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Artmachines: Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon by Anne Sauvagnargues
RRP: $61.86Booksplease Price: $56.36Artmachines presents, constructs and transforms the thought of Deleuze and Guattari, excavating a new philosophy of individuation and creative production from their work. The essays range over... -
The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art by Georges Didi-Huberman 9780271072098
RRP: $76.14Booksplease Price: $71.97The Surviving Image, originally published in French in 2002, is the result of Georges Didi-Huberman's extensive research into the life and work of foundational art historian Aby Warburg. Warburg... -
The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages by Shoshana Felman
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.70What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love... -
Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why by Ellen Dissanayake
Booksplease Price: $67.85"Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked... -
Teaching the Actuality of Revolution: Aesthetics, Unlearning, and the Sensations of Struggle by Derek R Ford 9781088071694
Booksplease Price: $29.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088071694Author Derek R FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint < -
Poetry and Mysticism by Raïssa Maritain 9781951319557
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951319557Author Raissa MaritainFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint -
Color for Philosophers: Unweaving the Rainbow by C. L. Hardin
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $37.27This expanded edition of C. L. Hardin's ground-breaking work on color features a new chapter, Further Thoughts: 1993, in which the author revisits the dispute between color objectivists and... -
Simulation, Exercise, Operations by Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd) 9780993045868
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $23.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993045868Author Robin MackayFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint < -
The Genius Decision: The Extraordinary and the Postmodern Condition, Second, Revised and Expanded Edition by Klaus Ottmann 9780882145921
RRP: $52.36Booksplease Price: $39.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882145921Author Klaus OttmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint -
Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity by Marcus du Sautoy 9780008685003
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $33.32An award-winning mathematician and Oxford professor looks to the arts to uncover the key mathematical structures that underpin both nature and human creativity. ... -
To be or Not to be Philosophical: A Tiptree Inspector Decides by Noel Boulting 9781844261987
Booksplease Price: $35.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844261987Author Noel BoultingFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint -
Sonic Faction: Audio Essay as Medium and Method Justin Barton 9781915103123
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $32.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915103123Author Justin BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Power of Beauty: On the Aesthetics of Homer, Plato & Cicero by Inga R. Gammel 9788771247718
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771247718Author Inga R GammelFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint -
Heidegger, Hoelderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language: Toward a New Poetics of Dasein by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei 9780823223619
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $66.35Heidegger's interpretations of the poetry of Hoelderlin are central to Heidegger's later philosophy and have determined the mainstream reception of Hoelderlin's poetry. Gosetti-Ferencei argues that... -
Glitter by Dr. Nicole Seymour
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.33Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Glitter reveals the complexity of an object often dismissed as frivolous. Nicole Seymour... -
Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait by Andrew Rankin 9780824883089
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.61Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers around the... -
Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love by Simon Blackburn 9780691169118
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.11Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism... -
Aesthetic Ideology by Paul De Man 9780816622047
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.20An important reconsideration of ideology by one of this century's most eminent theorists.This long-awaited volume by one of the major figures of twentieth-century thought represents perhaps the most... -
Adornment by Stephen Davies
Booksplease Price: $69.40Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations,... -
On the Appearance of the World: A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture by Mark Foster Gage 9781517917289
RRP: $21.42Booksplease Price: $19.33How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment? Our world, increasingly defined by efficient but unconsidered architecture and cities, seems... -
Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives by Amy Coplan 9780198706427
Booksplease Price: $121.21Empathy has for a long time, at least since the eighteenth century, been seen as centrally important in relation to our capacity to gain a grasp of the content of other people's minds, and predict... -
Without Model – Parva Aesthetica by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $40.17Essays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time. In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikingly demonstrates the intellectual range for which he is known. Taking the... -
The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics by Hsuan L. Hsu 9781479810093
RRP: $61.86Booksplease Price: $54.03A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral-and personal-form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned... -
The Intellectual and His People: Staging the People Volume 2 by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.25A classic collection of essay by Jacques Ranciere, that focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in... -
Art and Posthistory: Conversations on the End of Aesthetics by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.11From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic... -
Being Nude: The Skin of Images by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $44.70What does it mean to be nude? What does the nude do? In a series of constantly surprising reflections, Jean-Luc Nancy and Federico Ferrari encounter the nude as an opportunity for thinking in a way... -
Grow Small, Think Beautiful: Ideas for a Sustainable World from Schumacher College by Dr. Stephan Harding 9780863158353
RRP: $53.55Booksplease Price: $36.99Schumacher College, based near Totnes in Devon, England, opened its doors in the early 1990s and is now an internationally-renowned centre for transformative learning on all aspects of sustainable... -
The Concept of Non-Photography by François Laruelle 9780983216919
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $30.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983216919Author Francois LaruelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Eric Rohmer: Filmmaker and Philosopher by Vittorio Hosle 9781474221122
Booksplease Price: $63.52Rohmer is one of the most popular French directors of the second half of the 20th century, one of the members of the famous Nouvelle Vague that reconstituted French cinema based on the theoretical... -
The Crossing of the Visible by Jean-Luc Marion 9780804733922
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $37.84Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a central topic of concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology. For the question of painting is, at its heart, a question of visibility-of appearance... -
Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience by Peter Kivy
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $58.93What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded... -
Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature by Alva Noe
RRP: $52.34Booksplease Price: $34.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809089161Author Alva No Format PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Office by Dr. Sheila Liming
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.33Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From its origins in the late 19th century to its decline in the 21st, Sheila Liming's... -
Perfume by Megan Volpert
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.33Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Our sense of smell is crucial to our survival. We can smell fear, disease, food... -
Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling by Andrew Mitchell
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subject-a catalog contribution... -
Questionnaire by Dr. Evan Kindley
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $23.21Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors' offices and at job... -
Sticker by Henry Hoke
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.33"A unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history." - Publisher's Weekly "A book that sticks with you long after you've read it." Volume 1 Brooklyn "Hoke's writing... -
The Event of Literature by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.27A renowned literary theorist reconsiders previous stances and offers his latest thinking on the nature of literature and literary study In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book,... -
Empathy Derek Matravers 9780745670751
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $36.51How can we understand another person's feelings, thoughts, words or behaviour? Through empathy, it is hoped, we might use our imaginations to shift our perspective into another person's, thereby... -
How Pictures Complete Us: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine by Paul Crowther
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.70Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a...