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Philosophy: aesthetics

Hardback. Videogames aren't just for children anymore. In fact, their fictional worlds now inspire us to judgments of perceptual beauty, involve us in interpretation, and arouse our emotions. Reflecting the increasing technical and moral sophistication of the genre, The Art of Videogames presents a unique philosophical approach to the art of videogaming. Series: New Directions in Aesthetics. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN; UGG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405187893
ISBN
9781405187893
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.08

hardcover. This collection reflects on developments in criticism which bear on a debate between different modes of knowledge: a science model and its place in the university versus other ways of conceiving knowledge for which the arts have traditionally been seen as vehicles. Editor(s): Fuller, David; Waugh, Patricia. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
New
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198186397
ISBN
9780198186397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 27ill. BIC Classification: AC; HPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226316925
ISBN
9780226316925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.28

Paperback. Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented "art" as we know it today. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; ABA; ACV; HPN; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 317.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231106016
ISBN
9780231106016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.84

Hardback. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 40 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HPN; JFC; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231151580
ISBN
9780231151580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.24
€ 55.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 125 pages. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 111 x 16. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Condition
New
SKU
V9780394703695
ISBN
9780394703695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.58

Paperback. Presents an argument for the necessity for art in life. This book is based on the author's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner. It outlines a distinction between two central forces: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime. Editor(s): Tanner, Michael. Translator(s): Whiteside, Shaun. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 124.
Edition
Revised ed.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140433395
ISBN
9780140433395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.11

Hardback. A survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. It features eighteen freshly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and music. Editor(s): Kivy, Peter. Series: Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 189 x 28. Weight in Grams: 840.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631221302
ISBN
9780631221302
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.90

Paperback. The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is one of the most authoritative surveys of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly--commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and music. Editor(s): Kivy, Peter. Series: Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 174 x 20. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631221319
ISBN
9780631221319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.13

Paperback. Drawing from ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary sources, this textbook offers a comprehensive and systematic historical overview of aesthetic theory. Editor(s): McQuillan, Colin; Tanke, Joseph J. Num Pages: 720 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1068. 720 pages, ill. Editor(s): McQuillan, Colin; Tanke, Joseph J. Drawing from ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary sources, this textbook offers a comprehensive and systematic historical overview of aesthetic theory. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 46. Weight: 1070.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441138262
ISBN
9781441138262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.68

hardcover. Editor(s): Gillespie, Susan H. Translator(s): Gillespie, Susan H. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816656165
ISBN
9780816656165
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.70

Hardcover. An introduction to philosophy of Li Zezhou, one of the contemporary China's foremost intellectuals. It presents Li's synthesis of Chinese aesthetic thought, from ancient times to the early modern period, incorporating pre-Confucian and Confucian ideas, Daoism, Chan Buddhism, and the influence of Western philosophy during the late-imperial period. Translator(s): Samei, Maija Bell. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824833077
ISBN
9780824833077
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.20
€ 53.76

Paperback. An impressive collection bringing together contributions of renowned scholars on the topic of a "New Poetics of Community" that goes beyond both a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity and the myths of social engineering and rational choice. Series: Commonalities. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPN; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270927
ISBN
9780823270927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.96

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN; JMA; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647227
ISBN
9780691647227
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.90
€ 64.50

Hardback. This book construes activity and passivity not as reciprocally exclusive terms but as mutually dependent moments of acts of consciousness. It claims that passivity makes it such that the sphere of ownness is always already alterated or infiltrated by alienness. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9789048139149
ISBN
9789048139149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.11

Paperback. This book construes activity and passivity not as reciprocally exclusive terms but as mutually dependent moments of acts of consciousness. It claims that passivity makes it such that the sphere of ownness is always already alterated or infiltrated by alienness. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400732483
ISBN
9789400732483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.39

Paperback. In this book the author takes the concept of the New as a starting point to open the way to a broader reflection on art production within neoliberal capitalism. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: AC; AN; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 147. .
Publisher
Verlag Barbara Budrich
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783863887377
ISBN
9783863887377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.26

Hardback. A guide to contemporary aesthetics. It explores the issues pertaining to contemporary art forms, as well as tackles traditional questions in well-established art forms with insights of disciplines such as pragmatics and other areas of cognitive science. Editor(s): Ribeiro, Anna Christina. Series: Continuum Companions. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 242 x 33. Weight in Grams: 694.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847063700
ISBN
9781847063700
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 227.22
€ 199.26

Paperback. The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: HPL; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470658697
ISBN
9780470658697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.30

Hardcover. The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: HPL; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470659960
ISBN
9780470659960
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.43

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