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Empathy Derek Matravers 9780745670751
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.25How 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... -
Empathy Derek Matravers 9780745670744
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.31How 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... -
Fiction and Narrative by Derek Matravers
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €38.46For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination. In particular, fiction has been defined in terms of the... -
Fiction and Narrative by Derek Matravers 9780199647019
Booksplease Price: €99.91For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination. In particular, fiction has been defined in terms of the... -
Art and Emotion by Derek Matravers 9780199243167
Booksplease Price: €54.81Derek Matravers examines how emotions form a bridge between our experience of art and of life. We often find that a particular poem, painting, or piece of music carries an emotional charge; and we... -
Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology by Derek Matravers
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €50.10This textbook reflects the buoyant state of contemporary political philosophy, and the development of the subject in the past two decades. It includes seminal papers on fundamental philosophical... -
Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill by Derek Matravers
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €46.02This clear and thorough introduction provides students with the skills necessary to understand the main thinkers, texts and arguments of political philosophy and thought. Each chapter comprises a... -
Philosophical Perspectives on Empathy: Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Challenges by Derek Matravers
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74Empathy-our capacity to cognitively or affectively connect with other people's thoughts and feelings-is a concept whose definition and meaning varies widely within philosophy and other disciplines... -
Introducing Philosophy of Art: In Eight Case Studies Derek Matravers 9781844655373
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €45.15Derek Matravers introduces students to the philosophy of art through a close examination of eight famous works of twentieth-century art. Each work has been selected in order to best illustrate and... -
Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts Matthew Kieran (University of Leeds, UK) 9780415591706
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €64.02Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts is the first comprehensive collection of papers by philosophers examining the nature of imagination and its role in understanding and making art.Imagination is a... -
Dealing with the Visual: Art History, Aesthetics and Visual Culture Caroline van Eck 9781138356818
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €37.12One of the issues underlying current debates between practitioners of art history, visual culture and aesthetics is whether the visual is a unique, irreducible category, or whether it can be... -
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy by Heidi Lene Maibom 9780367254933
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €55.86Empathy plays a central role in the history and contemporary study of ethics, interpersonal understanding, and the emotions, yet until now has been relatively underexplored. The Routledge Handbook of... -
Art, Representation, and Make-Believe: Essays on the Philosophy of Kendall L. Walton by Sonia Sedivy 9781032013978
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €49.08This is the first collection of essays focused on the many-faceted work of Kendall L. Walton. Walton has shaped debate about the arts for the last 50 years. He provides a comprehensive framework for... -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jaques Rousseau 9781853267819
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €5.81With an Introduction by Derek Matravers. In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the... -
Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotion in Art by Jerrold Levinson 9780230349834
Booksplease Price: €107.77A 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... -
Political Philosophy A-Z by Jon Pike 9780748622696
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €125.71A comprehensive, up to date and concise guide to one of the most important branches of philosophy. Both topical and historical, Political Philosophy A-Z has entries on Hobbes, Marx, and Rorty, as... -
Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotion in Art by Jerrold Levinson 9781349345984
Booksplease Price: €107.77A 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... -
Heritage and War: Ethical Issues by William Bülow
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €85.17The world responded with horror to ISIS's campaign of destruction of cultural heritage across the Middle East, including with calls for an international response to prevent such damage. At the same... -
Political Philosophy A-Z by Jon Pike
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.18A comprehensive, up to date and concise guide to one of the most important branches of philosophy. Both topical and historical, Political Philosophy A-Z has entries on Hobbes, Marx, and Rorty, as... -
New Takes in Film-Philosophy by Havi Carel 9780230250291
