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Philosophy: aesthetics
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Philosophy: aesthetics
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
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Condition: New
€ 55.66
€ 55.66
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
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€ 39.92
€ 39.92
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
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Condition: New
€ 169.41
€ 169.41
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
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€ 65.44
€ 65.44
Paperback. Philip Goldstein explains the socio-historical context of the diverse interpretive practices which make up the humanities in the USA in the 21st century. He considers the rise of college-educated women, minority readers, the increased influence of the Universities, the media and the dominance of the Universities by the sciences. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBTB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2009
- Number of pages
- 181
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349377022
- ISBN
- 9781349377022
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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
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Condition: New
€ 107.02€ 103.24
€ 107.02
€ 103.24
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
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Culled from a set of expert dialogues delivered by specialists at a conference in 2009, this volume addresses various topics in Mendelssohn's mathematics and philosophy, including analysis of his discussions with Spinoza, Wolff Baumgarten, Lambert, and Kant. Editor(s): Munk, Reinier W. (Leiden University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Series: Studies in German Idealism. Num Pages: 382 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2011
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400724501
- ISBN
- 9789400724501
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Condition: New
€ 196.07
€ 196.07
Paperback. Culled from a set of expert dialogues delivered by specialists at a conference in 2009, this volume addresses various topics in Mendelssohn's mathematics and philosophy, including analysis of his discussions with Spinoza, Wolff Baumgarten, Lambert, and Kant. Editor(s): Munk, Reinier W. (Leiden University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Series: Studies in German Idealism. Num Pages: 382 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; HPC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400737365
- ISBN
- 9789400737365
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Condition: New
€ 195.04
€ 195.04
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
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
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
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Condition: New
€ 129.31
€ 129.31
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
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 406 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 406
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691647807
- ISBN
- 9780691647807
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Condition: New
€ 205.30
€ 205.30
Paperback. Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical analysis, interdisciplinary theory and ethnographic writing about community radio, this book provides a novel theorization of democratic aesthetics, with important implications for the study of old and new media alike. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; AV; HPN; JFD; JPA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351282
- ISBN
- 9781349351282
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€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Paperback. Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persistence of a critical-deconstructive approach to musical production, consumption, and reception in the German cultural sphere of the last two centuries. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; DSA; HBJD; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349497638
- ISBN
- 9781349497638
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€ 126.53
€ 126.53
Paperback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 102 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231166034
- ISBN
- 9780231166034
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
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Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, B&W Photos: 111. BIC Classification: APFB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231166027
- ISBN
- 9780231166027
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€ 104.64€ 80.25
€ 104.64
€ 80.25
Paperback. Translator(s): Swenson, James. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336. Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. 208 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN; HPS. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 13. Weight: 340. Translator(s): Swenson, James.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151030
- ISBN
- 9780231151030
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
Hardback. Translator(s): Swenson, James. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151023
- ISBN
- 9780231151023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.64€ 80.25
€ 104.64
€ 80.25