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Aesthetics and Politics by Fredric Jameson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.26No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics... -
In Praise of Shadows: Vintage Design Edition Junichiro Tanizaki 9781784875572
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the... -
Unto This Last and Other Writings by John Ruskin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a... -
Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Cynthia A. Freeland
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very Short Introduction Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving... -
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and... -
Art, Artists and Gauguin by Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker 9781909281806
RRP: $52.26Booksplease Price: $34.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909281806Author Marleen Hengelaar-RookmaakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 4 -
Poetics by Aristotle
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European... -
Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction by Bence Nanay
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.00Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste. It doesn't just consider traditional artistic experiences such as artworks in a museum or an opera... -
How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton 9780300247640
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.39A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it?... -
Confessions of a Heretic, Revised Edition Roger Scruton 9781912559343
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20Confessions of a Heretic is a collection of provocative essays by the influential social commentator and polemicist Roger Scruton. Each "confession" reveals aspects of the author's thinking that his... -
On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller 9780141396965
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'Man defines himself by his deeds - and what kind of image of man do we see in the mirror of our present times?' The poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller was also a profound philosopher, who... -
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai 9780674088122
RRP: $28.07Booksplease Price: $24.05The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often... -
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings by Robert M Pirsig
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.84Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme... -
On Art and Life by John Ruskin 9780141018959
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,... -
Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want 9781848312098
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.58Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant's attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of... -
Ways of Seeing Emmanouil Kalkannis 9781912284641
RRP: $8.71Booksplease Price: $8.28Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and... -
Red: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691172774
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $43.01A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the ages The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up... -
Bob Dylan and Philosophy: It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Thinking) by Cathy Porter 9780812695922
Booksplease Price: $17.51The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan's... -
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177181Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
Useful Work v. Useless Toil by William Morris
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to... -
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.00'Yes, what is Dionysian? - This book provides an answer - "a man who knows" speaks in it, the initiate and disciple of his god.' The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a book about the origins of Greek... -
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $16.01One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature-by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new... -
Wabi Sabi by Diane Durston 9781580176286
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25Embrace tranquil simplicity, rustic elegance, and imperfect beauty. Diane Durston's meditation on the Japanese philosophy of wabi sabi will inspire you to focus on the blessings hiding in your daily... -
Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.60'The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love' So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard's pseudonymous... -
The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life'The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on... -
Art and Visual Perception, Second Edition: A Psychology of the Creative Eye by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520243835
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $31.20Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual... -
The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking by Hanneke Grootenboer 9780226829449
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $25.46Grootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and interpretive thought. While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been... -
What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
RRP: $23.45Booksplease Price: $18.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804171632Author Peter MendelsundFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition by Lawrence Weschler 9780520256095
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $31.29When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist 'who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it'. Now expanded to include six...
Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth by Elizabeth Grosz 9780231145190
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the...
White: Insights into Japanese Design Philosophy Kenya Hara 9783037781838
RRP: $36.18Booksplease Price: $27.05The latest publication by designer Kenya Hara following his acclaimed Designing Design. White is not a book about color. It is rather the author's attempt to explore the essence of "white," which he...
In the Flow by Boris Groys
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.09In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. In an age of secularism and materialism, artworks would be understood as merely...
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation) 9781350040823
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $28.93In this landmark text by one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze takes the paintings of Francis Bacon as his object of his study. The book presents a deep...
The Life of the Mind: Thinking: Vols 1&2 by Hannah Arendt 9780156519922
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $19.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156519922Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 521Imprint
The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. The Dream of Reason takes a fresh look at the writings of the...
Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962 Theodor W Adorno 9780857427090
Booksplease Price: $24.11Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. Night Music presents the...
The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche by Ken Gemes
Booksplease Price: $61.60The diversity of Nietzsche's books, and the sheer range of his philosophical interests, have posed daunting challenges to his interpreters. This Oxford Handbook addresses this multiplicity by...
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 4: 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.41"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those...
The Origin of German Tragic Drama Walter Benjamin 9781804290460
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and...
Ocean by Steve Mentz
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.44Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an...