Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in Aesthetics

Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in Aesthetics...

Author: Austin Harrington (University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9780745630380
Format: Hardback
$113.95

Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the...  Read More >>

Gender and Aesthetics

Gender and Aesthetics

Author: Carolyn Korsmeyer (State University of New York at Buffalo)
ISBN: 9781280025341
Format: Electronic book text
$341.99

Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including...  Read More >>

Blanchot's Communism: Art, Philosophy and the Political

Blanchot's Communism: Art, Philosophy and the Political...

Author: L. Iyer
ISBN: 9781349515509
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Iyer argues for the transformative potential for philosophy and political practice of the thought of Maurice Blanchot....  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings - An Anthology

The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic...

Author: Eileen John (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9781405112086
Format: Paperback
$74.95

Essential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology.  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings - An Anthology

The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic...

Author: Eileen John (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9781405112093
Format: Hardback
$271.95

Essential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology.  Read More >>

Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos

Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos...

Author: Alan Singer (Director of Graduate Studies, Temple University)
ISBN: 9780271024585
Format: Paperback
$89.63

The aesthetic has come to be judged inadequate to literary criticism. It has been attacked for promoting class-based...  Read More >>

The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics

The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics

Author: Peter Kivy (Rutgers University)
ISBN: 9780631221319
Format: Paperback
$78.95

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The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics

The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics

Author: Peter Kivy (Rutgers University)
ISBN: 9780631221302
Format: Hardback
$223.95

A survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. It features eighteen freshly commissioned papers...  Read More >>

The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects

The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects...

Author: Charles Altieri
ISBN: 9780801488436
Format: Paperback
$63.80

This brilliant, penetrating, and ambitious book by a well-known literary theorist studies the complex relationship...  Read More >>

The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects

The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects...

Author: Charles Altieri
ISBN: 9780801441547
Format: Hardback
$195.23

This work studies the complex relationship between the emotions on the one side and literary works and paintings...  Read More >>

Art as Performance

Art as Performance

Author: Dave Davies
ISBN: 9781405116671
Format: Paperback
$78.95

* Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts. * Offers a provocative view...  Read More >>

Art as Performance

Art as Performance

Author: Dave Davies
ISBN: 9781405116664
Format: Hardback
$234.95

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Wissenskulturen: Beiträge Zu Einem Forschungsstrategischen Konzept

Wissenskulturen: Beiträge Zu Einem Forschungsstrategischen...

Author: Professor of Medieval History Johannes Fried ,  Thomas Kailer
ISBN: 9783050037776
Format: Hardback
$196.65

Um den Charakter des Sammelbandes als programmatischem Auftakt zur Schriftenreihe herauszustellen, ersetzt im Folgenden...  Read More >>

Six Names of Beauty

Six Names of Beauty

Author: Crispin Sartwell (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9781280158186
Format: Electronic book text
$94.91

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's also in the language we use and everywhere in the world around...  Read More >>

Art & Its Shadow

Art & Its Shadow

Author: Mario Perniola
ISBN: 9781281292032
Format: Electronic book text
$293.04

Art and its Shadow is an extraordinary analysis of the state and meaning of contemporary art and film. Ranging across...  Read More >>

August Wilson and Black Aesthetics

August Wilson and Black Aesthetics

Author: Professor Dana A Williams, Prof. ,  Sandra Garrett Shannon
ISBN: 9781281364791
Format: Electronic book text
$219.12

This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of...  Read More >>

The Paradoxes of Art

The Paradoxes of Art

Author: Alan Paskow (St Mary's College, Maryland)
ISBN: 9781299318632
Format: Undefined
$514.80

In this study, Alan Paskow first asks why fictional characters, such as Hamlet and Anna Karenina, matter to us and...  Read More >>

Einsaen Der Ewigkeit Ins Lebendige: Impulse Der AEsthetik Franz Rosenzweigs Fur Eine Theologie Gottesdienstlicher Musik

Einsaen Der Ewigkeit Ins Lebendige: Impulse Der AEsthetik...

Author: Thomas Eicker
ISBN: 9783506716842
Format: Paperback
$221.76

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Understanding Pictures

Understanding Pictures

Author: Dominic Lopes
ISBN: 9786610755189
Format: Electronic book text
$163.44

Examining the kinds of visual and cultural skills viewers need to have to understand pictures, the author explains...  Read More >>

Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's...

Author: Roger Scruton (Birkbeck College, University of London (Emeritus))
ISBN: 9786610534043
Format: Electronic book text
$137.23

A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of...  Read More >>

Exploring the World of Human Practice: Readings in and about Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai

Exploring the World of Human Practice: Readings in and...

Author: Zoltn Balzs ,  Francis Dunlop
ISBN: 9786611376567
Format: Electronic book text
$253.18

Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the...  Read More >>

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