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  • Paintings and the Past: Philosophy, History, Art by Ivan Gaskell

    Paintings and the Past: Philosophy, History, Art by Ivan Gaskell

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    This book is an exploration of how art-specifically paintings in the European manner-can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings...
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  • Alarm by Dr. Alice Bennett

    Alarm by Dr. Alice Bennett

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    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Alarms are alarming. They wake us up, demand our attention and force us to attend to things we've preferred to ignore. But alarms also allow us...
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  • Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics by M. Beatrice Fazi 9781538147061

    Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics by M. Beatrice Fazi 9781538147061

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    In Contingent Computation, M. Beatrice Fazi offers a new theoretical perspective through which we can engage philosophically with computing. The book proves that aesthetics is a viable mode of investigating contemporary computational systems. It does so...
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  • Between Celan and Heidegger by Pablo Oyarzun 9781438488363

    Between Celan and Heidegger by Pablo Oyarzun 9781438488363

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    Probing reassessment of the relation between Celan's poetry and Heidegger's thought.The relevance of Martin Heidegger's thinking to Paul Celan's poetry is well known. Between Celan and Heidegger proposes that, while the relation between them is...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature by Noel Carroll 9780367360399

    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature by Noel Carroll 9780367360399

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    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature is an in-depth examination of literature through a philosophical lens, written by distinguished figures across the major divisions of philosophy. Its 40 newly-commissioned essays are divided into six...
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  • The Number and the Siren by Quentin Meillassoux

    The Number and the Siren by Quentin Meillassoux

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    Apologies 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
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  • Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige by Barbara Carnevali

    Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige by Barbara Carnevali

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    Philosophers 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...
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  • Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography by Kathrin Yacavone 9781623566692

    Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography by Kathrin Yacavone 9781623566692

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    Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography presents two of the most important intellectual figures of the twentieth century in a new comparative light. Pursuing hitherto unexplored aspects of Benjamin's and Barthes's engagement with...
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  • Image-Thinking: Artmaking as Cultural Analysis by Mieke Bal

    Image-Thinking: Artmaking as Cultural Analysis by Mieke Bal

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    Mieke 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...
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  • Charles Batteux: The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle by James O. Young 9780198747116

    Charles Batteux: The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle by James O. Young 9780198747116

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    The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle (1746) by Charles Batteux was arguably the most influential work on aesthetics published in the eighteenth century. It influenced every major aesthetician in the second half of the century: Diderot, Herder,...
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  • The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence by Gerard Genette

    The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence by Gerard Genette

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    What 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...
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  • The Intelligence of Place: Topographies and Poetics by Jeff Malpas 9781350036338

    The Intelligence of Place: Topographies and Poetics by Jeff Malpas 9781350036338

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    Place has become a widespread concept in contemporary work in the humanities, creative arts, and social sciences. Yet in spite of its centrality, place remains a concept more often deployed than interrogated, and there are relatively few works that...
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  • Conversations on Art and Aesthetics by Hans Maes

    Conversations on Art and Aesthetics by Hans Maes

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    What 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,...
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  • Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Introducing Aesthetics by Hugh Bredin 9780748611911

    Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Introducing Aesthetics by Hugh Bredin 9780748611911

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    Philosophies of Art and Beauty is a thorough historical survey of philosophies of the arts. It provides descriptive analyses of the most significant and influential art forms which help to define European culture, past and present: literature, drama,...
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  • Surface and Depth: Dialectics of Criticism and Culture by Richard Shusterman

    Surface and Depth: Dialectics of Criticism and Culture by Richard Shusterman

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    A paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aesthetics. How can art's surface meanings and qualities be properly appreciated without understanding the cultural context that shapes their creation and perception? But exploring such underlying...
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  • Imagining and Knowing: The Shape of Fiction by Gregory Currie 9780199656615

    Imagining and Knowing: The Shape of Fiction by Gregory Currie 9780199656615

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    Works of fiction are works of the imagination and for the imagination. Gregory Currie energetically defends the familiar idea that fictions are guides to the imagination, a view which has come under attack in recent years. Responding to a number of...
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  • Anthology of Turkish Science Fiction Stories by Veli Uğur 9781801351287

    Anthology of Turkish Science Fiction Stories by Veli Uğur 9781801351287

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801351287Author Veli UğurFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Transnational Press LondonPublisher Transnational Press LondonWeight(grams)...
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  • Beauty in Arabic Culture by D. Behrens Abouseif 9781558761995

    Beauty in Arabic Culture by D. Behrens Abouseif 9781558761995

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    Although beauty, in the pre-modern Arab world, was enjoyed and promoted almost everywhere, Islam does not possess a general theory on aesthetics or a systematic theory of the arts. This is a study of the Arabic discourse on beauty. The author had to...
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  • Classics in Western Philosophy of Art: Major Themes and Arguments by Prof. Noel Carroll

    Classics in Western Philosophy of Art: Major Themes and Arguments by Prof. Noel Carroll

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    In this synthetic introduction to the history of the philosophy of art, Noel Carroll elucidates and analyzes selected writings on art by Plato, Aristotle, Hutcheson, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Tolstoy, and Bell. Carroll's narrative tracks...
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  • Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond by Carole Bourne-Taylor 9783039114092

    Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond by Carole Bourne-Taylor 9783039114092

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    From the first stirrings of modernism to contemporary poetics, the modernist aesthetic project could be described as a form of phenomenological reduction that attempts to return to the invisible and unsayable foundations of human perception and...
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  • Ecosophical Aesthetics by Patricia MacCormack 9781350143821