Booksplease Price: €56.08This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central issues surrounding the conjunction of film and... -
Art's Emotions: Ethics, Expression and Aesthetic Experience Damien Freeman 9781844655120
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.21Despite the very obvious differences between looking at Manet's Woman with a Parrot and listening to Elgar's Cello Concerto, both experiences provoke similar questions in the thoughtful aesthete: why... -
Self-Expression by Mitchell S. Green 9780199283781
Booksplease Price: €65.05Mitchell S. Green presents a systematic philosophical study of self-expression - a pervasive phenomenon of the everyday life of humans and other species, which has received scant attention in its own... -
Things: In Touch with the Past by Carolyn Korsmeyer 9780197649596
RRP: €31.52Booksplease Price: €28.73Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to "embody" their histories. Such genuine or "real" things afford a particular... -
Philosophy: Why It Matters Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham) 9781509532155
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €38.14We constantly disagree with each other on issues of fundamental importance. Does God exist? Should the latest scientific findings be trusted? Are there innate psychological differences between men... -
Philosophy: Why It Matters Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham) 9781509532162
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.83We constantly disagree with each other on issues of fundamental importance. Does God exist? Should the latest scientific findings be trusted? Are there innate psychological differences between men... -
Philosophy and Conceptual Art by Peter Goldie 9780199285556
Booksplease Price: €134.36The fourteen prominent analytic philosophers writing here engage with the cluster of philosophical questions raised by conceptual art. They address four broad questions: What kind of art is... -
Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Contemporary Art by Alana Jelinek 9781350100497
Booksplease Price: €32.01Written from the perspective of a practising artist, this book proposes that, against a groundswell of historians, museums and commentators claiming to speak on behalf of art, it is artists alone who... -
A Philosophy of Computer Art Dominic Lopes 9780415547628
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.72What is computer art? Do the concepts we usually employ to talk about art, such as 'meaning', 'form' or 'expression' apply to computer art? A Philosophy of Computer Art is the first book to explore... -
The Metaphysics of Beauty by Nick Zangwill
RRP: €80.92Booksplease Price: €63.61In chapters ranging from "The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy" to "Skin-deep or In the Eye of the Beholder?" Nick Zangwill investigates the nature of beauty as we conceive it, and as it is in... -
Film and the Emotions, Volume XXXIV by Peter A. French 9781444338980
Booksplease Price: €44.41Film and the Emotions explores the complicated relationship between filmed entertainment, such as movies and television shows, and our capacity to feel emotions. This volume of The Midwest Studies in... -
Stones and Lives: The Ethics of Protecting Heritage in War Helen Frowe 9780198877660
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €76.67The fate of heritage in war has attracted considerable attention in recent years, due in no small part to ISIS's campaign of destruction across the Middle East and, in 2012, the International... -
Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts by 9780367563424
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader's close analysis of a literary text. It examines the meaning of 'literature', outlines the most... -
Things: In Touch with the Past by Carolyn Korsmeyer
RRP: €64.26Booksplease Price: €45.85Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to "embody" their histories. Such genuine or "real" things afford a particular... -
In Defense of Reading by Sarah Worth 9781783483198
Booksplease Price: €54.44Why should we read? We assume that reading is good for us, but often we cannot articulate exactly what it does for us. In this fascinating book, Sarah Worth addresses from a philosophical perspective... -
Conversations on Art and Aesthetics by Hans Maes 9780199686100
Booksplease Price: €57.60What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret... -
The Value of Literature by Rafe McGregor 9781783489244
Booksplease Price: €52.07In The Value of Literature, Rafe McGregor employs a unique approach - the combination of philosophical work on value theory and critical work on the relationship between form and content - to present... -
Narrative, Emotion, and Insight by Noel Carroll 9780271048581
RRP: €38.02Booksplease Price: €35.47While narrative has been one of the liveliest and most productive areas of research in literary theory, discussions of the nature of emotional responses to art and of the cognitive value of art tend... -
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live by Peter Cave 9781399405959
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life's big questions. In showing how the... -
The Opacity of Narrative by Peter Lamarque 9781783480173
Booksplease Price: €53.26What is narrative? What is distinctive about the great literary narratives? In virtue of what is a narrative fictional or non-fictional? In this important new book Peter Lamarque, one of the leading...