Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Severed Head

Severed Head

Author: Professor Julia Kristeva ,  Ms Jody Gladding
ISBN: 9781281961396
Format: Electronic book text
$58.05

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

Beauty Unlimited

Beauty Unlimited

Author: Adjunct Cres (Conflict Resolution) Peg Zeglin Brand (University of Oregon)
ISBN: 9781283889469
Format: Undefined
$63.33

Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty...  Read More >>

Logos Und Wirklichkeit: Ein Beitrag Zu Einer Theorie Des Gesellschaftlichen Bewusstseins

Logos Und Wirklichkeit: Ein Beitrag Zu Einer Theorie...

Author: Thomas Metscher
ISBN: 9781299426351
Format: Electronic book text
$192.59

Die Theorie des Bewusstseins ist Desiderat marxistischen Denkens. Trotz Ausarbeitungen in einzelnen Feldern liegt...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Design

The Aesthetics of Design

Author: Associate Professor of Philosophy Jane Forsey (University of Winnipeg)
ISBN: 9781299669192
Format: Electronic book text
$178.02

The Aesthetics of Design offers the first full treatment of design in the field of philosophical aesthetics. Aesthetic...  Read More >>

Sensibility and the Sublime

Sensibility and the Sublime

Author: Professor David Weissman, PH.D.
ISBN: 9781299724976
Format: Electronic book text
$240.24

Philosophic attention shifted after Hegel from Kant s emphasis on sensibility to criticism and analyses of the fine...  Read More >>

Spectre of Utopia, The: Utopian and Science Fictions at the  Fin de Siecle

Spectre of Utopia, The: Utopian and Science Fictions...

Author: Matthew Beaumont (University College, London)
ISBN: 9781299416574
Format: Electronic book text
$176.75

In the late nineteenth century, a spectre haunted Europe and the United States: the spectre of utopia. This book...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity

Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity

Author: Professor Ineke Sluiter (Professor of Greek, Leiden University Free University Amsterdam Free University Amsterdam Free University Amsterdam) ,  Ralph M Rosen
ISBN: 9781283618359
Format: Electronic book text
$700.13

Thinking about sensory experiences and evaluating human artifacts is an important part of Western European cultural...  Read More >>

Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge

Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge

Author: Mats Rosengren (Goteborg University)
ISBN: 9781306092562
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

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On the Aesthetic Education of Man

On the Aesthetic Education of Man

Author: Friedrich Schiller
ISBN: 9781306337113
Format: Undefined
$26.27

A classic of 18th-century thought, Schiller's treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy's...  Read More >>

Where Film Meets Philosophy

Where Film Meets Philosophy

Author: Hunter Vaughan
ISBN: 9781306313513
Format: Electronic book text
$76.53

Closely reading the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, Hunter Vaughan establishes a connection between...  Read More >>

A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas...

Author: Edmund Burke
ISBN: 9781306359818
Format: Undefined
$26.27

Edmund Burke's Enquiry into ... the Sublime and Beautiful was an influential work of aesthetic criticism in the...  Read More >>

Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism

Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism

Author: Dennis G Ioffe ,  Frederick White
ISBN: 9781306150156
Format: Undefined
$155.76

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How to Do Things with Fictions

How to Do Things with Fictions

Author: Professor of French Joshua Landy (Stanford University)
ISBN: 9781306423403
Format: Electronic book text
$196.02

Why does Mark's Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why are Beckett's novels...  Read More >>

Kunstgeschichte ALS Physiognomische Wissenschaft

Kunstgeschichte ALS Physiognomische Wissenschaft

Author: Daniela Bohde
ISBN: 9781306488297
Format: Electronic book text
$295.68

Physiognomik gilt als eine obsolete esoterische Disziplin, deren Bedeutung sich fur die Kunstgeschichte darauf beschrankt,...  Read More >>

Die Farben Imaginierter Welten

Die Farben Imaginierter Welten

Author: Monika Schausten
ISBN: 9781306488556
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

Literatur und Kunst des europaischen Abendlands sind durch die Imagination von Farben gepragt. Die hier versammelten...  Read More >>

An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty...

Author: Francis Hutcheson
ISBN: 9781306541060
Format: Undefined
$63.36

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Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings

Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle...

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer ,  David E Cartwright (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater)
ISBN: 9781299707313
Format: Undefined
$514.80

These translations provide a comprehensive view of Schopenhauer's contribution to epistemology, theory of perception...  Read More >>

Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers

Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers

Author: Alessandro Giovannelli
ISBN: 9781306845410
Format: Electronic book text
$242.88

Offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. This title includes essays that introduce...  Read More >>

Work of Enchantment

Work of Enchantment

Author: Matthew Del Nevo
ISBN: 9781306888172
Format: Electronic book text
$113.39

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The Foundations of Aesthetics

The Foundations of Aesthetics

Author: S. Ossowski
ISBN: 9789400997684
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Ossowski is well known to the English reader for his socio­ logical works, and especially for his book Class Structure...  Read More >>

Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life

Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life

Author: Predrag Cicovacki
ISBN: 9781412846332
Format: Electronic book text
$92.27

Dostoevsky's philosophy of life is unfolded in this searching analysis of his five greatest works: Notes from the...  Read More >>

The Paths of Creation: Creativity in Science and Art

The Paths of Creation: Creativity in Science and Art...

Author: Julia Burbulla ,  Bernd Nicolai
ISBN: 9783034305112
Format: Paperback
$130.15

Explores the idea of creativity both in science and in art. This title offers collected papers from different philosophers...  Read More >>

Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film

Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film

Author: Steven Rybin
ISBN: 9780739166758
Format: Hardback
$139.95

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Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim

Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents...

Author: Sam van Schaik ,  Imre Galambos
ISBN: 9783110225648
Format: Hardback
$274.47

This study is based on a Sino-Tibetan manuscript from the late 960s, carried by a Chinese pilgrim through the Hexi...  Read More >>

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