Philosophy: Aesthetics
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Landscape Aesthetics: Toward an Engaged Ecology
Alberto L. SianiCurrent price €117.89Original price €130.99The notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contemplation. Likewise, aesthetics is often seen as apolitical, a m...
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European Aesthetics: A Critical Introduction from Kant to Derrida
Robert WicksCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99The birth of the Enlightenment heralded a new reverence for the power of reason. But as science flourished in Europe, violence and brutality did no...
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Art before the Law: Aesthetics and Ethics
Ruth RonenCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99Ever since Plato expelled the poets from his ideal state, the ethics of art has had to confront philosophys denial of arts morality. In Art before ...
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Value: What Money Can''t Buy: A Handbook for Practical Hedonism
Stephen BayleyCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Since the industrial revolution, when everything ran by clockwork, people have understood how important it is to live in the moment. But over time ...
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Medieval Romance: The Aesthetics of Possibility
James KnappCurrent price €66.59Original price €73.99Widely heard and read throughout the middle ages, romance literature has persisted for centuries and has lately re-emerged in the form of speculati...
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Kant and the Feeling of Life: Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment
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Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers: An Edited Translation
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €116.99Original price €129.99A pioneering work in the history of philosophy, the ancient text of the Lives presents engaging portraits of nearly a hundred Greek philosophers. I...
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The Severed Head: Capital Visions
Julia KristevaCurrent price €73.79Original price €81.99Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from t...
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Tao and Trinity: Notes on Self-Reference and the Unity of Opposites in Philosophy
S. AustinCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with problems as broad and di...
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Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency
Santiago ZabalaCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics...
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Ideas About Art
Kathleen K. DesmondCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Ideas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics. It uses stories ...
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Theatre/Ecology/Cognition: Theorizing Performer-Object Interaction in Grotowski, Kantor, and Meyerhold
T. PaavolainenCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99How is performer-object interaction enacted and perceived in the theatre? How thereby are varieties of 'meaning' also enacted and perceived? Using ...
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Beauty Unlimited
Indiana University PressCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both geographically and aestheti...
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Art, Morality and Human Nature: Writings by Richard W. Beardsmore
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Art, Morality and Human Nature: Writings by Richard W. Beardsmore
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The Father of Lights A Theology of Beauty
Junius JohnsonCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Every good giving and every perfect gift is from on high, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turni...
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The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s
Larry D. BusbeaCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50How new conceptions of humanenvironment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s At the end of the 1960s, new model...
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Readings in Infancy
Jean-Francois LyotardCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Nobody knows how to write. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers o...
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Air Conditioning
Hsuan L. HsuCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Air conditioning aspires to be unnotice...
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Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form
Rizvana BradleyCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50In Anteaesthetics, Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness cannot be represented in modernity's aesthetic regime, but is neverth...
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Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form
Rizvana BradleyCurrent price €116.99Original price €129.99In Anteaesthetics, Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness cannot be represented in modernity's aesthetic regime, but is neverth...
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Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal draws on insights from leading neuroscientists and scholars in the humanit...
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