Aesthetics

This book explores the concept of the end of literature through the lens of Hegel's philosophy of art. In his version of Hegel's 'end of art' thesis, Arthur Danto claimed that contemporary art has abandoned its distinctive sensitive and emotive features...

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 9788196033163Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Sanage Publishing House LlpPublisher Sanage Publishing House LlpWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666701265Author Brayton PolkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick PublicationsWeight(grams) 413g

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 volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the first major collection of literary essays since her centenary in 2019. It brings together leading Murdoch...

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...

This book explores the interactions between science and music in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. It examines and evaluates the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Shohe Tanaka, and Adriaan Fokker, leading physicists and...

This book re-examines Adorno's aesthetics, developing a new literary approach that aims to unveil hidden elements of Adorno's thought. Farina proposes to read Adorno's aesthetics as a literary theory of art, showing its efficacy in its comprehension of...

This book presents a skeptical eliminativist philosophy of race and the theory of racelessness, a methodological and pedogagical framework for analyzing "race" and racism. It explores the history of skeptical eliminativism and constructionist...

This exploration of the crucially important role played by remorse in Iris Murdoch's philosophical, theological, and political thinking identifies it as a critical concept in her moral psychology and a recurrent theme in her art. Through engagement with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788792633019Author Gray Kochhar-LindgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Eyecorner PressPublisher Eyecorner PressWeight(grams) 181g

This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards. Lines can be physical phenomena, cognitive responses to observed processes, or both at the same time. Based on this assumption, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088229071Author Anthony T VentoFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962987134Author Ivonne KinserFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint MindStir MediaPublisher MindStir MediaWeight(grams) 372g

This book presents a skeptical eliminativist philosophy of race and the theory of racelessness, a methodological and pedagogical framework for analyzing "race" and racism. It explores the history of skeptical eliminativism and constructionist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161621604Author Günter FigalFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr Siebeck

This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards. Lines can be physical phenomena, cognitive responses to observed processes, or both at the same time. Based on this assumption, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349214303Author Jean-Michel RabateFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 360g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602351912Author Leslie AtzmonFormat PaperbackImprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 689g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515434245Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962465533Author Anastasia MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Historium PressPublisher Historium PressWeight(grams) 499g

This book is an investigation of the role of creative labor and the five senses in Rainer Maria Rilke's prose works, including his "Primal Sound" essay, the Stories of God, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and his monograph on Auguste...

When we think of Iris Murdoch's relationship with art forms, the visual arts come most readily to mind. However, music and other sounds are equally important. Soundscapes - music and other types of sound - contribute to the richly textured atmosphere and...

This compelling book defends realism concerning the aesthetic-in particular, concerning the aesthetic properties of works of art (including works of literature). Morais lucidly argues that art criticism, when referring to aesthetic properties, is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223250616Author C Rommial ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint C. Rommial ButlerPublisher C. Rommial ButlerWeight(grams) 100g

A collaborative undertaking between an artist and a philosopher, this monograph attempts to deepen our understanding of 'contemplative seeing' by addressing the works of Plato, Thoreau, Heidegger, and more. The authors explore what it means to 'see'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952026102Author George Lowell TollefsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Palo Flechado PressPublisher Palo Flechado PressWeight(grams) 54g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783796545689Author Stefan Lorenz SorgnerFormat HardbackImprint Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AGPublisher Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AGWeight(grams) 5026g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227501974Author Hermann SelchowFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Hermann SelchowPublisher Hermann SelchowWeight(grams) 295g

This book argues that Kant develops a theory of perception in the Critique of Judgment from which one can redefine his entire project, viewing and using aesthetics as its backbone, from the transcendental aesthetic of the First Critique to the Critique...

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.Springer Book ArchivesBook InformationISBN 9789024750733Author Ramona CormierFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Springer

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957569451Author Annemarie Dubach-DonathFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Mercury Press (Canada)Publisher Mercury Press (Canada)Weight(grams) 349g

This book offers intriguing philosophical inquiries into biotechnological art and the life sciences, addressing their convergences as well as their epistemic and functional divergences. Rooted on a thorough understanding of the history of philosophy,...

Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may be called a "critical philosophy in the condition of modernism". Its most important and...

This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley Cavell's lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic understanding. Focusing on various strands of the rich body of Cavell's philosophical work, the authors explore connections between his...

Each of us, waking in the morning, has to open the world we have woken into. We have to endow meaning to people, objects and tasks, have to secure a place in the chaos of time passing. When opening their eyes during the palpable reality of a dream, a...

The book deals with philosophical issues concerning the understanding of the literary text and its distinctive nature, meaning, and relevance to life. It also provides an occasion to revisit many of the seminal ideas towards these ends by contextualizing...