Philosophy: Aesthetics
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In Praise of Shadows: Vintage Design Edition
Jun'ichiro TanizakiCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. We find beauty not in the t...
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Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking
Catherine McCormackCurrent price €14.00Original price €17.50'Incisive and provocative ... a sensitive and probing critique' The New York Times'Essential reading ... gripping, inspirational, beautifully writ...
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The Book of Tea
Okakura KakuzoCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50The Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional Japanese life.Par...
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Japonisme: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-sabi and more
Erin Niimi LonghurstCurrent price €14.99Original price €18.50A Japanese-inspired guide to living a happier, more fulfilled life. Japonisme explores the Japanese art of findingcontentment and include...
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Decluttering Your Life: How to Declutter and Organize Your Home, Your Mind, and Your Life: The Path to a Clean Home, Clear Mind, and Better Life Using the Japanese Art of Decluttering
Sabrina GodwinCurrent price €19.13Original price €21.99Current price €19.13Original price €21.99Save 13% -
Burger
Carol J. AdamsCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The burger, long the All-American meal...
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On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea
Umberto EcoCurrent price €37.19Original price €39.99Sumptuously illustrated and fascinatingly written - a vast store of wisdom about the nature of beauty itself.On Beauty is neither a history of art,...
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The Musician as Philosopher: New Yorks Vernacular Avant-Garde, 19581978
Michael GallopeCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of musics ineffability. Th...
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The Architecture of Nothingness: An Explanation of the Objective Basis of Beauty in Architecture and the Arts
Frank LyonsCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones ca...
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The Resistant Object of Architecture: A Lacanian Perspective
Petra eferinCurrent price €41.85Original price €45.99Architectures role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, compli...
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Reading Freuds Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: From Pleasure to the Object
Herman WesterinkCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Sigmund Freuds 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a founding text of psychoanalysis and yet it remains to a large extent an unknown te...
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Plain Aesthetics: A Common Sense Approach to Philosophical Aesthetics
David FennerCurrent price €36.26Original price €38.99Plain Aesthetics is an introduction to philosophical aesthetics and the philosophy of art written for all audiences. While students studying philos...
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Probabilistic Aesthetics of the Avant-Gardes: Predictive Arts
Konrad WojnowskiCurrent price €86.12Original price €98.99Current price €86.12Original price €98.99Save 13% -
Eliminativism, Objects, and Persons: The Virtues of Non-Existence
Jiri BenovskyCurrent price €133.91Original price €143.99In Eliminativism, Objects, and Persons, Jiri Benovsky defends the view that he doesn't exist. In this book, he also defends the view that this book...
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Revolution and History in Walter Benjamin: A Conceptual Analysis
Alison RossCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This book places Benjamins writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge. The fundamental problem that faces any a...
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The Aesthetics of Uncertainty
Janet WolffCurrent price €31.76Original price €36.50Feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and Marxism, among other critical approaches, have undermined traditional notions of aesthetics in re...
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Committed Writings
Albert CamusCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50'To create today means to create dangerously'This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral r...
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Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature
Joseph FichtelbergCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States en...
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Lyotard, Literature and the Trauma of the differend
D. SawyerCurrent price €50.95Original price €55.99This original study examines Jean-François Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature....
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The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos
Laura U. MarksCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50In The Fold, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cosmos. Drawing on the theorie...
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The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos
Laura U. MarksCurrent price €100.79Original price €111.99In The Fold, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cosmos. Drawing on the theorie...
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Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou
Sarah HickmottCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Current price €93.59Original price €103.99Save 10% -
Ranciere and Music
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €30.23Original price €32.50The place of music in Ranciere's thought has long been underestimated or unrecognised. Ranciere and Music responds to this absence with a collectio...
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Sensing Justice Through Contemporary Spanish Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics, Law
Monica Lopez LermaCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99Current price €90.47Original price €103.99Save 13% -
Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €96.71Original price €103.99This collection of essays from a range of philosophers and art practitioners offers tools through which we can action change across art and philoso...
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Walter Pater: Individualism and Aesthetic Philosophy
Kate HextCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99This title explores how Walter Pater and his contemporary aesthetes were influenced by modern philosophies. Repositioning Walter Pater at the philo...
