Aesthetics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788194747260Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Delhi Open BooksPublisher Delhi Open BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

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 artLooks at the competing views of the text-performance relationshipsAn...

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...

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...

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 9783867412469Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Europaischer Hochschulverlag Gmbh & Co. KgPublisher Europaischer...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604595710Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783030677831Author Roberto DiodatoFormat HardbackImprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 155g

This book explores in detail the issues of ecological civilization development, ecological philosophy, ecological criticism, environmental aesthetics, and the ecological wisdom of traditional Chinese culture related to ecological aesthetics. Drawing on...

This book illuminates the aesthetically underrated meaningfulness of particular elements in works of art and aesthetic experiences generally. Beginning from the idea of "hooks" in popular song, the book identifies experiences of special liveliness that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087932873Author B VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 36g

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has described Morphology as a science dedicated to the observation and description of everything "that is handled by chance and occasionally in other [sciences]". This meant that morphological research could be...

What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merits of the previous theories on the matter while dropping their defects. Thus, not only perceptual, but also...

This book examines the conceptual, existential, and logical conditions under which the philosophical novel can be treated as a literary genre on a par with generally recognized literary genres, such as mystery, romantic, adventure, religious, or...

This book gathers research and writings that reflect on traditional and current global issues related to art and aesthetics, gender perspectives, body theories, knowledge and learning. It illustrates these core dimensions, which are bringing together...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639019588Author Lucia de CarolisFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Cp CambridgePublisher Cp CambridgeWeight(grams) 254g

This book argues that Hip Hop's early history in the South Bronx charts a course remarkably similar to the conceptual history of artistic creation presented in Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics. It contends that the resonances between Hegel's account of the...

When our smartphones distract us, much more is at stake than a momentary lapse of attention. Our use of smartphones can interfere with the building-blocks of meaningfulness and the actions that shape our self-identity. By analyzing social interactions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941066294Author Page NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Another Sparrow PressPublisher Another Sparrow PressWeight(grams) 154g

The past few years have seen a revival of interest in Thomas Reid's philosophy. His moral theory has been studied by D. D. Raphael (The Moral Sense) and his entire philosophical position by S. A. Grave (The Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense). Prior to...

A comprehensive, critical and accessible account of Theodor W. Adorno's materialist-dialectical aesthetic theory of art from a contemporary perspective, this volume shows how Adorno's critical theory is awash with images crystallising thoughts to such a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412067775Author J. N. NielsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119875276Author AristotleFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Sanage Publishing House LlpPublisher Sanage Publishing House LlpWeight(grams) 231g

This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism. Brian Onishi argues that wonder has...