Philosophy: aesthetics
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Philosophy: aesthetics
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823272990
- ISBN
- 9780823272990
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€ 47.36
€ 47.36
Hardback. An archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive. Translator(s): Vegso, Roland. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JFD; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780823273959
- ISBN
- 9780823273959
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€ 103.50
€ 103.50
Hardback. The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, Series: Lit Z. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JH; DSA; DSBF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823274017
- ISBN
- 9780823274017
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€ 133.98
€ 133.98
Hardback. Series: Commonalities. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN; HRCC96; HRCM; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823274543
- ISBN
- 9780823274543
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€ 106.50
€ 106.50
Hardback. Amidst the turmoil of economic crisis, Greece has become the first European experiment of Left rule in a sea of neoliberalism. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781509511570
- ISBN
- 9781509511570
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€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823249732
- ISBN
- 9780823249732
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€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Hardcover. In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, this title explores the 'nonobject' - a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 colour plates. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226415307
- ISBN
- 9780226415307
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€ 95.07€ 79.17
€ 95.07
€ 79.17
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268011192
- ISBN
- 9780268011192
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€ 64.17€ 62.48
€ 64.17
€ 62.48
Hardback. A Return to Aesthetics confronts postmodernism's rejection of aesthetics by showing that this critique rests on central concepts of classical aesthetic theory, namely autonomous form, disinterest, and symbolic discourse. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804751155
- ISBN
- 9780804751155
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Condition: New
€ 139.97
€ 139.97
Hardback. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 336 pages, 33. BIC Classification: HPN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164788
- ISBN
- 9780231164788
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€ 82.62
€ 82.62
Paperback. The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness, breadth, complexity, and originality of the aesthetic theories advanced by the influential medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas, heretofore known principally as a scholastic theologian. Translator(s): Bredin, Hugh. Num Pages: 302 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674006768
- ISBN
- 9780674006768
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 36.90
€ 44.99
€ 36.90
Hardback. From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is to borrow a phrase from Slavoj i ek the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream analysis. Series: Theory Redux. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; HPN; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 130. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509518029
- ISBN
- 9781509518029
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 52.54
€ 52.99
€ 52.54
hardcover. The Theater of Truth is a book for those interested and engaged in the debates around baroque and neobaroque aesthetics, and offers a unified theory for the relation between these terms and a new vocabulary for distinguishing between their ideological values. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 417.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804769549
- ISBN
- 9780804769549
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Condition: New
€ 71.75
€ 71.75
hardcover. If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new - new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. The author takes us on a tour of more than two millennia of thinking about the problem of the new, from the puzzles of the pre-Socratics all the way up to the art world of the 1960s and '70s. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226077871
- ISBN
- 9780226077871
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.01
€ 31.99
€ 25.01
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674576124
- ISBN
- 9780674576124
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 35.02
€ 41.99
€ 35.02
hardcover. The predicate "beautiful" indicates that something has minimal form and is cognizable. This book explores this concept of form, in particular the role of presentation in what Kant refers to as mere form, which involves not only the understanding, but also reason as the faculty of ideas. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: HPK; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804746137
- ISBN
- 9780804746137
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Condition: New
€ 150.11
€ 150.11
hardcover. The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting--from Pollock to Ryman--that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a materialist account of modernism with detailed discussions of modern aesthetics from Kant to Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, and Adorno. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; AFC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804748940
- ISBN
- 9780804748940
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Condition: New
€ 150.11
€ 150.11
hardcover. Rediscovering Aesthetics brings together prominent international voices from art history, philosophy and artistic practice who reflect on current notions, functions, and applications of aesthetics in their distinctive fields. Editor(s): Halsall, Francis; Jansen, Julia; O'Connor, Tony. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 figures. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804759908
- ISBN
- 9780804759908
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Condition: New
€ 128.57
€ 128.57
paperback. Editor(s): Matthews, Pamela R.; McWhirter, David. Num Pages: 384 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: AC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 177 x 28. Weight in Grams: 920.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816639939
- ISBN
- 9780816639939
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€ 30.99€ 27.53
€ 30.99
€ 27.53
Paperback. Thinking about Nothing opens the world to everything by illuminating new angles to old problems and stimulating new ways of thinking. Num Pages: 291 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- O Books, John Hunt
- Number of pages
- 291
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846947070
- ISBN
- 9781846947070
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.44
€ 19.99
€ 13.44