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 Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic (Theory and History of Literature)Best Price: $21.50 This seems like a perfect day for reviewing Theodor W. Adorno's book, KIERKEGAARD CONSTRUCTION... |  Bloomsbury PortraitsBest Price: $20.07 anyone interested in the bloomsbury group - vanessa bell & duncan grant should definitely... |  Images of Excellence: Plato's Critique of the ArtsBest Price: $51.93 This original new book argues for a reassessment of Plato's challenge to the arts. Plato was the... |  Africa: An Artist's JournalFor anyone who has been on safari or only dreamed of going, for animal lovers everywhere, and... |  Journal of Consciousness Studies : Art and the Brain Part II (Investigations Into the Science of Art) (Journal of Consciousness Studies: Controversies in Science & the Humanities)Best Price: $15.00 The first volume in this series addressed neurological and evolutionary theories of aesthetics.... |
 The Impossible Nude: Chinese Art and Western AestheticsBest Price: $31.89 The undraped human form is ubiquitous in Western art and even appears in the art of India and... |  Rhetorical Homologies: Form, Culture, Experience (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit)Best Price: $3.00 |  A Vision of Nature: Traces of the Original WorldBest Price: $7.25 For thousands of years humans have grappled with the idea of Nature. This enduring question has... |  The Aesthetics of Movement[Originally published in 1889] ". . . the book provides a fascinating example of an early... |  Thinking Creatically |
 Introduction to a Philosophy of MusicBest Price: $29.43 If you want an introduction to the philosophy of music, this is the best book available. To some... |  Atomism and Its Critics: From Democritus to NewtonBest Price: $40.00 Pyle's book Atomism is an astonishing masterpiece which details the history of the study of... |  First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature (Contemporary Continental Philosophy)Best Price: $15.87 Schelling's first systematic attempt to articulate a complete philosophy of nature. |  Reflections on Japanese Taste : The Structure of IkiBest Price: $30.00 Translated by John Clark; Edited by Sakuko Matsui and John Clark. Introduction by Nakano Hajimu ... |  Beauty: The Value of ValuesBest Price: $513.51 I imagine readers will be wandering toward this intriguing book by way of some very different... |
 An Encyclopedia of Archetypal SymbolismThis encyclopedia presents 120 full-page color photographs of art works and artifacts of the... |  The Aesthetic in Kant: A Critique (Continuum Studies in Philosophy)Best Price: $17.98 Aesthetic in Kant by James Kirwan (Continuum International Publishing Group) Kant's Critique of... |  A History of Western Musical AestheticsBest Price: $60.52 A History of Western Musical Aesthetics follows through the centuries debates about the place... |  Driftworks (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)Best Price: $11.42 Here is a course of action: harden, worsen, accelerate decadence. Adopt the perspective of... |  Art and ValueBest Price: $6.00 Art and Value focuses on the questions of history, methods, and nature of art theories, and on... |
 The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C.S. LewisBest Price: $16.24 "A deeply meditated study of C.S. Lewis as a social philosopher. It does him good service.... |  The Fire and the SunThis text can be found in the collection Existentialists and Mystics, a compilation of her... |  Photographs Objects Histories: On the Materiality of Images (Material Cultures)Best Price: $38.28 I encountered this book while I was conducting research on the social exchange of photographs.... |  The Practice of Persuasion: Paradox and Power in Art HistoryBest Price: $5.96 This survey of paradox and power in art history provides a sequel to Keith Moxey's Practice Of... |  The Origin of Perspectivethis study, intense and multi-faceted, is a mandatory text for anyone who attempts to... |
 Consequences of Enlightenment (Literature, Culture, Theory, 30)Best Price: $19.99 What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European... |  Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare ExperiencesBest Price: $19.80 Why pause and study this particular painting among so many others ranged on a gallery wall?... |  The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg's Journal of 1797, With Selected Letters and Documents (Suny Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)Best Price: $23.34 an excellent resource for Novalis readers who don't speak/read German. a thoughtful and focused... |  Contemplating ArtBest Price: $24.00 Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading... |  Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the VisualBest Price: $43.27 Interpreting Visual Culture brings together the writings of some of the leading experts in art... |
 Herbert Read ReassessedBest Price: $30.00 Herbert Read (1893-1968) acquired in his lifetime a considerable international reputation in all... |  Literary and Art Theories in Japan (Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies)Best Price: $28.50 |  George Santayana: Literary PhilosopherBest Price: $6.30 Unique in his contribution to American letters, George Santayana (1863-1952) combined literary... |  Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought?: The Traditional View of Art, Revised Edition with Previously Author's Unpublished Notes (Perennial Philosophy)Best Price: $14.86 January 16, 2008 Dear Sir: World Wisdom has reassembled Coomaraswamy's Figures of... |  Aesthetics: Classic Readings from the Western Tradiont (Philosophy Series) |
 Art and Scholasticism with Other EssaysBest Price: $16.34 I purchased this issue as a replacement for an older edition of the same title that I have. My... |  Void in ArtBest Price: $16.12 I read a lot of books, but there are few authors I'd really like to sit down with and talk it... |  The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of ArtBest Price: $84.50 Arthur Danto raises many interesting points to help understand art today. In many cases his... |  One True Theory and the Quest for an American AestheticBest Price: $25.23 Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an... |  The Japanese Way of the Flower: Ikebana as Moving Meditation (Michi, Japanese Arts and Ways, V. 2)Flowers--not on, but as a spiritual path. This is the principle behind kado--widely known in the... |
 Disgust: The Theory and History of a Strong Sensation (Suny Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)Best Price: $29.94 Examines this forceful emotion from philosophical, literary, and art historical perspectives. |  Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts)Best Price: $35.00 As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful... |  The Sense Of Beauty: Being The Outlines Of Aesthetic TheoryBest Price: $28.66 The philosophy of Santayana is remembered mostly by his theory of aesthetics, which is discussed... |  Envisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science ImageBest Price: $59.97 This book is not a coffee table book of Frankel's amazing pictures, it is basically a textbook... |  The Aesthetic as the Science of Expression and of the Linguistic in General, Part 1, Theory (Aesthetic as the Science of Expression & of the Linguistic i)Best Price: $33.84 The Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) spent most of his life as a private scholar... |
 Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, An (Natural Law Cloth)Best Price: $20.00 Hutcheson's work is important for the history of aesthetics and empiricism, and therefore it is... |  Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series) |  Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the Fin de Si?cle in Europe (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)Best Price: $26.07 This slim volume of exquisite little critical essays is a gem of literary and aesthetic... |  Comedy: The Irrational VisionMorton Gurewitch divides Comedy into four impulses--Irony, Satire, Humor and Farce--and examines... |  Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity (Theoretical Perspectives in Architectura)Best Price: $40.00 I am a graduate student of architecture: This is a wonderful and exciting text. Ingraham,... |
 Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of CriticismBest Price: $23.44 I know the first edition of this book. In that edition Beardsley maintains he wanted to show the... |  Cavell On Film (Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema)Best Price: $26.40 This is an enjoyable book written by one of the leading analytic philosophers. It takes some... |  Aesthetics and The Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and ArchitectureBest Price: $33.41 Now in paperback, Aesthetics and the Environment presents fresh and fascinating insights into... |  Symbols in Life and ArtBest Price: $30.00 |  In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and AestheticsBest Price: $11.56 I read this book as an artist, and as part of my interest in understanding more about what might... |
 Platonism, Music And the Listener's Share (Continuum Studies in Philosophy)Best Price: $82.12 |  Marxist Aesthetics: The Foundations Within Everyday Life for an Emancipated Consciousness |  Ethics, Evil, and FictionBest Price: $30.97 Prior to reading this work I had only read works by C. McGinn on the philosophy of mind. McGinn... |  Invisible Dragon, TheBest Price: $182.34 and the role of parental organizations in contemporary society. Hickey's basic premise is that... |  The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International and AfterBest Price: $44.05 Plant's book, along with Greil Marcus' "Lipstick Traces," served as my introduction to... |
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