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  • Philosophy of Jazz

    by Daniel Martin Feige ...
    Translated by Nathan Ross ...
    What is jazz? How does it differ from other kinds of music? To what extent is it an important subject for thinking about aesthetic questions? Philosophy of Jazz is among the first book-length philosophical discussions devoted to jazz. Daniel Martin Feige explores the relationship between jazz and European art music, arguing that in jazz central aspects of musical practice are made explicit, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Walter Benjamin Handbook

    Edited by Nathan Ross ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential authors in contemporary humanities, exerting a deep fascination for students and garnering scholarly interest in a variety of fields, such as history of philosophy, literature, film and media studies, political science, religion, architecture, art and history. This Handbook provides students and scholars with a guide to Walter Benjamin’s work that ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • Walter Benjamin’s First Philosophy

    Experience, Ephemerality and Truth

    by Nathan Ross ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin’s first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of body and mind, and the limits of human knowledge.While most attention is paid to Benjamin’s later works, his writings from roughly 1914-1925 explore ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Elder

    And Other Stories

    by Aileen Muhammad, Nathan Ross Freeman, Syed Hosain ...
    Two Philadelphia natives meet at Salem College in Winston Salem. Nathan Ross Freeman is Aileen Muhammad's poetry and screenwriting professor. She believes he is her blood brother by some accidental occurrence. He says maybe in another life. She begins to write stories. He shares his and here they are. The threads that weave the fabric of these stories, the entry into the avenue of the muse and the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Philosophy and Politics of Aesthetic Experience

    German Romanticism and Critical Theory

    by Nathan Ross ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory. In examining the relationship between these two closely intertwined movements, we see that aesthetic experience is not merely a passive response to art—it is the capacity to cultivate true personal autonomy, and to critique the social ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Aesthetic Ground of Critical Theory

    New Readings of Benjamin and Adorno

    Edited by Nathan Ross ...
    Series series Founding Critical Theory
    Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno are considered today to be the two most significant early theorists in founding critical theory. In their works and correspondence, both thinkers turn to art and the aesthetic as a vital way for understanding modern society and developing philosophical methods. This volume of original essays seeks to understand how they influenced each other and disagreed with ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Art as Human Practice

    An Aesthetics

    by Georg W. Bertram ...
    Translated by Nathan Ross ...
    How is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it? This central yet overlooked question in contemporary philosophy of art is at the heart of Georg Bertram's new aesthetic. Drawing on the resources of diverse philosophical traditions – analytic philosophy, French philosophy, and German post-Kantian philosophy – his book offers a systematic ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature

    Edited by Corey McCall, Nathan Ross ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    This collection features original essays that examine Walter Benjamin’s and Theodor Adorno’s essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together, the essays present the view that these two monumental figures of 20th-century philosophy were not simply philosophers who wrote about literature, but that they developed their philosophies in and through their encounters with literature.Benjamin, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy

    by Nathan Ross ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy examines the role of the concept of mechanism in Hegel’s thinking about political and social institutions. It counters as overly simplistic the notion that Hegel has an ‘organic concept of society’. It examines the thought of Hegel’s peers and predecessors who critique modern political intuitions as ‘machine-like’, focusing on J.G. Herder, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Time of the Magicians

    Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

    by Wolfram Eilenberger ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    **“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some performed too many intellectual conjuring tricks.” —Wall Street JournalA grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major ... Read more

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  • Between Word and Image

    Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on Gesture and Genesis

    by Dennis J. Schmidt ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    A groundbreaking examination of word and image through the lenses of modern art and Continental philosophy: "Probing and lucid" (Stephen H. Watson, University of Notre Dame).Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Identifying pivotal moments in the history of philosophy, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics without Vision

    Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century

    by Tracy B. Strong ...
    "Magisterial…a frequently surprising treatment of major political thinkers."— Perspectives on PoliticsFrom Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of ... Read more

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