Catálogo de libros: Filosofía: estética

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  • The Last Fortress of Metaphysics
    Francesco Vitale / Mauro Senatore
    Examines the relationship of Derrida’s writings on architecture to his methodology of deconstruction and to deconstrutivism in architecture. ...
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    41,12 €

  • Tintoretto’s Difference
    Kamini Vellodi
    A provocative account of the philosophical problem of ’difference’ in art history, Tintoretto’s Difference offers a new reading of this pioneering 16th century painter, drawing upon the work of the 20th century philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Bringing together philosophical, art historical, art theoretical and art historiographical analysis, it is the first book-length study in Eng...
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    185,39 €

  • The Work of Forgetting
    Stéphane Symons
    This book presents a critical discussion of the turn to memory, a key evolution in the humanities in the last 50 years. It offers an innovative interpretation of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history and his oeuvre at large, taking a thematic approach to the issue of forgetting, based on detailed readings of key philosophers of the 20th century. ...
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    163,78 €

  • Theories of Hope
    Theories of Hope: Exploring Affective Dimensions of Human Experience explores the nature of hope from varied and diverse perspectives. This volume includes chapters examining hope within contexts of social and political philosophy, policy, and struggle from both deeply theoretical and practical approaches. ...
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    122,37 €

  • The Art of Artertainment
    Artertainment is more than a novel aesthetic term reflecting the fact that art and entertainment have cross-pollinated each other throughout history. It is a creative strategy that purposely intertwines highbrow and lowbrow aesthetics in the name of reaching the connoisseurs and the masses.The Art of Artertainment sets out to unravel the jumble of aesthetic faultlines and preju...
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    86,47 €

  • The Sublime Reader
    Robert R. Clewis
    This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up through the early and late modern periods and into contemporary theory. It takes an inclusive, interdisciplinary approach to this key concept in aesthetics and criticism, representing...
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    226,32 €

  • Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
    Nicholas Guardiano
    This workproposes an original philosophy of nature, contributes to our understanding of two of America’s greatest philosophers, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles S. Peirce, and examines the philosophical expressions of the art of nineteenth-century American landscape painting. ...
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    50,34 €

  • Contingent Computation
    M Beatrice Fazi / M. Beatrice Fazi / MBeatrice Fazi
    Contingent Computation offers a new theoretical perspective through which we can engage philosophically with computing. The book proves that aesthetics is a viable mode of investigating contemporary computational systems. ...
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    184,43 €

  • American Idiots
    David Laraway
    Long the province of connoisseurs, collectors, hipsters, and eccentrics, the music and art of the margins has begun to find its way into the mainstream. Kurt Cobain took to wearing Daniel Johnston t-shirts before his death; Sufjan Stevens organized a concept album based on the work of Royal Robertson; an illustration by Henry Darger recently sold at auction for more than half a...
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    39,88 €

  • Decluttering Your Life
    Sabrina Godwin
    What if I told you that for the cost of this book you could reduce stress, clear your mind, and live a happier life?  Well, you can.If you feel overwhelmed, stressed, and like you constantly have a huge weight on your shoulders; odds are you need to declutter your life.Decluttering is highly necessary in today’s world where there are numerous opportunities to distract one’s sel...
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    15,02 €

  • Between Nature and Culture
    Emily Brady / Isis Brook / Jonathan Prior
    This bookprovides a systematic, philosophical account of the main issues that pertain to the aesthetics of modified environments, as well as new insights concerning the generation and appreciation of landscapes and environments that fall between (non-human) nature and (human) culture, including gardens and ecologically restored landscapes. ...
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    164,10 €

  • Between Nature and Culture
    Emily Brady / Isis Brook / Jonathan Prior
    This bookprovides a systematic, philosophical account of the main issues that pertain to the aesthetics of modified environments, as well as new insights concerning the generation and appreciation of landscapes and environments that fall between (non-human) nature and (human) culture, including gardens and ecologically restored landscapes. ...
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    54,74 €

  • Aristotle on Dramatic Musical Composition
    Gregory L Scott / Gregory Scott
    This book revolutionizes the 1000-year old tradition that stems from the first commentaries on the Poetics by the Arabic scholars. (No commentary exists from antiquity or Byzantine times.) Starting with those scholars, Aristotle’s treatise has always been thought to be about poetic-literary theory, with tragedy being its paradigm. Scott demonstrates, however, that Aristotle (c....
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    84,82 €

  • Aristotle on Dramatic Musical Composition
    Gregory Scott
    This book revolutionizes the 1000-year old tradition that stems from the first commentaries on the Poetics by the Arabic scholars. (No commentary exists from antiquity or Byzantine times.) Starting with those scholars, Aristotle’s treatise has always been thought to be about poetic-literary theory, with tragedy being its paradigm. Scott demonstrates, however, that Aristotle (c....
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    70,23 €

