Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Art and Ethical Criticism

Art and Ethical Criticism

Author: Garry L. Hagberg (University of East Anglia, UK)
ISBN: 9781444337877
Format: Paperback
$59.95

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Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art

Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy...

Author: Herbert Read ,  T. E. Hulme
ISBN: 9780415614146
Format: Paperback
$118.00

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Images of the Pacific Rim: Australia and California, 1850-1935

Images of the Pacific Rim: Australia and California,...

Author: Erika Esau
ISBN: 9780909952396
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Australia and California have shared aesthetic ideas through imported popular imagery for nearly two hundred years....  Read More >>

Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image

Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of...

Author: Barbara Bolt
ISBN: 9781850434115
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, this book engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze...  Read More >>

Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius

Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius

Author: Detlev Claussen ,  Rodney Livingstone
ISBN: 9780674057135
Format: Paperback
$60.59

This book gives us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create “critical theory.” An intimate...  Read More >>

World and Worldhood / Monde et Mondanéité

World and Worldhood / Monde et Mondanéité

Author: Institut International de Philosoph ,  Peter Kemp
ISBN: 9789048167692
Format: Paperback
$314.16

In this book philosophers try to answer the following question: What is globalization and what does ""globe"" or...  Read More >>

Symmetry Rules: How Science and Nature Are Founded on Symmetry

Symmetry Rules: How Science and Nature Are Founded on...

Author: Joseph Rosen
ISBN: 9783642095085
Format: Paperback
$184.67

Ernest Rutherford (New Zealand–British physicist, 1871–1937), the 1908 Nobel Laureate who discovered the existence...  Read More >>

Truth, Rationality, Cognition, and Music

Truth, Rationality, Cognition, and Music

Author: K. Korta ,  Jesús M. Larrazabal
ISBN: 9789048165438
Format: Paperback
$446.16

The seventh edition, co-organized as usual by the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language, and Information (ILCLI)...  Read More >>

Emotion in Aesthetics

Emotion in Aesthetics

Author: Warren A. Shibles
ISBN: 9789048145935
Format: Paperback
$551.76

Emotion in Aesthetics is the first book on aesthetics to provide an extensive theory of emotion; a well-developed...  Read More >>

Nominalism and Its Aftermath: The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman

Nominalism and Its Aftermath: The Philosophy of Nelson...

Author: Dena Shottenkirk
ISBN: 9789048182237
Format: Paperback
$366.96

Nelson Goodman's disparate writings are often considered separately. This book argues that the separate disciplines...  Read More >>

Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime

Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime

Author: Claire Raymond
ISBN: 9780754663447
Format: Hardback
$336.00

In her feminist inquiry into aesthetics and the sublime, the author reinterprets the work of the American photographer...  Read More >>

Aesthetics A–Z

Aesthetics A–Z

Author: Eran Guter (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Max Stern Academic College of Jezreel Valley)
ISBN: 9780748623402
Format: Paperback
$49.99

An ideal guide to aesthetics  Read More >>

Aesthetics A–Z

Aesthetics A–Z

Author: Eran Guter (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Max Stern Academic College of Jezreel Valley)
ISBN: 9780748623396
Format: Hardback
$253.00

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The Philosophy of Wine: A Case of Truth, Beauty and Intoxication

The Philosophy of Wine: A Case of Truth, Beauty and...

Author: Cain Todd
ISBN: 9781844652501
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art

Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art...

Author: Devin Zane Shaw
ISBN: 9781441193698
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

Schelling is often thought to be a protean thinker whose work is difficult to approach or interpret. This title...  Read More >>

The Logician

The Logician

Author: Camelia Elias
ISBN: 9788792633033
Format: Paperback
$39.60

This is a book of fragments and prose poetry celebrating what mothers try to pass on to their children: a sense...  Read More >>

Human Creation Between Reality and Illusion

Human Creation Between Reality and Illusion

Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
ISBN: 9789048169023
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Identifying illusion with deception, we tend to oppose it to the reality of life. This collection of essay's looks...  Read More >>

RASA: Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics

RASA: Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics...

Author: Marc Benamou (Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant Professor of Music, Earlham College)
ISBN: 9780195189438
Format: Hardback
$111.95

Rasa is the most thorough treatment to date of this all-important concept at the heart of Javanese aesthetics. Rasa...  Read More >>

Ultradian Rhythms from Molecules to Mind: A New Vision of Life

Ultradian Rhythms from Molecules to Mind: A New Vision...

Author: David Lloyd ,  Ernest Rossi
ISBN: 9789048178520
Format: Paperback
$604.56

1 Biological Rhythms and Clocks From an evolutionary perspective, the adaptation of an organism’s behavior to its...  Read More >>

Symbolic Landscapes

Symbolic Landscapes

Author: Gary Backhaus ,  John Murungi
ISBN: 9789048179596
Format: Paperback
$710.16

This approach makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of perception and the geography of imagination,...  Read More >>

Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in...

Author: Alexander Nehamas
ISBN: 9780691148656
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic and rarefied alternative,...  Read More >>

Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in...

Author: Alexander Nehamas
ISBN: 9780691177601
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and...  Read More >>

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