Catálogo de libros: Filosofía: estética

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  • The Dressage Way
    Susan Medenica
    The Dressage Way illustrates the transformation of the human by virtue of the eminently noble creature:  the horse. This book is neither a simple how-to manual nor a staunch treatise on the benefits of dressage for horse and rider.     With classical dressage as both foundation and inspiration, this collection of essays traces the path of the dressage trainer as she grows thro...
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    35,16 €

  • The Operation of Grace
    Gregory Wolfe
    The Operation of Grace collects a decade’s worth of essays by Gregory Wolfe taken from the pages of Image, the literary journal he founded more than a quarter century ago. As he notes in the preface, his Image editorials, while they cover a wide range of topics, focus on the intersection of 'art, faith, and mystery.' Wolfe believes that art and religion, while hardly identical,...
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    32,30 €

  • The Operation of Grace
    Gregory Wolfe
    The Operation of Grace collects a decade’s worth of essays by Gregory Wolfe taken from the pages of Image, the literary journal he founded more than a quarter century ago. As he notes in the preface, his Image editorials, while they cover a wide range of topics, focus on the intersection of 'art, faith, and mystery.' Wolfe believes that art and religion, while hardly identical,...
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    24,04 €

  • Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics
    John Z. Ming Chen / John ZMing Chen / Yuhua Ji
    This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways. Of particular interest are the authors’ refreshing insights into such holistic and topical issues as the globalization of concepts of the Dao, the Yin/Yang, the Heaven-Earth-Humanity triad, th...
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    132,85 €

  • The Intelligence of Place
    Jeff Malpas
    Place has become a widespread concept in contemporary work in the humanities, creative arts, and social sciences. Yet in spite of its centrality, place remains a concept more often deployed than interrogated, and there are relatively few works that focus directly on the concept of place as such. The Intelligence of Place fills this gap, providing an exploration of place from va...
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    206,33 €

  • Oxi
    Ken McMullen / Martin McQuillan
    An original screenplay inspired by Sophocles’ Antigone, retold through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern European philosophy. ...
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    34,86 €

  • Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics
    John Z. Ming Chen / Yuhua Ji
    This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways. Of particular interest are the authors’ refreshing insights into such holistic and topical issues as the globalization of concepts of the Dao, the Yin/Yang, the Heaven-Earth-Humanity triad, th...
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    48,13 €

  • Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games
    Kathrin Fahlenbrach
    This volume applies cognitive metaphor theory (CMT) to film, television, and video games in order to analyze the embodied aesthetics and meanings of these moving images . ...
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    267,72 €

  • Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise
    Jadranka Skorin-Kapov
    The scope of this book is the characterization of the template for the properly aesthetic experience, composed of the prerequisite (desire) and the three subsequent phases: excess, pause (rupture, break), and recuperation (surprise). ...
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    129,24 €

  • Simulation and Similarity
    Michael Weisberg
    In the 1950s, John Reber convinced many Californians that the best way to solve the state’s water shortage problem was to dam up the San Francisco Bay. Against massive political pressure, Reber’s opponents persuaded lawmakers that doing so would lead to disaster. They did this not by empirical measurement alone, but also through the construction of a model. Simulation and Simil...
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    53,07 €

  • On Being in the World (Routledge Revivals)
    Stephen Mulhall
    On Being in the World, first published in 1990, illumines a neglected but important area of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, revealing its pertinence to the central concerns of contemporary philosophy. The starting point is the idea of ’continuous aspect perception’.Professor Mulhall indicates parallels between Wittgenstein’s interests and Heidegger’s Being and Time; this work is the...
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    69,35 €

  • The Poetics of Phantasia
    Anne Sheppard
    With a thorough examination of ancient views of literary and artistic realism, allegory and symbolism, The Poetics of Phantasia brings together a study of the ways in which the concept of imagination (phantasia in Greek) was used in ancient aesthetics and literary theory.The Greeks and Romans tended to think of the production of works of art in terms of imitation, either of the...
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    64,67 €

  • Fiction and Art
    Ananta Ch. Sukla
    The nature of fiction has long been debated across the humanities, and is of considerable importance for philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, narratology and the history of ideas. This volume offers something entirely new: a selection of multidisciplinary perspectives on fiction written by an international team of contributors at the forefront of their fields, providing ...
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    205,65 €

  • Art as the Absolute
    Paul Gordon
    Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of how one can 'know†? the absolute in non-conceptual, non-discursive terms....
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    193,66 €

