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  • Treatise on Consequences

    by John Buridan ...
    Translated by Stephen Read ...
    Series series Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies
    The rediscovery of Aristotle in the late twelfth century led to a fresh development of logical theory, culminating in Buridan’s crucial comprehensive treatment in the Treatise on Consequences. Buridan’s novel treatment of the categorical syllogism laid the basis for the study of logic in succeeding centuries.This new translation offers a clear and accurate rendering of Buridan’s text. It is ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Creative Living in a Consumer Society

    by John Lane ...
    A delightful book, celebrating the wonders of simplicity and minimalism in a noisy, overwhelming world.Our planet was once teeming with all kinds of life, but our grandchildren will inherit one with less than 20 per cent of its early forests still in tact, and thousands of plant and animal species extinct. Sooner or later, a more frugal lifestyle is not only desirable, but will soon be imperative. ... Read more

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  • The Poetics

    by By Aristotle ...
    Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama—comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play—as well as lyric poetry, epic poetry, and the dithyramb). He examines its ... Read more

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  • The Severed Head

    Capital Visions

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the head as symbol and metaphor, as religious object and physical fact, further developing a critical theme in ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Blade Runner

    Edited by Amy Coplan, David Davies ...
    Series series Philosophers on Film
    Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is widely regarded as a "masterpiece of modern cinema" and is regularly ranked as one of the great films of all time. Set in a dystopian future where the line between human beings and ‘replicants’ is blurred, the film raises a host of philosophical questions about what it is to be human, the possibility of moral agency and freedom in ‘created’ life forms, and the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Art: The Question of Definition

    From Hegel to Post-Dantian Theories

    by Tiziana Andina ...
    Translated by Natalia Iacobelli ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy
    Drawing on the philosophies of art developed by the continental authors and studies of Anglo-American philosophers, this book presents a panorama of the philosophy of art. It discusses definitions offered from the analytical school including Arthur Danto's representationalism, Dipert's theories of artefactualism, Dickie's institutional and procedural theories and Levinson's historical and cultural ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Attending to Movement

    Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World

    Edited by Sarah Whatley, Natalie Garrett Brown, Kirsty Alexander ...
    This edited collection draws on the conference, Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World, run at C-DaRE, the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 12 – 14 July, 2013.Somatic practitioners, dance artists and scholars from a wide range of subject domains cross discipline borders and investigate the approaches that embodied thinking and action can offer to ... Read more

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  • Why Only Art Can Save Us

    Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency

    by Santiago Zabala ...
    The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to legitimize themselves, but the ones that political realism stops us from recognizing as emergencies, from widespread surveillance to climate change to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Commitment

    by Piers Benn ...
    Series series The Art of Living
    Most of us care about certain people and things, and some of these concerns become personal commitments, involving our values, our relationships, our work and our religious or political stances. But what is commitement, and why should it matter? Is social commitment - for example, to the family - being eroded by individualism or ironic detachment? And how should we deal with the potential tension ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Atmospheric Architectures

    The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces

    by Professor Gernot Böhme ...
    There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Böhme.Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces brings together Böhme's most seminal writings on the subject, through chapters selected from ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Art and Authority

    Moral Rights and Meaning in Contemporary Visual Art

    by K. E. Gover ...
    People engage with authored works all the time. They buy paintings, read books, download songs - they may even be artists themselves. Very rarely, however, is the concept of authorship brought into question. The basic idea that the artist as an author maintains some kind of claim to his or her creation, even as it circulates in the world at large, seems natural. It is the basis for copyright law ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Cigarette Lighter

    by Jack Pendarvis ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, collectors…. The cigarette lighter is a charged, complex, yet often entirely disposable object that moves across these various groups of people, acquiring and emitting different meanings while always supplying its primary function, that of ignition. While the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD