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Art Origins Otherness : Between Philosophy and Art
William Desmond
Paperback - $60.95
Addresses the end of art and the task of metaphysics. Though our time is often said to be post-religious and post-metaphysical, many continue to seek some encounter with otherness and transcendence in art This book deal diversely with the issues of a ...
Introduction to Aesthetics : An Analytic Approach
George Dickie
Paperback - $71.95
This unique and engaging text traces aesthetics from its ancient beginnings through the changes it underwent in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and the first half of the twentieth century. The first part of the book traces the history of the two organize ...
Divine Beauty : The Aesthetics of Charles Hartshorne
Daniel A. Dombrowski
Hardcover - $128.95
While considered by many as one of the greatest philosophers of religion and metaphysicians of the 20th century, Charles Hartshornes (1897-2000) contributions to the study of aesthetics are perhaps the most neglected aspect of his extensive and highl ...
The Philosophy of Art
Curt John Ducasse
Paperback - $48.95
1929. Contents: Art and the Creation of Beauty; Art the Language of Feeling. Veron and Tolstoi; Criticism of Croce's Aesthetic; Art and the Freudian Wish; Art as Imitation and as Means of Attraction; The Instrumentalist Theory of Art; The Play Theory ...
The Philosophy of Art
Curt John Ducasse
Hardcover - $71.95
1929. Contents: Art and the Creation of Beauty; Art the Language of Feeling. Veron and Tolstoi; Criticism of Croce's Aesthetic; Art and the Freudian Wish; Art as Imitation and as Means of Attraction; The Instrumentalist Theory of Art; The Play Theory ...
The Comical : A Philosophical Analysis
Bohdan Dziemidok
Hardcover - $420.95
The book offers an extensive and detailed philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of the comic. The author critically presents the hitherto existing theories of the comic from Aristotle up to the present and classifies them. At the same time he adva ...
Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical
Marcia Muelder Eaton
Hardcover - $229.95
To "look good" and to "be good" have traditionally been considered two very different notions. Indeed, philosophers have seen aesthetic and ethical values as fundamentally separate. Now, at the crossroads of a new wave of aesthetic theory, Marcia Mue ...
Walter Benjamin : Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935-1938
Howard Eiland
Hardcover - $80.95
Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brillian ...