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The Turn to Provisionality in Contemporary Art: Negative Work Raphael Rubinstein 9781350243750
$61.64In his influential essay “Provisional Painting,” Raphael Rubinstein applied the term “provisional” to contemporary painters whose work looked intentionally casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished or self-cancelling; who appeared to have deliberately... -
Populism and The People in Contemporary Critical Thought: Politics, Philosophy, and Aesthetics Alexander Stagnell 9781350185289
$61.64Is populism the unsurpassable horizon of our own time or is it a temptation that should at all costs be resisted? Who, and to what end, does the jargon of populism serve? To answer these questions, Alexander Stagnell, Gustav Strandberg, David Payne, and... -
A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art Dr Mark Staff Brandl 9781350356115
$61.64Metaphor, which allows us to talk about things by comparing them to other things, is one of the most ubiquitous and adaptable features of language and thought. It allows us to clarify meaning, yet also evaluate and transform the ways we think, create and... -
Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics: Ethics, Politics, and the Art of Living Valentina Antoniol 9781350384804
RRP: $178.50$178.42Bringing together Michel Foucault’s aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics, this volume provides a critical comparison of two of the most influential philosophical theories of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Introduced by... -
Rancière and Performance by Nic Fryer 9781538148419
RRP: $63.00$56.03Jacques Rancière has been hugely influential in the field of political philosophy and aesthetics. This edited collection is the first to investigate the points of contact between the work of Rancière and the field of theatre and performance studies... -
The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke: A Reader on Value Theory, Aesthetics, Community, Culture, Race, and Education by Leonard Harris 9780847688081
RRP: $88.20$77.55This book provides a comprehensive overview of Alain Locke's pragmatist philosophy. It aims to capture the radical implications of Locke's approach within pragmatism, the critical temper embedded in Locke's works, the central role of power and... -
Diffractive Reading: New Materialism, Theory, Critique by Kai Merten 9781538155677
RRP: $73.50$65.00Putting the New Materialist figure of diffraction to use in a set of readings – in which cultural texts are materially read against their contents and their themes, against their readers or against other texts – this volume proposes a critical... -
Judgments of Beauty in Theory Evaluation by Devon Brickhouse-Bryson 9781498597197
RRP: $73.50$65.00In Judgments of Beauty in Theory Evaluation, Devon Brickhouse-Bryson argues that judgments of beauty are a justified part of theory evaluation of all sorts, including both scientific theory evaluation and philosophical theory evaluation. He supports this... -
Figural Space: Semiotics and the Aesthetic Imaginary by William D. Melaney 9781538179888
RRP: $63.00$56.03This book is concerned with the continuing viability of both Freud and Hegel to the reading of modern literature. The book begins with Julia Kristeva’s attempts to relate Hegelian thought to a psychoanalytically informed conception of semiotics that was... -
Dewey and the Aesthetic Unconscious: The Vital Depths of Experience by Bethany Henning 9781793620217
RRP: $161.70$142.00John Dewey was the most celebrated and publicly engaged American philosopher in the twentieth century. His naturalistic theory of "experience" generated new approaches to education and democracy and re-grounded philosophy's search for truth in... -
The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos by Laura U. Marks 9781478030119
RRP: $50.38$45.30In The Fold, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cosmos. Drawing on the theories of Leibniz, Glissant, Deleuze, and theoretical physicist David Bohm—who each conceive of the universe as... -
The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos by Laura U. Marks 9781478025856
RRP: $191.10$166.57In The Fold, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cosmos. Drawing on the theories of Leibniz, Glissant, Deleuze, and theoretical physicist David Bohm—who each conceive of the universe as... -
Deconstruction and the Work of Art: Visual Arts and Their Critique in Contemporary French Thought by Martta Heikkilä 9781793619068
RRP: $73.50$65.00The contemporary idea of the "work of art" is paradoxically both widely used and often unexamined. Therefore, we must re-evaluate the concept before we can understand what the deconstruction of aesthetics means for thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc... -
Aesthetics Today: A Reader by Robert Stecker 9780742564374
RRP: $189.00$166.34Aesthetics Today provides centrally important texts that explore the current state of the debate on twelve major topics within aesthetics and the philosophy of art. With the exception of excerpts from classic texts by Hume, Kant, Hanslick, and... -
The Quest for the Fine: A Philosophical Inquiry into Judgment, Worth, and Existence by Michael Gelven 9780847681242
RRP: $86.10$75.77In this original and compelling exploration of the meaning of the term 'fine' and the phenomenon of refinement, noted scholar Michael Gelven reflects on the relationship between refinement and existence. Beginning with a study of perceptual refinement,... -
Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series by Luca Bandirali 9781498597586
RRP: $63.00$59.45Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable by Timothy Cleveland 9781793614865
RRP: $63.00$56.03It is commonplace to regard many great works of literature—poems, dramas, works of fiction—as in some sense philosophical. Yet ever since Plato, there has been a tension between the kind of abstract theorizing that goes on in philosophy and the focus on... -
Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia: A Novel Approach to Aesthetics Melvin Chen 9781350414167
$137.09Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aesthetic merit and judgement, creativity and the possibility of machine art, and morality and the possibility of... -
Early Modern Aesthetics by J. Colin McQuillan 9781783482122
RRP: $79.80$70.37Early Modern Aesthetics is a concise and accessible guide to the history of aesthetics in the early modern period. J. Colin McQuillan shows how philosophers concerned with art and beauty positioned themselves with respect to the ancients and the moderns,... -
Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting by Nicholas Guardiano 9781498524537
RRP: $189.00$165.50Aesthetic Transcendentalism is a philosophy endorsing the qualitative and creative aspects of nature. Theoretically it argues for a metaphysical dimension of nature that is aesthetically real, pluralistic, and prolific. It directs our attention to the... -
