Aesthetics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880909216Author Immanuel KantFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Start ClassicsPublisher Start Classics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880906215Author Immanuel KantFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Start ClassicsPublisher Start Classics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487576912Author Reid MacCallumFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 327g

Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Sport brings together martial arts and Eastern philosophical wisdom with the competitive world of sports as games. This exploration goes beyond the conventional view of martial arts as fighting skills and delves into...

The impact of aesthetics is increasing again. For today’s scholars, aesthetic theories are a significant companion and contribution in studying and ana-lysing cultural phenomena and production. Today’s scene of aesthetics is more global than what it is...

Architectural decay as well as the reasons, effects, appearance and representation of ruination have always been important sources of understanding the state of our culture. The essays in this co-written book offer broad perspectives on the potential of...

This book analyzes how the public character of judgments of taste makes implicit statements in moral and political philosophy. The framework that relates aesthetic, moral, and political aspects into such a triadic relationship is an implicit conception...

This book focuses on a central notion in Theodor. W. Adorno's philosophy: the nonidentical. The nonidentical is what our conceptual framework cannot grasp and must therefore silence, the unexpressed other of our rational engagement with the world. This...

This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduction of humor as a new aesthetic category inspired by Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" and shows Sterne's deep...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798385214327Author Lauren D FriesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick PublicationsWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541607248Author J F MartelFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515462712Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Sublime BooksPublisher Sublime BooksWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110096811Author Michael PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 390g

This edited monograph provides a compelling analysis of the interplay between neuroscience and aesthetics. The book broaches a wide spectrum of topics including, but not limited to, mathematics and creator algorithms, neurosciences of artistic...

Like artists, important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a cosmopolitan writer, deeply rooted in the Chinese past while influenced by paragons of Western Modernity. The present volume is...

This stimulating volume brings together an international team of emerging, mid-career, and senior scholars to investigate the relations between philosophical approaches to language and the language of literature. It has proven easy for philosophers of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959261070Author Dr Michael DassamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Smart Ribbon Press LLCPublisher Smart Ribbon Press LLCWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940813226Author Chahid AkouryFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Atropos PressPublisher Atropos PressWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789811883255Author Anders KølleFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Delere PressPublisher Delere PressWeight(grams) 73g

This book examines aesthetic issues based on humanities principles and creates a theory of Chinese aesthetics from a global perspective by applying China's traditional and cultural history to a Western theoretical framework. In particular, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631568040Author Veli-Matti SaarinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788194747260Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Delhi Open BooksPublisher Delhi Open BooksWeight(grams) 129g

The book is organized around 4 sections. The first deals with the creativity and its neural basis (responsible editor Emmanuelle Volle). The second section concerns the neurophysiology of aesthetics (responsible editor Zoi Kapoula). It covers a large...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349224746Author Professor George PattisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 271g

The Aesthetics Primer is intended for anyone interested in the topic of aesthetics and how it can influence directions in education. The text is suitable for university courses that address aesthetics specifically, but also art education, values...

This book offers an insightful history of dystopian literature, integrating it within the conceptual schemas of Deleuze and Guattari. Unlike earlier examples of dystopia which depict representations of a possible future that is remarkably worse than...

This book offers an insightful history of dystopian literature, integrating it within the conceptual schemas of Deleuze and Guattari. Unlike earlier examples of dystopia which depict representations of a possible future that is remarkably worse than...

Artworks potentially convey two kinds of knowledge: knowledge of art itself as well as general empirical knowledge, especially knowledge of human psychology. This book collects ten essays written by leading philosophers who distill and build upon recent...

In The Aesthetics of Grace: Philosophy, Art, and Nature, Raffaele Milani traces the fascinating history of the idea of `grace' from ancient times to the 1700s. Although this term has been displaced by other concepts with the advent of modernism and...

The Art of Theater argues for the recognition of theatrical performance as an art form independent of dramatic writing. * Identifies the elements that make a performance a work of art * Looks at the competing views of the text-performance relationships *...

This edited monograph provides a compelling analysis of the interplay between neuroscience and aesthetics. The book broaches a wide spectrum of topics including, but not limited to, mathematics and creator algorithms, neurosciences of artistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907962172Author John KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Light PressPublisher Cranmore PublicationsWeight(grams) 58g

Agon Hamza offers an in-depth analysis of the main thesis of Louis Althusser's philosophical enterprise alongside a clear, engaging dissection of Pier Paolo Pasolini's most important films. There is a philosophical, religious, and political relationship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947074392Author Rubem AlvesFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint New London LibrariumPublisher New London LibrariumWeight(grams) 399g

This book examines the little understood end-of-art theses of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Danto. The end-of-art claim is often associated with the end of a certain standard of taste or skill. However, at a deeper level, it relates to a transformation in how we...

This book addresses how Plato, Kant, and Iris Murdoch (each in different ways) view the connection aesthetic experience has to morality. While offering an examination of Iris Murdoch's philosophy, it analyses deeply the suggestive links (as well as...

Jacques Ranciere: An Introduction offers the first comprehensive introduction to the thought of one of today's most important and influential theorists. Joseph Tanke situates Ranciere's distinctive approach against the backdrop of Continental philosophy...

Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes...

This book provides a presentation of the concept of "atmosphere" in the realm of aesthetics. An "atmosphere" is meant to be an emotional space. Such idea of "atmosphere" has been more and more subsumed by human and social...

Classical and modern literature often reveal more about the organized world's forms of power and authority structures than do works of political philosophy. What are the origins of political consciousness? How does our understanding of political power...