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Philodemus and Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus and Horace
by Dirk Obbink  Publisher Comments This is an edited collection by a distinguished team of scholars on the philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (ca. 110-40 BC). The discovery of his library at Herculaneum, and the editing and gradual publication of the material, has reawakened...
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Aesthetics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (Oxford Paperbacks)
by Anne D. R. Sheppard Publisher Comments Why do people read novels, go to the theater, or listen to beautiful music? Do we seek out aesthetic experiences simply because we enjoy them--or is there another, deeper, reason we spend our leisure time viewing or experiencing works of art? Aesthetics,...
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On Beauty and Being Just (99 Edition)
by Elaine Scarry 
Publisher Comments In On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from recent political arguments against it but also argues that beauty continually renews our search for truth and presses us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from...
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The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness
by Virginia I Postrel
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Revealing Art (05 Edition)
by Matthew Kieran Publisher Comments Why does art matter to us, and what makes good art? Why is the role of imagination so important in art? Illustrated with carefully chosen color and black-and-white plates of examples from Michelangelo to Matisse and Poussin to Jackson Pollock, "Revealing...
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The Birth to Presence (Meridian)
by Jean-luc Nancy Publisher Comments The author discusses being and representation in relation to Hegel, Schlegel, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger....
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Chromophobia (Focus on Contemporary Issues)
by David Batchelor Publisher Comments Chromophobia-a fear of corruption or contamination through color-has been a cultural phenomenon since ancient Greek times; this book is concerned with its modern and contemporary manifestations, as well as with resistance to it in art. The central...
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Aesthetics.
by Leonidas Donskis. Trans. By Mykolas Drunga Book News Annotation Though written many years earlier, Lithuanian philosopher Sesemann's (1884-1963) introduction to aesthetics was published only in 1970, in Lithuanian. Donskis offers an introduction that puts it in the context of Lithuanian and Eastern European...
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In Praise of Athletic Beauty
by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Publisher Comments By the hundreds of millions we show up, stand in line, turn on, and tune in to watch, mesmerized, as athletes perform. And yet this experience, so widely craved and intensely felt, we commonly dismiss as "only a game." A book that looks beyond the usual...
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The Ethical Function of Architecture
by Karsten Harries Publisher Comments Can architecture help us find our place and way in today's complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion's claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our...
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Bob Dylan and Philosophy
by Carl J. Porter Publisher Comments Legions of Bob Dylan fans know he is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In this collection, 18 philosophers analyze Dylan's ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his...
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A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
by Donald Richie Publisher Comments This provocative book is a tractate-a treatise-on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that "follow the brush" wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn...
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Jacques Derrida: Live Theory (Live Theory)
by James K. A. Smith Publisher Comments Jacques Derrida: Live Theory is a new introduction to the work of this most influential of contemporary philosophers. It covers Derrida's corpus in its entirety - from his earliest work in phenomenology and the philosophy of language, to his most recent...
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Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art, , Third Edition
by S K Langer Publisher Comments Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. This book presents a study of human intelligence beginning with a semantic theory and leading into a critique of music. By implication it sets up a theory of all the arts; the...
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940
by Walter Benjamin Publisher Comments "Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to...
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The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence
by Gerard Genette Publisher Comments According to Gerard Genette, works of art can have two modes of existence: immanence and transcendence.Translated by G.M. Goshgarian....
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935-1938
by Walter Benjamin Publisher Comments Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant...
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Calliopes Sisters 2ND Edition
by Richard L Anderson Publisher Comments This book looks at the visual and performing arts of the world's societies, examining such issues as the origin of art, the ultimate nature of art, and the theoretical basis of art's role in human affairs. Anderson focuses on ten diverse societies...
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
by John Odonohue Publisher Comments In this eagerly awaited follow-up to his international bestsellers Anam Caraand Eternal Echoes, John O'Donohue turns his attention to the subject of beauty -- the divine beauty that calls theimagination and awakens all that is noble in the human heart...
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The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy (Cultural Memory in the Present Cultural Memory in the Presen)
by Alison Ross Publisher Comments This book examines the ways that Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy adopt and reconfigure the Kantian understanding of "aesthetic presentation." In Kant, "aesthetic presentation" is understood in a technical sense as a specific mode of experience...
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