Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy

Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics,...

Author: Mark Foster Gage
ISBN: 9780815369752
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Aesthetics of the Margins / The Margins of Aesthetics: Wild Art Explained

Aesthetics of the Margins / The Margins of Aesthetics:...

Author: David Carrier ,  Joachim Pissarro (Bershad Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Galleries)
ISBN: 9780271081137
Format: Hardback
$104.00

Examines art that stands outside the margins of the art world, the critical and cultural conditions that made this...  Read More >>

Unnatural Theology: Religion, Art and Media after the Death of God

Unnatural Theology: Religion, Art and Media after the...

Author: Charlie Gere (Lancaster University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350064690
Format: Hardback
$220.00

The failure of secular modernity to deliver on its promise of progress and enlightenment leaves a void that religion...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy

The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy

Author: Adrienne M. Martin
ISBN: 9781138184442
Format: Hardback
$483.00

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Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema: A Spinozian Analysis of Film Experience

Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema: A Spinozian...

Author: Francesco Sticchi
ISBN: 9781138317741
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy

Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics,...

Author: Mark Foster Gage
ISBN: 9780815369745
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value: Modern Ruins, Ruin Porn, and the Ruin Tradition

How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value: Modern Ruins, Ruin...

Author: Tanya Whitehouse
ISBN: 9783030030643
Format: Hardback
$142.29

This book provides the first recent philosophical account of how ruins acquire aesthetic value.  It draws on a variety...  Read More >>

Dewey for Artists

Dewey for Artists

Author: Mary Jane Jacob
ISBN: 9780226580449
Format: Paperback
$47.95

John Dewey is known as a pragmatic philosopher and progressive architect of American educational reform, but some...  Read More >>

Dewey for Artists

Dewey for Artists

Author: Mary Jane Jacob
ISBN: 9780226580302
Format: Hardback
$163.95

John Dewey is known as a pragmatic philosopher and progressive architect of American educational reform, but some...  Read More >>

Images of Community: Durkheim, Social Systems and the Sociology of Art

Images of Community: Durkheim, Social Systems and the...

Author: John A. Smith ,  Chris Jenks
ISBN: 9781138729209
Format: Hardback
$189.00

This study began in opposition to the predominance of notions of wording in the study of human culture and society....  Read More >>

Environment and the Arts: Perspectives on Environmental Aesthetics

Environment and the Arts: Perspectives on Environmental...

Author: Arnold Berleant
ISBN: 9781138740242
Format: Hardback
$189.00

This title seeks to uncover the particular status of the arts. Their gift perhaps lies in their ability to focus...  Read More >>

The Joyous Science

The Joyous Science

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche ,  R. Kevin Hill
ISBN: 9780141195391
Format: Paperback
$26.99

New to Penguin Classics, The Joyous Science is Nietzsche's most personal book - and one of his best The Joyous...  Read More >>

The Extravagance of Music

The Extravagance of Music

Author: David Brown ,  Gavin Hopps
ISBN: 9783030063030
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke...  Read More >>

On Taste: Aesthetic Exchanges

On Taste: Aesthetic Exchanges

Author: Jane Forsey ,  Jane Forsey
ISBN: 9781527521513
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This volume offers an original and innovative collection of fresh approaches to the investigation of the idea of...  Read More >>

Bodies in China: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and Politics

Bodies in China: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and...

Author: Eva Kit Wah Man
ISBN: 9781438466361
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.  Read More >>

Plotinus and the Origins of Medieval Aesthetics

Plotinus and the Origins of Medieval Aesthetics

Author: Andre Grabar ,  Adrien Palladino
ISBN: 9788833130903
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Plotinus and the Origins of Medieval Aesthetics, an iconic essay of byzantinist Andre Grabar, first published in...  Read More >>

Following His Own Path: Li Zehou and Contemporary Chinese Philosophy

Following His Own Path: Li Zehou and Contemporary Chinese...

Author: Jana S. Rošker
ISBN: 9781438472478
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Critically introduces the philosophical system of Li Zehou, one of the most significant modern scholars of Chinese...  Read More >>

The Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy

The Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist...

Author: Yi-Ping Ong
ISBN: 9780674983656
Format: Hardback
$86.95

In this account of how the novel reorients philosophy toward the meaning of existence, Yi-Ping Ong shows that the...  Read More >>

Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to Decide

Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to Decide

Author: John J. Sheinbaum
ISBN: 9780226593388
Format: Paperback
$52.95

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Surpassing Modernity: Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society

Surpassing Modernity: Ambivalence in Art, Politics and...

Author: Andrew McNamara (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350008342
Format: Paperback
$52.99

For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing...  Read More >>

A Defense of Simulated Experience: New Noble Lies

A Defense of Simulated Experience: New Noble Lies

Author: Mark Silcox (University of Central Oklahoma, USA)
ISBN: 9780367077532
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book defends an account of the positive psychological, ethical, and political value of simulated human experience....  Read More >>

The Sublime Reader

The Sublime Reader

Author: Robert R. Clewis (Gwynedd Mercy University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350030169
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime....  Read More >>

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