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Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies #21: Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition: An Anthology
by Peter Lamarque  Publisher Comments This anthology provides comprehensive coverage of the major contributions of analytic philosophy to aesthetics and the philosophy of art, from the earliest beginnings in the 1950's to the present time....
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Hegel and the Arts (Topics in Historical Philosophy)
by Stephen Houlgate Book News Annotation Hegel's ideas on aesthetics raised dialogue from the moment of their first publication, and this collection of articles covers a wide range of the topics still under discussion, including the conceptual basis of Hegel's organization of his aesthetics...
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Art As Abstract Machine: Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari (Studies in Philosophy)
by Stephen Zepke Publisher Comments The aim of this book is to understand what Deleuze and Guattari mean by "art." Stephen Zepke argues that art, in their account, is an ontological term and an ontological practice that results in a new understanding of aesthetics. For Deleuze and Guattari...
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Works of Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime or a Treatise Concerning the Sovereign Perfection of Writ
by Dionysius Longinus Publisher Comments It must be a very unpleasing reflection to anyone who has a just and critical taste of the writings of the ancients to consider how many noble and useful works have been swallowed up in the ocean of time. Of what important value several of them were is...
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To Hell with Culture: And Other Essays on Art and Society (Routledge Classics)
by Herbert Read Publisher Comments Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the...
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Singular Objects of Architecture (05 Edition)
by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments What is a singular object? An idea, a building, a color, a sentiment, a human being. Each in turn comes under scrutiny in this exhilarating dialogue between two of the most interesting thinkers working in philosophy and architecture today. From such...
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Aesthetics and Subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzche
by Andrew Bowie Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-341) and index....
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Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (04 Edition)
by Peter Lamarque Publisher Comments This anthology provides comprehensive coverage of the major contributions of analytic philosophy to aesthetics and the philosophy of art, from the earliest beginnings in the 1950's to the present time....
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Variations on the Theme of Life
by J. N. Nielsen Publisher Comments The entire work is composed in the form of aphorisms and consists of 930 numbered sections divided into ten chapters....
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Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
by Matthew Kieran Publisher Comments Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working in the field today....
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On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)
by Friedrich Schiller Publisher Comments A classic of 18th-century thought, Schiller’s treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy’s most profound works. An important contribution to the history of ideas, it employs a political analysis of contemporary...
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Cultural Appropriation and the Arts (New Directions in Aesthetics)
by James O Young Publisher Comments Cultural appropriation is a pervasive feature of the contemporary world. The Parthenon Marbles remain in London. Works of art from indigenous cultures are held by many metropolitan museums. White musicians from Bix Beiderbeck to Eric Clapton have...
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Inquiries: Philosophical: How and Why Do People Disagree?
by Steven H. Propp Publisher Comments Does God exist? Is there life after death? Do we have free wills? What is consciousness? Are animals and...
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The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible
by Jacques Ranciere Publisher Comments Aiming to rethink the relation between art and politics, this title seeks to reclaim aesthetics from its contemporary narrow confines to reveal its significance for contemporary experience. It ranges across art and politics, the uses and abuses of...
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Panorama: Philosophies of the Visible (Philosophy, Literature, and Culture)
by Wilhelm Wurzer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-251) and index....
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Fiction and Emotion: A Study in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Mind
by Bijoy Boruah Publisher Comments Why do people respond emotionally to works of fiction they know are make-believe? Boruah tackles this question, which is fundamental aesthetics and literary studies, from a totally new perspective. Bringing together the various answers that have been...
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Aesthetics of Cultural Studies (04 Edition)
by Michael Berube Publisher Comments The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary debates with a vengeance. "The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies" is a timely and authoritative collection of essays that analyze the role of aesthetics in American and British cultural...
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Aesthetics of Cultural Studies
by Michael Berube Publisher Comments The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary debates with a vengeance. "The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies" is a timely and authoritative collection of essays that analyze the role of aesthetics in American and British cultural...
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Enjoyment: From Laughter to Delight in Philosophy, Literature, Fine Arts, & Aesthetics
by Anna-teresa Tymieniecka Publisher Comments Philosophy, art criticism and popular opinion all seem to treat the aesthetics of the comic as lightweight, while the tragic seems to be regarded with greater seriousness. Why this favouring of sadness over joy? Can it be justified? What are the criteria...
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ASA Monographs #44: Creativity and Cultural Improvisation
by Elizabeth (edt) Hallam Publisher Comments There is no prepared script for social and cultural life. People work it out as they go along. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation casts fresh, anthropological eyes on the cultural sites of creativity that form part of our social matrix. The book...
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