Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Videophilosophy: The Perception of Time in Post-Fordism by Maurizio Lazzarato 9780231175388
RRP: $171.60$134.06The Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato has earned international acclaim for his analysis of contemporary capitalism, in particular his influential concept of immaterial labor and his perceptive writings on debt. In Videophilosophy, he reveals the... -
Ecocritical Aesthetics: Language, Beauty, and the Environment by Peter Quigley 9780253032102
RRP: $140.40$111.01This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to themes such as global climate change, animal... -
The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change by Jason Miller 9780231201421
RRP: $195.00$151.96In both politics and art in recent decades, there has been a dramatic shift in emphasis on representation of identity. Liberal ideals of universality and individuality have given way to a concern with the visibility and recognition of underrepresented... -
The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutchenson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics by Peter Kivy 9780199260027
$91.96The Seventh Sense is the definitive study of the aesthetic theory of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson, arguably the founder of the modern discipline of aesthetics, and one of the most important figures of the Scottish... -
Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism by Ewa Plonowska Ziarek 9780231161497
RRP: $54.60$42.51Ewa 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 Severed Head: Capital Visions by Julia Kristeva 9780231157209
RRP: $132.60$102.90Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns... -
Sacred Exchanges: Images in Global Context by Robyn Ferrell 9780231148801
RRP: $107.25$83.67As the international art market globalizes the indigenous image, it changes its identity, status, value, and purpose in local and larger contexts. Focusing on a school of Australian Aboriginal painting that has become popular in the contemporary art... -
Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno by Robert Hullot-Kentor 9780231136587
RRP: $179.40$140.81Theodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate. In this excellent collection, Robert... -
Arts and Minds by Gregory Currie 9780199256297
$87.28Philosophical questions about the arts go naturally with other kinds of questions about them. Art is sometimes said to be an historical concept. But where in our cultural and biological history did art begin? If art is related to play and imagination, do... -
Nominalism and Its Aftermath: The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman by Dena Shottenkirk 9789048182237
$183.83Nelson Goodman's disparate writings are often written about only within their own particular discipline, such that the epistemology is discussed in contrast to others' epistemology, the aesthetics is contrasted with more traditional aesthetics, and the... -
Exploring Textual Action by Lars Satre 9788779344600
RRP: $79.85$64.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779344600Author Lars SatreFormat PaperbackPage Count 439Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Art, Morality and Human Nature: Writings by Richard W. Beardsmore by John Haldane 9781845409418
$92.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409418Author John HaldaneFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 750g -
The Landscape of Humanity: Art, Culture and Society by Anthony O'Hear 9781845401450
$91.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401450Author Anthony O'HearFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 650g -
Sensibility and Sense: The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World by Arnold Berleant 9781845401733
$91.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401733Author Arnold BerleantFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 750g -
The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius: Spirit Consonance in Chinese Landscape Painting and Some Kantian Echoes by Xiaoyan Hu 9781793641564
RRP: $198.90$174.60In The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius: Spirit Consonance in Chinese Landscape Painting and Some Kantian Echoes, Xiaoyan Hu provides an interpretation of the notion of qiyun, or spirit consonance, in Chinese painting, and considers why creating a... -
The Invention of the Visible: The Image in Light of the Arts by Patrick Vauday 9781786600493
RRP: $232.05$34.52We live in a mediatized society, a society one could call a society of images. Working at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of this society and its disposition towards images. This challenge... -
The Aesthetics of Food: The Philosophical Debate About What We Eat and Drink by Kevin W. Sweeney 9781783487431
RRP: $79.95$73.81The Aesthetics of Food sets out the continuing philosophical debate about the aesthetic nature of food. The debate begins with Plato's claim that only objects of sight and hearing could be beautiful; consequently, food as something we smell and taste... -
The Aesthetics of Food: The Philosophical Debate About What We Eat and Drink by Kevin W. Sweeney 9781783487424
RRP: $232.05$212.10The Aesthetics of Food sets out the continuing philosophical debate about the aesthetic nature of food. The debate begins with Plato's claim that only objects of sight and hearing could be beautiful; consequently, food as something we smell and taste... -
The Aesthetic Ground of Critical Theory: New Readings of Benjamin and Adorno by Nathan Ross 9781783482931
RRP: $87.75$77.01Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno are considered today to be the two most significant early theorists in founding critical theory. In their works and correspondence, both thinkers turn to art and the aesthetic as a vital way for understanding modern... -
The Aesthetic Ground of Critical Theory: New Readings of Benjamin and Adorno by Nathan Ross 9781783482924
RRP: $251.55$227.70Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno are considered today to be the two most significant early theorists in founding critical theory. In their works and correspondence, both thinkers turn to art and the aesthetic as a vital way for understanding modern... -
