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The Aesthetic as the Science of Expression and of the Linguistic in General, Part 1, Theory
Benedetto Croce
Paperback - $82.95
The Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) spent most of his life as a private scholar in Naples. His Estetica, which first appeared in 1902, has remained a seminal work not only for aesthetics but also for general linguistics. As the full t ...
Art and Embodiment : From Aesthetics to Self-Consciousness
Paul Crowther
Paperback - $170.95
In his Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism, Paul Crowther argued that art and aesthetic experiences have the capacity to humanize. In Art and Embodiment he develops this theme in much greater depth, arguing that art can bridge the gap between philo ...
On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters
J. Friedrich Cshiller
Paperback - $106.95
Schiller's 1795 essay on the educative function of art is one of the most important contributions to the history of ideas in modern times. This English-German parallel text edition includes a long analytical introduction and extensive notes.
The Art of Seeing : An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Paperback - $63.95
What is the nature of the aesthetic experience? Is it the same for everyone? It is possible to facilitate its occurrence? This book focuses on the psychology of the aesthetic experience and on the perception and understanding of art, suggesting ways ...
Emerging Visions of the Aesthetic Process
Gerald C. Cupchik
Hardcover - $210.95
Emerging Visions of the Aesthetic Process explores the processes underlying aesthetics and play from the perspectives of psychologists, philosophers, and semiologists. It reveals the different ways in which scholars think about the following question ...
Hip-Hop and Philosophy : Rhyme 2 Reason
Derrick Darby
Paperback - $29.95
Witty, provocative essays ponder thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers of the past. This volume proves that rhyme and reason can be mixed and mastered to contemplate ...
Art as Performance
David Davies
Paperback - $76.95
In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different ...