Philosophy: aesthetics books

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The Changing Boundaries and Nature of the Modern Art World: The Art Object and the Object of Art

The Changing Boundaries and Nature of the Modern Art...

Author: Richard Kalina (Fordham University, USA) ,  David Carrier (University of Pittsburgh USA)
ISBN: 9781350238350
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Concentrating on the shifting boundaries and definition of art, Richard Kalina offers a panoramic view of the contemporary...  Read More >>

The Dialectics of Music: Adorno, Benjamin, and Deleuze

The Dialectics of Music: Adorno, Benjamin, and Deleuze...

Author: Joseph Weiss (Appalachian State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350244078
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Combining the philosophy and musicology of T.W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze, alongside an exploration...  Read More >>

The Proustian Mind

The Proustian Mind

Author: Anna Elsner (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) ,  Thomas Stern (University College, London, UK)
ISBN: 9780367357627
Format: Hardback
$431.00

The Proustian Mind is an outstanding reference source to the rich philosophical range of Proust’s work and the first...  Read More >>

Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life

Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life...

Author: Peter Cheyne (Shimane University, Japan & University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9781032164557
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this...  Read More >>

Affect, Power, and Institutions

Affect, Power, and Institutions

Author: Millicent Churcher (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) ,  Sandra Calkins (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9781032301792
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume advances a comprehensive transdisciplinary approach to the affective lives of institutions – theoretical,...  Read More >>

Philosophical Skepticism as the Subject of Art: Maria Bussmann’s Drawings

Philosophical Skepticism as the Subject of Art: Maria...

Author: David Carrier (University of Pittsburgh, USA) ,  David Carrier (University of Pittsburgh USA)
ISBN: 9781350245136
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The artwork of Maria Bussmann, a trained academic German philosopher and a significant visual artist, provides an...  Read More >>

A Certain Gesture: Evnine's Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga!

A Certain Gesture: Evnine's Batman Meme Project and...

Author: Simon J Evnine
ISBN: 9798987415702
Format: Paperback
$49.14

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Vox Humana Craftsmanship: Origins, Intersections and Influence on Lithuanian Pipe Organ Building

Vox Humana Craftsmanship: Origins, Intersections and...

Author: Girėnas Povilionis ,  Diego Cannizzaro
ISBN: 9783031102899
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book provides a thorough analysis focused on the sound expression produced by human-crafted musical instrument...  Read More >>

Comics Begreifen: Asthetische Erfahrung Durch Visuell-Taktiles Erzahlen in Chris Wares Building Stories

Comics Begreifen: Asthetische Erfahrung Durch Visuell-Taktiles...

Author: Nina Eckhoff-Heindl
ISBN: 9783496016854
Format: Hardback
$271.92

English summary: How does perception influence the narration of comics? Nina Eckhoff-Heindl develops a model of...  Read More >>

La Composition Des Sentiments: Essai Sur Le Concept de Bonheur

La Composition Des Sentiments: Essai Sur Le Concept...

Author: Serge Champeau
ISBN: 9782711630691
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Qu'est-ce que le souverain bien? Voila la recherche ethique par excellence a laquelle se consacrent les philosophes...  Read More >>

The Iconology of Abstraction: Non-figurative Images and the Modern World

The Iconology of Abstraction: Non-figurative Images...

Author: Krešimir Purgar (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
ISBN: 9780367511296
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract...  Read More >>

Begehren und Ökonomie: Eine sozialphilosophische Studie

Begehren und Ökonomie: Eine sozialphilosophische Studie...

Author: Jule Govrin
ISBN: 9783111130361
Format: Paperback
$34.23

During the political upheaval of 1968, a frequent topic of conversation was how economics rules desire and how desire...  Read More >>

Empirismus und Ästhetik: Zur deutschsprachigen Rezeption von Hume, Hutcheson, Home und Burke im 18. Jahrhundert

Empirismus und Ästhetik: Zur deutschsprachigen Rezeption...

Author: Lore Knapp
ISBN: 9783110762440
Format: Hardback
$171.51

Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Henry Home combined empiricism and aesthetics to create an empiricist...  Read More >>

Art, Interpretation, and the Rest of Life: Essays in Aesthetics

Art, Interpretation, and the Rest of Life: Essays in...

Author: Alexander Nehamas
ISBN: 9780674268685
Format: Hardback
$118.80

In these essays, Alexander Nehamas rejects the separation of art from life, which was institutionalized in the eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Counsels and Maxims

Counsels and Maxims

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN: 9788196033118
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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Instruments of Embodiment: Costuming in Contemporary Dance

Instruments of Embodiment: Costuming in Contemporary...

Author: Eric Mullis
ISBN: 9780367644819
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Counsels and Maxims

Counsels and Maxims

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN: 9788196033163
Format: Hardback
$58.05

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The Philosophy of Mannerism: From Aesthetics to Modal Metaphysics

The Philosophy of Mannerism: From Aesthetics to Modal...

Author: Sjoerd van Tuinen (Erasmus University, the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781350322479
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Sjoerd van Tuinen argues for the inseparability of matter and manner in the form of a group portrait of Leibniz,...  Read More >>

Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy

Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy...

Author: Ferenc Hörcher
ISBN: 9783031135903
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book covers the field of and points to the intersections between politics, art and philosophy. Its hero, the...  Read More >>

Platons tanzende Stadt: Moralpsychologie und Chortanz in den Nomoi

Platons tanzende Stadt: Moralpsychologie und Chortanz...

Author: Julia Pfefferkorn
ISBN: 9789004525610
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Dieses Buch deckt die Hauptgründe für die auffallende Prominenz des Chortanzes in Platons Nomoi auf und bietet eine...  Read More >>

PhilonoUS: The Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy: Edition 13 (Vol 7, Issue 1) Autumn 2022

PhilonoUS: The Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy:...

Author: Sorcha Hanley
ISBN: 9781739141523
Format: Paperback
$8.24

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The Paths Between: Poems 2013-2015

The Paths Between: Poems 2013-2015

Author: Stephen Parr
ISBN: 9781471001383
Format: Paperback
$61.72

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This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive

This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive

Author: Nick Riggle
ISBN: 9781541675506
Format: Hardback
$49.99

An acclaimed philosopher and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living  Read More >>

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