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Theory & History of Literature #88: Aesthetic Theory
by Theodor W Adorno  Publisher Comments Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic...
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Aesthetics and Morals Philosophy of David Hume (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth Century Philosophy)
by Timothy M. Costelloe Publisher Comments This book examines Hume's philosophy with a view to realizing two aims. First, to examine the extent and significance of the connection between Hume's aesthetics and his moral philosophy; and, second, to consider how, in light of the connection, his...
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Artworld Metaphysics
by Robert Kraut Publisher Comments Artworld Metaphysics turns a critical eye upon aspects of the artworld, and articulates some of the problems, principles, and norms implicit in the actual practices of artistic creation, interpretation, evaluation, and commodification. Aesthetic theory...
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Visconti: Insights Into Flesh and Blood
by Alexander Garcia Duttmann Publisher Comments Something needs to be changed—be it through the revolutionary overthrow of social conditions, the liberating force of passion, the contemplation and creation of works of art, or the exploration of an unresolved past. Luchino Visconti's films are...
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Beauty in Context: Toward an Anthropological Approach to Aesthetics
by Wilfried Van Damme Publisher Comments This is the first study to survey the field of the anthropology of aesthetics, which during the last few decades has emerged on the cross-roads between anthropology and non-Western art scholarship.<BR>While critically examining the available...
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The Sense of Beauty
by George Santayana Publisher Comments George Santayana, poet, philosopher, and literary and cultural critic, was one of the key figures in classical western philosophy. He was a man before his time . . . before the popularization of naturalism, multiculturalism, philosophy as literature, and...
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The Muses (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Jean Luc Nancy Publisher Comments “A truly exhilarating set of philosophical reflections on art and aesthetics. . . . Nancy masterfully explicates the threshold role art plays in the philosophical distinctions between the sensory and the sensible, life and death.”—...
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Deleuze and the Arts #3: Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts
by Ronald Bogue Publisher Comments Bogue provides a systematic overview and introduction to Deleuze's writings on music and painting, and an assessment of their position within his aesthetics as a whole. Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts breaks new ground in the scholarship on...
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The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory
by George Santayana Publisher Comments George Santayana, poet, philosopher, and literary and cultural critic, was one of the key figures in classical western philosophy. He was a man before his time . . . before the popularization of naturalism, multiculturalism, philosophy as literature, and...
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Art in Context: Understanding Aesthetic Value
by David E. W. Fenner Publisher Comments The various lenses—ethical, political, sexual, religious, and so forth—through which we may view art are often instrumental in giving us an appreciation of the work. In Art in Context: Understanding Aesthetic Value, philosopher David Fenner...
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Irish Intellectuals and Aesthetics - the Making of a Modern Art Collection
by Book News Annotation Herrero (sociology of culture, U. of Plymouth) takes a sociological approach to art collecting in her study of the creation of the Irish Museum of Modern Art collection. Drawing on the works of Zygmunt Bauman and Pierre Bourdieu, Herrero argues that...
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Art and the Brain (UK Edition)
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Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics #49/5: Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 49/50, Spring/Autumn 2006
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Kant and the Claims of Taste
by Paul Guyer Publisher Comments Kant and the Claims of Taste, here published for the first time in paperback in a revised version, has become since its initial publication in 1979 the standard commentary on Kant's aesthetic theory. The book offers a detailed account of Kant's views on...
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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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Music, Language, and Cognition: And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music
by Peter Kivy Publisher Comments Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy's seminal papers in the philosophy of music. In essays which span his earliest work in the field and his more recent contributions to journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings...
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The Art Work of the Future
by Richard Wagner Publisher Comments If Mind has manufactured Nature, if Thought has made the Actual, if the Philosopher comes before the Man: then Nature, Actuality and Man are no more necessary, and their existence is not only superfluous but even harmful; for the greatest superfluity of...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
by Edmund Burke Publisher Comments 'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.' - The Guardian Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever written. Whilst many writers have taken...
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New Waves in Aesthetics
by Kathleen Stock Publisher Comments Leading young scholars present a collection of wide-ranging essays covering central problems in meta-aesthetics and aesthetic issues in the philosophy of mind, as well as offering analyses of key aesthetic concepts, new perspectives on the history of...
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Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy & the Arts)
by Jerrold Levinson Publisher Comments This major collection of essays stands at the border of aesthetics and ethics and deals with charged issues of practical import: art and morality, the ethics of taste, and censorship. As such its potential interest is by no means confined to professional...
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