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Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers: For Artists, Designers, Poets and Designers by Leonard Koren 9780981484600
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981484600Author Leonard KorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz 9780691229195
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $15.73An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and... -
The Politics of Aesthetics by Gabriel Rockhill
Booksplease Price: $30.36The 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... -
Music as an Art Sir Roger Scruton 9781472955715
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.17In the latest of his books exploring a lifetime's passion for music, bestselling author and philosopher Roger Scruton brings his immense critical faculties to bear on a panoply of different musical... -
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $21.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679735793Author Camille PagliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint -
One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin 9781839761652
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings,... -
The Burning Souls by Leon Degrelle 9781953730817
Booksplease Price: $28.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953730817Author Leon DegrelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint -
To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters by Suzanne Fagence-Cooper
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one'"Brilliant" - Philip Hoare, New StatesmanJohn Ruskin - born 200 years ago, in February 1819 - was the greatest critic of his age: a critic... -
Philosophy Bites Again by Nigel Warburton
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $14.02Philosophy Bites Again is a brand new selection of interviews from the popular podcast of the same name. It offers engaging and thought-provoking conversations with leading philosophers on a... -
The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago by Francois J. Bonnet
Booksplease Price: $30.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993045875Author Francois J. BonnetFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprin -
The Architecture of Failure by Douglas Murphy 9781780990224
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58Against those who consider architecture to be a wholly optimistic activity, this book shows how the history of modern architecture is inextricably tied to ideas of failure and ruin. By means of an... -
The Man Without Content by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31In this book, one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual... -
Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media by John Armitage 9781474425827
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $29.53John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present a groundbreaking examination of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary ideas of luxury. This volume gives you a technocultural focus on... -
Cartographies of the Absolute Alberto Toscano 9781780992754
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.75Can 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... -
For an Ecology of Images Peter Szendy 9781804294314
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.11When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images," she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today,... -
Sound arts now by Cathy Lane Angus Carlyle 9781910010266
Booksplease Price: $19.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010266Author Cathy Lane Angus CarlyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240 -
Doll by Maria Teresa Hart
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.44Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The haunted doll has long been a trope in horror movies, but like many fears, there is some... -
In Search of Duende by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780811218559
Booksplease Price: $12.09The notion of "duende"-a demonic earth spirit embodying irrationality, earthiness, and a heightened awareness of death-became a cornerstone of Lorca's poetics. In Search of Duende gathers Lorca's... -
Kleist: Selected Writings by Heinrich Von Kleist 9780872207431
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.16Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von Kleist's key writings in this collection, the most... -
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco 9780300093049
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47In 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... -
Green: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691159362
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $43.01In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to... -
The Usefulness of the Useless by Nuccio Ordine 9781589881167
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881167Author Nuccio OrdineFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
Philosophy Bites by David Edmonds
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.23Take 25 of the liveliest philosophers of our time. Talk to each about one of the most intriguing topics you can think of--from ethics to aesthetics to metaphysics. The result is a Philosophy Bite--a... -
Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56In this book Jacques Ranciere radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time with the interweaving of temporalities at play in... -
Soul and Form by Georg Lukacs 9780850362510
Booksplease Price: $21.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850362510Author Georg LukacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint < -
The Tears of Things: Melancholy And Physical Objects by Peter Schwenger 9780816646319
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $25.17We surround ourselves with material things that are invested with memories but can only stand for what we have lost. Physical objects-such as one's own body-situate and define us; yet at the same... -
The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays by Hans-Georg Gadamer
RRP: $30.82Booksplease Price: $28.48This volume explores some of the more important of Hans-Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is 'The Relevance of the Beautiful', Gadamer's most... -
Women of Ideas: Interviews from Philosophy Bites by Suki Finn
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $13.11Thirty leading women philosophers draw on and advance the rich heritage of the philosophical tradition to explore topics of pressing interest for today. Women of Ideas is edited by Suki Finn,... -
Tree by Matthew Battles
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.44Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with... -
Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance: New Materialisms by Anna Hickey-Moody 9781783484874
Booksplease Price: $68.61Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance brings cultural studies' perspectives to bear on Arts practices. Each contribution synthesizes creative approaches to philosophy and new materialist... -
Dust by Michael Marder
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.44Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even... -
Symbolic Misery, Volume 1: The Hyperindustrial Epoch Bernard Stiegler (Pompidou Centre, France) 9780745652658
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40In this important new book, the leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age. ... -
The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening by Salome Voegelin 9781501312168
Booksplease Price: $46.26The essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality, while its neglect of perfection and virtuosity releases the potential for the incomplete... -
Disability Aesthetics by 9780472051007
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $28.84"Disability Aesthetics ambitiously redefines both 'disability' and 'aesthetics,' showing us that disability is central not only to modern art but also to the way we apprehend (and interact with)... -
Art for God's Sake by Philip Graham Ryken
Booksplease Price: $9.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596380073Author Philip Graham RykenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Impri -
How to See the World by Nicholas Mirzoeff
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.35In 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... -
Bread by Scott Cutler Shershow
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.44Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain,... -
Infinite in Finite by Andrew Wynn Owen 9781800173477
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89A London Review Bookshop Book of the Year. Infinite in Finite develops the inimitable style of The Multiverse, the author's first collection (2018), praised as showing 'some of the best technical... -
The Power of Cute by Simon May 9780691181813
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.75An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty... -
Heidegger's Hut by Adam Sharr 9780262533669
Booksplease Price: $30.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533669Author Adam SharrFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint