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The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose by Alain Badiou
€24.45The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the... -
Rome: The First Book of Foundations by Michel Serres 9781472590152
RRP: €53.55€52.22Michel 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... -
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness by Virginia Postrel 9780060933852
RRP: €20.22€12.21Apologies 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 -
Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility by Matthew Fuller
RRP: €26.17€22.36A 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... -
Without Model – Parva Aesthetica by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: €23.79€19.28Essays 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... -
The Concept of Non-Photography by François Laruelle 9780983216919
RRP: €23.79€15.82Apologies 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 -
Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: €47.60€35.47This 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... -
The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Samuel Jay Keyser
RRP: €32.13€21.86Apologies 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 -
Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Georges Bataille 9781844675609
RRP: €20.22€17.97For 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... -
Jacques Ranciere by Oliver Davis 9780745646558
RRP: €21.41€19.09This 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... -
Beauty: What It Is and Why It Matters by John-Mark Miravalle 9781622827121
RRP: €17.79€13.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622827121Author John-Mark MiravalleFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Sophia Institute PressPublisher Sophia Institute PressWeight(grams)... -
The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics by Hsuan L. Hsu 9781479810093
RRP: €33.31€28.16A 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... -
Baumgarten's Aesthetics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives by J. Colin McQuillan 9781538158425
RRP: €41.65€37.94The 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... -
Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters by Dominic McIver Lopes 9780197748510
RRP: €15.46€14.48As 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... -
The Aesthetic Unconscious by Jacques Ranciere 9780745646442
€18.12This book is not concerned with the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works. Rather, it is concerned with why this interpretation plays such an important role in demonstrating the contemporary relevance of... -
Art and Posthistory: Conversations on the End of Aesthetics by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: €20.22€15.87From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic Demetrio Paparoni. Their discussions ranged widely over a... -
Sensibility and Sense: The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World by Arnold Berleant
€24.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400767Author Arnold BerleantFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe by Todd May
RRP: €19.04€15.58What makes for a good life, or a beautiful one, or, perhaps most important, a meaningful one? Throughout history most of us have looked to our faith, our relationships, or our deeds for the answer. But in A Significant Life, philosopher Todd May offers... -
The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Art by James Harold 9780197539798
RRP: €148.75€136.49This volume is about how and whether art can be morally bad (or morally good). Politicians, media pundits, and others frequently complain that particular works of art are morally dangerous, or, sometimes, that particular works are morally edifying (the... -
Disparities by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: €47.60€35.95The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Zizek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated. ... -
Film Fables by Jacques Ranciere
€29.40In Film Fables Jacques Ranciere turns his critical eye to the history of modern cinema. Combining an extraordinary breadth of analysis with an attentiveness to detail born from an obvious love of cinema, Ranciere shows us new ways of looking at and... -
Fashion Sense: On Philosophy and Fashion by Dr Gwenda-lin Kaur Grewal 9781350201460
RRP: €27.36€23.93"Deeply erudite but also playful and full of wit." Salman Rushdie Fashion | Sense is designed to explode "fashion," and with it, the stigma in philosophy against fashion's superficiality. Fashion appears to be altogether differently occupied,... -
Aesthetics as Phenomenology: The Appearance of Things by Gunter Figal
RRP: €35.69€30.93Connecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art means for cognition, recognition, and affect-how art changes our everyday disposition or behavior. Gunter... -
The Philosophy of Poetry by John Gibson 9780199603671
€96.43In recent years philosophers have produced important books on nearly all the major arts: the novel and painting, music and theatre, dance and architecture, conceptual art and even gardening. Poetry is the sole exception. This is an astonishing omission,... -
Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary by Chiara Bottici
RRP: €29.75€22.82Between the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated by images or (re)presentations that are presences in themselves. Offering a... -
Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences by Philip Fisher 9780674955622
RRP: €42.78€33.81Why pause and study this particular painting among so many others ranged on a gallery wall? Wonder, which Descartes called the first of the passions, is at play; it couples surprise with a wish to know more, the pleasurable promise that what is novel or... -
The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott by Adam Barkman
RRP: €54.74€52.69The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott, edited by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, and Nancy Kang, brings together eighteen critical essays that illuminate a nearly comprehensive selection of the director's feature films from cutting-edge... -
In Praise of Athletic Beauty by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
RRP: €33.26€25.82By the hundreds of millions we show up, stand in line, turn on, and tune in to watch, mesmerized, as athletes perform. And yet this experience, so widely craved and intensely felt, we commonly dismiss as "only a game.&rduqo; A book that looks beyond the... -
The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings - An Anthology by Eileen John
RRP: €42.78€38.16Essential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology. Contains forty-five substantial and carefully chosen essays and extractsProvides a balanced and coherent overview of developments in the field... -
Philosophising By Accident: Interviews with Elie During by Bernard Stiegler
RRP: €23.79€19.54In this book of interviews, conducted in 2002 by Elie During, Bernard Stiegler discusses the reasons that motivated him to develop his philosophy of technics. Divided into four parts, Philosophising by Accident introduces some of the key points in... -
Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction by Gary Rogowski 9781610353144
RRP: €23.79€14.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610353144Author Gary RogowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co Inc -
General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm by Erich Horl
RRP: €34.50€31.20Ecology has become one of the most urgent and lively fields in both the humanities and sciences. In a dramatic widening of scope beyond its original concern with the coexistence of living organisms within a natural environment, it is now recognized that... -
Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art by Jean-Louis Chretien
RRP: €41.65€37.76A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chretien uses poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response. For Chretien, we live by responding to the call of... -
The Philosophy of Improvisation by Gary Peters
RRP: €33.32€32.59Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of cliches. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, "The Philosophy of Improvisation" ranges across the arts - from music to... -
How Pictures Complete Us: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine by Paul Crowther
RRP: €26.17€22.37Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have... -
Empathy by Derek Matravers 9780745670751
RRP: €19.03€17.15How can we understand another person's feelings, thoughts, words or behaviour? Through empathy, it is hoped, we might use our imaginations to shift our perspective into another person's, thereby grasping their thoughts and emotions. In this insightful... -
Eric Rohmer: Filmmaker and Philosopher by Vittorio Hosle 9781474221122
€28.96Rohmer is one of the most popular French directors of the second half of the 20th century, one of the members of the famous Nouvelle Vague that reconstituted French cinema based on the theoretical principles articulated in the Cahiers du Cinema - from... -
Ibsen's Hedda Gabler: Philosophical Perspectives by Kristin Gjesdal
RRP: €39.85€39.14Since its publication in 1890, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has been a recurring point of fascination for readers, theater audiences, and artists alike. Newly married, yet utterly bored, the character of Hedda Gabler evokes reflection on beauty, love, passion,... -
Multiple Arts: The Muses II by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: €33.31€28.81This collection of writings by Jean-Luc Nancy, the renowned French critic and poet, delves into the history of philosophy to locate a fundamentally poetic modus operandi there. The book represents a daring mixture of Nancy's philosophical essays,... -
Speculative Realism and Science Fiction by Brian Willems
€25.48Brian Willems draws on the science fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinson alongside speculative materialists including Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux and Jane Bennett, to try...