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Art and Its Messages: Meaning, Morality, and Society by Stephen Davies
RRP: $38.90$34.71This 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... -
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by Professor David Shields
RRP: $33.05$21.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307387974Author Professor David ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 221Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 259g -
Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable by Michael Gallope
RRP: $60.45$58.87We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In Deep Refrains,... -
Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings Michael Kelly 9781350294622
RRP: $48.73$39.86Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y. Davis, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Theaster Gates, Aracelis Girmay, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Deborah Goffe, James B. Haile III,... -
A Philosophy of Practising by Antonia Pont
RRP: $40.93$37.54Provides an account of 'practising', its mechanisms and implications, in conversation with Deleuze's Difference and Repetition Offers a detailed account of practising (as mode of doing), its criteria and relation to time, as well as lived implications... -
Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design by Kathryn Moore
RRP: $85.78$74.96Making tangible connections between theory and practice, ideas and form, this book encourages debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things look. What are the metaphysical concepts at the heart of design education,... -
Foucault on Painting by Catherine M. Soussloff 9781517902421
RRP: $42.88$37.42Michel 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,... -
A Philosophy of Gardens by David E. Cooper 9780199290345
$158.44Why do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is surprising... -
Nietzsche as Philosopher by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: $54.60$42.51Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Friedrich Nietzsche. When Danto's classic study was first published in 1965, many regarded Nietzsche as a brilliant but somewhat erratic thinker. Danto, however, presented a radically... -
Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism by Monroe C. Beardsley 9780915145089
RRP: $60.43$49.30This 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... -
Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters by Dominic McIver Lopes 9780197748510
RRP: $25.33$23.73As 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 Method of Equality: Interviews with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan Jacques Ranciere 9780745680637
RRP: $35.08$31.28The development of Ranciere's philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies... -
Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: A Case-Driven Approach by Professor Darren Hudson Hick
RRP: $42.88$40.15Aesthetics and the philosophy of art are about things in the world - things like the Mona Lisa, but also things like horror movies, things like the ugliest dog in the world, and things like wallpaper. There's a surprising amount of philosophical content... -
Rome: The First Book of Foundations by Michel Serres 9781472590152
RRP: $87.75$84.67Michel 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... -
Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility by Matthew Fuller
RRP: $40.93$35.82A 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... -
Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema by Carol Vernallis 9780199767007
RRP: $66.28$42.69Unruly Media argues that we're on the crest of a new international, intermedial style in which sonic and visual parameters become heightened and accelerated. This audiovisual turn, driven by digital technologies and socioeconomic changes, calls for new... -
Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: $78.00$59.24This 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... -
Conversations on Art and Aesthetics by Hans Maes
RRP: $52.63$44.46What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret a work of art? Can we learn anything from literature,... -
The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages Out of the Twentieth Century by McKenzie Wark 9781844679577
RRP: $33.13$27.50Following her acclaimed history of the Situationist International up until the late sixties, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark returns with a companion volume which puts the late work of the Situationists in a broader and deeper context,... -
The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics by Hsuan L. Hsu 9781479810093
RRP: $48.73$42.26A 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 Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence by Gerard Genette
RRP: $64.35$56.65What 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... -
Baumgarten's Aesthetics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives by J. Colin McQuillan 9781538158425
RRP: $68.25$60.35The 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... -
The Aesthetic Unconscious by Jacques Ranciere 9780745646442
$29.70This 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: $33.13$26.62From 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... -
Being for Beauty: Aesthetic Agency and Value by Dominic McIver Lopes
RRP: $46.78$42.24No 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... -
Thinking with Kant's Critique of Judgment by Michel Chaouli 9780674971363
RRP: $81.80$65.52Why read Kant's Critique of Judgment today? Does this classic of aesthetic theory still possess the vitality to prompt those of us engaged with art and criticism to think more deeply about issues that move us, issues such as the force of aesthetic... -
Sensibility and Sense: The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World by Arnold Berleant
$41.20Apologies 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 *... -
Groove: An Aesthetic Of Measured Time: Historical Materialism, Volume 73 by Mark Abel 9781608464845
RRP: $58.50$43.64In Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time, Mark Abel explains the rise to prominence in Western music of a new way of organising rhythm: groove. He provides a historical account of its emergence around the turn of the 20th century and analyses the musical... -
Improvising Improvisation – From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature by Gary Peters
RRP: $50.70$48.46There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on the essence of improvisation, and offer convincing arguments for improvisation's impact across a wide range... -
The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno by J. M. Bernstein 9780745612416
RRP: $38.98$34.50This 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... -
The Concept of Non-Photography by François Laruelle 9780983216919
RRP: $38.98$26.48Apologies 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 -
Work and Object: Explorations in the Metaphysics of Art by Peter Lamarque 9780199655496
RRP: $77.01$58.79Work and Object is a study of fundamental questions in the metaphysics of art, notably how works relate to the materials that constitute them. Issues about the creation of works, what is essential and inessential to their identity, their distinct kinds... -
Rhapsody for the Theatre by Alain Badiou 9781781681251
$33.13For Alain Badiou, theatre-unlike cinema-creates a space in which philosophy can be lived. It is, of all the arts, the most closely related to politics: both depend on a limited number of texts or statements, which are collectively enacted by a group... -
Disparities by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $78.00$60.02The 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. ... -
Aesthetics and Nature: The Appreciation of Natural Beauty and the Environment Dr Glenn Parsons (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada) 9781350121591
RRP: $42.88$37.85The appreciation of nature and natural beauty demands our attention as environmental issues become ever more urgent. In this timely introduction, Glenn Parsons provides an overview of philosophical work on the aesthetics of nature, identifying key... -
Film Fables by Jacques Ranciere
$49.35In 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... -
Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary by Chiara Bottici
RRP: $48.75$38.20Between 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... -
Philosophy of Beauty by Francis J. Kovach 9780806113630
RRP: $42.80$41.46There has long been a need for a work on the philosophy of beauty treating fundamental problems against the background of the history of aesthetics--ancient and medieval as well as modern and contemporary. This book answers that need with the... -
Art, Emotion and Ethics by Berys Gaut 9780199571529
RRP: $95.53$74.84Art, Emotion and Ethics is a systematic investigation of the relation of art to morality, a topic that has been of central and recurring interest to the philosophy of art since Plato. Berys Gaut explores the various positions that have been taken in this... -
The Philosophy of Poetry by John Gibson 9780199603671
$152.53In 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,...