  • Contemplative Self after Michel Henry, The
    Joseph Rivera
    In The Contemplative Self after Michel Henry: A Phenomenological Theology, Joseph Rivera provides a close and critical reconstruction of the philosophical anthropology of Michel Henry (1922-2002) while also addressing the question of how theology contributes to Henry’s phenomenology. In conversation with other French figures such as Derrida, Marion, Lacoste, and Barbaras, River...
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    68,47 €

  • The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment
    Stefanie Buchenau
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    54,05 €

  • The Sublime in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy
    Bart Vandenabeele
    The Sublime in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy transforms our understanding of Schopenhauer’s aesthetics and anthropology. Vandenabeele seeks ultimately to rework Schopenhauer’s theory into a viable form so as to establish the sublime as a distinctive aesthetic category with a broader existential and metaphysical significance. ...
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    132,97 €

  • Lewd, the Rude and the Nasty
    Pekka Vayrynen
    In addition to thin concepts like the good, the bad and the ugly, our evaluative thought and talk appeals to thick concepts like the lewd and the rude, the selfish and the cruel, the courageous and the kind -- concepts that somehow combine evaluation and non-evaluative description. Thick concepts are almost universally assumed to be inherently evaluative in content, and many ph...
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    52,78 €

  • Aesthetic Ground of Critical Theory
    Nathan Ross
    Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno are considered today to be the two most significant early theorists in founding critical theory. In their works and correspondence, both thinkers turn to art and the aesthetic as a vital way for understanding modern society and developing philosophical methods. This volume of original essays seeks to understand how they influenced each othe...
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    61,35 €

  • Aesthetic Ground of Critical Theory
    Nathan Ross
    Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno are considered today to be the two most significant early theorists in founding critical theory. In their works and correspondence, both thinkers turn to art and the aesthetic as a vital way for understanding modern society and developing philosophical methods. This volume of original essays seeks to understand how they influenced each othe...
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    187,26 €

  • The Recovery of Beauty
    An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to ’recover beauty’. ...
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    132,46 €

  • Guitar Music for the Mid-Life Crisis
    John Foley
    John Foley is a musician and Music Therapist who has performed across the US and Canada. After years of Rock & Roll bands he began working as accompanist for Oscar Brand, sharing stages with Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Odetta, Richie Havens and many others. Recordings include Rock & Roll, Folk songs, children’s music and educational programming for the Smithsonian Institute, t...
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    18,26 €

  • Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective
    Tony McKenna
    This title offers a Marxist take on a selection of artistic and cultural achievements from the rap music of Tupac Shakur to the painting of Van Gogh, from HBO’s Breaking Bad to Balzac’s Cousin Bette, from the magical realm of Harry Potter to the apocalyptic landscape of The Walking Dead, from The Hunger Games to Game of Thrones. ...
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    65,25 €

  • Diaphany
    DIAPHANY is an international peer-reviewed volume dedicated to the living confluence of poetic, phenomenological and empirical perceptions of reality. Drinking deeply from both the arts and the sciences, and then dissolving their boundaries, Diaphany weds the vital, experiential dimension of reality to rigorous, source-based research. By embracing the principle of qualitative p...
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    41,37 €

  • Adorno’s Modernism
    Espen Hammer
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    145,10 €

  • Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art
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    73,37 €

  • Landscape and Travelling East and West
    Philosophical reflections on journeys and crossings, homes and habitats, have appeared in all major East Asian and Western philosophies. Landscape and travelling first emerged as a key issue in ancient Chinese philosophy, quickly becoming a core concern of Daoism and Confucianism. Yet despite the eminence of such reflections, Landscape and Travelling East and West: A Philosophi...
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    64,10 €

  • Aesthetics of Ugliness
    Karl Rosenkranz / Andrei Pop / Mechtild Widrich
    In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty without being reducible to evil, materiality, or other negative terms used it’s conventional condemnation. This insistence on the specificity of ugliness, and on its dynamic status as a process afflicting aesthetic canons, reflects Rosenkranz’s interest in the metr...
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    206,11 €

  • Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination
    Mojca Küplen
    This book presents a solution to the problem known in philosophical aesthetics as the paradox of ugliness, namely, how an object that is displeasing can retain our attention and be greatly appreciated. It does this by exploring and refining the most sophisticated and thoroughly worked out theoretical framework of philosophical aesthetics, Kant’s theory of taste, which was put f...
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    65,54 €

  • Philosophy of Song and Singing
    Jeanette Bicknell
    In Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction, Jeanette Bicknell explores philosophical questions that have not yet been thoroughly researched by philosophers, musicologists, or scientists. Issues addressed include: the relationship between the meaning of a song’s words and its music; the performer’s role and ensuing gender complications, social ontology, and personal iden...
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    241,49 €


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