    Ecosophical Aesthetics by Patricia MacCormack 9781350143821

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    Inspired by the ecosophical writings of Felix Guattari, this book explores the many ways that aesthetics - in the forms of visual art, film, sculpture, painting, literature, and the screenplay - can act as catalysts, allowing us to see the world...
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  • Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography by Simonetta Moro 9781032052045

    Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography by Simonetta Moro 9781032052045

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    Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography...
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  • Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy by Daniel Herwitz 9780826489197

    Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy by Daniel Herwitz 9780826489197

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    Aesthetics is the branch of philosophical thought that arises from engagement with the arts. It is about larger issues, such as meaning, identity, and medium, that arise in the exploration of art, music, film and literature. Aesthetics: Key Concepts in...
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  • The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics by Vittorio Hosle

    The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics by Vittorio Hosle

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    No overall history of the philosophical dialogue has appeared since Rudolf Hirzel's two-volume study was published in 1895. In The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics, Vittorio Hoesle covers the development of the genre from its...
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  • Movies with Meaning: Existentialism through Film by Daniel Shaw

    Movies with Meaning: Existentialism through Film by Daniel Shaw

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    This 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...
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  • The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution by Stephen Davies 9780198709633

    The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution by Stephen Davies 9780198709633

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    The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of thousands of years ago and the art standing of...
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  • Thoughtful Images: Illustrating Philosophy Through Art by Thomas E. Wartenberg

    Thoughtful Images: Illustrating Philosophy Through Art by Thomas E. Wartenberg

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    Thoughtful Images demonstrates that there is a rich tradition of illustrations of philosophy that originated in Ancient Greece, spread throughout Europe, thrived in twentieth century America, and continues to this day. It is the first book to isolate...
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  • The Pulse of Sense: Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy by Marie Chabbert 9781032198828

    The Pulse of Sense: Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy by Marie Chabbert 9781032198828

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    This volume stages a series of encounters between the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and leading scholars of his work along four major themes of Nancy's thought: sense, experience, existence, and Christianity. In doing so, the volume seeks to remind...
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  • Key Terms in Philosophy of Art by Tiger C. Roholt 9780826435279

    Key Terms in Philosophy of Art by Tiger C. Roholt 9780826435279

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    Key Terms in Philosophy of Art offers a clear, concise and accessible introduction to a vital sub-field of philosophy. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the key terms, concepts, thinkers and major works in the history of this key area of...
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  • Rhythm: Form and Dispossession by Vincent Barletta

    Rhythm: Form and Dispossession by Vincent Barletta

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    More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a central component of the condition of human existence. It's the pulse of the body, a power that orders...
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  • Radical Philosophy 2.04 / Spring 2019 by Radical Philosophy Collective 9781999979331

    Radical Philosophy 2.04 / Spring 2019 by Radical Philosophy Collective 9781999979331

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999979331Author Radical Philosophy CollectiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Radical PhilosophyPublisher Radical PhilosophyWeight(grams) 304g
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  • The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aesthetics by Rodolphe Gasche 9780804746212

    The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aesthetics by Rodolphe Gasche 9780804746212

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    Against 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...
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  • Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care by Scott Ferguson 9781496201928

    Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care by Scott Ferguson 9781496201928

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    Declarations of Dependence rethinks the historical relationship between money and aesthetics in an effort to make critical theory newly answerable to politics. Scott Ferguson regrounds critical theory in the alternative conception of money articulated by...
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  • Music, Language, and Cognition: And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music by Peter Kivy 9780199217656

    Music, Language, and Cognition: And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music by Peter Kivy 9780199217656

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    Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy's seminal papers in the philosophy of music. In essays which span his earliest work in the field and his more recent contributions to journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings,...
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  • Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport by Jason Holt 9781032176642

    Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport by Jason Holt 9781032176642

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    Sport aesthetics is an important but often marginalized field in the philosophy of sport. Kinetic Beauty offers a comprehensive, principled, pluralist introduction to the philosophical aesthetics of sport. The book tackles a wide variety of issues in the...
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  • Islam: Between Message and History by Abdelmadjid Charfi

    Islam: Between Message and History by Abdelmadjid Charfi

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    This book could easily be called 'A Guide for the Modern Muslim', for someone to whom the sentiments of his or her ancestors resonate but who cannot accept the canonised formulas of a stultified education. Charfi spells out what, for him, is the...
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  • The Religious Philosophy of Roger Scruton by James Bryson 9781350041578

    The Religious Philosophy of Roger Scruton by James Bryson 9781350041578

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    In his most recent work, the contemporary philosopher Roger Scruton has turned his attention to religion. Although a religious sensibility ties together his astonishingly prodigious and dynamic output as a philosopher, poet and composer, his recent...
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  • Art, Morality and Human Nature: Writings by Richard W. Beardsmore by John Haldane 9781845409401

    Art, Morality and Human Nature: Writings by Richard W. Beardsmore by John Haldane 9781845409401

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    Apologies 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
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  • Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work by Kathleen Stock 9780199587995

    Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work by Kathleen Stock 9780199587995

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    Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work presents significant new contributions to central issues in the philosophy of music, written by leading philosophers working in the analytic tradition. Music is an increasingly popular object of...
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  • Jacques Ranciere Oliver Davis (Assistant Professor, French Studies, University of Warwick) 9780745646558

    Jacques Ranciere Oliver Davis (Assistant Professor, French Studies, University of Warwick) 9780745646558

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    This book is a critical introduction to contemporary French philosopher Jacques Ranciere. It is the first introduction in any language to cover all of his major work and offers an accessible presentation and searching evaluation of his significant...
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