Aesthetics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610171007Author Gregory WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint ISI BooksPublisher ISI Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226788135Author Helena de BresImprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226770772Author Robert B PippinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 152g

Ronald Bogue's essays touch on cinema, music, theatre, painting, fiction, education, ecology, ethology, politics, technology and philosophy. He creates paradigmatic occasions of thinking with Deleuze - thinking with him and through him, following diverse...

What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila to understand movement as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820424651Author Juergen KleistFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 580g

Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood pursues three main questions: What role does literature play in the constitution of a human being? What is the connection between the language we see at work in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791451960Author Stephen C. BoosFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This book offers a sustained, interdisciplinary examination of taste. It addresses a range of topics that have been at the heart of lively debates in philosophy of language, linguistics, metaphysics, aesthetics, and experimental philosophy. Our...

Heidegger's interpretations of the poetry of Hoelderlin are central to Heidegger's later philosophy and have determined the mainstream reception of Hoelderlin's poetry. Gosetti-Ferencei argues that Heidegger has overlooked central elements in...

The title of this book translates one of the many ways in which Lucretius names the basic matter from which the world is made in De rerum natura. In Lucretius, and in the strain of thought followed in this study, matter is always in motion, always...

In the past twenty years or more, there has been a growing interest among philosophers and theologians alike in the transcendentals and especially in the beautiful. This seems fortuitous since so much of contemporary culture is fixated in many ways on...

In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyse the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of dramatists,...

Something needs to be changed-be it through the revolutionary overthrow of social conditions, the liberating force of passion, the contemplation and creation of works of art, or the exploration of an unresolved past. Luchino Visconti's films are models...

The essays in this collection explore the links and gaps between the aesthetic and the political at the intersection of philosophy and literature. They do so by interrogating voices of aesthetic and literary theory, raising questions about the political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474494908Author Bart VerschaffelFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living things, in Senses of Landscape the philosopher John Sallis turns to landscapes, and in particular to their representation in painting, to...

What is art? What is it to understand a work of art? What is the value of art? Robert Stecker seeks to answer these central questions of aesthetics by placing them within the context of an ongoing debate criticizing, but also explaining what can be...

Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant provides the first in-depth examination of the lifelong intellectual relationship between two of the greatest figures of the European Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)...

The body is a rich object for aesthetic inquiry. We aesthetically assess both our own bodies and those of others, and our felt bodily experiences--as we eat, have sex, and engage in other everyday activities--have aesthetic qualities. The body, whether...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791471623Author Christa Davis AcamporaFormat PaperbackPage Count 315Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The ten participants in this volume explore non-representational patterns from perceptual and cultural perspectives. Archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and psychologists lend their views on how patterns and symmetry are expressed and...

This book is based on the comprehensive investigations of the literary forms of philosophy around 1800 conducted within research project 'Heuristics between Science and Poetry'. It presents new research on the debates on the concept of the symbol from...

This volume brings together essays by leading philosophers of art who consider what can be learned from the meaning of art about society, morality, and life in general. This subject inevitably leads to discussion of other issues. Is art distinct from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983697275Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams)...

Michel Foucault had been concerned about painting and the meaning of the image from his earliest publications, yet this aspect of his thought is largely neglected within the disciplines of art history and aesthetic theory. In Foucault on Painting,...

With the story of a madeleine dipped in tea, Marcel Proust makes famous moments that transport one to an earlier time thought lost forever. His In Search of Lost Time announces a quest narrative with lost time as its goal. We follow the journey of a...

This second edition features a new 48-page Afterword--1980 updating Professor Beardsley's classic work.Book InformationISBN 9780915145089Author Monroe C. BeardsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 678Imprint Hackett Publishing Co, IncPublisher Hackett...

Michel Serres first book in his 'foundations trilogy' is all about beginnings. The beginning of Rome but also about the beginning of society, knowledge and culture. Rome is an examination of the very foundations upon which contemporary society has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060933852Author Virginia PostrelFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today's ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life Bleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes-from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983216919Author Francois LaruelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Sequence PressPublisher Sequence PressDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 22mm

This is a brand new collection of Jacques Ranciere's writings on art and politics. "Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics" brings together some of Jacques Ranciere's most recent writings on art and politics to show the critical potential of two of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043496Author Samuel Jay KeyserFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme...

This book is a critical introduction to contemporary French philosopher Jacques Ranciere. It is the first introduction in any language to cover all of his major work and offers an accessible presentation and searching evaluation of his significant...

In his Enquiry-which has been described as "certainly one of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England produced"-the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the 'sublime' and the 'beautiful,' together with a...

A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral-and personal-form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its...

The German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762) introduced "aesthetics" as a new science in his Reflections on Poetry (1735) and developed this new part of philosophy in a series of later works, culminating in his unfinished Aesthetics...

As the sunset swings into view, you think, "That's beautiful." You take a bite of cake and you think, "Wow, that's sweet"-maybe too sweet. You hear that new song and it blows you away. You play it for your friends. The novel is wonderful, the movie...