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After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism by Robert B. Pippin
RRP: £80.00£76.61In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility - the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influential... -
Kafka's The Trial: Philosophical Perspectives by Espen Hammer
RRP: £33.49£29.60Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism, and one of the most emblematic books of the 20th Century. It tells the story of Josef K., a... -
Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics by Sarah Nuttall
RRP: £26.99£23.85In Cameroon, a monumental "statue of liberty" is made from scrap metal. In Congo, a thriving popular music incorporates piercing screams and carnal dances. When these and other instantiations of the aesthetics of Africa and its diasporas are taken into... -
Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction by Catherine Malabou
RRP: £50.00£38.41A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive rethinking of postmodern, Derridean critique. Building on her notion of plasticity, a term she originally borrowed from Hegel's... -
Eisenstein on the Audiovisual: The Montage of Music, Image and Sound in Cinema by Robert Robertson
£30.15The pioneering film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is known for the unequalled impact his films have had on the development of cinema. Less is known about his remarkable and extensive writings, which present a continent of ideas about film... -
The Number and the Siren by Quentin Meillassoux
RRP: £24.00£16.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983216926Author Quentin MeillassouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Sequence PressPublisher Sequence Press -
Aesthesis and Perceptronium: On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter by Alexander Wilson 9781517906603
RRP: £23.99£20.41A new speculative ontology of aesthetics In Aesthesis and Perceptronium, Alexander Wilson presents a theory of materialist and posthumanist aesthetics founded on an original speculative ontology that addresses the interconnections of experience,... -
Art as Performance by Dave Davies 9781405116671
RRP: £37.95£33.36In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different... -
Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige by Barbara Carnevali
RRP: £22.00£16.99Philosophers have long distinguished between appearance and reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface and a more profound truth is deeply rooted in Western culture. At a time of obsession with self-representation, when politics... -
Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty & Virtue: Revised Edition by Francis Hutcheson 9780865977730
RRP: £19.95£16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865977730Author F HutchesonFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 614g -
The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics by Peter Kivy
RRP: £37.95£33.76The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other... -
Image-Thinking: Artmaking as Cultural Analysis by Mieke Bal
RRP: £29.99£28.84Mieke Bal takes us on a journey through the range of her work, using the concept of image-thinking as a point of connection between cultural analysis and artistic practice. Sharing a lifetime of experience of writing about art, making films and... -
A Companion to Aesthetics by Stephen Davies
RRP: £38.95£35.20A COMPANION TO AESTHETICS This second edition of A Companion to Aesthetics examines questions that were among the earliest discussed by ancient philosophers, such as the nature of beauty and the relation between morality and art, while also addressing a... -
Aesthetics and Design: The Value of Everyday Living by Jeffrey Petts 9781350213036
RRP: £19.99£17.61What designers do and how we all, as users of designed things, live with their products raises fundamental philosophical questions about how we should live, and how the nature of design work and good design relates to our lives. Jeffrey Petts presents... -
The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence by Gerard Genette
RRP: £38.00£32.65What art is-its very nature-is the subject of this book by one of the most distinguished continental theorists writing today. Informed by the aesthetics of Nelson Goodman and referring to a wide range of cultures, contexts, and media, The Work of Art... -
Benjamin's -abilities by Samuel Weber 9780674046061
RRP: £26.95£20.97"There is no world of thought that is not a world of language," Walter Benjamin remarked, "and one only sees in the world what is preconditioned by language." In this book, Samuel Weber, a leading theorist on literature and media, reveals a new and... -
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: An Introduction by Robert Stecker 9780742564114
RRP: £48.00£46.85Praised 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... -
Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience by Charles Altieri
RRP: £34.00£29.33Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles... -
Beyond Art by Dominic McIver Lopes 9780198748083
RRP: £29.49£27.15Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts. Having traced philosophical interest in theories of art to a reaction to certain puzzle cases of avant-garde... -
Philosophy of Comics: An Introduction by Sam Cowling
RRP: £19.99£19.50What exactly are comics? Can they be art, literature, or even pornography? How should we understand the characters, stories, and genres that shape them? Thinking about comics raises a bewildering range of questions about representation, narrative, and... -
Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy by Carolyn Korsmeyer
RRP: £28.99£24.46Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet, in addition to providing physical pleasure, eating and drinking bear... -
Art, Morality and Human Nature: Writings by Richard W. Beardsmore by John Haldane 9781845409401
£22.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409401Author John HaldaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 400g -
Movies with Meaning: Existentialism through Film by Daniel Shaw
£29.59This book pairs close readings of some of the classic writings of existentialist philosophers with interpretations of films that reveal striking parallels to each of those texts, demonstrating their respective philosophies in action. Individual chapters... -
Aesthetics of Appearing by Martin Seel
RRP: £25.99£22.55This book proposes that aesthetics begin not with concepts of being or semblance, but with a concept of appearing. Appearing bespeaks of the reality that all aesthetic objects share, however different they may otherwise be. For Martin Seel, appearing... -
Being for Beauty: Aesthetic Agency and Value by Dominic McIver Lopes 9780198827214
£77.44No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They orient us upon the natural world. And we even find them in the deepest... -
Music in German Philosophy: An Introduction by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
RRP: £40.00£38.55Though many well-known German philosophers have devoted considerable attention to music and its aesthetics, surprisingly few of their writings on the subject have been translated into English. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, a philosopher, and Oliver Furbeth, a... -
The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form by Julie Beth Napolin
RRP: £27.99£24.66Shortlisted, 2021 Memory Studies Association First Book Award The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative... -
Lyotard Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts by Graham Jones
£20.54Lyotard's claims concerning the postmodern have often been misunderstood or misrepresented. Lyotard Reframed provides an analysis of Lyotard's most influential writings on the postmodern alongside a detailed commentary on his broader philosophy,... -
The Supermarket of the Visible: Toward a General Economy of Images by Peter Szendy
RRP: £27.99£23.66Already in 1929, Walter Benjamin described "a one hundred per cent image-space." Such an image space saturates our world now more than ever, constituting the visibility in which we live. The Supermarket of the Visible analyzes this space and the icons... -
Five Lessons on Wagner by Alain Badiou
RRP: £17.99£15.70For over a century, Richard Wagner's music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological-some say racist and reactionary-underpinnings. In this major new work, Alain Badiou, radical philosopher and... -
The Philosophy of Creativity: New Essays by Elliot Samuel Paul
RRP: £63.00£55.25Creativity pervades human life. It is the mark of individuality, the vehicle of self-expression, and the engine of progress in every human endeavor. It also raises a wealth of neglected and yet evocative philosophical questions: What is the role of... -
Empathy by Derek Matravers 9780745670744
RRP: £50.00£43.51How 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... -
The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Philosophical Perspectives by Paul Woodruff 9780190669454
RRP: £25.49£21.89Oedipus presents ceaseless paradoxes that have fascinated readers for centuries. He is proud of his intellect, but he does not know himself and succumbs easily to self-deceptions. As a ruler he expresses the greatest good will toward his people, but as... -
New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics by Minh Nguyen 9781498572118
RRP: £45.00£41.60This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of... -
Minerva's Night Out: Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures by Noel Carroll
RRP: £20.95£18.90Minerva's Night Out presents series of essays by noted philosopher and motion picture and media theorist Noel Carroll that explore issues at the intersection of philosophy, motion pictures, and popular culture. Presents a wide-ranging series of essays... -
Eroticizing Aesthetics: In the Real with Bataille and Lacan by Tim Themi 9781538147825
RRP: £85.00£81.22Bringing together Bataille with Lacan and Nietzsche, Tim Themi examines the role of aesthetics implicit in each and how this invokes an erotic process celebrating the real of what is usually excluded from articulation. Bataille came to deem eroticism as... -
The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera by Lydia Goehr
RRP: £28.00£21.36Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply... -
The Landscape of Humanity: Art, Culture and Society by Anthony O'Hear 9781845401122
£20.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401122Author Anthony O'HearFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art by Richard Shusterman
RRP: £34.00£29.33Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining the very notions of art and the aesthetic as special products of Western modernity, they suggest that postmodern challenges to traditional high... -
The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change by Jason Miller
RRP: £25.00£19.18In both politics and art in recent decades, there has been a dramatic shift in emphasis on representation of identity. Liberal ideals of universality and individuality have given way to a concern with the visibility and recognition of underrepresented...