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History as a Visual Art in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance by Karl F. Morrison 9780691601014
RRP: $78.00$61.48Karl Morrison discusses historical writing at a turning point in European culture: the so-called Renaissance of the twelfth century. Why do texts considered at that time to be masterpieces seem now to be fragmentary and full of contradictions? Morrison... -
Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger by Jean-Marie Schaeffer 9780691144368
RRP: $78.00$61.48This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a carefully reasoned plea for a new and more flexible... -
Expressions of Judgment: An Essay on Kant's Aesthetics by Eli Friedlander 9780674368200
RRP: $70.10$56.47The Critique of Judgment-the third and final work in Kant's critical system-laid the groundwork of modern aesthetics when it appeared in 1790. Eli Friedlander's reappraisal of this seminal accomplishment reformulates and elucidates Kant's thought in... -
Danto and His Critics by Mark Rollins 9780470673447
RRP: $189.05$188.92Updated and revised, the Second Edition of Danto and His Critics presents a series of essays by leading Danto scholars who offer their critical assessment of the influential works and ideas of Arthur C. Danto, the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus in the... -
Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke 9780268048730
RRP: $175.50$152.26In his Enquiry --which has been described as "certainly on of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England produced" --the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the 'sublime' and the 'beautiful,' together with... -
What's That Smell?: A Philosophy of the Olfactory by Simon Hajdini 9780262547567
RRP: $52.65$34.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547567Author Simon HajdiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Aesthetics as Phenomenology: The Appearance of Things by Gunter Figal 9780253015518
RRP: $148.20$128.99Connecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art means for cognition, recognition, and affect-how art changes our everyday disposition or behavior. Gunter... -
Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism by Ewa Plonowska Ziarek 9780231161480
RRP: $179.40$140.03Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative... -
The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution by James Steintrager 9780231151580
RRP: $120.90$94.81What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines experimented clandestinely with this idea during the Enlightenment. In explicit novels, dialogues, poems,... -
Art's Claim to Truth by Gianni Vattimo 9780231138505
RRP: $132.60$102.90First collected in Italy in 1985, Art's Claim to Truth is considered by many philosophers to be one of Gianni Vattimo's most important works. Newly revised for English readers, the book begins with a challenge to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, who... -
Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning: Philosophical Reflections on Coping with Loss by Kathleen Marie Higgins 9780226831046
RRP: $70.20$59.22A philosophical exploration of aesthetic experience during bereavement. In Aesthetics of Grief and Mourning, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins reflects on the ways that aesthetics aids people experiencing loss. Some practices related to bereavement,... -
The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom by Sharday C. Mosurinjohn 9780228011538
RRP: $58.48$49.63The spiritual crisis of the twenty-first century is overload boredom. There is more information, content, and stimulation than ever before, and none of it is waiting passively to be consumed. The demands exceed our capacities.The Spiritual Significance... -
Defining Art, Creating the Canon: Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt by Paul Crowther 9780199698585
$67.35What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. But this has been challenged by institutional definitions of art and postmodern critique. The... -
Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age by Emory Elliott 9780195146325
$188.99The essays collected in this volume examine the multidisciplinary and multicultural nature of the subject of aesthetics. The contributed articles address the vexed relation of the arts and criticism to contemporary social, political, and cultural issues... -
Aesthetics and Its Discontents by Jacques Ranciere 9780745646305
RRP: $97.50$84.84Aesthetics is not a politics by accident but in essence. But this politics operates in the unresolved tension between two opposed forms of politics: the first consists in transforming art into forms of collective life, the second in preserving from all... -
Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics & Politics Under the Sign of Globalisation by Mads Anders Baggesgaard 9788779345553
RRP: $64.35$63.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779345553Author Mads Anders BaggesgaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 365Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Power of Beauty: On the Aesthetics of Homer, Plato & Cicero by Inga R. Gammel 9788771247718
RRP: $39.00$33.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771247718Author Inga R. GammelFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-first Century by McKenzie Wark 9781788735056
RRP: $136.50$77.01As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting... -
Beauty, Art and the Polis by Alice Ramos 9780966922622
