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  • Media After Deleuze

    by David Savat, Tauel Harper ...
    Series series Deleuze and Guattari Encounters
    Media pervade and saturate the world around us. From the proliferation of social media, to crowdsourcing, big data, games, and more traditional media such as television, radio, and print, media provide the framework for our engagement with the world and each other. By recasting the traditional concerns of media studies through the lens of the work of Deleuze and Guattari this book provides an ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

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  • Death-Devoted Heart

    Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

    by Roger Scruton ...
    A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music, they have denounced the drama as a "mere trifle"--a rendering of Wagner's forbidden love for ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists

    A Critical Reader

    Edited by Christopher Kul-Want ...
    Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual tradition, and psychoanalytic theory, and each is accompanied by an overview and interpretation.The volume features Martin Heidegger on Van Gogh's ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Expressiveness in music performance

    Empirical approaches across styles and cultures

    Edited by Dorottya Fabian, Renee Timmers, Emery Schubert ...
    What does it mean to be expressive in music performance across diverse historical and cultural domains? What are the means at the disposal of a performer in various time periods and musical practice conventions? What are the conceptualisations of expression and the roles of performers that shape expressive performance? This book brings together research from a range of disciplines that use diverse ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Deleuze and the Diagram

    Aesthetic Threads in Visual Organization

    by Dr Jakub Zdebik ...
    Series series Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy
    Deleuze and the Diagram charts Deleuze's corpus according to aesthetic concepts such as the map, the sketch and the drawing to bring out a comprehensive concept of the diagram. In his interrogation of Deleuze's visual aesthetic theory, Jakub Zdebik focuses on artists that hold an important place in Deleuze's system. The art of Paul Klee and Francis Bacon is presented as the visual manifestation of ... Read more

    $39.69 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

    $46.99 USD

  • The Artful Species

    Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution

    by Stephen Davies ...
    The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of thousands of years ago and the art standing of prehistoric cave paintings is virtually uncontested. In Part One, Stephen Davies analyses the key concepts of the aesthetic, art, and evolution, and ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Meditative Beauty of Reading

    by Richard Hazzlewood ...
    Part philosophical treatise, part spiritual meditation, this short work looks at reading from the point of view of subjective experience: how it enlivens the imagination and even provides an alternate world. The author includes personal anecdote, but focuses on a general aesthetic of the reading experience. There are aesthetic ruminations, consideration of the spiritual dimension of reading, and a ... Read more

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  • On Literature

    by J. Hillis Miller ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why should we read literature? How do we read literature? These are some of the important questions J. Hillis Miller answers in this beautifully written and passionate book. He begins by asking what ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers

    Edited by Professor Alessandro Giovannelli ...
    Series series Key Thinkers
    Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. Eighteen specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject, from its origins in the work of the ancient Greeks to contemporary developments in the 21st Century.The book reconstructs the history of aesthetics, clearly illustrating ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding

    Edited by Garry L. Hagberg ...
    Series series Philosophers in Depth
    This book investigates the significance of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for aesthetic understanding. Focusing on the aesthetic elements of Wittgenstein’s philosophical work, the authors explore connections to contemporary currents in aesthetic thinking and the illuminating power of Wittgenstein’s philosophy when considered in connection with the interpretation of specific works of literature, music, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Music and the Emotions

    The Philosophical Theories

    by Malcolm Budd ...
    Series series International Library of Philosophy
    It has often been claimed, and frequently denied, that music derives some or all of its artistic value from the relation in which it stands to the emotions. This book presents and subjects to critical examination the chief theories about the relationship between the art of music and the emotions. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD