISBN: 9780226762982
Format: Hardback
$99.95

An Unnatural Attitude traces a style of musical thought that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar...  Read More >>

The Political Power of Visual Art: Liberty, Solidarity, and Rights

The Political Power of Visual Art: Liberty, Solidarity,...

Author: Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan, USA)
ISBN: 9781350182387
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Visual art has a ubiquitous political cast today. But which politics? Daniel Herwitz seeks clarity on the various...  Read More >>

Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form

Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of...

Author: Kevin Ohi
ISBN: 9780823294633
Format: Paperback
$102.96

The beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that noncoincidence points to the text's...  Read More >>

Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form

Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of...

Author: Kevin Ohi
ISBN: 9780823294626
Format: Hardback
$364.32

The beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that noncoincidence points to the text's...  Read More >>

Western Art and the Meanderings of a Culture, PB (vol 4)

Western Art and the Meanderings of a Culture, PB (vol...

Author: Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker
ISBN: 9781909281837
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Rookmaaker's expert knowledge leads the way to an appreciation of the beauty and artistic eloquence of many a work...  Read More >>

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