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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Hair

    by Scott Lowe ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is an extraordinary indicator of economic and social standing, political orientation, religious affiliation, marital status, and cultural leanings, among other things. The meanings of hair are deep, powerful, and so strongly embedded in cultural ... Read more

    $11.51 USD

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  • Unnatural Wonders

    Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life

    by Arthur C. Danto ...
    Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century. In Unnatural Wonders the renowned critic finds himself at a point when contemporary art has become wholly pluralistic, even chaotic-with one ... Read more

    $28.34 USD

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Edited by Christopher Grau ...
    Series series Philosophers on Film
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the most widely discussed and thought-provoking films of recent years.This is the first book to explore and address the philosophical aspects of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Beginning with a helpful introduction that places each essay in context, specially commissioned chapters examine the following topics:philosophical issues surrounding ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Listening through the Noise : The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    by Joanna Demers ...
    Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic popular and avant-garde electronic musicians is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And is there even a place for aesthetics in twenty-first-century culture? This book explores genres ... Read more

    $34.82 USD

  • A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas

    by Edmund Burke ...
    Series series Unexpurgated Start Publishing LLC
    An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is now recognized as not only an important and influential work of aesthetic theory, but also one of the first major works in European literature on the Sublime, a subject that has fascinated ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Doing Aesthetics with Arendt

    How to See Things

    by Cecilia Sjöholm ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjöholm begins a vibrant new chapter in Arendt scholarship that expands her relevance for contemporary philosophers.Arendt wrote ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Thinking of Others

    On the Talent for Metaphor

    by Ted Cohen ...
    Series series Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
    In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. To be able to see oneself as someone else, whether the someone else is a real person or a fictional character, is to ... Read more

    $20.78 USD

  • The Concept of the Beautiful

    by Agnes Heller ...
    The main purpose of this book is to explicate the problematic relationship between the heterogeneity of what is experienced as beautiful and the homogeneity of the conceptualization of that experience, or attempt at such a conceptualization in the era of modern philosophy. While the heterogeneity of what is experienced as beautiful was permitted, and indeed celebrated, in the dominant ancient ... Read more

    $94.76 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music

    Edited by Theodore Gracyk, Andrew Kania ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections:general issuesemotionhistoryfigureskinds of musicmusic, philosophy and related disciplinesThe Routledge Companion to Philosophy and ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • Shadow Philosophy: Plato's Cave and Cinema

    by Nathan Andersen ...
    Shadow Philosophy: Plato’s Cave and Cinema is an accessible and exciting new contribution to film-philosophy, which shows that to take film seriously is also to engage with the fundamental questions of philosophy. Nathan Andersen brings Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange into philosophical conversation with Plato’s Republic, comparing their contributions to themes such as the nature of ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Aesthetics and Modernity

    Essays by Agnes Heller

    Edited by John Rundell ...
    Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays around the topics of aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy, aesthetic reception, and embodiment. The essays draw on Heller's deep appreciation of aesthetics in all its forms from the classical to the Renaissance and the contemporary periods. Heller's recent work on aesthetics explores the complex ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Aesthetics and Material Beauty

    Aesthetics Naturalized

    by Jennifer A. McMahon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    In Aesthetics and Material Beauty, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking Kantian aesthetics as a starting point and drawing upon contemporary theories of mind from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. The creative process does not proceed by a set of rules. Yet the fact that its objects can be understood or appreciated by others ... Read more

    $63.89 USD