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Plotinus and the Moving Image by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9789004357037
Booksplease Price: $81.80Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like "the One" in a cinematic context and relates Plotinus'... -
Daoism, Dandyism, and Political Correctness by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9781438494524
RRP: $93.53Booksplease Price: $89.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438494524Author Thorsten Botz-BornsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 232 -
Daoism, Dandyism, and Political Correctness by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9781438494517
Booksplease Price: $33.63Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of "carefree wandering," deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary... -
Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9780812697339
Booksplease Price: $30.04You have to go deeper. Inception is more than just a nail-biting heist story, more than just one of the greatest movies of all time. The latest neuroscience and philosophy of mind tell us that shared... -
Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative? by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9789042021099
Booksplease Price: $135.95Is virtual reality the latest grand narrative that humanity has produced? Our civilization is determined by a shift from an "original event" to a virtual "narrative". This concerns not only virtual... -
Transcultural Architecture: The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $62.15Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures. This book... -
The Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9781498564366
Booksplease Price: $116.84Through empirical analysis and theoretical reflection, this book shows that the aesthetics and politics of the Islamic State is "futurist." ISIS overcomes postmodern pessimism and joins the modern,... -
The Philosophy of Lines: From Art Nouveau to Cyberspace by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9783030653453
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $116.82This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards. Lines can be physical phenomena, cognitive responses to observed processes,... -
Conspiracy and Contingency: How to Deal with Fake Necessities Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9781839993138
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $91.45What do conspiracy theories, algorithms and meritocracy have in common? All three avoid contingency and frantically look for necessities. The COVID-19 crisis has brought about a proliferation of... -
The New Aesthetics of Deculturation: Neoliberalism, Fundamentalism and Kitsch by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9781350243699
Booksplease Price: $44.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350243699Author Thorsten Botz-BornsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 248 -
The Philosophy of Lines: From Art Nouveau to Cyberspace by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9783030653422
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $116.82This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards. Lines can be physical phenomena, cognitive responses to observed processes,... -
Three Times Emptiness: Śūnyatā, Kenosis, Fanā’ Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9783032072702
Booksplease Price: $143.23This book offers a triangular comparative analysis by evaluating three different religious approaches to emptiness. It reveals what emptiness or nothingness mean in different cultural and religious... -
Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos: The New Feminine Aesthetics by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9781498500487
Booksplease Price: $59.02At first sight, tattoos, nudity, and veils do not seem to have much in common except for the fact that all three have become more frequent, more visible, and more dominant in connection with... -
The Philosophy of Viagra: Bioethical Responses to the Viagrification of the Modern World by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9789042033368
Booksplease Price: $101.10The impotency remedy Viagra is the fastest selling drug in history. It has grown beyond being simply a medical phenomenon, but has achieved the status of cultural icon, appearing on television as a... -
Organic Cinema: Film, Architecture, and the Work of Bela Tarr by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9781800730090
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $19.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800730090Author Thorsten Botz-BornsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 238 -
The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9780739148457
Booksplease Price: $133.01At the turn of the millennium, international youth culture is dominated by mainly two types of aesthetics: the African American cool, which, propelled by Hip-Hop music, has become the world's... -
Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan: A Comparative Philosophical Study by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9780739130681
Booksplease Price: $123.18Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan: A Comparative Philosophical Study examines the parallels between Russian and Japanese philosophies and religions by revealing a common concept of... -
How Much Religion is Good for Us?: If Religion Were a Game Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9781032615165
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09How Much Religion is Good for Us? is a provocative book which examines parallels between play and religion from a philosophical, theological, and anthropological perspective.Understanding “religion... -
Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, and Wong Kar-Wai by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9780739121887
Booksplease Price: $69.08Films and Dreams considers the essential link between films and the world of dreams. To discuss dream theory in the context of film studies means moving from the original, clinical context within... -
Organic Cinema: Film, Architecture, and the Work of BA (c)la Tarr by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9781785335662
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $109.86The "organic" is by now a venerable concept within aesthetics, architecture, and art history, but what might such a term mean within the spatialities and temporalities of film? By way of an answer,... -
The Veil in Kuwait: Gender, Fashion, Identity by Noreen Abdullah-Khan 9781137487414
Booksplease Price: $59.70The Veil in Kuwait explores the complex reasons behind why women veil and how they are perceived by those that do not veil. Religion, culture, family, tradition, and fashion are all explored to... -
Critique, Subversion, and Chinese Philosophy: Sociopolitical, Conceptual, and Methodological Challenges by Professor Hans-Georg Moeller 9781350115842
Booksplease Price: $144.65Bringing together a number of case studies, this book shows how from early on Chinese philosophical discourses unfolded through innovation and the subversion of dominant forms of thinking. Narrowing... -
The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader by Joseph Westfall 9781474275736
Booksplease Price: $54.93The first collection of its kind, The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader is the essential anthology of writings by continental philosophers on cinema, representing the last century of...