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Emotion in Aesthetics
by Warren A. Shibles  Publisher Comments Emotion in Aesthetics is the first book on aesthetics to provide an extensive theory of emotion; application of the cognitive-emotive theory to aesthetics; analysis of the relationship between aesthetics, metaphor and emotion; a full theory of meaning...
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On Humour
by Simon Critchley Publisher Comments "On Humour" is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humor and about what it is to be human. Simon Critchley probes some of the most perennial features of humor, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our...
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Hip Hop and Philosophy
by Derrick (edt) Darby Publisher Comments Witty, provocative essays ponder thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers of the past. This volume proves that rhyme and reason can be mixed and mastered to contemplate...
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The Lady Who Was Beautiful Inside
by Edward Monkton Publisher Comments With beauty magazines boasting circulations in the millions and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons recording more than 10 million elective cosmetic procedures within the last calendar year, it's pretty obvious that women across the nation are in...
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Nietzsche's on the Genealogy of Morals: Critical Essays (Critical Essays on the Classics)
by Christa Davis (edt) Acampora Publisher Comments In this astonishingly rich volume, experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical scholarship on what is arguably Nietzsche's most...
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The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
by Hans-georg Gadamer Publisher Comments 'Presents for the first time in English the most important of Gadamer\'s extensive writings on art and literature.'...
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Theatricality As Medium
by Samuel Weber Publisher Comments Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or the "plot." This conception of theater has...
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Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts)
by Salim Kemal Publisher Comments A distinguished group of scholars here probes the complex structure of aesthetic responses to nature in a discussion enriched with insights from art history, literary criticism, geography and philosophy. Exploring the interrelation among nature, beauty...
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Homo Aestheticus: The Invention of Taste in the Democratic Age
by Luc Ferry Publisher Comments PrefaceIntroduction1. The Revolution of Taste2. Between Heart and Reason3. The Kantian Moment: The Subject of Reflection4. The Hegelian Moment: The Absolute Subject or the Death of Art5. The Nietzschean Moment: The Shattered Subject and the Onset of...
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New Directions in Aesthetics #2: Art as Performance
by David Davies Publisher Comments In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different...
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A Philosophy of Gardens
by David Edward Cooper Publisher Comments Why do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is surprising...
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The Classification of Visual Art: A Philosophical Myth and Its History
by Tiffany Sutton Publisher Comments This book is an important and original contribution to the philosophy of art that bridges the disciplines of philosophy and art. It engages with a long-standing debate about what it is that bestows the designation ‘art’ on an artwork....
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Philosophy, the Big Questions #2: Aesthetics: The Big Questions
by Carolyn Korsmeyer Publisher Comments Philosophers have considered questions raised by the nature of art, of beauty, and critical appreciation since ancient times, and the discipline of aesthetics has a long tradition that stretches from Plato to the present....
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Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics
by Richard Shusterman Publisher Comments Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argues that improved body consciousness can relieve these...
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Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience
by Jessica R. Feldman Publisher Comments Jessica Feldman sheds a pragmatist's light on the relationship between the Victorian age and Modernism by dislodging truistic notions of Modernism as an art of crisis, rupture, elitism and loss. Feldman examines the works of John Ruskin (art critic and...
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Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art
by Julian Young Publisher Comments This is a clear and lucid account of Nietzsche??'s philosophy of art....
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Awakening Beauty: An Illustrated Look at Mankind's Love and Hatred of Beauty
by Anthony Napoleon Publisher Comments Awakening Beauty is an unprecedented expos? on the subject of beauty. It is both entertaining and thought provoking, a combination that is as unique as it is telling about the author's approach to the subject of this book. The reader is taken backstage...
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Deeper Than Reason: Emotion and Its Role in Literature, Music, and Art
by Jenefer Robinson Publisher Comments Deeper than Reason takes the insights of modern psychological and neuroscientific research on the emotions and brings them to bear on questions about our emotional involvement with the arts. Robinson begins by laying out a theory of emotion, one that is...
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Deeper Than Reason: Emotion and Its Role in Literature, Music, and Art
by Jenefer Robinson Publisher Comments Deeper than Reason takes the insights of modern psychological and neuroscientific research on the emotions and brings them to bear on questions about our emotional involvement with the arts. Robinson begins by laying out a theory of emotion, one that is...
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Aesthetics and Material: Aesthetics Naturalized
by Jennifer A. Mcmahon Publisher Comments In this book, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking Kantian aesthetics as a starting point and drawing upon contemporary theories of mind from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science....
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