Catálogo de libros: Filosofía: estética

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  • The Little Crystalline Seed
    Iddo Dickmann
    Shows how contemporary French philosophy adopted this literary paradigm and argues for its significance for addressing concerns in ethics, ontology, and aesthetics. ...
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    41,93 €

  • The Architecture of Freedom
    Hassanaly Ladha
    Through a radical reading of Hegel’s oeuvre, The Architecture of Freedom sets forth a theory of open borders centered on a new interpretation of the German philosopher’s related conceptions of language and the aesthetic, mastery and servitude, and subjectivity and the state.The book’s argument turns on Hegel’s identification of 'Africa' as a fluid, utopic space enabling the tra...
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    173,51 €

  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
    Edmund Burke
    First published in 1757, the treatise “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, by the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke, provides a distinct transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. Burke’s treatise was the first fully realized exposition that separated the definition of the sublime from the beautiful. His work received much attenti...
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    12,64 €

  • The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato
    Sean Alexander Gurd
    Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive and bodily habits. Contemporary scholars acknowledge this fact with the notion that there are 'auditory cultures.' In the fourth century BCE, Greek philosophers recognized a similar phenomenon in music, which they treated as a privileged site for the cultural m...
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    174,00 €

  • Synaesthetics Art as Synaesthesia
    Paul Gordon
    Paul Gordon proposes a new theory of art as synaesthetic and applies this idea to various media, including works--such as movies, illustrated books, and song lyrics--that explicitly cross over into media involving the different senses. The idea of art as synaesthetic is not, however, limited to those 'cross-over' works, because even an individual poem or novel or painting calls...
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    161,04 €

  • Concerto for Body and Soul
    Rubem Alves / Glenn Alan Cheney
    Short essays by Rubem Alves, touching on life, sex, nature, soup, childhood, crime, Brazil, bovine wisdom, magnolias, ants, stepmothers, fiddles, death, hope, and a whole lot more. Rubem Alves is one of Brazil's msot beloved writers, a theologian, philosopher, psychoanalyst, and professor who sounds like your favorite uncle musing at the kitchen table.  3 ...
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    25,39 €

  • Borage Blue
    Oliver Southall
    Borage Blue is a collection of prose and verse meditations on nature and sensation which includes the experimental text ‘On Borage: Notes for an Impossible Poem’. Occasioned by eclectic observations of the medicinal and culinary herb Borage (Borago officinalis), and taking tangents through ancient philosophical accounts of touch, the poetic theory of Dante, and the metaphysics ...
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    16,60 €

  • Immediation II
    All 'mediation' stages and distributes real, embodied events. This capacity to enact in the immediacy of everyday life is an integral part of any mediation. But this entails that nothing can be prised apart from an ecology of exprience. Immediation I and II collectively and singularly ask: what are the thinking-feeling imperceptibilities conditioning and immediately reg...
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    18,62 €

  • Immediation I
    All 'mediation' stages and distributes real, embodied events. This capacity to enact in the immediacy of everyday life is an integral part of any mediation. But this entails that nothing can be prised apart from an ecology of exprience. Immediation I and II collectively and singularly ask: what are the thinking-feeling imperceptibilities conditioning and immediately reg...
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    18,30 €

  • Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies
    Jibu Mathew George
    ’Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them?’ takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies, philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein as well as the implications of certain popular critical approaches, and addresses the effervescent question of ’relevance’. ...
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    180,67 €

  • The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory
    Simon Grote
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    37,94 €

  • Pensamentos
    Rubem Alves / Glenn Alan Cheney
    Rubem Alves was a theologian, philosopher, psychoanalyst, professor, writer, and just plain old nice guy. His thoughts and ideas put so much of life in new perspective. He writes on life, death, sex, love, childhood, popcorn, music, art, literature, mythology, trees...and so much more. Pensamentos is a collection of brief excerpts from his many writings. Every page leaves the r...
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    19,80 €

  • Van Gogh among the Philosophers
    This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world. ...
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    54,25 €

  • The 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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    54,50 €

  • New Aesthetic Thought, Methodology, and Structure of Systemic Philosophy
    Jie Wu
    The methodologies of aesthetic thought have always had a deep, historic foundation and serve as a staple of philosophy. Researchers have begun re-examining the structure and levels of aesthetics by tracing the history of this practice and studying European and Asian traditions. This systematic perspective is an emerging topic of exploration yet requires an appropriate level of ...
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    293,32 €

