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  • Sensibility and Sense

    The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World

    by Arnold Berleant ...
    Series Book 6 - St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an aesthetic mode of experience. Extending the range of aesthetic experience from the stone of the earth ... Read more

    $20.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social Aesthetics of Human Environments

    Critical Themes

    by Arnold Berleant ...
    Across these essays Arnold Berleant demonstrates how aesthetic values and theory can be used to reappraise our social practices. He tackles issues within the built environment, everyday life, and politics, breaking down the dichotomy between the natural and the human. His work represents a fresh approach to traditional philosophical questions in not only ethics, but in metaphysics, truth, meaning, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts

    by Colin Martindale, Paul Locher, Arnold Berleant, Vladimir Petrov ...
    Series series Foundations and Frontiers in Aesthetics Series
    In this book, well-known scholars describe new and exciting approaches to aesthetics, creativity and psychology of the arts, approaching these topics from a point of view that is biological or related to biology and answering new questions with new methods and theories. All known societies produce and enjoy arts such as literature, music and visual decoration or depiction. Judging from prehistoric ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Re-thinking Aesthetics

    Rogue Essays on Aesthetics and the Arts

    by Arnold Berleant ...
    The essays, collected by Berleant in this volume all express the impulse to reject the received wisdom of modern aesthetics: that art demands a mode of experience sharply different from others and unique to the aesthetic situation, and that the identity of the aesthetic lies in keeping it distinct from other kinds of human experience, such as the moral, the practical, and the social. Berleant ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Ecocritical Aesthetics

    Language, Beauty, and the Environment

    by Arnold Berleant, Greta Gaard, Janine DeBaise, Mark Luccarelli, Cynthia Miller, Tyler Nickl, Serpil Oppermann, Shaun Anne Tangney, Frank Stewart, Tim Hunt, Werner Bigell, Yuki Masami ...
    This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity, environmental justice and activism, and human moral responsibility for the environment, these contributions demonstrate that beauty is not ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Aesthetics beyond the Arts

    New and Recent Essays

    by Arnold Berleant ...
    Taking the view that aesthetics is a study grounded in perception, the essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways. They reinvigorate our understanding of such arts as music and architecture; they range across the natural landscape to the urban one; they reassess the place of beauty in the modern environment and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Neuroaesthetics

    by Martin Skov, Oshin Vartanian, Colin Martindale, Arnold Berleant ...
    Series series Foundations and Frontiers in Aesthetics Series
    The beginning of psychological aesthetics is normally traced back to the publication of Gustav Theodor Fechner's seminal book "Vorschule der Aesthetik" in 1876. Following in the footsteps of this rich tradition, editors Martin Skov and Oshin Vartanian view neuroaesthetics - the emerging field of inquiry concerned with uncovering the ways in which aesthetic behavior is caused by brain processes - ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Aesthetics and Environment

    Variations on a Theme

    by Arnold Berleant ...
    The essays collected in Aesthetics and Environment comprise a set of variations on art and culture guided by the theme of environment. The essays deal with the physical reality of environment such as the city, the shore, the water and the garden, but also with the virtual environment and the social one. Environmental aesthetics is a theme whose variations are as endless as the possibilities of the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    by Paul Kidder ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    Providing a concise and accessible introduction to the work of the celebrated twentieth century German philosopher, Hans-Georg Gadamer, this book focuses on the aspects of Gadamer’s philosophy that have been the most influential among architects, educators in architecture, and architectural theorists.Gadamer’s philosophy of art gives a special place to the activity of "play" as it occurs in ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • What Is Posthumanism?

    by Cary Wolfe ...
    Series Book 8 - Posthumanities
    What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities—posthumanities—respond to the redefinition of humanity’s place in the world by both the technological and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Literary Theory Toolkit

    A Compendium of Concepts and Methods

    by Herman Rapaport ...
    The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context.Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all periods and genresFeatures a chapter on performance, something not usually covered in similar textsCovers differing theories of the public sphere, ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Philosophy of Art

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Noël Carroll ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics.It introduces the techniques of analytic philosophy as well as key topics such as the representational theory of art, formalism, neo-formalism, aesthetic theories of art, neo-Wittgensteinism, the Institutional Theory of Art. as well as historical approaches to the nature of art.Throughout ... Read more

    $55.99 USD