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Process and Aesthetics: An Outline of Whiteheadian Aesthetics and Beyond by Ondrej Dadejik
RRP: £20.00£19.40Though philosopher Alfred North Whitehead did not dedicate any books or articles specifically to aesthetics, aesthetic motifs nonetheless permeate his entire body of work. Despite this, aestheticians have devoted little attention to Whitehead. In this... -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
RRP: £9.99£6.7040th anniversary edition of the bestselling modern classic: Milan Kundera's iconic novel of love and politics in communist Czechoslovakia.'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.' Independent'A modern classic ... As relevant now as... -
Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty by Emma Dabiri 9781800817920
RRP: £7.99£5.79An unmissable essay from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next 'A magnificent text' KATY HESSEL 'This is so sharp, and funny, and will be so generously liberating for so many - read it!'... -
To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters by Suzanne Fagence-Cooper
RRP: £10.99£7.40'To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one'"Brilliant" - Philip Hoare, New StatesmanJohn Ruskin - born 200 years ago, in February 1819 - was the greatest critic of his age: a critic not only of art and architecture but of society and life... -
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: £8.99£6.45Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned... -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz 9780691229195
RRP: £13.99£11.42An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for... -
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177181Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
RRP: £23.00£13.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679735793Author Camille PagliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers: For Artists, Designers, Poets and Designers by Leonard Koren 9780981484600
RRP: £19.95£11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981484600Author Leonard KorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Imperfect PublishingPublisher Imperfect PublishingWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)... -
Ways of Seeing by John Berger 9780141035796
RRP: £9.99£7.11Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it... -
Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life by Beth Kempton
RRP: £16.99£11.54'A truly transformative read' Sunday Times STYLE'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessica Seaton, Co-Founder of Toast and author of Gather, Cook, FeastA whole new way of looking at the world - and your life - inspired by centuries-old Japanese... -
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
RRP: £7.99£5.79An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists.This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and... -
Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394719856Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
RRP: £9.99£7.11"Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de WaalThe daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These... -
Without Model – Parva Aesthetica by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: £19.99£15.72Essays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time. In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikingly demonstrates the intellectual range for which he is known. Taking the premise of the title as his guiding principle, that... -
One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £10.99£7.77Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including 'One-Way Street', his dreamlike,... -
Postcontinental Realism: Ontology and Epistemology for the Twenty-First Century by Ernesto Castro
£66.27Is philosophy still alive? Are there any alternatives to univocal postmodernist thought? Is there any point in asking age-old questions about the existence of reality and the possibility of knowledge, about being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology)? In... -
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £12.99£9.49In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as... -
Confessions of a Heretic, Revised Edition Roger Scruton 9781912559343
RRP: £14.99£12.55Confessions of a Heretic is a collection of provocative essays by the influential social commentator and polemicist Roger Scruton. Each "confession" reveals aspects of the author's thinking that his critics would probably have advised him to keep to... -
The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal recurrence... -
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser 9780241586457
RRP: £30.00£21.35The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch... -
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £8.99£6.45Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in lifeThis landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of... -
One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £12.99£11.01Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions... -
Poetics by Aristotle
RRP: £8.99£6.45'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our... -
A Short Philosophy of Birds Philippe J. Dubois 9780753554142
RRP: £12.99£9.09The greatest wisdom comes from the smallest creaturesThere is so much we can learn from birds. Through twenty-two little lessons of wisdom inspired by how birds live, this charming french book will help you spread your wings and soar.We often need the... -
Poetics by Aristotle 9780140446364
RRP: £9.99£7.11One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that... -
Art and Pornography: Philosophical Essays by Hans Maes 9780198744085
£39.24Art and Pornography presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and erotic art. Is there any... -
Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth by Matthew Fuller
RRP: £14.99£12.55Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with aesthetics make powerful use of it. Journalists and legal... -
Why We Make Things and Why it Matters: The Education of a Craftsman by Peter Korn
RRP: £10.99£7.77Why do we make things? Why do we choose the emotionally and physically demanding work of bringing new objects into the world with creativity and skill? Why does it matter that we make things well? What is the nature of work? And what is the nature of a... -
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett 9780241637647
RRP: £25.00£18.02An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical... -
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
RRP: £12.99£9.09Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly... -
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
RRP: £9.99£7.11One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh published as part of the 'Penguin on Design' series in... -
The Goods of Design: Professional Ethics for Designers by Ariel Guersenzvaig 9781538179918
RRP: £30.00£26.68What ends should designers pursue? To what extent should they care about the societal and environmental impact of their work? And why should they care at all? Given the key influence design has on the way people live their lives, designing is fraught... -
Taste as Experience: The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Food by Nicola Perullo
RRP: £25.00£19.59Taste as Experience puts the pleasure of food at the center of human experience. It shows how the sense of taste informs our preferences for and relationship to nature, pushes us toward ethical practices of consumption, and impresses upon us the... -
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literature and art which informed his engagement with... -
Performing Rites: Evaluating Popular Music by Simon Frith 9780192880604
RRP: £47.49£36.74Who's better? Billie Holiday or P.J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distil our most... -
Committed Writings by Albert Camus
RRP: £10.99£7.77'To create today means to create dangerously'This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. Letters to a German Friend, written and published... -
Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice by Robert Lawlor
RRP: £12.99£8.60The thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the system that determines the dimension and the form of... -
The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies by Michel Serres
RRP: £23.99£20.94Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and... -
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful by Edmund Burke
RRP: £8.99£6.85'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by intellectual considerations. In so doing he overturned...