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  • The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer

    Edited by Ridvan Askin, Catherine Diederich, Aline Bieri ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Soccer has long been known as 'the beautiful game'. This multi-disciplinary volume explores soccer, soccer culture, and the representation of soccer in art, film, and literature, using the critical tools of aesthetics, poetics, and rhetoric.Including international contributions from scholars of philosophy, literary and cultural studies, linguistics, art history, and the creative arts, this book ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Fashion

    A Philosophy

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Donatella Versace and Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent and Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci: fashion is at once a familiar yet mysteriously elite world that we all experience, whether we’re buying a new pair of jeans, reading Vogue, or watching the latest episode of America*’*s Next Top Model. Lars Svendsen dives into this world in Fashion: A Philosophy, exploring the myths, ideas, ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance

    Edited by Judith Rugg, Michèle Sedgwick ...
    Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, it proposes new approaches to curating and ways of developing critical enquiry about this increasingly expanding field. Focusing on pertinent issues in curating contemporary art and performance, the book's ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Soccer and Philosophy

    Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game

    by Ted Richards ...
    Series Book 51 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    This collection of incisive articles gives a leading team of international philosophers a free kick toward exploring the complex and often hidden contours of the world of soccer. What does it really mean to be a fan (and why should we count Aristotle as one)? Why do great players such as Cristiano Ronaldo count as great artists (up there alongside Picasso, one author argues)? From the ethics of ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Critical Architecture

    Edited by Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Mark Dorrian, Murray Fraser ...
    Series series Critiques
    Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to modes of criticism in other disciplines - specifically art criticism - and considers how critical practice in architecture operates through a number of different modes ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Graphic Design as Communication

    by Malcolm Barnard ...
    What is the point of graphic design? Is it advertising or is it art? What purpose does it serve in our society and culture? Malcolm Barnard explores how meaning and identity are at the core of every graphic design project and argues that the role and function of graphic design is, and always has been, communication. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches including those of Derrida, Saussure, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • A Companion to Translation Studies

    by Piotr KUHIWCZAK and Karin Littau ...
    A Companion to Translation Studies is the first work of its kind. It provides an authoritative guide to key approaches in translation studies. All of the essays are specially commissioned for this collection, and written by leading international experts in the field. The book is divided into nine specialist areas: culture, philosophy, linguistics, history, literary, gender, theatre and opera, ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • From Ritual to Record

    The Nature of Modern Sports

    by Allen Guttmann ...
    Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras, have profoundly shaped contemporary life. ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Museum Making

    Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions

    Edited by Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built museums and galleries, suggesting a fundamental re-evaluation of the processes of designing and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Our Broad Present

    Time and Contemporary Culture

    by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to use concepts inherited from a "historicist" viewpoint, a notion of time articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Barthes' Mythologies Today

    Readings of Contemporary Culture

    Edited by Pete Bennett, Julian McDougall ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This is Barthes’ seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and culture. Leading academics in media, English, education, and cultural studies here are tasked with identifying the "new ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Sport

    Key Questions

    by Dr Emily Ryall ...
    An accessible and comprehensive guide to the philosophy of sportEach chapter is framed by a question that explores the main issues, ideas and literature in the field ranging from questions about the nature and value of sport, the sporting body, aesthetics and ethics. Students are given the opportunity to consider significant debates in the philosophy of sport and each chapter is supplemented by ... Read more

    $32.39 USD