  • Worldbending
    Pete Rive
    WORLDBENDING is about the end of the world as we know it, how we got here, who we will share new worlds with, and what we might do about making survival plans? Better still, it goes beyond survival and considers how we might enjoy a meaningful life in the future.WORLDBENDING is an aesthetic look at the philosophy of how we build, bend and break worlds. It applies design theory ...
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    14,80 €

  • The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau
    Lester H. Hunt
    Henry Thoreau is widely considered to be one of the greatest nature writers, among whose best-known works are Walden and Walking. In this book, Lester Hunt shows that his writings have a compelling philosophical dimension as well. Thoreau seldom argues for his ideas the way other philosophers do. Rather than setting up proofs designed to trap the reader into agreeing with him...
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    174,20 €

  • Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili
    Paul Gladston
    In recent decades the previously assumed dominance within the international art world of western(ized) conceptions of aesthetic modernity has been challenged by a critically becalming diversification of cultural outlooks widely referred to as ’contemporaneity’. Contributing to that diversification are assertions within mainland China of essential differences between Chinese and...
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    173,91 €

  • Social Imaginaries
    Offering a field-defining survey of the topic, this is the first book to engage all the key figures in the social imaginaries field. It offers new perspectives on the productive tension between social imaginaries and the creative imagination, providing the first programmatic approach to the field as a whole. ...
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    184,52 €

  • Social Imaginaries
    Offering a field-defining survey of the topic, this is the first book to engage all the key figures in the social imaginaries field. It offers new perspectives on the productive tension between social imaginaries and the creative imagination, providing the first programmatic approach to the field as a whole. ...
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    61,32 €

  • New Aesthetic Thought, Methodology, and Structure of Systemic Philosophy
    Jie Wu
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    227,47 €

  • New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics
    This collection begins with an engaging historical overview of Japanese aesthetics and offers contemporary multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Japan and the central themes in Japanese art and aesthetics. ...
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    66,71 €

  • Political Aesthetics
    Karl Axelsson
    Providing a gateway to a new history of modern aesthetics, this book challenges conventional views of how art’s significance developed in society. The 18th century is often said to have involved a radical transformation in the concept of art: from the understanding that art is tool for some practical purpose, to the modern belief that it holds a distinctive and intrinsic value....
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    173,74 €

  • Once Upon a Time
    Aaron Meskin / Peter Kivy
    Kivy raises questions of a philosophical nature about the novel that will be of interest both to the professional philosopher and to the general reader. ...
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    164,12 €

  • Once Upon a Time
    Aaron Meskin / Peter Kivy
    Kivy raises questions of a philosophical nature about the novel that will be of interest both to the professional philosopher and to the general reader. ...
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    54,76 €

  • Foundations of Christian Culture
    Ivan Ilyin / Nicholas Kotar
    Can we create a Christian culture in a post-Christian world?There was a time when society itself was inspired by Christian principles. But for many, Christendom’s failure to stop revolution and world war in the twentieth century have discredited Christianity itself.The alternative? A neo-pagan and transhumanist society that has lost touch with beauty and that glorifies banality...
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    8,25 €

  • Against Transmission
    Timothy Barker
    In Against Transmission Barker rethinks the history of audio-visual media as a history of analytical instruments. Rather than viewing media history as the commonly told story of synthetic media (media that make a new whole from connecting separate parts), by focusing on the analytical function of mediation Against Transmission is able to focus on the way that media that have hi...
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    57,90 €

  • The Forbidden Subject
    Peter Quigley
    ‘WE ARE FOOLS TO TURN FROM THE SUPERHUMAN BEAUTY’*The Forbidden Subject launches from Ed Abbey’s affirmation in Desert Solitaire: ‘This is the most beautiful place on earth’. How could such a sentiment become construed as problematic, elitist, or worse? How was a calculated and intentional attack on beauty sustained for more than a century? How did beauty become, and why does i...
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    101,29 €

  • Marx and Art
    Ali Alizadeh
    This book advances and enriches the debates and discussions about the value of art. It offers a close reading of passages from Marx’s entire body of work and an engaging and accessible narrative of the beginnings, development and discoveries of Marx’s thoughts on art. ...
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    116,05 €

  • Thinking the Inexhaustible
    Essays address the major themes of Pareyson’s hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood. ...
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    42,15 €


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