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Hegel & Aesthetics (Suny Series in Hegelian Studies)
by William Maker  Publisher Comments Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics present a systematic and historical overview of the nature and development of art in light of its meaning and philosophical significance. This book considers Hegel's aesthetics from a variety of perspectives. With a strong...
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Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture
by Allen Carlson Publisher Comments Now in paperback, "Aesthetics and the Environment" presents fresh and fascinating insights into our interpretation of the environment. Traditional aesthetics is often associated with the appreciation of art, but Allen Carlson shows how much of our...
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Art & Its Time: Theories & Practices of Modern Aesthetics
by Paul, Jr. Jr Mattick Publisher Comments Paul Mattick explores many of the ideas that surrround art today including Modernism, the sublime and beautiful, the relationship between art and money and particularly philanthropy in the US, the role of photography in producing the aesthetic 'ara' and...
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Aesthetics (Explorations in Philosophy)
by James Manns Publisher Comments Presenting a balanced approach, including literature, music, and visual arts, Manns provides the solid basics of the history and development of aesthetic theories. He outlines a view of his own centered around the artist's intention and the act of...
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Visions of Aesthetics, the Environment & Development: The Legacy of Joachim F. Wohlwill
by Roger M. Downs and Lynn S. Liben and David S. Palermo Publisher Comments Derived from a conference honoring the legacy of Joachim Wohlwill, this volume is designed to reflect as many facets of the late scholar's wide-ranging work as possible. As its title indicates, the book identifies three broad areas in which Wohlwill made...
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Reclaiming Spiritual in Art: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Suny Series, Aesthetics & the Philosophy of Art)
by Dawn Perlmutter Publisher Comments From Walt Disney World to the movie Natural Born Killers, this book explores uncommon indicators of the spiritual in contemporary art and culture. Drawing on a diversity of perspectives in philosophy and aesthetics to highlight conscious and unconscious...
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Guide to Aesthetics
by Patrick Romanell Book News Annotation **** Featured in BCL3. A new translation of a work, originally published in 1913, by Benedetto Croce (1866-1952), Abruzzian philosopher, historian, statesman, critic, editor, publicist, and courageous opponent of Fascism. Heavily influenced by...
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Aesthetics Across Color Line
by James J. Winchester Publisher Comments James Winchester brings the western philosophical tradition into dialog with contemporary African-American thinkers in an attempt to bridge (or at least understand) the culture gap in aesthetic judgments. Visit our website for sample chapters!...
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Aesthetics and Literature (Continuum Aesthetics)
by David Davies Publisher Comments Aesthetics and Literature places philosophical aesthetics at the heart of thinking about literature. The book takes concrete examples from the traditional and contemporary literary arts and uses them to introduce all the central philosophical issues in...
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Art and Its Significance: An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory
by Stephen David Ross Publisher Comments This anthology has been significantly expanded for this edition to include a wider range of contemporary issues....
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Theory and History of Literature #88: Aesthetic Theory
by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Publisher Comments The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's major work, a defense of modernism that is paradoxical in its defense of illusion. In it, Adorno takes up the problem of art in a day when "it goes without saying that...
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Beauty, Art, and the Polis (American Maritain Association Publications)
by Alice Ramos Synopsis The essays in this volume contribute to an understanding of beauty and the arts within the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition. As such, they constitute a different voice in the present-day discussions on beauty, and aesthetics....
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Art & Its Time: Theories & Practices of Modern Aesthetics
by Paul, Jr. Jr Mattick Publisher Comments of photography in the production of aesthetic 'aura, ' the limits of political art, and the paradox by which art, pursued for its own sake with no thought of commerical gain, can produce the highest-priced of all objects. Employing an unusually wide...
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Habermas and Aesthetics: The Limits of Communicative Reason
by Pieter Duvenage Publisher Comments In this important new study, Pieter Duvenage shows that Habermas's work on aesthetics, far from being marginal to his core concerns, is central to understanding and evaluating Habermas's entire theoretical enterprise....
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Art and Imagination: A Study in the Philosophy of Mind
by Roger Scruton Publisher Comments This book presents a theory of aesthetic judgment and appreciation in the spirit of modern empiricism. There are three parts: the first deals with questions of philosophical logic, the second with questions in the philosophy of mind, and the third with...
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Aesthetics and Architecture (Continuum Aesthetics)
by Edward Winters Publisher Comments Aesthetics and Architecture places analytical philosophical aesthetics at the heart of thinking about, and looking at, architecture. The book looks at classic and contemporary aesthetic and philosophical views of architecture. It considers, with...
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A Philosophical Account of the Nature of Art Appreciation.
by Daniel Shaw Book News Annotation In addition to art appreciation, Shaw (philosophy, U. of Aberdeen, Scotland) ponders the philosophical nature of aesthetic appreciation outside the arts. He also examines how the artist's intention is relevant to interpreting, appreciating, and...
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Art and Morality
by Jose Luis (edt) Bermudez Publisher Comments "Art and Morality" is a collection of groundbreaking new papers on the theme of aesthetics and ethics, and the link between the two subjects. A group of world-class contributors tackle the important question that arise when one thinks about the moral...
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Aesthetic Theory (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)
by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Synopsis The most important aesthetics of the century, this is a long-awaited work, the culmination of a lifetime's investigation. Among the twelve major sections are Art, Society, Aesthetics; the Categories of the Ugly, the Beautiful, the Technics; Natural...
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Introduction to Aesthetics
by Dabney Townsend Publisher Comments This volume is a fascinating introduction to the core themes and basic methods of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Providing an analytic and historical treatment of the issues, and including many illustrative examples to both motivate and reinforce...
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