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Aesthetics and Subjectivity : From Kant to Nietzche
Andrew Bowie
Paperback - $55.95
This new, completely revised and re-written edition of Aesthetics and subjectivity brings up to date the original book's account of the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Fichte and Holderlin, the early Romantis, Schelling, Hegel, Schleimacher, ...
Bakhtin Circle : A Philosophical and Historical Introduction
Craig Brandist
Paperback - $70.95
Mikhail Bakhtin and the group of thinkers known as the Bakhtin Circle have had a massive influence on contemporary literary and cultural theory. Bakhtin is recognized as perhaps the key theorist on the novel as a genre, and his writings on carnival i ...
Philosophies of Art and Beauty : Introducing Aesthetics
Hugh Bredin
Paperback - $158.95
As a historical and systematic survey of philosophies of the arts, this book provides descriptive analyses of the most significant and influential art forms which help to define European culture, past and present: literature, drama, music, architectu ...
Enlightened Cherishing : An Essay on Aesthetic Education
Harry S. Broudy
Paperback - $33.95
The prominent educator Harry S. Broudy defines enlightened cherishing as 'a love of objects and actions that by certain norms and standards are worthy of our love. It is a love that knowledge justifies.'
In/Different Spaces
Victor Burgin
Paperback - $56.95
"Victor Burgin has an extraordinary talent for writing about 'everyday life, ' melding together a category crucial to Freud, but also to Breton, the surrealists, Lefebvre, and the situationists. In/Different Spaces presents the postmodern world . . . ...
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke
Paperback - $24.95
An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is now recognized as not only an important and ...
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke
Paperback - $17.95
Aesthetics : A Comprehensive Anthology
Steven M. Cahn
Hardcover - $201.95
From Plato's "Ion" to works by contemporary philosophers, this anthology showcases classic texts to illuminate the development of philosophical thought about art and the aesthetic. This volume is the most comprehensive collection of readings on aesth ...
Five Faces of Modernity-Pa
Matei Calinescu
Paperback - $51.95
The author discusses with remarkable insight and subtlety the complex relationships among concepts which are commonly used but rarely precisely defined...in doing so, he makes a significant contribution to contemporary scholarship and criticism.