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Philosophy: aesthetics

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17. BIC Classification: AVA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801499609
ISBN
9780801499609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.78

This analysis of art and its modes of existence by a contemporary French philosopher begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones. Translator(s): Kamuf, Peggy. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 136 pages, 3 half-tones. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
142
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727808
ISBN
9780804727808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 129.31

Paperback. Considers the intellectual renaissance at the close of the 17th century that caused the shift in the portrayals and perceptions of mountains in prose and poetry, from ugly protuberances to glorious heights. Examines various writers from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traces both the causes Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780295975771
ISBN
9780295975771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.99

Paperback. Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349437733
ISBN
9781349437733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing, were the variety of efforts to imagine and produce the new the distinctly modern." Editor(s): Clewell, Tammy. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349459841
ISBN
9781349459841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 136 pages, 15 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD2; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 171 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192804419
ISBN
9780192804419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.07

Hardcover. Through a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is, in a double sense, the thought of pain. It offers a systematic account of the modern European tradition's relationship to the question of pain and suffering, and new interpretation of "ethics" and "evil". Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPN; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748692415
ISBN
9780748692415
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.88
€ 103.24

Paperback. Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific models by comparing them to the dolls and toy trucks of children's imaginative games, and offers a unified framework to solve difficult metaphysical problems and help to make sense of scientific practice. Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 164 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPN; PDA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336876
ISBN
9781349336876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.42

Hardback. Addresses a genuine gap in word and image studies. It offers fresh conceptual frameworks in which to think about the relationship between visual and verbal practices, with American works and artefacts positioned within the context of the American philosophical tradition. Editor(s): Gander, Catherine; Garland, Sarah. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; AC; HBTB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 258 x 17. Weight in Grams: 656.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784991500
ISBN
9781784991500
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 169.45

Mirrors to One Another analyzes the convergence of Jane Austen's literary themes and characters with David Hume's views of morality and human nature. This engaging text emphasizes how the works of Austen and Hume complement each other in such a way that deepens the reader's understanding of both. Series: New Directions in Aesthetics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405193481
ISBN
9781405193481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.78

Paperback. Representations in visual arts and fiction play an important part in our lives and culture. Walton presents a theory of the nature of representation, which shows its many varieties and explains its importance. His analysis is illustrated with examples from film, art, literature and theatre. Num Pages: 480 pages, 27 halftones, 3 line illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: A; DSB; HPCF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 31. Weight in Grams: 672.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674576032
ISBN
9780674576032
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.55

Hardcover. Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting. This is connected to the historical materialist project of social change by way of the radical Italian composer Luigi Nono. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; HPCF; HPJ; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137487247
ISBN
9781137487247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

Paperback. Editor(s): Sanborn, Geoffrey; Otter, Samuel. Num Pages: 271 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; HPN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349295562
ISBN
9781349295562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Editor(s): Goldwyn, Adam J.; Silverman, Renee M. Series: Mediterranean Perspectives. Num Pages: 382 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QRM; 3JJ; DSBH; HBTB; HPN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137589279
ISBN
9781137589279
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.91

Paperback. Series: Forerunners: Ideas First. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: AM; HPN; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 124 x 8. Weight in Grams: 77.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816696871
ISBN
9780816696871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.07

Paperback. Series: Deleuze Encounters. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 0. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472524904
ISBN
9781472524904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 31.10

Hardback. Challenges what we understand by modernist aesthetics, their origins, and their implications for how we conceive our relation to the modern world Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823245321
ISBN
9780823245321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18. BIC Classification: HBT; HPN; WBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370. Food and Philosophy. 272 pages, 15 b&w photographs, 3 drawings. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HBT; HPN; WBA. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight: 342.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801488139
ISBN
9780801488139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.82

Hardback. Critics and artists claim the title of interpreter for themselves. Scientists do not so readily describe themselves in this way. This text recognizes that whenever interpretation occurs there may be a plurality of successful interpretations. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFP; HPJ; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847697823
ISBN
9780847697823
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.49

Hardcover. This original study examines Jean-Francois Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to postmodern works by authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Jonathan Safran Foer. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTE; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137383341
ISBN
9781137383341
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.25

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