Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman

Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman

Author: Scott Hames (University of Stirling) ,  Scott Hames (University of Stirling)
ISBN: 9781282749948
Format: Electronic book text
$343.17

Lively and specially commissioned chapters cover the entire range of Kelman's writing - including novels, short...  Read More >>

Aesthetics A-Z

Aesthetics A-Z

Author: Professor Eran Guter (Max Stern Academic College of Jezreel Valley)
ISBN: 9781282941724
Format: Electronic book text
$422.37

Covers the key concepts, arguments, problems and figures in aesthetics and the philosophy of artThis introduction...  Read More >>

Work and Object: Explorations in the Metaphysics of Art: Explorations in the Metaphysics of Art

Work and Object: Explorations in the Metaphysics of...

Author: Lecturer in Philosophy Peter Lamarque (University of York University of Stirling University of Stirling University of Stirling University of Stirling University of Stirling University of Stirling)
ISBN: 9781282712621
Format: Electronic book text
$253.31

Work and Object is a study of fundamental questions in the metaphysics of art, notably how works relate to the materials...  Read More >>

Listening Through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

Listening Through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental...

Author: Associate Professor of Musicology Joanna DeMers (Thornton School of Music, University of Southern C)
ISBN: 9781282613638
Format: Electronic book text
$352.84

Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres, communities and subcultures....  Read More >>

Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets

Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets

Author: Chris Franke
ISBN: 9781282947825
Format: Electronic book text
$1011.12

At the 2006 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Prophetic Texts in their Ancient Contexts...  Read More >>

Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830: Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money

Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830:...

Author: Erik Simpson (Grinnell College)
ISBN: 9781282749665
Format: Electronic book text
$343.17

In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830, Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point...  Read More >>

Deleuze and Contemporary Art

Deleuze and Contemporary Art

Author: Stephen Zepke ,  Stephen Zepke
ISBN: 9781282749825
Format: Electronic book text
$395.97

Leading figures in the Deleuzean philosophy of art criticism field contribute chapters that explore the extensive...  Read More >>

Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art

Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art

Author: Professor Frederick J Adelmann S J Chair John Sallis (Boston College)
ISBN: 9781282537941
Format: Undefined
$118.80

Transfigurements develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important...  Read More >>

Art and Phenomenology

Art and Phenomenology

Author: Joseph D Parry (Brigham Young University, USA)
ISBN: 9781283041584
Format: Electronic book text
$435.60

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Patterns in Child Phonology

Patterns in Child Phonology

Author: Wyn Johnson (University of Essex) ,  Paula Reimers (University of Essex)
ISBN: 9781282749887
Format: Electronic book text
$325.46

This advanced introduction to non-disordered phonological acquisition is the first textbook of its kind. Relevant...  Read More >>

Not Half No End: Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of Jacques Derrida

Not Half No End: Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory...

Author: Geoffrey Bennington
ISBN: 9781282620582
Format: Electronic book text
$92.37

A collection of essays by one of Jacques Derrida's friends and foremost commentators.  Read More >>

Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh

Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh

Author: Professor Berthold Schoene (Manchester Metropolitan University) ,  Professor Berthold Schoene (Manchester Metropolitan University)
ISBN: 9781282749931
Format: Electronic book text
$343.17

The subcultural enfant terrible of devolutionary protest and rebellion, Irvine Welsh is now widely acknowledged...  Read More >>

Hong Kong English

Hong Kong English

Author: Jane Setter (University of Reading) ,  Cathy S Wong
ISBN: 9781282899759
Format: Electronic book text
$316.77

This volume provides an overview of all aspects of Hong Kong English in a style designed for undergraduates and...  Read More >>

Language of Its Own, A: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music

Language of Its Own, A: Sense and Meaning in the Making...

Author: Ruth Katz
ISBN: 9781282504288
Format: Undefined
$126.72

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Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner

Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
ISBN: 9781299110328
Format: Electronic book text
$95.04

The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant...  Read More >>

Hans-Georg Gadamer ALS Platon-Interpret: Die Musik: Aus Dem Italienischen Ubersetzt Von Leonie Schroder

Hans-Georg Gadamer ALS Platon-Interpret: Die Musik:...

Author: Mariannina Failla
ISBN: 9781299436961
Format: Electronic book text
$110.75

-Fangen die Engel/wirklich nur Ihriges auf/ihnen Entstromtes, /oder ist manchmal, wie aus Versehen, ein wenig/unseres...  Read More >>

Art and Engagement

Art and Engagement

Author: Arnold Berleant ,  James K Hazy
ISBN: 9781306129312
Format: Electronic book text
$236.28

Develops an alternative to the eighteenth-century aesthetic of disinterestedness. Centering on the notion of participatory...  Read More >>

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

Author: David Duff (Professor of English, University of Aberdeen)
ISBN: 9780199572748
Format: Hardback
$261.36

This wide-ranging reappraisal of the role of genre in British Romanticism explores the generic innovations that...  Read More >>

Form. Zahl. Symbol: Leonhard Eulers Strategien der Anschaulichkeit

Form. Zahl. Symbol: Leonhard Eulers Strategien der Anschaulichkeit...

Author: Wladimir Velminski
ISBN: 9783050046044
Format: Hardback
$131.91

In seinen Tagebüchern hat der Mathematiker Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) keine historischen Ereignisse, Lebensdaten...  Read More >>

A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful; With an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste

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

Author: Edmund Burke, III
ISBN: 9781150137914
Format: Paperback
$62.20

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: Harper  Read More >>

Scritti E Battaglie D'Arte

Scritti E Battaglie D'Arte

Author: Lorenzo Viani ,  Marcello Ciccuto
ISBN: 9788856400649
Format: Paperback
$110.88

English summary: This complete collection of the artistic writing of Lorenzo Viani traces the master's reflections...  Read More >>

The Emancipated Spectator

The Emancipated Spectator

Author: Jacques Rancière ,  Gregory Elliott
ISBN: 9781844673438
Format: Hardback
$63.23

The role of the viewer in art and film theory revolves around a theatrical concept of the spectacle. This title...  Read More >>

The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting

The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through...

Author: François Jullien (Universit Paris-Diderot) ,  Jane Marie Todd
ISBN: 9780226415307
Format: Hardback
$163.95

In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience....  Read More >>

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