Oxi: An Act of Resistance: The Screenplay and Commentary, Including interviews with Derrida, Cixous, Balibar and Negri by Ken McMullen 9781783482689
RRP: $152.10$134.32Oxi (Gr. Determiner, lit. 'No', fig. 'Resistance', pronounced 'ochi') retells Sophocles' Antigone through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern European philosophy. A collaboration between the renowned British auteur Ken McMullen and the literary... -
Architectures of Life and Death: The Eco-Aesthetics of the Built Environment by Andrej Radman 9781538147528
RRP: $175.50$153.68Driven by the Foucauldian attitude of subsuming architectural history into a genealogy of techne, Architectures of Life and Death advances a transdisciplinary approach rethinking subjectivity and exploring the political ramifications of these processes... -
A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between by Catherine Homan 9781498594448
RRP: $165.75$145.29A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between explores the ways in which both play and poetry orient us toward what surpasses us. Catherine Homan develops an original account of poetic education that builds on Friedrich Hoelderlin's idea... -
Van Gogh among the Philosophers: Painting, Thinking, Being by David P. Nichols 9781498531351
RRP: $185.25$162.08This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world... -
The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise: Phenomenology and Speculation by Jadranka Skorin-Kapov 9781498518468
RRP: $165.75$145.29The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise: Phenomenology and Speculation covers issues central to contemporary continental philosophy (desire, expectations, excess, rupture, transcendence, immanence, surprise). The proposed term desiresurprise captures the... -
Sense & Senses in Aesthetics by Per Backstrom 9789188484246
RRP: $29.25$14.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188484246Author Per BackstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Nordisk sommeruniversitet NSU PressPublisher Nordisk sommeruniversitet NSU Press -
Plotinus and the Origins of Medieval Aesthetics by Andre Grabar 9788833130903
$61.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788833130903Author Andre GrabarFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint ViellaPublisher ViellaWeight(grams) 971g -
Konzepte 2: Schonheit by Gunnar Hindrichs 9783465039631
RRP: $52.65$43.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783465039631Author Gunnar HindrichsFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Verlag Vittorio KlostermannPublisher Verlag Vittorio KlostermannWeight(grams) 177g -
Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature: Festschrift Fur Winfried Fluck Zum 60. Geburtstag by Thomas Claviez 9783825351977
RRP: $130.65$112.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825351977Author Thomas ClaviezFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 821g -
Acoustic Entanglements: Sound and Aesthetic Practice by Sabine Kim 9783825366773
RRP: $105.30$88.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825366773Author Sabine KimFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 299g -
On the Laws of the Poetic Art by Anthony Hecht 9780691252810
RRP: $58.50$45.42A magisterial exploration of poetry’s place in the fine arts by one of the twentieth century's leading poetsIn this book, eminent poet Anthony Hecht explores the art of poetry and its relationship to the other fine arts. While the problems he treats... -
The Emergence of Value: Human Norms in a Natural World by Lawrence Cahoone 9781438494456
$141.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438494456Author Lawrence CahooneFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Art and Posthistory: Conversations on the End of Aesthetics by Arthur C. Danto 9780231204767
RRP: $132.60$102.90From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic Demetrio Paparoni. Their discussions ranged widely over a... -
Many Faces of Beauty by Vittorio Hoesle 9780268206420
RRP: $261.30$208.73The volume The Many Faces of Beauty joins the rich debate on beauty and aesthetic theory by presenting an ambitious, interdisciplinary examination of various facets of beauty in nature and human society. The contributors ask such questions as, Is there... -
Classics in Western Philosophy of Art: Major Themes and Arguments by Prof. Noel Carroll 9781647920616
RRP: $118.93$95.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647920616Author Prof. Noel CarrollFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Hackett Publishing Co, IncPublisher Hackett Publishing Co, IncWeight(grams) 6g -
Aesthetic Action by Florian Klinger 9781503636972
RRP: $140.40$111.01In this new book, Florian Klinger gives readers a basic action-theoretical account of the aesthetic. While normal action fulfills a determinate concept, Klinger argues, aesthetic action performs an indeterminacy by suspending the action's conceptual... -
Force: A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology by Christoph Menke 9780823249725
RRP: $154.05$122.56The book aims at a new exposition of the basic idea of modern aesthetics by way of a reconstruction of its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten's Aesthetics and Kant's Critique of Judgment. The claim is that the historical invention of... -
Probabilistic Aesthetics of the Avant-Gardes: Predictive Arts by Konrad Wojnowski 9781474488969
RRP: $165.75$151.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474488969Author Konrad WojnowskiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Race, Philosophy, and Film by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo 9780415624459
RRP: $243.75$210.33This collection fills a gap in the current literature in philosophy and film by focusing on the question: How would thinking in philosophy and film be transformed if race were formally incorporated moved from its margins to the center? The collection's... -
Art as Abstract Machine: Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari by Stephen Zepke 9780415762724
RRP: $105.28$91.40First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415762724Author Stephen ZepkeFormat PaperbackImprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 431g