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In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $7.99An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists.This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's... -
Ways of Seeing by John Berger 9780141035796
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.'Seeing comes... -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.2640th anniversary edition of the bestselling modern classic: Milan Kundera's iconic novel of love and politics in communist Czechoslovakia.'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.'... -
Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life by Beth Kempton
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97'A truly transformative read' Sunday Times STYLE'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessica Seaton, Co-Founder of Toast and author of Gather, Cook, FeastA whole new way of looking at the world... -
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in lifeThis landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek... -
The Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry by Richard Barnett
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.45This achingly jawdropping book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, presenting captivating and grim illustrations of the tools and... -
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.86THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy and The School of Life, The Architecture of... -
Saving Beauty Byung-Chul Han 9781509515103
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.24Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime... -
The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of... -
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful by Edmund Burke
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.40'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by... -
One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's... -
Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the... -
Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780521639873
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $24.50The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. Nietzsche's discussion of the nature of culture, of the conditions under which it can flourish and of those under... -
Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty by Emma Dabiri 9781800817920
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $6.53An unmissable essay from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next 'A magnificent text' KATY HESSEL 'This is so sharp, and funny, and will be so... -
Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O'Donohue
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.75In this eagerly awaited follow-up to his international bestsellers Anam Cara and Eternal Echoes, John O'Donohue turns his attention to the subject of beauty - the divine beauty that calls the... -
Football by Professor Mark Yakich
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02Object 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... -
Why We Make Things and Why it Matters: The Education of a Craftsman by Peter Korn
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Why do we make things? Why do we choose the emotionally and physically demanding work of bringing new objects into the world with creativity and skill? Why does it matter that we make things well?... -
Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth by Matthew Fuller
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with... -
Kant's 'Critique of Aesthetic Judgement': A Reader's Guide by Dr Fiona Hughes 9780826497680
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Dürer’s Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East Susan Dackerman 9780691250441
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $41.46An important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht DurerAlbrecht Durer's depictions of Muslim figures and subjects are considered by many to be among his most perplexing images... -
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search... -
Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking by Catherine McCormack
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Incisive and provocative ... a sensitive and probing critique' The New York Times'Essential reading ... gripping, inspirational, beautifully written and highly thought-provoking' Dr Helen Gorrill,... -
Simone Weil: A Very Short Introduction by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone 9780192846969
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. Weil was not a... -
The Goods of Design: Professional Ethics for Designers by Ariel Guersenzvaig 9781538179918
Booksplease Price: $41.27What ends should designers pursue? To what extent should they care about the societal and environmental impact of their work? And why should they care at all? Given the key influence design has on... -
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.43In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of... -
Committed Writings by Albert Camus
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.21'To create today means to create dangerously'This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the... -
Bosses by Ghislaine Leung 9781916425002
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916425002Author Ghislaine LeungFormat PaperbackPage Count 10Imprint -
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the... -
On Color by David Kastan
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.34Ranging 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... -
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings by Robert M Pirsig
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.42Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme... -
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with... -
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung by Roger Scruton
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'The ideal interpreter of the Ring ... a fascinating and valuable study ... absorbing and convincing' Sunday TimesThe Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times... -
Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780521630160
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $62.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Whale Song by Margret Grebowicz
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The sapiens of the sea, whales are the other intelligent, social, and loquacious animal... -
A Short Philosophy of Birds Philippe J. Dubois 9780753554142
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72The greatest wisdom comes from the smallest creaturesThere is so much we can learn from birds. Through twenty-two little lessons of wisdom inspired by how birds live, this charming french book will... -
Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece by Peter W. Rose 9781501742576
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.34In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory... -
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For... -
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture by Alice Sherwood
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.51'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun'Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly witty, profoundly illuminating, Alice Sherwood is a... -
Studies in the History of the Renaissance by Walter Pater 9780199535071
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.31'art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake' In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873),... -
The Phenomenology of Modern Art: Exploding Deleuze, Illuminating Style by Paul Crowther 9781441142580
RRP: $56.75Booksplease Price: $52.40This is the first sustained phenomenological approach to modern art, taking a new approach and drawing upon an unusual selection of thinkers. As a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned...