Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of...

Author: Alex Potts
ISBN: 9780300087369
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's...  Read More >>

Sublime Understanding: Aesthetic Reflection in Kant and Hegel

Sublime Understanding: Aesthetic Reflection in Kant...

Author: Kirk Pillow
ISBN: 9780262161923
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Makes sublimity the center of an alternative conception of aesthetic response and interpretation.  Read More >>

Provocative Form in Plato, Kant, Nietzsche (and Others)

Provocative Form in Plato, Kant, Nietzsche (and Others)...

Author: Bernard Freydberg
ISBN: 9780820442587
Format: Hardback
$229.55

Provocative Form in Plato, Kant, Nietzsche (and Others) seeks (1) to liberate form from its primary affiliation...  Read More >>

The Risks of Simile in Renaissance Rhetoric

The Risks of Simile in Renaissance Rhetoric

Author: Professor Shirley Sharon-Zisser
ISBN: 9780820445816
Format: Hardback
$312.84

The Risks of Simile in Renaissance Rhetoric is a groundbreaking study of the fascination with simile in Renaissance...  Read More >>

Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste

Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste

Author: Clement Greenberg ,  Charles Harrison
ISBN: 9780195139235
Format: Paperback
$137.28

A giant of 20th century art criticism, Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) set the terms of critical discourse from the...  Read More >>

Between Literature and Science: Poe, Lem and Explorations in Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, and Literary Knowledge

Between Literature and Science: Poe, Lem and Explorations...

Author: Peter Swirski ,  Peter Swirski
ISBN: 9780773520431
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Through close analysis of Eureka and The Purloined Letter, Swirski evaluates Poe's epistemological theses in the...  Read More >>

Die Neue Wissenschaft Über Die Gemeinschaftliche Natur Der Völker: Nach Der Ausgabe Von 1744

Die Neue Wissenschaft Über Die Gemeinschaftliche Natur...

Author: Giambattista Vico ,  Erich Auerbach
ISBN: 9783110168907
Format: Hardback
$231.57

Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was one of the most original and idiosyncratic philosophers before Kant and Hegel....  Read More >>

Zwischen Realismus und Avantgarde: Drei Paradigmen fuer die Aporien des Entweder-Oder- William Faulkners ""The Sound and the Fury""- Cormac McCarthys ""Suttree""- Toni Morrisons ""Beloved""

Zwischen Realismus und Avantgarde: Drei Paradigmen fuer...

Author: Ulf Schulenberg
ISBN: 9783631356234
Format: Paperback
$146.45

Die Studie nimmt sich des immer noch ungelösten Problems des Verhältnisses von Realismus und Avantgarde an und entwickelt...  Read More >>

The Generous Exchange: How Attention to Beauty, Goodness and Excellence Restores Us and Our World

The Generous Exchange: How Attention to Beauty, Goodness...

Author: Maria Sirois
ISBN: 9798989945238
Format: Paperback
$47.52

In a series of insightful and intimate essays, Maria Sirois explores how our ability to appreciate beauty, goodness...  Read More >>

Plato's Theory of Art

Plato's Theory of Art

Author: Rupert C. Lodge
ISBN: 9780415225212
Format: Hardback
$399.00

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art

Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy...

Author: Herbert Read ,  T. E. Hulme
ISBN: 9780415225601
Format: Hardback
$525.00

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The Continental Aesthetics Reader

The Continental Aesthetics Reader

Author: Clive Cazeaux
ISBN: 9780415200547
Format: Paperback
$118.67

This is an anthology of classic writings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in Continental thought.  Read More >>

The Arts, Popular Culture, and Social Change

The Arts, Popular Culture, and Social Change

Author: Landon E. Beyer
ISBN: 9780820449432
Format: Paperback
$99.92

The purpose, value, and significance of the arts are perennial topics, often generating rather heated discussions....  Read More >>

The Continental Aesthetics Reader

The Continental Aesthetics Reader

Author: Clive Cazeaux
ISBN: 9780415200530
Format: Hardback
$356.40

This is an anthology of classic writings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in Continental thought.  Read More >>

G. Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy

G. Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy

Author: William C. Madsen
ISBN: 9780415225779
Format: Mixed media product
$504.00

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Aesthetic Order: A Philosophy of Order, Beauty and Art

Aesthetic Order: A Philosophy of Order, Beauty and Art...

Author: Ruth Lorand
ISBN: 9780415236027
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Aesthetic Order challenges contemporary theories of aesthetics, offering the idea of beauty as quantitative yet...  Read More >>

Endgames: The Irreconcilable Nature of Modernity: Essays and Lectures

Endgames: The Irreconcilable Nature of Modernity: Essays...

Author: Albrecht Wellmer ,  David Midgley
ISBN: 9780262731331
Format: Paperback
$79.20

A common theme of this set of thirteen essays by one of the major figures in contemporary German philosophy is the...  Read More >>

Semiotics of Musical Time

Semiotics of Musical Time

Author: Thomas Reiner ,  Thomas. Reiner
ISBN: 9780820445250
Format: Hardback
$241.96

Semiotics of Musical Time investigates the link between musical time and the world of signs and symbols. It examines...  Read More >>

Arts of the Beautiful

Arts of the Beautiful

Author: Etienne Gilson
ISBN: 9781564782502
Format: Paperback
$31.55

With his usual lucidity, Etienne Gilson addresses the idea that ""art is the making of beauty for beauty's own sake.""...  Read More >>

Das Problem der subjektiven Allgemeingültigkeit des Geschmacksurteils bei Kant

Das Problem der subjektiven Allgemeingültigkeit des...

Author: Christian Helmut Wenzel (National CHI Nan University)
ISBN: 9783110167443
Format: Hardback
$195.54

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Das Problem der subjektiven Allgemeingültigkeit des Geschmacksurteils bei...  Read More >>

�sthetische Grundbegriffe: Historisches W�rterbuch in Sieben B�nden.6 B�nde W�rterbuch Von a Bis Z, 1 Registerband

�sthetische Grundbegriffe: Historisches W�rterbuch...

Author: Karlheinz Barck ,  Martin Fontius
ISBN: 9783476009135
Format: Hardback
$2346.96

Von Absenz bis Zeitalter/Epoche enth�lt diese Enzyklop�die 170 Artikel, die von 150 renommierten Wissenschaftlern...  Read More >>

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