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Hegel's Aesthetics: Volume 2 by G. W. F. Hegel 9780198244998
RRP: $83.83$56.45This is the first of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I... -
Spacecraft by Timothy Morton
RRP: $19.48$14.96Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do... -
Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music by Theodor W. Adorno 9781844677924
RRP: $44.83$33.83This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of the auditorium. Especially significant is Adorno's "dialectical portrait" of Stravinsky, in which Adorno... -
Foundations of Christian Culture by Ivan Ilyin 9781732087392
RRP: $15.58$12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732087392Author Ivan IlyinFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Waystone PressPublisher Waystone PressWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm -
Football by Professor Mark Yakich
RRP: $19.48$14.96Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When is the "beautiful game" at its most beautiful? How does football function as a lens through which so many view their daily lives? What's... -
On Color by David Kastan
RRP: $33.13$28.49Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our lives Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our... -
Aesthetics and Subjectivity by Andrew Bowie 9780719057380
RRP: $48.75$42.96New, completely revised and re-written edition. Offers a detailed but accessible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. Looks at recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and... -
Perfume by Megan Volpert
RRP: $19.48$14.96Object 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. Fragrance is also entertainment. We can smell an expensive... -
Aesthetics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art by Anne Sheppard 9780192891648
RRP: $83.83$68.43Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Power of Cute by Simon May 9780691181813
RRP: $31.18$25.17An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokemon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and... -
Green: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691159362
RRP: $68.25$56.04In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art,... -
A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity by Peter E. Gordon 9780226828572
RRP: $62.40$52.94A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno's work as a critique animated by happiness. "Gordon's confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno's negativism."-Jurgen Habermas Theodor Adorno... -
Other Things by Bill Brown 9780226283029
RRP: $50.70$48.46From the pencil to the puppet to the drone--the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different... -
More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art by Georgina Kleege
RRP: $69.21$59.48In the quarter century following the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, art museums, along with other public institutions, were tasked with making their facilities and collections more accessible to people with disabilities. Although blind... -
Black: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau
RRP: $58.50$47.37Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In... -
Blackface by Professor Ayanna Thompson
RRP: $19.48$14.96A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021 Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and history A Times Higher Education Book of the Week 2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category) ... -
An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: $42.80$36.80During the past twenty years, the world's most renowned critical theorist-the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies-has experienced a radical reorientation in her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial... -
The Man Without Content by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $37.03$32.60In this book, one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit... -
Doorway to Artistry: Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity by Esther Lightcap Meek 9781666769685
RRP: $50.70$38.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666769685Author Esther Lightcap MeekFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Architectural Aesthetics: Appreciating Architecture As An Art Mr Edward Winters 9781350211001
RRP: $38.98$32.25The fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that is, they are valuable in themselves. But this poses a problem for architecture: its works are designed to serve our purposes, and therefore it is classed as functional. Carving out a new... -
Cleaning by Kenya Hara 9783037787328
RRP: $58.50$41.89Cleanliness is a core value of societies around the globe. So much so that cleaning seems to be an inherent part of human nature and how we interact with and domesticate our environment. This book explores the concept of cleaning in all its various... -
Aesthetics and Its Discontents by Jacques Ranciere 9780745646312
RRP: $31.18$28.10Translated by Steven Corcoran Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a parasitic discourse from which artistic practices must be freed. But aesthetics is not a discourse. It is an... -
Aesthetics: The Classic Readings by David E. Cooper 9781119116806
RRP: $56.45$49.67The newly expanded and revised edition of Cooper's popular anthology featuring classic writings on aesthetics, both historical and contemporary The second edition of this bestselling anthology collects essays of canonical significance in aesthetics and... -
Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie Matt Colquhoun 9781914420634
RRP: $21.43$14.43Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation? Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters... -
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $31.10$25.55One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature-by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation... -
The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: $53.63$47.03Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.About the... -
Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception by Bence Nanay
$64.80Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to... -
Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal by Heather Widdows 9780691160078
RRP: $68.25$61.87How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to... -
Everything You Wanted to Know About Lacan But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock by Slavoj Zizek
$41.03The contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, analyzing movies such as Rear Window and Psycho. Starting from the premise that 'everything has meaning,' the authors examine the films'... -
Felix Ravaisson: Selected Essays by Mark Sinclair 9781472574879
$54.21This reader makes the key essays of 19th century French philosopher Felix Ravaisson available in English for the first time. In recent years, Ravaisson has emerged as an extremely important and influential figure in the history of modern European... -
On Humour by Simon Critchley
RRP: $44.83$39.31Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least... -
The Ground of the Image by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: $60.45$53.35If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and... -
Theory Of The Avant-Garde by Peter Burger 9780816610686
RRP: $35.08$34.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816610686Author Peter BurgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal by Heather Widdows 9780691197142
RRP: $48.75$38.98How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to... -
Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works Patrick Curry (University of Wales Trinity St David, UK) 9781032404677
RRP: $70.18$61.80This book concerns the experience of enchantment in art. Considering the essential characteristics, dynamics and conditions of the experience of enchantment in relation to art, including liminality, it offers studies of different kinds of artistic... -
How to See the World by Nicholas Mirzoeff
RRP: $21.43$16.44In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. From Google Images to Instagram, video games to installation art, this transformation is... -
Diotima's Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing by Frederick C. Beiser 9780199694655
RRP: $77.98$63.06Diotima's Children is a re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics which prevailed in Germany in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century. It is partly an historical survey of the central figures and themes of this tradition But it is... -
Art for God's Sake by Philip Graham Ryken
$12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596380073Author Philip Graham RykenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint P & R Publishing Co (Presbyterian & Reformed)Publisher P & R Publishing Co... -
Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography by Simonetta Moro 9781032052045
RRP: $74.08$65.09Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography. ... -
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $38.90$32.21Walter Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts-on media and on culture in general-in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the...