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  • A Philosophy of Luxury

    by Lambert Wiesing ...
    Translated by Nancy Ann Roth ...
    In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples, he argues that luxury is an aesthetic experience. Unlike experience gained via the senses, such as seeing, hearing or tasting, he argues that luxury is achieved by possessing something – an aspect of philosophy that has been largely neglected. As such, luxury becomes a gesture of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Visibility of the Image

    History and Perspectives of Formal Aesthetics

    by Lambert Wiesing ...
    Translated by Nancy Ann Roth ...
    Now available in English for the first time, The Visibility of the Image explores the development of an influential aesthetic tradition through the work of six figures. Analysing their contribution to the progress of formal aesthetics, from its origins in Germany in the 1880s to semiotic interpretations in America a century later, the six chapters cover:Robert Zimmermann (1824-1898), the first to ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Perception

    Phenomenology and Image Theory

    by Lambert Wiesing ...
    Translated by Nancy Ann Roth ...
    Lambert Wiesing's The Philosophy of Perception challenges current theories of perception. Instead of attempting to understand how a subject perceives the world, Wiesing starts by taking perception to be real. He then asks what this reality means for a subject. In his original approach, the question of how human perception is possible is displaced by questions about what perception obliges us to be ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    by Wesley Phillips ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting. This is connected to the historical materialist project of social change by way of the radical Italian composer Luigi Nono. ... Read more

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  • Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

    by Georg Hegel ...
    Translated by Bernard Bosanquet ...
    No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity faced complicating - and ultimately disabling - questions. Christianity, with its code of unworldliness, ... Read more

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  • A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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    by Edmund Burke ...
    'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. In short, the Beautiful, according to Burke, is what is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy us. The preference for the Sublime over the Beautiful was to mark the transition from the ... Read more

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  • Ecce Homo

    How One Becomes What One is

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by R. J. Hollingdale ...
    In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a philosopher, examines the heroes he has identified with, struggled against and then overcome - ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

    by Edmund Burke, David Womersley ...
    Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspired by fear and awe, the second an expression of pleasure and serenity. Eloquent and profound, A ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • Disparities

    by Slavoj Žižek ...
    The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Žižek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated.Disparities explores contemporary 'negative' philosophies from Catherine Malabou's plasticity, Julia Kristeva's abjection and Robert Pippin's self ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Imagination and the Imaginary

    by Kathleen Lennon ...
    The concept of the imaginary is pervasive within contemporary thought, yet can be a baffling and often controversial term. In Imagination and the Imaginary, Kathleen Lennon explores the links between imagination - regarded as the faculty of creating images or forms - and the imaginary, which links such imagery with affect or emotion and captures the significance which the world carries for us ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hume

    Edited by David Fate Norton, Jacqueline Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume's thought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche

    Edited by Ken Gemes, John Richardson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The diversity of Nietzsche's books, and the sheer range of his philosophical interests, have posed daunting challenges to his interpreters. This Oxford Handbook addresses this multiplicity by devoting each of its 32 essays to a focused topic, picked out by the book's systematic plan. The aim is to treat each topic at the best current level of philosophical scholarship on Nietzsche. The first group ... Read more

    $44.99 USD