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Grain of Truth: The Ancient Lessons of Craft
by Ross A Laird  Publisher Comments On the surface, Grain of Truth is a brief, simple book in which the author makes objects out of wood – a hand plane for himself, a marimba for his children, a box to hold the cremated remains of his grandmother-in-law. It’s not a how-to book,...
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Subversion and Subsidy: Contemporary Art and Aesthetics (French List)
by Rainer Rochlitz Publisher Comments Art today is in deep crisis. Criticism seems to have abandoned any notion of evaluation, the public has been denied the possibility of understanding, and aesthetics have lost all legitimacy. Formerly, artists claimed their right to decide for themselves...
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The Arts and the Definition of the Human: Towards a Philosophical Anthropology
by Joseph Margolis Publisher Comments The Arts and the Definition of the Human introduces a novel theory that our selves—our thoughts, perceptions, creativity, and other qualities that make us human—are determined by our place in history, and more particularly by our culture and...
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Rhetorical Homologies: Form, Culture, Experience (Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique)
by Barry Brummett Publisher Comments This book examines the relationship between rhetoric and public culture. Barry Brummett explores homologies between very different orders of experience and texts, such as battlefield experiences that are homologous to those at a dining room table. What...
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The Origins of Art: A Psychological and Sociological Inquiry
by Yrjo Hirn Synopsis This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional...
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Art and Scholasticism with Other Essays
by Jacques Maritain Synopsis Art and Scholasticism with Other Essays is a work by Catholic French Philosopher Jacques Maritain. This collection of Maritain essay's on art include Schoolmen and the Theory of Art, Art an Intellectual Virtue, Rules of Art, Art and Beauty and Some...
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Analecta Husserliana #65: The Aesthetics of Enchantment in the Fine Arts
by Marlies Kronegger Publisher Comments Let us revive the true sense of fine arts: enchantment! In the conceptualised, commercialised, artificial approach to fine arts, we forgot its authentic experiential sense. It lies at the imaginative heart of all arts there to be retrieved by the...
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Perspectives in Continental Philosophy #53: On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly
by Gerald L Bruns Publisher Comments Marcel Duchamp once asked whether it is possible to make something that is not a work of art. This question returns over and over in modernist culture, where there are no longer any authoritative criteria for what can be identified (or excluded) as a...
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Philosophy of Nelson Goodman; Selected Essays #0003: Nelson Goodman's Philosophy of Art
by Catherine Z. Elgin Publisher Comments b A challenger of traditions and boundaries /b A pivotal figure in 20th-century philosophy, Nelson Goodman has made seminal contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, and the philosophy of language, with surprising connections that cut...
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Art & Morality
by Sebastian (edt) Gardner Synopsis The relation between aesthetic and moral concerns or values, especially as regards art and its place in our lives, has become a prominent focus of recent philosophical aesthetics. This collection of high quality papers, some historical and some...
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Art Rules: Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts
by Michael Grenfell Publisher Comments The first complete study of Bourdieu's contribution to art....
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The Analysis of Beauty
by William Hogarth Publisher Comments Born three hundred years ago in Smithfield, London, William Hogarth established himself as a central figure in eighteenth-century English culture through his paintings, engravings, and outspoken art criticism. In this new edition of Hogarth's Analysis of...
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Allegory Old & New: In Literature, Fine Art, Music & Theatre & Its Continuity in Culture
by M. Kronegger Publisher Comments Bringing allegory into the light from the neglect into which it fell means focusing on the wondrous heights of the human spirit in its significance for culture. Contemporary philosophies and literary theories, which give pre-eminence to primary...
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Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (03 Edition)
by J.m. (ed.) Bernstein Publisher Comments This volume offers new translations of major works of classic and romantic German aesthetics....
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Comical: A Philosophical Analysis
by Bohdan Dziemidok Publisher Comments The book offers an extensive and detailed philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of the comic. The author critically presents the hitherto existing theories of the comic from Aristotle up to the present and classifies them. At the same time he advances...
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Philosophical Studies #107: Knowing Art: Essays in Aesthetics and Epistemology
by Matthew Kieran Synopsis Artworks potentially convey two kinds of knowledge. They obviously afford knowledge of art itself, and they also afford general empirical knowledge, especially knowledge of human psychology and value. Knowing Art collects ten original essays written by...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
by Edmund Burke Publisher Comments This eloquent 1757 treatise examines how interactions with the physical world affect formulation of ideals related to beauty and art. Tremendously influential on the development of aesthetic theory, this formative dissertation was among the...
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Aesthetics: A Critical Anthology
by Richard Sclafani Publisher Comments "Aesthetics" is both a comprehensive introduction to the field and a broad, in-depth survey of Anglo-American aesthetic thought that provides a collection of 48 classic historical readings, influential scholarly works, and critical analyses. The text...
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Reading Plotinus: A Practical Introduction to Neoplatonism (History of Philosophy)
by Kevin Corrigan Publisher Comments This book provides a practical reading guide to the thought of Plotinus, the great philosopher who was born in Alexandria in the third century a.d., lived in Rome and wrote in Greek. Deeply immersed in earlier Greek philosophy, especially Plato and...
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Aesthetic Creation
by Nick Zangwill Publisher Comments What is the purpose of a work of art? What drives us to make art? Why do we value art and consume it? Nick Zangwill argues that we cannot understand the nature of art without first having answers to these fundamental questions. On his view, which he dubs...
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