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Aesthetics A-Z
Eran GuterCurrent price €24.65Original price €26.50A concise yet thorough introduction to aesthetics in the form of an alphabetic guide. Written in a clear and engaging style, Aesthetics A-Z provide...
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Deleuze and the Body
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €33.95Original price €36.50Deleuze and the Body puts the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to work to trace the multiple lines of thought and affect that inhabit the ideas and att...
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Space, Politics and Aesthetics
Mustafa DikecCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Focusing on the works of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Ranciere, 'Space, Politics and Aesthetics' reveals the aesthetic premises that ...
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Squid Cinema from Hell: The Emergence of Chthulumedia
David H. FlemingCurrent price €99.17Original price €113.99Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vil m Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a ...
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Squid Cinema from Hell: The Emergence of Chthulumedia
David H. FlemingCurrent price €31.76Original price €36.50Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vil m Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a ...
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Raymond Bellour: Cinema and the Moving Image
Alistair FoxCurrent price €31.76Original price €36.50A comprehensive study of Raymond Bellour, one of the most important foundational theorists of Film StudiesOne of the most influential figures in Fr...
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Lessing: Laocoonte (Laocoon O Sobre Los Limites de La Pintura y de La Poesia), y Cartas Sobre La Literatura Moderna y Sobre El
Gotthold Ephraim LessingCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Current price €19.79Original price €21.99Save 10% -
The Ethics of Visuality: Levinas and the Contemporary Gaze
Hagi KenaanCurrent price €27.89Original price €29.99Our world is saturated with images. Overwhelmed by this proliferation of visual stimuli, our gaze becomes increasingly bored and distracted. Do we ...
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Rationalistische Sinnlichkeit: Zur philosophischen Grundlegung der Kunsttheorie 1700 bis 1760 Leibniz Wolff Gottsched Baumgarten
Olga Katharina SchwarzCurrent price €94.49Original price €104.99Kaum eine philosophische Strömung hat das deutschsprachige 18. Jahrhundert so nachhaltig geprägt wie der Rationalismus Leibniz-Wolffscher Prägung....
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Grundlinien zum Systeme der Aesthetik (1824) und andere kunstphilosophische Schriften
Johan Ludvig HeibergCurrent price €133.19Original price €147.99Der Band versammelt Erstübersetzungen der wichtigsten ästhetischen Schriften des dänischen Philosophen Johan Ludvig Heiberg (17911860). Darüber hin...
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Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation
Nidesh LawtooCurrent price €31.61Original price €33.99Imitation is, perhaps more than ever, constitutive of human originality. Many things have changed since the emergence of an original species called...
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Veritatis Imago: Visuelle Konzepte der Wahrheit in der niederländischen Druckgraphik des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts
Mariam HammamiCurrent price €67.85Original price €77.99The study analyzes differentiated concepts of truth in Dutch prints of the 16th and 17th centuries. Against the backdrop of religious and politica...
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Hannah Arendts Ambiguous Storytelling: Temporality, Judgment, and the Philosophy of History
Marcin MoskalewiczCurrent price €91.07Original price €98.99Through an original interpretation of Hannah Arendts historiography, Marcin Moskalewicz reveals an under-acknowledged philosophy of history in her ...
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Wassily KandinskyCurrent price €14.00Original price €17.50A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassi...
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Robotic Vision and Virtual Interfacings: Seeing, Sensing, Shaping
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €89.37Original price €108.99As the symbiotic relationship between human and machine unfolds, robotic vision facilitates a reshaping and reconstitution of our perception of the...
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The Ethics of Love: Emotional Dilemmas for a Relational Life
Susi FerrarelloCurrent price €43.67Original price €47.99This book explores the ethical and psychological dilemmas connected to the lived experiences of love, uniquely proposing an ethical framework that ...
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Everyday Artfulness: A posthuman perspective on young childrens play with materials
Lucy HillCurrent price €47.42Original price €50.99This work suggests that art has more to offer education than diverting activities grounded by ideas of human exceptionalism. Posthuman perspectives...
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