$45.94The essays in this volume, indebted in great part to Jacques Maritain and to other Neo-Thomists, represent a contribution to an understanding of beauty and the arts within the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition. As such they constitute a different voice in... -
The Contemplative Activity: Eight Lectures on Aesthetics by Pepita Haezrahi 9781032195131
RRP: $56.53$48.93First published in 1954, The Contemplative Activity analyses our knowledge of aesthetic experience, making the basic assumption that the existence of such experience is a hard core of fact which can only be described. Haezrahi’s approach to the problem... -
Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings by Michael Kelly 9781350294639
$127.30Black 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,... -
Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections by Nizan Shaked 9781350045750
$136.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350045750Author Nizan ShakedFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC -
Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics by Ryan Bishop 9781474431422
RRP: $60.45$57.47In literature and the visual arts, zero degree represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to and outside of the dominant cultural order. Starting from Roland Barthes' 1953 book Writing Degree Zero, this volume examines the historical,... -
Greek Mythologies - Antiquity and Surrealism by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis 9780983532217
RRP: $107.15$85.92The hegemonization of European thought by Greek antiquity was famously questioned by major representatives of the avant-garde. However, this is only one ideological dimension of the extraordinarily intricate politics of the European avant-garde's... -
Evaluating Art by George Dickie 9780877226833
RRP: $54.58$47.07In this book, George Dickie presents a theory about how to judge a work of art as opposed to a theory that explains why a particular work is defined as art. Focusing mainly on the writings of Monroe Beardsley and critically examining the views of seven... -
Color for Philosophers: Unweaving the Rainbow by C. L. Hardin 9780872200401
RRP: $105.28$85.22This 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... -
Goods: Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image by Emanuele Coccia 9780823280223
RRP: $165.75$143.93Objects are all around us - and images of objects, advertisements for objects. Things are no longer merely purely physical or economic entities: within the visual economy of advertising, they are inescapably moral. Any object, regardless of its nature,... -
Mocking Bird Technologies: The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes by Christopher GoGwilt 9780823278480
RRP: $218.40$188.78Contributors: Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton, Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay, Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa, Gavin Sourgen. Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a... -
The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form by Audrey Wasser 9780823270057
RRP: $148.20$128.99The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of... -
Responding to Loss: Heideggerian Reflections on Literature, Architecture, and Film by Robert Mugerauer 9780823263240
RRP: $78.00$68.19Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to... -
The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender by Anne Emmanuelle Berger 9780823253852
RRP: $200.85$173.82More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of... -
The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aesthetics by Rodolphe Gasche 9780804746212
RRP: $58.48$51.68Against the assumption that aesthetic form relates to a harmonious arrangement of parts into a beautiful whole, this book argues that reason is the real theme of the Critique of Judgment as of the two earlier Critiques. Since aesthetic judgment of the... -
Handbook of Inaesthetics by Alain Badiou 9780804744089
RRP: $183.30$163.57Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular. What characterizes the century that has just come to a close is... -
Aesthetics of Appearing by Martin Seel 9780804743808
RRP: $210.60$182.13This 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... -
The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China by Ban Wang 9780804728461
RRP: $130.65$113.43Through a comparative analysis of diverse texts and contexts, this book offers a cultural history of the interplay between the aesthetic and the political in the formation of personal and collective identity that crystallizes into the Chinese aesthetic... -
Sex: A Philosophical Primer by Irving Singer 9780742512375
$68.74In the first edition of Sex: A Philosophical Primer, Singer offered a new conception of sex, locating it within a spectrum that also includes love and compassion. He suggested that this conception improves upon the work of theorists who tend to relegate... -
Philosophy's Artful Conversation by D. N. Rodowick 9780674416673
RRP: $79.85$64.80Theory has been an embattled discourse in the academy for decades. But now it faces a serious challenge from those who want to model the analytical methods of all scholarly disciplines on the natural sciences. What is urgently needed, says D. N... -
Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary by Chiara Bottici 9780231157780
RRP: $120.90$94.03Between 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... -
Soul and Form by Georg Lukacs 9780231149808
RRP: $171.60$134.06Gyorgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic... -
Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media by Emmanuel Alloa 9780231187923
RRP: $235.95$183.30Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders...