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Philosophy: aesthetics

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Philosophy: aesthetics

Paperback. 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: 217 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727815
ISBN
9780804727815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

paperback. This text contains essays by Richard Wollheim, illuminating thought at its furthest reaches of introspection and expression. Interweaving philosophy, psychoanalysis and aesthetics, these essays reveal the critical connections between ideas and disciplines often regarded as separate and distinct. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; HPN; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674576124
ISBN
9780674576124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 35.02

Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745680620
ISBN
9780745680620
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745680637
ISBN
9780745680637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.82

Paperback. Explores the connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning that first begun in the classic "Metaphors We Live By". This work concludes that the arts are the culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking meaning's bodily sources. Num Pages: 276 pages, 2 colour plates, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings, 4 figures, 6 musical examples. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
276
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226401935
ISBN
9780226401935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.76

paperback. Voices are material, somatic, and musical. They are also meaningful--they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abstractions. Through explorations of theology, pedagogy, translation, and more, this book works toward reintegrating our thinking about words as a fleshy combining of meaning and music. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPM; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270002
ISBN
9780823270002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardback. Voices are material, somatic, and musical. They are also meaningful--they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abstractions. Through explorations of theology, pedagogy, translation, and more, this book works toward reintegrating our thinking about words as a fleshy combining of meaning and music. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPM; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823269990
ISBN
9780823269990
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.38

Paperback. Editor(s): Hosle, Paul Kimball Professor of Arts and Letters Vittorio (University of Notre Dame, USA). Num Pages: 507 pages, Illustrations (some color). BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268011192
ISBN
9780268011192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.17
€ 62.48

Paperback. This work considers the status of art in the modern era. It takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit principally comes to knowledge of itself. Translator(s): Albert, Georgia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 215 x 10. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804735544
ISBN
9780804735544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.26

Paperback. Jean-Francois Lyotard was one of the founding members of the College Internationale de philosophie. Ha has taught at Vincennes, Saint Denis and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. Several of his books have appeared in English, notable The Postmodern Condition, Just Gaming and The Dirrerend. Num Pages: 448 pages, 8 half-tones, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631163398
ISBN
9780631163398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HPCD; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 13. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781350025684
ISBN
9781350025684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.66

Paperback. The attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot - such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial. Jean Paul Ricco argues through the medium of modern art that it is precisely such fleeting experiences that will create a queer aesthetic, and notion of ethics. Num Pages: 184 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 123 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226711010
ISBN
9780226711010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. In The Literate Eye, Rachel Teukolsky analyzes the vivid archive of Victorian art writing to reveal the key role played by nineteenth-century authors in the rise of modernist aesthetics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 54 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; ABA; DSBF; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199739233
ISBN
9780199739233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.65

Hardback. Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory. Num Pages: 312 pages, 61 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC; GPFC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823272990
ISBN
9780823272990
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.36

Hardcover. The years before World War I were a time of profound social and political ferment in Europe that deeply affected the art world. In this title, the author argues that anarchist aesthetics and a related politics of form played crucial roles in the development of modern art, only to be suppressed soon after the war and then forgotten. Num Pages: 304 pages, 32 colour plates, 99 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACXD; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 288 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226471389
ISBN
9780226471389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 50.37

Paperback. This is a study of the ideas and creative forces that went into shaping the language of 20th-century music. The author's argument is based on a consideration of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, during the course of which he makes forays into the related arts. Num Pages: 185 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC6; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
185
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571161935
ISBN
9780571161935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.01

Hardback. .
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786600493
ISBN
9781786600493
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.41
€ 21.95

Hardback. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPN; HPS; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 252 x 35. Weight in Grams: 842.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231178761
ISBN
9780231178761
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.68
€ 56.67

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892362745
ISBN
9780892362745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.67

Paperback. This work begins during a key transitional moment in aesthetic and economic theory, 1871, when both disciplines underwent a turn from production to consumption models. The author traces the shift in Western thought from models of production to consumption. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226278544
ISBN
9780226278544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.77

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