Aesthetics
-
In Search of Wagner
$24.95 Add to cartWritten in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe’s most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner’s oeuvre with patent … [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Adorno, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673448
- Language: English
-
Media and Formal Cause
$18.95 Add to cartReviews
No one understood causality, whether Aristotelian or electric, like Marshall McLuhan. Now, in Media and Formal Cause, no one reveals understanding of formal cause in the digital environment be- Author: McLuhan, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: February 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0983274703
- Language: English
-
RASA or knowledge of the self
$19.99 Add to cartRené Daumal (b. 1908) is best known for his novel Mt. Analogue, unfinished at his death, in 1944 (other works in English include A Night of Serious Drinking and The Power of the Word). Daumal was an
- Author: Levi, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1887276416
- Language: English
-
Hip-Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason
$26.95 Add to cartIs there too much violence in hip-hop music? What’s the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil’ Kim? Is hip-hop culture a “black” thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz a… [more below]
- Series: Popular Culture & Philosophy #16
- Author: Darby, Derrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0812695895
- Language: English
-
Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design
$29.99 Add to cartPlato – Aristotle – Vitruvius – Alberti – Kant – Burke – Fiedler – Nietzsche – Wilde – Bergson – Bell – Scott – Benjamin – Bataille – Sontag – Jameson – Scarry – Nehamas – Zangwill – Freedberg and Gal… [more below]
- Author: Gage, Mark Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0393733491
- Language: English
-
Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
$18.95 Add to cart“Gary Rogowski leads us gently but surely upon the path to a type of success we may not have previously considered. (Hint: it involves blisters).” –Nick Offerman
In an era when there are countless co
- Author: Rogowski, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1610353145
- Language: English
-
Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
$21.99 Add to cartA philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves
In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva No? argues that our- Author: No?, Alva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0809089165
- Language: English
-
Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste. It doesn’t just consider traditional artistic experiences such as artworks in a museum or an opera performance,… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Nanay, Bence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198826613
- Language: English
-
Doorway to Artistry
$32.00 Add to cartYour artistry involves you intimately with the world around and beyond you. So your artistry involves profound but simple philosophical matters. As a human person, you are artful and philosophical, at… [more below]
- Author: Meek, Esther Lightcap
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1666769681
- Language: English
-
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
$7.00 Add to cartAfter kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil. Conven… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 07 1997
- ISBN10: 048629868X
- Language: English
-
The Life of Forms in Art
$24.95 Add to cartIn this beautiful meditation on the art-historical problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881-1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is irreducible
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Focillon, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 11 1992
- ISBN10: 0942299574
- Language: English
-
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
$16.95 Add to cartA landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of
- Author: Shields, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0307387976
- Language: English
-
Philosophical Enquiry Sublime and Beautiful
$15.95 Add to cartPaul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke’s ‘Enquiry’, focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its innovations, as well as its influence on many subsequent authors from … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Burke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019966871X
- Language: English
-
The Birth of Tragedy
$10.95 Add to cartIn The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche expounds on the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. He declares it to be the expression of a culture which has achieved a de… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 1, 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540144
- Language: English
-
The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
$46.58 Read moreWhy 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0691188815
- Language: English
-
On Beauty and Being Just
$20.95 Add to cartHave we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is th
- Author: Scarry, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0691089590
- Language: English
-
In Praise of Shadows
$11.95 Add to cartAn essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descri… [more below]
- Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: December 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0918172020
- Language: English
-
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
$19.95 Add to cartAn updated version of the classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Every book about wabi-sabi is based on the paradigm introduced in the original edition of this
- Author: Koren, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0981484603
- Language: English
-
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBeauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 08, 2011
- ISBN10: 0199229759
- Language: English
-
Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts
$19.95 Add to cartTwenty-plus years after the initial publication of Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren is back with further insights into this seminal aesthetic paradigm. An importa
- Author: Koren, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 17, 2015
- ISBN10: 0981484654
- Language: English
