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  • Singularities

    Essays in Aesthetics

    by Aaron Ridley ...
    These essays, half of them appearing here for the first time, address issues concerning the two key singularities that Kant identified in aesthetics: artistic creativity and aesthetic judgement. Ranging from Kant himself to contemporary debates, from song to conceptual art, from ethics to atheism, from function to failure, Aaron Ridley explores the ways in which the one-off character of creativity ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols

    And Other Writings

    Edited by Aaron Ridley ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Nietzsche's late works are brilliant and uncompromising, and stand as monuments to his lucidity, rigour, and style. This volume combines, for the first time in English, five of these works: The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and The Case of Wagner. Here, Nietzsche takes on some of his greatest adversaries: traditional religion, contemporary culture, and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Nietzsche's Aesthetics

    Essays and Quarrels

    by Aaron Ridley ...
    In this collection of eighteen essays, two-thirds of them appearing here for the first time, Aaron Ridley addresses the full range of Nietzsche's aesthetics, from his discussions of tragedy, music, and language to his conceptions of taste, beauty, and the sublime. Some of the essays are exegetical; some are critical (hence the 'quarrels' referred to in the title); some bring his thought into ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals

    Critical Essays

    by Eric Blondel, Daniel Conway, Ken Gemes, Jürgen Habermas, Salim Kemal, Paul S. Loeb, Mark Migotti, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, David Owen, Robert Pippin, Aaron Ridley, Gary Shapiro, Alan Schrift, Christine Swanton, Yirmiyahu Yovel, Keith Ansell Pearson, Babette Babich, Alexander Nehamas, Tracy Strong ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical scholarship what is arguably Friedrich Nietzsche's most rewarding but most challenging text. Including ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Great Philosophers:Collingwood

    Parliament Under Pressure

    by Aaron Ridley ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    R. G. Collingwood 1889-1943Many philosophers have been interested in aesthetics, but Collingwood was passionate about art. His theories were never merely theoretical: aesthetics for him was a vivid, vibrant thing, to be experienced immediately in worked paint and in sculpted stone, in poetry and music.Art and life were no dichotomy for Collingwood - for how could you have one without the other? ... Read more

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  • The Deed is Everything

    Nietzsche on Will and Action

    by Aaron Ridley ...
    Nietzsche is often held to be an extreme sceptic about human agency, keen to debunk it along every dimension. He dismisses the ideas of freedom, autonomy and morality, we are told, and even the very existence of agents or selves. This book sets out the opposite view. Ridley argues that Nietzsche is committed to an 'expressivist' conception of agency, a conception that allows him to develop highly ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Art

    by Aaron Ridley ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
    Nietzsche is one of the most important modern philosophers and his writings on the nature of art are amongst the most influential of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This GuideBook introduces and assesses:Nietzsche's life and the background to his writings on artthe ideas and texts of his works which contribute to art, including The Birth of Tragedy, Human, All Too Human and Thus Spoke ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Wittgenstein

    A Very Short Introduction

    by A. C. Grayling ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist reader, A. C. Grayling explains the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences ... Read more

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  • The Great Philosophers:Heidegger

    by Jonathan Rée ...
    'The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking' Heidegger'We should never allow our fears of the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny'Martin Heidegger was one of the most controversial philosophers of the 20th century, and still causes widespread division. Born in Germany, he was concerned with what makes beings intelligible ... Read more

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  • The Symbolic Order

    A Contemporary Reader On The Arts Debate

    Edited by Peter Abbs ...
    Alongside Living Powers and A is for Aesthetic this book is intended to establish a conceptual frame for the Arts in Education series. The first and primary aim of this symposium is to put teachers of all the arts in touch with some of the most recent and the best writing on the nature of art. ... Read more

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  • Narrative Fiction

    Contemporary Poetics

    by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan ...
    Series series New Accents
    What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns its attention to these and other questions.In contrast to many other studies, Narrative Fiction is organized arround issues - such as events, time, ... Read more

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