Philosophy: aesthetics books

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The Philosophy of Literature

The Philosophy of Literature

Author: Peter Lamarque (University of York, UK)
ISBN: 9781405121989
Format: Paperback
$59.95

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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and on the Will in Nature; Two Essays. Translated by Mme. Karl Hillebrand

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient...

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN: 9781408689721
Format: Paperback
$84.35

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Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth

Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the...

Author: Elizabeth Grosz
ISBN: 9780231145183
Format: Hardback
$42.95

Argues that art, especially architecture, music, and painting, is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection....  Read More >>

Plato and the Question of Beauty

Plato and the Question of Beauty

Author: Drew A. Hyland
ISBN: 9780253219770
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Reveals the intimate connection between beauty and the philosophical life. What Plato meant by beauty is not easily...  Read More >>

Plato and the Question of Beauty

Plato and the Question of Beauty

Author: Drew A. Hyland
ISBN: 9780253351388
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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The Philosophy of Literature

The Philosophy of Literature

Author: Peter Lamarque (University of York, UK)
ISBN: 9781405121972
Format: Hardback
$169.95

By exploring central issues in the philosophy of literature, illustrated by a wide range of novels, poems, and plays,...  Read More >>

Du Sacre Dans l'Art Actuel ?

Du Sacre Dans l'Art Actuel ?

Author: Richard Conte, P.E. ,  Marion Laval-Jeantet
ISBN: 9782252036839
Format: Paperback
$81.84

Que reste-t-il aujourd'hui de nos tabous ? Comment se manifeste ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler le sacre ?  Read More >>

Escape from Phalaris: An Odyssey Through the Creative Process in Brief Meditations

Escape from Phalaris: An Odyssey Through the Creative...

Author: Frank Hazard
ISBN: 9781436302883
Format: Paperback
$42.21

The title as well as the thematic impetus of ESCAPE FROM PHALARIS are derived from the legend of Perilaus and Phalaris...  Read More >>

Insanity and Genius: Masks of Madness and the Mapping of Meaning and Value

Insanity and Genius: Masks of Madness and the Mapping...

Author: Harry Eiss
ISBN: 9781282192263
Format: Electronic book text
$215.40

Pablo Picasso said aWe all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth...  Read More >>

Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy

Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy

Author: Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan, USA)
ISBN: 9780826489197
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Offers an account of the central theories and ideas encountered in aesthetics. Suitable for students across the...  Read More >>

Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy

Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy

Author: Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan, USA)
ISBN: 9780826489180
Format: Hardback
$300.00

Offers an account of the central theories and ideas encountered in aesthetics. Suitable for students across the...  Read More >>

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Author: Immanuel Kant
ISBN: 9781605975870
Format: Paperback
$22.31

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; 1785; also known as the...  Read More >>

Venturing upon Dizzy Heights: Lectures and Essays on Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts

Venturing upon Dizzy Heights: Lectures and Essays on...

Author: Bruce Ross
ISBN: 9781433102875
Format: Hardback
$271.00

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Modernism and Coherence: Four Chapters of a Negative Aesthetics

Modernism and Coherence: Four Chapters of a Negative...

Author: Fabio Akcelrud Durão ,  Fabio Akcelrud Durao
ISBN: 9783631569498
Format: Paperback
$105.44

Modernism and Coherence is an attempt to develop a negative aesthetics conceived as determinate resistance of artworks...  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: 9780865977082
Format: Paperback
$31.68

Written as a response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper,...  Read More >>

The Landscape of Humanity: Art, Culture and Society

The Landscape of Humanity: Art, Culture and Society...

Author: Anthony O'Hear
ISBN: 9781845401450
Format: Hardback
$103.50

Explores the relation between politics and tradition. This book includes fourteen essays that develop a conception...  Read More >>

Marvelous Images: On Values and the Arts

Marvelous Images: On Values and the Arts

Author: Kendall Walton (Charles Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, Charles Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9780195177954
Format: Paperback
$84.95

The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues concerning the arts....  Read More >>

The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched

The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being...

Author: Paul Woodruff (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9780195332001
Format: Hardback
$69.95

What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need ""theater"" in some fundamental...  Read More >>

Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds

Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds...

Author: Vanessa Agnew (, University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9780195336665
Format: Hardback
$129.95

The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and...  Read More >>

Space, Geometry and Aesthetics: Through Kant and Towards Deleuze

Space, Geometry and Aesthetics: Through Kant and Towards...

Author: P. Rawes
ISBN: 9780230552913
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Examining multiple modes of spatio-temporal and geometric figurations of life, the author explores how relationships...  Read More >>

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