Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Perictione In Colophon

Perictione In Colophon

Author: Roger Scruton
ISBN: 9781890318598
Format: Hardback
$49.95

This, the sequel to the same author's much-acclaimed 'Xanthippic Dialogues,' is a multi-faceted commentary on the...  Read More >>

The Aesthetic Relation

The Aesthetic Relation

Author: Gerard Genette ,  Geoffrey M. Goshgarian
ISBN: 9780801435119
Format: Hardback
$382.80

One of the best-known continental theorists writing today, Gerard Genette here explores our aesthetic relation to...  Read More >>

Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste

Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste

Author: Greenberg Clement
ISBN: 9786610655175
Format: Electronic book text
$65.21

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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: 9781280317972
Format: Electronic book text
$398.64

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

The Aesthetic Turn: Reading Eliot Deutsch on Comparative Philosophy

The Aesthetic Turn: Reading Eliot Deutsch on Comparative...

Author: Roger T. Ames
ISBN: 9780812694055
Format: Hardback
$77.99

Celebrating Eliot Deutsch's project promoting understanding of Asian philosophical ideas among Westerners, these...  Read More >>

Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture

Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of...

Author: Allen Carlson
ISBN: 9780415206839
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book presents fresh and fascinating insights into our interpretation of the environment.  Read More >>

Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy

Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy

Author: Carolyn Korsmeyer
ISBN: 9780801436987
Format: Hardback
$163.55

Taste has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy - too bound to the body, too personal...  Read More >>

Kant and the Ends of Aesthetics

Kant and the Ends of Aesthetics

Author: G. Banham
ISBN: 9780333732229
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This work presents a rethinking of Critical Philosophy through the recovery of a larger sense of 'aesthetics' in...  Read More >>

On Trust: Art and the Temptations of Suspicion

On Trust: Art and the Temptations of Suspicion

Author: Gabriel Josipovici
ISBN: 9780300079913
Format: Hardback
$118.80

In this book, a novelist, playwright, and literary critic explores the question that has troubled artists and philosophers...  Read More >>

Widerstände Der Systemtheorie: Kulturtheoretische Analyse Der Werke Von Luhmann

Widerstände Der Systemtheorie: Kulturtheoretische Analyse...

Author: Albert Koschorke ,  Cornelia Vismann
ISBN: 9783050034775
Format: Hardback
$169.48

Wie kaum eine andere soziologische Theorie der vergangenen Jahrzehnte bietet die Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns kulturwissenschaftliche...  Read More >>

Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction

Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction

Author: Noël Carroll
ISBN: 9780415159630
Format: Hardback
$273.00

A textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics, this book introduces...  Read More >>

Beauty and Revolution in Science

Beauty and Revolution in Science

Author: James W. McAllister
ISBN: 9780801486258
Format: Paperback
$63.80

The first systematic study of the aesthetic evaluations that scientists pass on their theories.  Read More >>

Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory

Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance...

Author: Susan Broadhurst
ISBN: 9780304705863
Format: Paperback
$79.99

An analysis of liminal performance. It surveys traditional and contemporary aesthetics, followed by a series of...  Read More >>

The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, 1890-1934

The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic,...

Author: Irina Gutkin
ISBN: 9780810115453
Format: Hardback
$184.67

In this book, Gutkin brings together the best work written on the subject of Soviet aesthetic ideology.  Read More >>

Redemption or Annihilation?: Love Versus Power in Wagner's Ring

Redemption or Annihilation?: Love Versus Power in Wagner's...

Author: John Tietz
ISBN: 9780820441481
Format: Hardback
$137.15

Wagner's epic Ring of the Niebelungs stands as a focal point of nineteenth-century German art. Redemption or Annihilation?...  Read More >>

Art and the Brain

Art and the Brain

Author: Joseph Goguen
ISBN: 9780907845454
Format: Paperback
$46.45

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Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction

Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction

Author: Noël Carroll
ISBN: 9780415159647
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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Nietzsche and ′An Architecture oh Our Minds′

Nietzsche and ′An Architecture oh Our Minds′

Author: . Kostka ,  Irvine Wohlfarth
ISBN: 9780892364855
Format: Paperback
$132.00

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Der Begriff Der Einbildungskraft Bei Rudolf Kassner

Der Begriff Der Einbildungskraft Bei Rudolf Kassner...

Author: Slawomir Lesniak ,  Slawomir Lesniak
ISBN: 9783631355428
Format: Paperback
$86.68

Die Einbildungskraft ist besonders in der philosophischen Tradition vielfach zum Gegenstand der ästhetischen Spekulation...  Read More >>

Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of Law

Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics...

Author: Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck, University of London) ,  Lynda Nead
ISBN: 9780226569536
Format: Hardback
$163.95

A discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image. The essays draw on the critical procedures...  Read More >>

Rhetoric of Machine Aesthetics

Rhetoric of Machine Aesthetics

Author: Barry Brummett
ISBN: 9780275966447
Format: Hardback
$103.00

Introduces a scheme of machine aesthetics, including classical industrial machines, high technology, and decaying...  Read More >>

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