Aesthetics
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The Emancipated Spectator
$19.95 Add to cartThe theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active… [more below]
- Author: Ranciere, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1788739647
- Language: English
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Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts
$34.95 Add to cartThe human person is a truth seeker, and one of the most compelling ways human beings pursue truth is through the arts. In Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts, Daniel McInerny
- Author: McInerny, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1685789854
- Language: English
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Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture
$37.43 Add to cartThe second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions for the future. Five Manifestos for the Beautiful Wo… [more below]
- Author: Boswell, Phoebe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1478032189
- Language: English
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The Performer: Art, Life, Politics
$30.00 Read moreAn acclaimed sociologist’s exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics
“A thought-provoking, essayistic and touchingly personal exploration of the ethics and aestheti- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272901
- Language: English
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Poetry and Mysticism
$7.00 Add to cartThese two essays by Ra?ssa Maritain-“Sense and Non-Sense in Poetry” and “Magic, Poetry, and Mysticism”-comprise an often forgotten but significant contribution to Catholic letters. Maritain considers
- Author: Maritain, Raïssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: April 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1951319559
- Language: English
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The Power of Cute
$14.95 Add to cartAn exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressions
Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty- Author: May, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271143
- Language: English
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
$18.99 Add to cartA compelling call to rediscover the transformative power of art in an age of distraction, coercion, and spectacle – featuring an introduction from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donna Tartt
In Reclaim- Author: Martel, J. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607244
- Language: English
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The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
$18.95 Add to cartWhy human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon–and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselves
In The Entanglement, philosopher Alva No? explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosop- Author: No?, Alva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0691249571
- Language: English
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Aesthetics and Politics
$19.95 Add to cartAn intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature.
With an afterword by Fredric Jameson No other c- Author: Adorno, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1788738586
- Language: English
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Without Model: Parva Aesthetica
$24.50 Read moreEssays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time.
In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikingly demonstrates the intellectual range for which he is known. Taking the premi- Series: German List
- Author: Adorno, Theodor W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092181
- Language: English
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On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
$15.95 Read moreOn Being Blue is a book about everything blue–sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things–and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary A… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Gass, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177185
- Language: English
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Humour
$15.00 Add to cartA compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture–by one of its greatest exponents
Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the natur- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0300255020
- Language: English
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Profanations
$22.95 Read moreThe Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanatio
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: March 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1890951838
- Language: English
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Musings of a Curious Aesthete
$19.95 Read moreA quirky memoir of the aesthete responsible for creating culture icons such as WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and bringing the concept of wabi-sabi into Western aesthetic discourse.
- Author: Koren, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0981484670
- Language: English
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A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
$9.95 Add to cartSure to be a classic, Donald Richie’s concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese
- Author: Richie, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1933330236
- Language: English
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Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice
$19.95 Add to cartThe thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the s… [more below]
- Series: Art and Imagination #2
- Author: Lawlor, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 17 1982
- ISBN10: 0500810303
- Language: English
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On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
$26.99 Read moreFeaturing long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig’s unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme o
- Author: Pirsig, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0063084643
- Language: English
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Utilidad de Lo Inútil, La
$14.95 Read moreIn this thought-provoking and extremely timely work, Nuccio Ordine convincingly argues for the utility of useless knowledge and against the contemporary fixation on utilitarianism–for the fundamental… [more below]
- Author: Ordine, Nuccio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 8415689926
- Language: Spanish
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On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
$17.99 Add to cartFeaturing long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig’s unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme o
- Author: Pirsig, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0063084651
- Language: English
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Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice
$19.95 Add to cartThe thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the s… [more below]
- Series: Art and Imagination #2
- Author: Lawlor, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 17 1982
- ISBN10: 0500810303
- Language: English
