Philosophy: Aesthetics
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Aesthetic Theory
Theodor W. AdornoCurrent price €26.51Original price €28.50Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US...
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Studiolo
Giorgio AgambenCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99A brief study of select Western art from Italys foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince wit...
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Erotic Love in Sociology, Philosophy and Literature: From Romanticism to Rationality
Finn BowringCurrent price €111.59Original price €123.99Why is love taken for granted as a part of human experience? And why is sexual or romantic love in particular so important to us? This book aims to...
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The Schelling Reader
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel as one of the great philosophers of the German idealist tradition. The S...
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The New Aesthetics of Deculturation: Neoliberalism, Fundamentalism and Kitsch
Thorsten Botz-BornsteinCurrent price €111.59Original price €123.99What are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vul...
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Cosmopolitan Aesthetics: Art in a Global World
Daniel HerwitzCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99New arts created in the context of new social realities are impacting our traditional ideas about aesthetics. Art, art markets and aesthetics now i...
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Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics
Patrick ffrenchCurrent price €105.39Original price €123.99Suspicious of what he called the spectators sticky adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a cautious attitude towards cinema. Falling into a h...
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Art and Fear'' and ''Art as Far as the Eye Can See''
Paul VirilioCurrent price €24.17Original price €25.99Paul Virilio is one of contemporary continental thought's most original and provocative critical voices. His vision of the impact of modern techno...
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Robert Pippin and Film: Politics, Ethics, and Psychology after Modernism
Dr Dominic LashCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietz...
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The Phenomenology of Modern Art: Exploding Deleuze, Illuminating Style
Paul CrowtherCurrent price €47.69Original price €52.99This is the first sustained phenomenological approach to modern art, taking a new approach and drawing upon an unusual selection of thinkers. As a ...
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Mary Kelly''s Concentric Pedagogy: Selected Writings
Mary KellyCurrent price €25.59Original price €31.99Selected and introduced by Juli Carson, this book presents a collection of essential essays, interviews, and never-before published archival materi...
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Mary Kelly''s Concentric Pedagogy: Selected Writings
Mary KellyCurrent price €71.19Original price €88.99Selected and introduced by Juli Carson, this book presents a collection of essential essays, interviews, and never-before published archival materi...
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An Ontology of Multiple Artworks
David DaviesCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99Multiple artworks are works that can have multiple 'instances' which can play a particular kind of role in the appreciation of those works: for exa...
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La Supervivencia de la Palabra: Inmanencia, Intertextos Y Superficies En Una Seleccin de Poemas de Jorge Eduardo Eielson
Andrea Milena Guardia HernndezCurrent price €33.59Original price €41.99Current price €33.59Original price €41.99Save 20% -
Cognition, Culture, and the Arts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Narrating, Understanding, and Reading
Peter Lang AGCurrent price €34.79Original price €39.99The aim of the volume is to show in which sense the study of culture, literature and the arts can contribute to a better understanding of human cog...
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Bicycle
Dr Jonathan MaskitCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. These days the bicycle often appears ...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Susanne K. Langer
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €133.91Original price €143.99Once an overlooked figure in 20th-century philosophy, Susanne K. Langer has become a prominent thinker among philosophers and artists, particularly...
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Rhythmicity and Deleuze: Practice as Research in the Musical-Philosophical
Steve TromansCurrent price €78.29Original price €86.99In this detailed and comprehensive study of concepts from Gilles Deleuzes philosophy of time, Tromans undertakes a series of practice as research p...
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Debating Imaginal Politics: Dialogues with Chiara Bottici
Rowman & Littlefield InternationalCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Chiara Botticis influential work on imaginal politics has provided a rich theoretical framework and incisive critical analysis with which to engage...
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Dangerous Art: On Moral Criticisms of Artwork
James HaroldCurrent price €64.79Original price €71.99Dangerous Art takes up the problem of judging works of art using moral standards. When we think that a work is racist, or morally dangerous, what d...
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The Forbidden Subject: How Oppositional Aesthetics Banished Natural Beauty from the Arts
Peter QuigleyCurrent price €71.09Original price €78.99`We are fools to turn from the superhuman beauty The Forbidden Subject launches from Ed Abbeys affirmation in Desert Solitaire: `This is the most b...
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A Conceptual and Semantic Analysis of the Qualitative Domains of Aesthetic and Moral Emotions: An Introduction
Andrej DémuthCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99This collection delves into the conceptual and semantic dissection of aesthetic and moral emotions. It grapples with their definition, scope, funct...
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Pretexts for Writing: German Romantic Prefaces, Literature, and Philosophy
Seán M. WilliamsCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tr...
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Pretexts for Writing: German Romantic Prefaces, Literature, and Philosophy
Seán M. WilliamsCurrent price €133.19Original price €147.99Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tr...
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The Aesthetics of Gyorgy Lukacs
Bela KiralyfalviCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99This book-length treatment of Gyorgy Lukacs' major achievement, his Marxist aesthetic theories. Working from the thirty-one volumes of Lukacs' work...
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New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life
Christopher RoveeCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99New Critical Nostalgia weighs the future of literary study by reassessing its past. It tracks today's impassioned debates about method back to the ...
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Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance: Art as Experiment
Herbert MolderingsCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an artist-engineer-scientist, a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician a...
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The Philosophy of Art
John Wiley and Sons LtdCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Now available in a fully revised and updated second edition, this accessible and insightful introduction outlines the central theories and ongoing ...
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Georg Friedrich Meier (1718-1777): Philosophie ALS Wahre Weltweisheit
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Nietzsches Perspektiven: Denken Und Dichten in Der Moderne
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On the Appearance of the World: A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture
Mark Foster GageCurrent price €15.80Original price €16.99How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment? Our world, increasingly defined by efficie...
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action
J.F. MartelCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Current price €16.65Original price €18.50Save 10% -
Contemplative Self after Michel Henry, The: A Phenomenological Theology
Joseph RiveraCurrent price €133.19Original price €147.99In The Contemplative Self after Michel Henry: A Phenomenological Theology, Joseph Rivera provides a close and critical reconstruction of the philos...
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Writ on Water: The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination
Charles WarrenCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Current price €28.28Original price €32.50Save 13% -
Writ on Water: The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination
Charles WarrenCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Current price €28.28Original price €32.50Save 13% -
Writ on Water: The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination
Charles WarrenCurrent price €74.81Original price €85.99Current price €74.81Original price €85.99Save 13% -
The Aesthetics of Gyorgy Lukacs
Bela KiralyfalviCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99This book-length treatment of Gyorgy Lukacs' major achievement, his Marxist aesthetic theories. Working from the thirty-one volumes of Lukacs' work...
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Art''s Undoing: In the Wake of a Radical Aestheticism
Forest PyleCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Radical aestheticism describes a recurring event in some of the most powerful and resonating texts of nineteenth-century British literature, offeri...
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Aesthetic Action
Florian KlingerCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99In this new book, Florian Klinger gives readers a basic action-theoretical account of the aesthetic. While normal action fulfills a determinate con...
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Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: On the Verge of Nihilism
Paolo StellinoCurrent price €72.89Original price €80.99The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 188687. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the vol...
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Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
Sianne NgaiCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse abo...
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The Oxford Handbook of Hume
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €153.89Original price €170.99The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most significant English-speaking philosopher and often seen...
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The Philosophy of Design
Glenn ParsonsCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design. The first book t...
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Manuscript Poetics: Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian Literature
Francesco Marco AresuCurrent price €133.19Original price €147.99Manuscript Poetics explores the interrelationship between the material features of textual artifacts and the literary aspects of the medieval Itali...
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