Philosophy: aesthetics books

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I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett

I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy...

Author: Simon Critchley (The Stone / The New York Times)
ISBN: 9781916809710
Format: Paperback
$51.75

I Want to Die, I Hate My Life is at once a searching philosophical engagement with tragedy and a bracing argument...  Read More >>

Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller

Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller

Author: Friedrich Schiller
ISBN: 9781023098236
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Friedrich Schiller (10 November 1759 - 9 May 1805) was a German philosopher, poet, historian and playwright.  Read More >>

On the Sublime

On the Sublime

Author: Active 1st Century Longinus ,  Andrew Lang
ISBN: 9781022938106
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Rediscover Longinus's seminal work, ""On the Sublime,"" a cornerstone of literary theory and aesthetics. This treatise...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Fine Art, Volume 2 (of 4)

The Philosophy of Fine Art, Volume 2 (of 4)

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ,  Francis Plumptre Beresford Osmaston
ISBN: 9781023459495
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Delve into the profound world of aesthetics with G.W.F. Hegel's ""The Philosophy of Fine Art, Vol. 2 of 4: Hegel's...  Read More >>

Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks

Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks...

Author: Johann Joachim Winckelmann ,  Henry Fuseli
ISBN: 9781023488242
Format: Hardback
$81.71

""Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks, with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Fine Art, Volume 3 (of 4)

The Philosophy of Fine Art, Volume 3 (of 4)

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ,  Francis Plumptre Beresford Osmaston
ISBN: 9781023465588
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Delve into the profound depths of artistic expression with G. W. F. Hegel's ""The Philosophy of Fine Art, Volume...  Read More >>

Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays

Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays

Author: Friedrich Schiller
ISBN: 9781023465236
Format: Hardback
$97.55

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: F. A. Niccolls  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Fine Art

The Philosophy of Fine Art

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ,  Francis Plumptre Beresford Osmaston
ISBN: 9781023454162
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Delve into the foundational principles of aesthetics with G. W. F. Hegel's ""The Philosophy of Fine Art, Vol. 1...  Read More >>

Reflections on Art and Culture: From Diderot's Salons to Panodyssey and Art Explora

Reflections on Art and Culture: From Diderot's Salons...

Author: Claudia Moscovici
ISBN: 9781538199794
Format: Hardback
$157.00

Reflections on Art and Culture: From Diderot’s Salons to Panodyssey and Art Explora offers a series of art reviews...  Read More >>

The Artist-Philosopher in the Age of Addiction: Heidegger’s Climatology

The Artist-Philosopher in the Age of Addiction: Heidegger’s...

Author: George Smith (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA.)
ISBN: 9781032557328
Format: Hardback
$305.00

George Smith argues that modern humanity suffers from a late-stage, pre-fatal addiction to scientific-technological...  Read More >>

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin’s Strangest Idea

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications...

Author: Matt Ridley
ISBN: 9780008645533
Format: Paperback
$34.99

In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand...  Read More >>

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin’s Strangest Idea

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications...

Author: Matt Ridley
ISBN: 9780008645526
Format: Hardback
$59.99

In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand...  Read More >>

De lo Bello y lo Sublime

De lo Bello y lo Sublime

Author: Gustavo Contreras
ISBN: 9798316885183
Format: Paperback
$39.60

¿Qué es lo bello cuando ya no busca agradar? ¿Qué es lo sublime cuando no cabe en las vitrinas del mercado ni en...  Read More >>

The Beauty of Games

The Beauty of Games

Author: Frank Lantz
ISBN: 9780262552950
Format: Paperback
$36.99

How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.  Read More >>

Emmanuel Levinas: Essays on Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Jewish Thought

Emmanuel Levinas: Essays on Phenomenology, Hermeneutics,...

Author: Bettina Bergo
ISBN: 9789004701106
Format: Hardback
$570.24

The overarching argument of this book is that we must read Levinas in his context. Levinas s complete context consists...  Read More >>

Water: Crises, Critiques, Imaginaries

Water: Crises, Critiques, Imaginaries

Author: Ewa Macura-Nnamdi ,  Tomasz Sikora
ISBN: 9781032729664
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Drawing on some recent developments in the Blue Humanities, this book addresses water as a material, political and...  Read More >>

An Anthology of Rain: Poems

An Anthology of Rain: Poems

Author: Phillis Levin
ISBN: 9781962131063
Format: Paperback
$47.52

Phillis Levin's much-anticipated sixth collection, An Anthology of Rain, is a stunning series of lyric poems that...  Read More >>

Titivillus' Bag of Tricks: Media Ontology, Epistemology, and Aesthetics

Titivillus' Bag of Tricks: Media Ontology, Epistemology,...

Author: Paul Majkuty
ISBN: 9783770569267
Format: Paperback
$287.76

Titivillus' Bag of Tricks suggests that the birth of a new medium is found inthe misuse of older media. It addresses...  Read More >>

Train

Train

Author: A. N. Devers (Freelance Writer, UK, and Owner of The Second Shelf bookstore)
ISBN: 9781501333408
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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

The Severed Head: Capital Visions

The Severed Head: Capital Visions

Author: Julia Kristeva ,  Jody Gladding
ISBN: 9780231219051
Format: Paperback
$27.95

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations...  Read More >>

The Prop

The Prop

Author: Elena Gorfinkel ,  John David Rhodes
ISBN: 9781531509613
Format: Paperback
$46.99

A fresh look at film through its invisible visible objects.  Read More >>

Aesthetic Noise: The Philosophy of Intentional Listening

Aesthetic Noise: The Philosophy of Intentional Listening...

Author: Mary G. Mazurek
ISBN: 9781032597959
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Procedures of Resistance: Contents, Positions and the 'Doings' of Literary Theory

Procedures of Resistance: Contents, Positions and the...

Author: Davor Beganović ,  Zrinka Božić
ISBN: 9783031493881
Format: Paperback
$310.47

This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory....  Read More >>

The Prop

The Prop

Author: Elena Gorfinkel ,  John David Rhodes
ISBN: 9781531509606
Format: Hardback
$162.00

A fresh look at film through its invisible visible objects.  Read More >>

Common Scents: Poetry, Modernity, and a Revolution of the Senses

Common Scents: Poetry, Modernity, and a Revolution of...

Author: Jonas Rosenbrück
ISBN: 9781438499703
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Attends to the much-neglected sense of smell in and around modern poetry to suggest the possibility of a revolution...  Read More >>

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