Philosophy: aesthetics books

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The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond

The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship,...

Author: Boris Groys ,  Charles Rougle
ISBN: 9781844677078
Format: Paperback
$22.99

From the ruins of communism, this book emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such...  Read More >>

Order of Buildings and Cities: A Paradigm of Open Systems Evolution for Sustainable Design

Order of Buildings and Cities: A Paradigm of Open Systems...

Author: Yan Gu
ISBN: 9783034306218
Format: Paperback
$160.91

To explore an alternative paradigm for sustainable design, this book investigates a model of open systems evolution...  Read More >>

Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work

Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work

Author: P. Stewart
ISBN: 9781349291625
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul...  Read More >>

Volume 2

Volume 2

Author: Richard Heinrich ,  Elisabeth Nemeth
ISBN: 9783110330120
Format: Hardback
$274.47

Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts Volume 2  Read More >>

Volume 1

Volume 1

Author: Richard Heinrich ,  Elisabeth Nemeth
ISBN: 9783110330137
Format: Hardback
$274.47

Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts Volume 1  Read More >>

Agents and Their Actions

Agents and Their Actions

Author: Maximilian de Gaynesford (College of William and Mary, USA)
ISBN: 9781444339086
Format: Paperback
$38.95

Reflecting a recent flourishing of creative thinking in the field, Agents and Their Actions presents seven newly...  Read More >>

The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Sthetic Theory

The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Sthetic Theory...

Author: Professor George Santayana
ISBN: 9781179264066
Format: Paperback
$75.90

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing...  Read More >>

The Art of Controversy: And Other Posthumous Papers

The Art of Controversy: And Other Posthumous Papers...

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN: 9781179275291
Format: Paperback
$54.78

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing...  Read More >>

Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry: With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art

Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry:...

Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
ISBN: 9781178966466
Format: Paperback
$73.26

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing...  Read More >>

How Should One Live?: Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity

How Should One Live?: Comparing Ethics in Ancient China...

Author: Richard A.H. King ,  Dennis Schilling
ISBN: 9783110252873
Format: Hardback
$214.41

Fundamental questions about the nature of comparing ethics are treated in two introductory chapters, and core issues...  Read More >>

Nietzsche on Instinct and Language

Nietzsche on Instinct and Language

Author: João Constâncio ,  Maria João Mayer Branco
ISBN: 9783110246568
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Offers various considerations of Nietzsche's attempt to connect language to the instinctive activity of the human...  Read More >>

Essen und Trinken im Mittelalter (1000-1300): Literarische, kunsthistorische und archäologische Quellen

Essen und Trinken im Mittelalter (1000-1300): Literarische,...

Author: Anne Schulz
ISBN: 9783110255157
Format: Hardback
$1082.40

Germanische Altertumskunde Online (Germanic Antiquity Studies Online) – just like the Reallexikon that has merged...  Read More >>

A History of Aesthetic

A History of Aesthetic

Author: Bernard Bosanquet
ISBN: 9781178482898
Format: Paperback
$107.58

Published in 1892 by a leading British philosopher, this book traces aesthetic theory from ancient Greece to the...  Read More >>

On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German...

Author: Daniel Leonhard Purdy
ISBN: 9780801476761
Format: Paperback
$77.00

Purdy traces the use of architectural reasoning as a method for critically examining consciousness from Kant and...  Read More >>

Blanchot and Literary Criticism

Blanchot and Literary Criticism

Author: Mark Hewson
ISBN: 9786613307712
Format: Electronic book text
$285.12

Blanchot's literary criticism has imposed itself within the canon and syllabi of modern poetics and literary theory,...  Read More >>

Der Leib

Der Leib

Author: Hermann Schmitz
ISBN: 9783110250985
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Seit einem Paradigmenwechsel in Griechenland um 400 v. Chr. wird der Mensch als Produkt der Zusammensetzung von...  Read More >>

Arthur Danto: Philosopher of Pop

Arthur Danto: Philosopher of Pop

Author: Tiziana Andina
ISBN: 9781443831499
Format: Hardback
$155.63

""Arthur Danto is a philosopher with a system, whose much discussed aesthetic theory cannot be understood adequately...  Read More >>

Art Saves: Stories, Inspiration and Prompts Sharing the Power of Art

Art Saves: Stories, Inspiration and Prompts Sharing...

Author: Jenny Doh
ISBN: 9781440309069
Format: Paperback
$42.99

Helps readers see how, through our various artistic releases, they can connect with a deeper part of themselves,...  Read More >>

The End of Art: A Comparative Analysis of French Postmodern Art Theorists

The End of Art: A Comparative Analysis of French Postmodern...

Author: Marie-Therese Killiam
ISBN: 9781863358941
Format: Paperback
$105.60

The book studies the demystification of art in the 20th century by a variety of contemporary French authors, from...  Read More >>

Jacques Ranciere: An Introduction

Jacques Ranciere: An Introduction

Author: Professor Joseph J. Tanke
ISBN: 9781441152084
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Offers an introduction to one of the most influential French thinkers, exploring Ranciere's ideas on philosophy,...  Read More >>

Narrative, Emotion, and Insight

Narrative, Emotion, and Insight

Author: Noël Carroll (Temple University) ,  John Gibson (University of Louisville)
ISBN: 9780271048574
Format: Hardback
$148.00

A collection of essays, written for this volume by leaders in the field, that study the emotional and cognitive...  Read More >>

The Continental Aesthetics Reader

The Continental Aesthetics Reader

Author: Clive Cazeaux
ISBN: 9780415481847
Format: Paperback
$126.00

The Continental Aesthetics Reader provides a thorough introduction to some of the most influential writings on art...  Read More >>

Jacques Ranciere: An Introduction

Jacques Ranciere: An Introduction

Author: Professor Joseph J. Tanke
ISBN: 9781441167705
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Offers an introduction to one of the most influential French thinkers, exploring Ranciere's ideas on philosophy,...  Read More >>

The Sense of Beauty

The Sense of Beauty

Author: Professor George Santayana
ISBN: 9781466309791
Format: Paperback
$26.27

George Santayana is remembered mostly by his theory of aesthetics, which is discussed in detail The Sense of Beauty...  Read More >>

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