Aesthetics

Pop art has traditionally been the most visible visual art within popular culture because its main transgression is easy to understand: the infiltration of the "low" into the "high". The same cannot be said of contemporary art of the 21st century, where...

This collection brings together artists and theoreticians to provide the first anthology of a new field: Practical Aesthetics. A work of art already contains its own criticism, a knowledge of its own which need not be conceptual or propositional. Yet...

Charting the failure of the Romantic critique of political economy, Richard Adelman explores the changing significances and the developing concepts of idleness and aesthetic consciousness during the nineteenth century. Through careful analysis of some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039101238Author Goran RossholmFormat PaperbackPage Count 355Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 470g

From "The Birth of Tragedy" to his experimental "physiology of art", Nietzsche examines the aesthetic, erotic and sacred dimensions of rapture, hinting at how an ecstatic philosophy is realized in his elusive doctrine of Eternal...

This book deals with philosophical aspects regarding the perception of spatial relationships in two and three-dimensional art. It provides a structural understanding of how art is perceived within the space created by the artwork, and employs a mapping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789359320083Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Double 9 Books LLPPublisher Double 9 Books LLPWeight(grams) 78g

This book analyzes the relation between the flow time and poetic speech in drama and rhetoric. It begins with the classical understanding of time as flux, and its problems and paradoxes entailing from Aristotle, Augustine, Kant and Husserl. The reader...

This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics, atmosphere and aestheticization, the...

This book aims to present trompe-l'oeil painting, which epitomizes the myth of the illusionistic image - an early modern way of thinking about pictures, according to which it is possible to create an image identical to what it represents that at the same...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783954540259Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint DogmaPublisher DogmaWeight(grams) 159g

This volume examines the great varieties of artistic experience from first hand phenomenological descriptions. It features detailed and concrete analyses which provides readers with in-depth insights into each specific domain of artistic experience...

This notable collection provides an interdisciplinary platform for prominent thinkers who have all made significant recent contributions to exploring the nexus of philosophy and narrative. It includes the latest assessments of several key positions in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889354628Author Henriette WilkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789811604959Author Jing ZhangFormat HardbackImprint Palgrave PivotPublisher Palgrave PivotWeight(grams) 148g

This book examines the works of major artists between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as important barometers of individual and collective values toward non-human life. Once viewed as merely representational, these works can also be read as...

This book is a unique attempt to systematize the latest research on all that music connotes. Musicological reflections on musically expressive content have been pursued for some decades now, in spite of the formalist prejudices that can still...

This book examines the works of major artists between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as important barometers of individual and collective values toward non-human life. Once viewed as merely representational, these works can also be read as...

This book examines animal welfare themes in fiction, and considers how authors of the last two centuries undermine dominative attitudes toward the nonhuman. Appearing alongside the emerging humane movements of the nineteenth century and beyond is a kind...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039210329Author Davor DzaltoFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 170g

This book provides a multifaceted view on the relation between the old and the new in music, between tradition and innovation. This is a much-debated issue, generating various ideas and theories, which rarely come to unanimous conclusions. Therefore, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848900561Author Gregory CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams) 700g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515462705Author Bertrand RussellFormat HardbackPage Count 42Imprint Sublime BooksPublisher Sublime BooksWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781471001383Author Stephen ParrFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 367g

Comparing is one of the most essential practices, in our everyday life as well as in science and humanities. In this in-depth philosophical analysis of the structure, practice and ethics of comparative procedures, Hartmut von Sass expands on the...

This book explores Levinas' phenomenology of ethical motivation. Levinas is grounded in "radical alterity", the knowledge that ethics exists only when we are fully separate from someone else, allowing us to experience connection with one...

What can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe the competing approaches to philosophizing on film? New Philosophies of Film answers these questions by offering a lucid introduction to...

A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a contemporary focus, which addresses the problem of explaining the appeal of artworks whose appreciation entails negative or difficult emotions on the appreciator's part -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371342015Author Lavater LavaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress Ltd

Sport aesthetics is an important but often marginalized field in the philosophy of sport. Kinetic Beauty offers a comprehensive, principled, pluralist introduction to the philosophical aesthetics of sport. The book tackles a wide variety of issues in the...

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The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing,...

Nine letters on art, written to friends from exile in France in the 1980s. Starting from earlier materialist approaches to art, Negri relates artistic production to the structures of social production characteristic of each historical era. This enables...

Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the notion that there is a single format for sublime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761874447Author Spencer Kiefer WertzFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Hamilton BooksPublisher Hamilton Books

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Approach to Aesthetics is the complete collection of Frank Sibley's articles on philosophical aesthetics. Their appearance within a single volume will be welcome to scholars and students of aesthetics. The value of the book is greatly enhanced by the...

We all seek salvation, claims Blanco, because we all become prisoners of negativity. Humanity wants to be saved, we want to overcome the negativity that so often enslaves us. But, where is the saviour to be found, and where is the source of salvation? ...