Aesthetics

A companion volume to his Critique of Religion and Philosophy, this book offers Walter Kaufmann's critical interpretations of some of the great minds in Western philosophy, religion, and literature.About the AuthorWalter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088071694Author Derek R FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951319557Author Raissa MaritainFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Wiseblood BooksPublisher Wiseblood BooksWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

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

Praised in its original edition for its up-to-date, rigorous presentation of current debates and for the clarity of its presentation, Robert Stecker's new edition of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art preserves the major themes and conclusions of the...

The Aesthetics of Natural Environments is a collection of essays investigating philosophical and aesthetics issues that arise in our appreciation of natural environments. The introduction gives an historical and conceptual overview of the rapidly...

This book explores the relevance of David Bowie's life and music for contemporary legal and cultural theory. Focusing on the artist and artworks of David Bowie, this book brings to life, in essay form, particular theoretical ideas, creative methodologies...

This expanded edition of C. L. Hardin's ground-breaking work on color features a new chapter, Further Thoughts: 1993, in which the author revisits the dispute between color objectivists and subjectivists from the perspective of the ecology, genetics, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262527446Author G. Gabrielle StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887276412Author Louise LeviFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Cool Grove PressPublisher Cool Grove PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Though James Joyce was steeped in philosophy and humanism, he has received too little attention from contemporary philosophers in comparison to many of the other titans of modernist fiction. This book probes the possibilities for thinking philosophically...

A theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions.Subject Matter offers a bold counterpoint to prevalent conceptions of habit characterized by bodily fluidity and...

This original and wide-ranging book, now available in paperback, is a major contribution to contemporary philosophy. Bernstein focuses on the work of four key thinkers - Kant, Heidegger, Derrida and Adorno - and provides a powerful new interpretation of...

Althusser and Art offers a reading of Althusserianism as a meta-mediation on the question concerning the aesthetics of theory. Fardy shows that Althusserian theory is part of a larger genealogy of thought, stretching from Korsch through Laruelle, that...

In this collection of eighteen essays, two-thirds of them appearing here for the first time, Aaron Ridley addresses the full range of Nietzsche's aesthetics, from his discussions of tragedy, music, and language to his conceptions of taste, beauty, and...

Current debates in the environmental humanities, animal studies, and related fields increasingly revolve around this question: What to do with "the human"? Is the human a category worth preserving? Should it be replaced with the post-human? Should...

Considered by many to be one of the greatest 20th-century philosophers of religion and metaphysicians, Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) also addressed questions of aesthetics throughout his career. This study offers a detailed explication of Hartshorne's...

Approaching concepts of nature through a multidisciplinary lens, Nature as Resource, Aesthetic Experience, and Ecological Challenge assembles essays by scholars from the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Bringing together perspectives in philosophy,...

In The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women's taste as...

The first volume of essays in English on one of the most renowned contemporary Italian Philosophers.Remo Bodei (1938-2019) was one of Italy's most influential philosophers of the past half-century. His intellectual influence was wide-reaching as he...

In an age of rife consumption and increasing need for consideration of sustainable social practices, an exploration of the aesthetics of weather from various angles becomes vital in shedding light on its importance to our experience of the changing world...

An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in...

Life as Art brings the resources of contemporary aesthetics since Nietzsche to bear on the problems of how one integrates the aesthetic emphases of meaning, liberation, and creativity into one's daily life. By linking together the aesthetic and ethical...

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 (1729-86)...

Theoretically sophisticated and meticulously situated at the fraught scene of reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in contemporary Australia, Postcolonial Agency is an inspiring manifesto for non-imperial mutuality. Bignall's...

Focuses on Deleuze's style, his conception of the self, and his understanding of philosophy's relationship to the arts.Ronald Bogue, author of the first book in English on French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, brings together eight of his essays written...

In recent years there has been a great deal of talk about a possible death of art. As the title of Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art" suggests, the essay challenges such talk, just as it in turn is challenged by such talk, talk that is supported...

Human beings produce many things, and the most remarkable of these we call works of genius. The symphonies of Beethoven, the of paintings of Cezanne, and the novels of Virginia Woolf are distinguished by their originality and their power. They are novel...

James Hyde, a practicing painter, presents a radical and historically detailed investigation into how the concept of pictorial space in art emerged.Using primary documents and a selection of images, Hyde exposes what many will find surprising-that space...

This book is a collection of articles, essays, and lectures about my search and research into music as a form of sacred cultural expression. Its title derives from an article I wrote for the Israel Composers League 50th anniversary brochure, New Music in...

Brings together wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analyses of Luce Irigaray's rethinking of space with respect to sexual difference and the visual arts.A rethinking of space is central to Luce Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference. Topologies of...

Anyone who has seen a film and then followed up with a cup of coffee or glass of wine as they discuss it with friends knows that films can inspire thoughtful conversation and further reflection--sometimes long after their initial screening. Thoughtful...

James Hyde, a practicing painter, presents a radical and historically detailed investigation into how the concept of pictorial space in art emerged.Using primary documents and a selection of images, Hyde exposes what many will find surprising-that space...

Premised on the assumption that the mind is fundamentally active and self-determining, the German Idealist project gave rise to new ways of thinking about our dependence upon culturally transmitted models of thought, feeling, and creativity. Receptive...

The first philosophical engagement with the pictorial work of Leonardo, seen as a systematic whole.Presented here is the first philosophical engagement with the pictorial work of Leonardo, seen as a systematic whole. It is not written from the point of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839994227Author Alex Taek-Gwang LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

As the symbiotic relationship between human and machine unfolds, robotic vision facilitates a reshaping and reconstitution of our perception of the world. This edited collection explores ways in which this is taking place and the implictions for these...

Konrad Wojnowski argues that the probabilistic revolution, while recognized and investigated by historians of science, has been largely overlooked in the field of art. He shows that the idea that one can perceive and comprehend reality in terms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781967751600Author Simon CritchleyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

Is an image merely an inferior copy of the actual thing? Is imagination simply an escape from reality? In both cases, Alfredo Ferrarin thinks not and, breaking classical assumptions that images are exclusively reproductions and imagination is a secondary...