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Gaga Aesthetics: Art, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Up-Ending of Tradition by Adam Geczy 9781350272385
Booksplease Price: $66.91Pop 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... -
Practical Aesthetics by Professor Bernd Herzogenrath 9781350116108
Booksplease Price: $237.53This 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... -
Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900 by Richard Adelman 9781108424134
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $179.05Charting 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... -
Essays on Fiction and Perspective by Goran Rossholm 9783039101238
RRP: $165.27Booksplease Price: $137.91Apologies 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 -
After Nietzsche: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Ecstasy by J. Marsden 9781349423712
Booksplease Price: $98.15From "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... -
The Perceptual Structure of Three-Dimensional Art by Paul M. W. Hackett 9783319484501
Booksplease Price: $108.07This 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... -
The Poetics Of Aristotle by Aristotle 9789359320083
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68Apologies 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 -
Time and Poetic Speech: A Philosophical Investigation by Kwok Kui Wong 9783031124570
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $191.90This 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... -
Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape: Appearances of the Political by Elisabetta Di Stefano 9783030778323
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $55.86This 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... -
Illusion in Painting: An Attempt at Philosophical Interpretation by Mateusz Salwa 9783631640524
RRP: $113.93Booksplease Price: $102.33This 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... -
The Art of Literature by Arthur Schopenhauer 9783954540259
RRP: $37.38Booksplease Price: $35.26Apologies 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 -
Phenomenology and the Arts: Logos and Aisthesis by Kwok-Ying Lau 9783030308681
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $188.64This 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... -
Narrative, Philosophy and Life by Allen Speight 9789402408089
Booksplease Price: $98.15This 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... -
Minimalist Boho Coloring Book by Henriette Wilkins 9798889354628
Booksplease Price: $23.71Apologies 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 *... -
Imaginative Contemplation (Shen Si): The Soul of Creation by Jing Zhang 9789811604959
Booksplease Price: $117.85Apologies 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 -
Art, Ethics and the Human-Animal Relationship by Linda Johnson 9783030788353
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $191.90This 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... -
Mapping Musical Signification by Joan Grimalt 9783030524951
RRP: $230.98Booksplease Price: $217.14This 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... -
Art, Ethics and the Human-Animal Relationship by Linda Johnson 9783030788322
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $191.90This 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... -
Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare by Michael J. Gilmour 9783030554293
Booksplease Price: $97.19This 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... -
Adorno's Philosophy of the Nonidentical: Thinking as Resistance by Oshrat C. Silberbusch 9783030070748
Booksplease Price: $107.52This 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... -
Religion and Art: Rethinking Aesthetic and Auratic Experiences in 'Post-Secular' Times by Davor Dzalto 9783039210329
RRP: $76.44Booksplease Price: $60.65Apologies 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 -
Music as Cultural Heritage and Novelty by Oana Andreica 9783031111457
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $190.18This 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... -
Mimesis: Metaphysics, Cognition, Pragmatics by Gregory Currie 9781848900561
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $37.15Apologies 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 -
What I Believe by Bertrand Russell 9781515462705
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $33.92Apologies 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 *... -
The Paths Between: Poems 2013-2015 by Stephen Parr 9781471001383
RRP: $39.38Booksplease Price: $36.98Apologies 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 -
A Philosophy of Comparisons: Theory, Practice and the Limits of Ethics by Dr Hartmut von Sass 9781350184381
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $65.56Comparing 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... -
Ethics, Aesthetics, and Education: A Levinasian Approach by Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones 9781137556066
Booksplease Price: $98.15This 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... -
New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking by Dr Robert Sinnerbrink 9781350181939
Booksplease Price: $160.67What 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... -
Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotion in Art by Jerrold Levinson 9781349345984
Booksplease Price: $190.30A 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 -... -
Physiognomy by Lavater Lavater 9780371342015
Booksplease Price: $37.28Apologies 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 -
Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport by Jason Holt 9780367335328
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $103.97Sport 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... -
Kant and the Reorientation of Aesthetics by Joseph J. Tinguely 9780367890599
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Prophecies of Language: The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism by Kristina Mendicino 9780823274024
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31The 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,... -
Art and Multitude by Antonio Negri 9780745648996
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $76.23Nine 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: Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth 9780823230631 [USED COPY]
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $49.92Musically 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... -
Becoming Collingwood: Central Themes by Spencer Kiefer Wertz 9780761874447
Booksplease Price: $150.26Apologies 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 -
The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom by Sharday C. Mosurinjohn 9780228011521
RRP: $226.80Booksplease Price: $182.22Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Artists, Patrons, and the Public: Why Culture Changes by Barry Lord 9780759118485 [USED COPY]
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $25.22Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Approach to Aesthetics: Collected Papers on Philosophical Aesthetics by Frank Sibley 9780198238997
RRP: $309.75Booksplease Price: $240.43Approach 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... -
Philosophy and Salvation: An Essay on Wisdom, Beauty, and Love as the Goal of Life by Carlos Blanco 9780718892937
Booksplease Price: $60.61We 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? ...