Deconstruction and the Work of Art: Visual Arts and Their Critique in Contemporary French Thought by Martta Heikkila 9781793619044
RRP: $214.20$187.19The contemporary idea of the "work of art" is paradoxically both widely used and often unexamined. Therefore, we must re-evaluate the concept before we can understand what the deconstruction of aesthetics means for thinkers like Jacques... -
Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman by Dennis M. Weiss 9781498501156
RRP: $105.00$91.90Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on materiality. Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman bears witness to the attention paid by literary theorists, digital... -
Landscape Aesthetics: Toward an Engaged Ecology by Alberto L. Siani 9780231213677
RRP: $63.00$57.52The notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contemplation. Likewise, aesthetics is often seen as apolitical, a matter of subjective tastes and preferences. This book challenges the common understanding of these... -
Early Modern Aesthetics by J. Colin McQuillan 9781783482115
RRP: $233.10$204.31Early Modern Aesthetics is a concise and accessible guide to the history of aesthetics in the early modern period. J. Colin McQuillan shows how philosophers concerned with art and beauty positioned themselves with respect to the ancients and the moderns,... -
The Philosophies of Richard Wagner by Julian Young 9780739199947
RRP: $88.20$77.55In addition to being a great composer, Richard Wagner was also an important philosopher. Julian Young begins by examining the philosophy of art and society Wagner constructs during his time as a revolutionary anarchist-communist. Modernity, Wagner... -
Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series by Luca Bandirali 9781498597562
RRP: $161.70$147.06What is a television series? A widespread answer takes it to be a totality of episodes and seasons. Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone argue against this characterization. In Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series, they contend that television... -
A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between by Catherine Homan 9781498594462
RRP: $73.50$65.00A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between explores the ways in which both play and poetry orient us toward what surpasses us. Catherine Homan develops an original account of poetic education that builds on Friedrich Hölderlin’s idea... -
Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting by Nicholas Guardiano 9781498524551
RRP: $75.60$66.80Aesthetic Transcendentalism is a philosophy endorsing the qualitative and creative aspects of nature. Theoretically it argues for a metaphysical dimension of nature that is aesthetically real, pluralistic, and prolific. It directs our attention to the... -
The Aesthetic Sense of Life: A Philosophy of the Everyday by Bruce Fleming 9780761839163
RRP: $79.80$70.37The Aesthetic Sense of Life is a fast-moving book about how to see the world and get value from living every day with the "everyday." Do the infinite number of sensations we're surrounded with every day have intrinsic value? If not, what gives... -
Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject before Kant by Johannes Wankhammer 9781501775802
RRP: $54.58$47.23Creatures of Attention excavates the early modern prehistory of our late modern crises of attention. At the threshold of modernity, philosophers, scientists, and poets across Europe began to see attention as the key to autonomous agency and knowledge... -
Language of Modern Music by Donald Mitchell 9780571161935
RRP: $27.28$17.98This is a study of the ideas and creative forces that went into shaping the language of 20th-century music. The author's argument is based on a consideration of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, during the course of which he makes forays into the related arts... -
Heidegger and Music by Casey Rentmeester 9781538154151
RRP: $73.50$65.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538154151Author Casey RentmeesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Heidegger and Music by Casey Rentmeester 9781538154137
RRP: $193.20$169.95Although philosophers have examined and commented on music for centuries, Martin Heidegger, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, had frustratingly little to say about music-directly, at least. This volume, the first to tackle Heidegger... -
Rhythmicity and Deleuze: Practice as Research in the Musical-Philosophical by Steve Tromans 9781666926064
RRP: $153.30$134.78In this detailed and comprehensive study of concepts from Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of time, Tromans undertakes a series of practice as research projects that reformulate Deleuze's work via what Tromans calls a "musical-philosophical" practice. Tromans... -
Art as Capital: The Intersection of Science, Technology, and the Arts by Polona Tratnik 9781538154229
RRP: $189.00$165.50In global terms, creative industries are on the rise, as are new media investigations in art and initiatives that encourage innovation in the arts, for end-use in the economy. However, there is a significant lack of critical reflection on this form of... -
Aesthetics, Disinterestedness, and Effectiveness in Political Art by Maria Alina Asavei 9781498566797
RRP: $178.50$162.20Should politically concerned and engaged artistic production disregard questions or/and requirements of aesthetic reception and value? Whether art should be "aesthetic" or "political" is not a new question. Therefore, in spite of those several... -
Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume by E.M. Dadlez 9781405193481
$57.65A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austen's literary themes and characters with David Hume's views on morality and human nature. Argues that the normative perspectives endorsed in Jane Austen's novels are best characterized in terms of... -
Art and Morality: Essays in the Spirit of George Santayana by Morris Grossman 9780823257225
$161.09The guiding theme of these essays by aesthetician, musician, and Santayana scholar Morris Grossman is the importance of preserving the tension between what can be unified and what is disorganized, random, and miscellaneous. Grossman described this as the... -
Life Drawing: A Deleuzean Aesthetics of Existence by Gordon C.F. Bearn 9780823244805
$191.00Deleuze's publications have attracted enormous attention, but scant attention has been paid to the existential relevance of Deleuze's writings. In the lineage of Nietzsche, Life Drawing develops a fully affirmative Deleuzean aesthetics of existence. ... -
Heidegger, Hoelderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language: Toward a New Poetics of Dasein by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei 9780823223602
RRP: $170.10$169.93Heidegger'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...