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Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
by Benedetto Croce  Publisher Comments Historical intellectualism has been the cause of the many researches which have been made, especially during the last two centuries, researches which continue to-day, for a philosophy of history, for an ideal history, for a sociology, for a historical...
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Four Lectures on Aesthetics: Toward a Global Perspective
by Jane Cauvel Publisher Comments Available for the first time in English, Li Zehou's philosophical aesthetics interpret the historical origins and evolution of aesthetic experience and their significance to the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth of human beings. Although LI's...
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Stylistics: Rethinking the Artforms After Hegel (Suny Series, Hegelian Studies)
by Richard D Winfield Publisher Comments Stylistics provides powerful tools for reinterpreting the cultural differences of antiquity and modernity and of East and West....
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Art in the Social Order: The Making of the Modern Conception of Art
by Preben Mortensen Publisher Comments Seeks to replace the dominant approaches to the question of the nature of art in contemporary English-speaking (analytic) philosophy with a historicist approach that emphasizes localized, cultural-historical narratives.<P>"Mortensen's work makes a...
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Symbolic Landscapes
by Gary Backhaus Publisher Comments Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of landscape/place studies that explores symbolic, cultural levels of geographical meanings. Essays written by philosophers, geographers, architects, social scientists, art historians, and literati...
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Aesthetics and Nature (Continuum Aesthetics)
by Glenn Parsons Synopsis Part of the Continuum Aesthetics series, this book addresses all the central issues in the aesthetics of nature....
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Aesthetics
by Steven M. (edt) Cahn Publisher Comments From Plato's Ion to works by contemporary philosophers, this anthology showcases classic texts to illuminate the development of philosophical thought about art and the aesthetic. This volume is the most comprehensive collection of readings on aesthetics...
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Divine Beauty: the Invisible Embrace (UK Edition)
by John O'donohue Publisher Comments Fascinating guide to beauty, creativity and the imagination. It follows on from his bestselling "Anam Cara" and "Eternal Echoes"....
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Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime & Beautiful
by Edmund Burke Publisher Comments Conservative Edmund Burke (1729-1777) was a British statesman, orator, and political writer. This comprehensive anthology provides authoritative insight into Burke's political life and philosophy. Editor Peter Stanlis incorporates all of Burke's...
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The Aesthetic Understanding: Essays in the Philosophy of Art and Culture (Carthage Reprint)
by Roger Scruton Publisher Comments Brings together essays on the philosophy of art in which a philosophical theory of aesthetic judgment is tested and developed through its application to particular examples. Each essay approaches, from its own field of study, what Roger Scruton argues to...
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The Continental Aesthetics Reader
by Clive Cazeaux Publisher Comments "The Continental Aesthetics Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of classic writings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in Continental thought. The "Reader is divided into six sections, each clearly placed in its historical and...
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The German Aesthetic Tradition
by Kai Hammermeister Publisher Comments This is the only available systematic overview of German aesthetics from 1750 to the present....
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Aesthetics : the Classic Readings (97 Edition)
by David (ed.) Cooper Publisher Comments This is the first volume to be published in an exciting new series of classic collections in philosophy....
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Aesthetics of Natural Environments (04 Edition)
by Allen Carlson Book News Annotation The aesthetics of nature is the central focus of environmental aesthetics, a new field that addresses the philosophical issues surrounding the aesthetic appreciation of the world. The essays in this collection contemplate topics such as the...
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Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art
by Jody Berland Publisher Comments The status of art has undergone a tremendous shift in the last twenty years. While the value of a work of art once came from a dynamic but fundamentally stable consensus regarding its social and aesthetic status within its culture, this has increasingly...
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Types of Interpretation in the Aesthetic Disciplines
by Staffan Carlshamre Publisher Comments Types of Interpretation in the Aesthetic Disciplines begins from the observation that interpretation, even the special kind represented by interpretation of the arts, is not a homogeneous activity. The many different types of such interpretation vary...
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The End of the World As a Work of Art
by Rafael Argullol Synopsis Originally published in 1991 and reprinted in 2000, this is the first translation into English of the El fin del mundo como obra de arte: un relato accidental by the popular Spanish writer and philosopher Rafael Argullol. A collection of poignant, brief...
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New Studies in Aesthetics, #37: The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason
by Dylan Trigg Publisher Comments In The Aesthetics of Decay, Dylan Trigg confronts the remnants from the fallout of post-industrialism and postmodernism. Through a considered analysis of memory, place, and nostalgia, Trigg argues that the decline of reason enables a critique of progress...
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John Barth and Postmodernism
by Berndt Clavier Publisher Comments John Barth's eminence as a postmodernist is indisputable. However, much of the criticism dealing with his work is prompted by his own theories of « exhaustion and subsequent « replenishment, leaving his writing relatively untouched by...
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Enlightened Cherishing: An Essay on Aesthetic Education
by Harry S. Broudy Publisher Comments The prominent educator Harry S. Broudy defines enlightened cherishing as 'a love of objects and actions that by certain norms and standards are worthy of our love. It is a love that knowledge justifies.'...
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