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Poetics: WITH On the Sublime AND On Style by Aristotle
RRP: $42.80$39.31Classic criticism.This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature.Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen... -
Creativity: A Very Short Introduction by Vlad Glaveanu
RRP: $15.42$11.06Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For thousands of years humanity has engaged in creative expression, allowing us to relate to other people, contribute to shared culture, build an identity, and give meaning to our existence. From... -
The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking by Hanneke Grootenboer 9780226829449
RRP: $34.31$33.28Grootenboer 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 discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual... -
How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $20.57$17.41A 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? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full... -
Art and Cosmotechnics by Yuk Hui 9781517909543
RRP: $41.15$35.01In light of current discourses on AI and robotics, what do the various experiences of art contribute to the rethinking of technology today?Art and Cosmotechnics addresses the challenge of technology to the existence of art and traditional thought,... -
Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology by Steven M. Cahn
RRP: $65.10$58.94A revised second edition of the bestselling anthology on the major figures and themes in aesthetics and philosophy of art, the ideal resource for a comprehensive introduction to the study of aesthetics Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology offers a... -
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $17.14$12.20During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These works culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Impassioned and... -
The Beauty of Games by Frank Lantz 9780262048538
RRP: $39.45$24.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048538Author Frank LantzFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 143mm * 18mm -
Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno by Stuart Walton 9781785353826
RRP: $30.86$26.40While Theodor Adorno has continued to be influential since his death in 1969, his very centrality has led to the left simplifying his ideas while the right placed him at the center of a myriad of wild conspiracy theories, all of them filed under the... -
Cartographies of the Absolute by Alberto Toscano 9781780992754
RRP: $27.43$23.71Can capital be seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question offered by artists, film-makers, writers and theorists over the past few decades. It zones in on the crises of representation that have accompanied the... -
Cleaning by Kenya Hara 9783037787328
RRP: $51.46$35.94Cleanliness is a core value of societies around the globe. So much so that cleaning seems to be an inherent part of human nature and how we interact with and domesticate our environment. This book explores the concept of cleaning in all its various... -
Reclaiming Art In The Age Of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action by J. F. Martel
RRP: $22.28$14.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583945780Author J.F. MartelFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Evolver EditionsPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm)... -
The Politics of Aesthetics by Gabriel Rockhill
RRP: $34.29$32.81The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Ranciere reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common:... -
Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures by Dominic McIver Lopes 9780199230440
$67.72Looking at pictures, we see in them the scenes they depict, and any value they have springs from these experiences of seeing-in. Sight and Sensibility presents the first detailed and comprehensive theory of evaluating pictures. Dominic Lopes confronts... -
Introduction to Aesthetics: An Analytic Approach by George Dickie
$168.63This book is an introduction to aesthetics, from the perspective of analytic philosophy. It traces aesthetics from its ancient beginnings through the changes it underwent in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and the first half of the twentieth century. The... -
Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth by Elizabeth Grosz 9780231145190
RRP: $25.71$20.36Instead 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 disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as... -
Conversations on Art and Aesthetics by Hans Maes
RRP: $43.72$37.02What 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 Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
RRP: $18.85$12.01The Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional Japanese life.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics. These... -
Everything You Wanted to Know About Lacan But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $34.29$28.99The contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, analyzing movies such as Rear Window and Psycho. Starting from the premise that 'everything has meaning,' the authors examine the films'... -
The Philosophy of Design by Glenn Parsons
RRP: $29.14$26.11The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design. The first book to systematically examine design from the perspective of contemporary philosophy, it offers a broad... -
The Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry by Richard Barnett
RRP: $42.88$29.81This achingly jawdropping book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, presenting captivating and grim illustrations of the tools and techniques of dentistry through the ages. Organized... -
Questionnaire by Dr. Evan Kindley
RRP: $17.14$12.78Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors' offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to... -
The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys
RRP: $22.28$19.40From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant... -
Essays on Ethics and Culture by Sabina Lovibond 9780192856166
RRP: $133.79$121.58These essays discuss various ontological and epistemological questions in moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the later Wittgenstein, and Iris Murdoch, though without seeking to weave these into any unified system. The... -
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B Crawford
RRP: $29.16$17.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117469Author Matthew B. CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 197mm *... -
Studies in the History of the Renaissance by Walter Pater 9780199535071
RRP: $17.14$12.20'art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake' In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a diffident Oxford don produced an audacious and... -
How to See the World by Nicholas Mirzoeff
RRP: $18.85$14.31In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. From Google Images to Instagram, video games to installation art, this transformation is... -
The Negritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea by Reiland Rabaka 9781498511377
RRP: $101.20$93.33The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, the New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance) and its posthistory (Frantz Fanon and the evolution of... -
The Musician as Philosopher: New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978 by Michael Gallope 9780226831763
RRP: $48.03$46.98An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music's ineffability. The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical thought of avant-garde musicians in postwar New York:... -
Making: The Proper Habit of Being by Marion Montgomery 9781890318390
$55.58The concern in this essay is for our age as one suffering an intellectual severance between our response to existential reality in which the beauty of a created particular thing is divorced from the Cause of that thing's existence. The separation speaks... -
Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos
RRP: $17.14$12.20Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of... -
The Exform by Nicolas Bourriaud
RRP: $20.57$18.04Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the exform.He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology,... -
Games: Agency As Art by C. Thi Nguyen 9780190052089
$78.18Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game designers sculpt alternate agencies, and game players submerge themselves in those alternate agencies. Thus,... -
The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei 9780231189095
$46.69Imagination allows us to step out of the ordinary but also to transform it through our sense of wonder and play, artistic inspiration and innovation, or the eureka moment of a scientific breakthrough. In this book, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei offers a... -
A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature After Wittgenstein by Karen Zumhagen-Yekple
RRP: $48.03$46.98Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his... -
Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction by Bence Nanay
RRP: $15.42$11.06Aesthetics 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 performance, but also everyday experiences such as autumn leaves... -
The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics by Jane Bennett
RRP: $60.04$46.67It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is... -
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco 9780300093049
RRP: $18.85$16.07In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed... -
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai 9780674088122
RRP: $35.94$29.02The 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 inspire. In this radiant study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory... -
Humour by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $18.85$16.76A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we...