  • Border Aesthetics
    Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject's conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of border...
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    38,31 €

  • Spaces of Crisis and Critique
    In Of Other Spaces Foucault coined the term 'heterotopias†? to signify 'all the other real sites that can be found within the culture" which "are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted.†? For Foucault, heterotopic spaces were first of all spaces of crisis, or transformative spaces, however these have given way to heterotopias of deviation and spaces of discipline, ...
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    193,80 €

  • Narrative Justice
    Rafe McGregor
    This important new book provides an original and compelling argument for a new theory of aesthetic education. Rafe McGregor proposes a model of interdisciplinary inquiry, applying a combined philosophical and critical approach to illuminate issues in a social science. The book makes an original contribution to the field of narrative criminology. ...
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    163,74 €

  • The End of the World
    This volume attempts to show that it is vital that we address the motif of the 'end' in contemporary world – but that this cannot be done without thinking it anew. ...
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    54,03 €

  • Phenomenology and the Arts
    Peter Costello
    This book develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and as a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. ...
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    67,71 €

  • Aesthetics, Disinterestedness, and Effectiveness in Political Art
    Maria Alina Asavei / Maria-Alina Asavei
    This book’s main claim is that political art should not disregard questions of aesthetic reception and value. It argues that some neglected aspects of traditional aesthetics actually enhance the relationship between art and politics more than contemporary art theorists are keen to admit. ...
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    122,26 €

  • Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics
    Steve Odin
    This book examines Whitehead’s process aesthetics focusing the penumbral beauty of darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability, while establishing parallels with the Japanese sense of evanescent beauty. It clarifies how both traditions develop a religio-aesthetic vision of tragic beauty and its reconciliation in the supreme ecstasy of peace. ...
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    67,75 €

  • Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation
    This book explores the idea of translation as a philosophical theme and as an important feature of philosophy and practical life, in the context of a searching examination of aspects of the work of Stanley Cavell. Furthermore it demonstrates the broader significance of these philosophical questions for education and life as a whole. ...
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    61,39 €

  • Eigenvalue
    Hanjo Berressem
    Eigenvalue provides the first history of ’eigenvalue’ by building an important bridge between the hard and the soft sciences. Originally a mathematical term, Hanjo Berressem applies Eigenvalue, which roughly translates to proper value, to the media studies discipline for the first time, providing a philological history and line of development across the sciences through to cont...
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    206,63 €

  • Thinking the Inexhaustible
    What if the inexhaustible were the only mode of self-revelation of truth? The question of the inexhaustibility of truth, and its relation to being and interpretation, is the challenge posed by the philosophy of the prominent Italian thinker Luigi Pareyson (1918-1991). Art, the interpretation of truth, and the theory of being as the ontology of both inexhaustibility and freedom ...
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    127,09 €

  • The Beige Book - On Time and Space
    Helene Lundbye Petersen
    When we try to comprehend the measured concept of time, we are confronted by its vastness. To compare a 4 billion year old rock in your hand to the 20 million year old stones that lie scattered around the Earth is unbearably abstract to relate to. The same goes for when we try to relate to space, and the changes all known forms undergo: A body aging, buildings deteriorating, or...
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    49,96 €

  • The Gleaming Man
    Jeremy Fernando / Lee Ching Lim
    The Gleaming Man is a conversation between the texts of Jeremy Fernando, the paintings of Ruben Pang, and the poems of Lim Lee Ching. Among other things, it is an attempt to meditate on the question of how different forms of work can speak with each other without speaking over — or, even worse, speaking for — an other. For, if art is the transformation of something that is brou...
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    27,14 €

  • The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being
    William Desmond
    This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic authenticity. Beauty seems bland and lacks the more visceral thrill of the ugly, ind...
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    56,23 €

  • The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being
    William Desmond
    This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic authenticity. Beauty seems bland and lacks the more visceral thrill of the ugly, ind...
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    39,14 €

  • The Purple Book - On Language
    Helene Lundbye Petersen
    The Purple Book - On Languages is the 7th book in the ‘Colour Spectrum of 11 Spaces’ series, which serves as an inspiration for a new foundation for being human, byreminding us of the universal language of being, which connects us, rather than fragmenting us. The book unfolds the language part of the colour spectrum and reminds us that the language of words is a mere tool avail...
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    49,33 €

  • Intellectual Imagination
    Omedi Ochieng
    The Intellectual Imagination unfolds a sweeping vision of the form, meaning, and value of intellectual practice. The book breaks new ground in offering a comprehensive vision of the intellectual vocation. Omedi Ochieng argues that robust and rigorous thought about the form and contours of intellectual practices is best envisioned in light of a comprehensive critical contextual ...
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    60,60 €


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