Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Considering Deweyan Cultural Naturalism as a Philosophy of Art(s) Education: Restoring Continuity

Considering Deweyan Cultural Naturalism as a Philosophy...

Author: Lauri Väkevä
ISBN: 9783031388163
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book makes a case for cultural naturalism as a basis for a philosophy of art education.  Read More >>

Seismic Shifts in Subject and Style: 19th-Century French Painting and Philosophy

Seismic Shifts in Subject and Style: 19th-Century French...

Author: Dianne L Durante
ISBN: 9781088236079
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Why did subject and style in art change so dramatically over the course of the 19th century? We'll look for an explanation...  Read More >>

The Revival of Beauty: Aesthetics, Experience, and Philosophy

The Revival of Beauty: Aesthetics, Experience, and Philosophy...

Author: Catherine Wesselinoff (University of Notre Dame, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032480756
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century...  Read More >>

Mnemosyne: The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual Arts

Mnemosyne: The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual...

Author: Mario Praz
ISBN: 9780691252186
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual arts In his search for a common...  Read More >>

Painting and Reality

Painting and Reality

Author: Etienne Gilson
ISBN: 9780691251868
Format: Paperback
$89.99

A classic study of the art of painting and its relationship to reality In this book, tienne Gilson puts forward...  Read More >>

Sound Pressure: How Speaker Systems Influence, Manipulate and Torture

Sound Pressure: How Speaker Systems Influence, Manipulate...

Author: Toby Heys, Professor in Digital Media, Manchester Metropolitan University
ISBN: 9781538147948
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Sound Pressure reveals how speaker systems mounted in public, employment, military and entertainment environments...  Read More >>

L'Art Dans La Culture

L'Art Dans La Culture

Author: Laurent Cournarie
ISBN: 9782711631339
Format: Paperback
$47.52

L'art est un fait de culture. Et c'est toujours en termes culturels qu'on aborde la reflexion sur l'art. Mais qu'est-ce...  Read More >>

Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the Ruins

Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning: Communication...

Author: Justin N. Bonanno
ISBN: 9783031370229
Format: Hardback
$343.17

While it is valuable to appreciate Percy as a novelist, Bonanno approaches Percy from the perspective of Continental...  Read More >>

Existential Quest in Selected Plays

Existential Quest in Selected Plays

Author: Vishal Kumar
ISBN: 9781088238066
Format: Paperback
$84.48

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Images of Childhood: A Visual History From Stone to Screen

Images of Childhood: A Visual History From Stone to...

Author: Professor Emeritus Paul Duncum (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.)
ISBN: 9781350299948
Format: Paperback
$49.99

By surveying historical constructions of childhood, this book explores how representations of the child in visual...  Read More >>

Hegel and the Present of Art’s Past Character

Hegel and the Present of Art’s Past Character

Author: Alberto L. Siani (University of Pisa, Italy)
ISBN: 9781032482958
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book reclaims Hegel’s notion of the “end of art”—or, more precisely, of “art’s past character”—not just as...  Read More >>

Images of Childhood: A Visual History From Stone to Screen

Images of Childhood: A Visual History From Stone to...

Author: Professor Emeritus Paul Duncum (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.)
ISBN: 9781350299931
Format: Hardback
$150.00

By surveying historical constructions of childhood, this book explores how representations of the child in visual...  Read More >>

Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie

Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie...

Author: Matt Colquhoun
ISBN: 9781914420634
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines...  Read More >>

Architectures of Existence: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics

Architectures of Existence: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics...

Author: Chris Younès
ISBN: 9781032429007
Format: Hardback
$105.00

Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage...  Read More >>

Gilles Deleuze and Film Criticism: Philosophy, Theory, and the Individual Film

Gilles Deleuze and Film Criticism: Philosophy, Theory,...

Author: Dominic Lash ,  Hoi Lun Law
ISBN: 9783031333040
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Milk: Through a Glass Darkly

Milk: Through a Glass Darkly

Author: Peter Blegvad
ISBN: 9781910010365
Format: Paperback
$25.88

For over fifty years, Peter Blegvad has been collecting quotations about milk, this book gathers these quotations...  Read More >>

The Scene of the Voice: Thinking Language after Affect

The Scene of the Voice: Thinking Language after Affect...

Author: Michael Eng
ISBN: 9781438492513
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Brings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought...  Read More >>

Con Artists in Cinema: Self-Knowledge, Female Power, and Love

Con Artists in Cinema: Self-Knowledge, Female Power,...

Author: Joseph Kupfer
ISBN: 9781032421872
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations...  Read More >>

Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art

Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature,...

Author: Thomas Petraschka (University of Regensburg, Germany) ,  Christiana Werner (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781032367767
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely,...  Read More >>

An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the Humanities

An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the Humanities...

Author: D. N. Rodowick
ISBN: 9780226829500
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Rodowick takes after the theories of Hannah Arendt and argues that thinking is an art we practice with and for each...  Read More >>

Nietzsche's philosophy of drama

Nietzsche's philosophy of drama

Author: Lawrence M Hinman
ISBN: 9781835204924
Format: Paperback
$95.01

"In what follows I offer a philosophy of communication at the boundaries of disciplinarity. Philosophy and communication...  Read More >>

Interpreting Plato's Philosophy Through His Geometry

Interpreting Plato's Philosophy Through His Geometry...

Author: Judith Bailey
ISBN: 9781835204931
Format: Paperback
$92.37

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at...  Read More >>

Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting

Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting

Author: Pier Paolo Pasolini ,  Ara H Merjian
ISBN: 9781804291283
Format: Paperback
$34.99

First collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini's passion for painting  Read More >>

Ecologies of Architecture: Essays on Territorialisation

Ecologies of Architecture: Essays on Territorialisation...

Author: Andrej Radman ,  Rosi Braidotti
ISBN: 9781474483025
Format: Paperback
$54.31

Drawing on a range of philosophical texts, Andrej Radman brings together a collection of 11 of his essays, published...  Read More >>

Chaoid Cinema: Deleuze & Guattari and the Topological Vector of Silence

Chaoid Cinema: Deleuze & Guattari and the Topological...

Author: Colin Gardner
ISBN: 9781474494038
Format: Paperback
$64.66

A Deleuzian analysis of the role of silence as chaotic interstice in sound film.  Read More >>

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