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  • Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy

    by Peter Cheyne ...
    'PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas' as S. T. Coleridge understood it, is the theme of this book. It considers the most vital and mature vein of Coleridge's thought to be the contemplation of ideas objectively, as existing powers. A theory of ideas emerges in critical engagement with thinkers including Plato, Plotinus, Böhme, Kant, and Schelling. A commitment to the transcendence ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Matter and Life in Coleridge, Schelling, and Other Dynamical Idealists

    Edited by Peter Cheyne ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book, written by renowned historians of philosophy, literature, and science, provides a distinctively interdisciplinary work on matter and life in early-modern Germany and Britain (1600–1850). It interrelates key theories of matter and the life sciences from Jakob Böhme, Ralph Cudworth, G. W. Leibniz, Anthony Cooper (Shaftesbury), Immanuel Kant, J. W. Goethe, Novalis, Friedrich Schelling, G. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Philosophy of Rhythm

    Aesthetics, Music, Poetics

    Edited by Peter Cheyne, Andy Hamilton, Max Paddison ...
    Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience--particularly in sociology, cultural and media theory, and literary studies--has yet to explore this fundamental category. This book furthers the discussion of rhythm beyond the discrete ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life

    Edited by Peter Cheyne ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aesthetics of imperfection with issues in areas including philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art theory, and cultural studies.The contributors to this volume argue that imperfection has value in being open and inclusive. The ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Coleridge and Contemplation

    Edited by Peter Cheyne ...
    Coleridge and Contemplation is a multi-disciplinary volume on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founding poet of British Romanticism, critic, and author of philosophical, political, and theological works. In his philosophical writings, Coleridge developed his thinking about the symbolizing imagination, a precursor to contemplation, into a theory of contemplation itself, which for him occurs in its purest ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    A Philosophical Guide

    by Kieran Setiya ...
    Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle ageHow can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with ... Read more

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  • Philosophy in the Modern World

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series New History of Western Philosophy
    Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two centuries have seen some of the most intriguing and original developments in philosophical thinking, which have ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Eyes of the Skin

    Architecture and the Senses

    by Juhani Pallasmaa ...
    THE EYES OF THE SKINFirst published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense – sight – become so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, it is a subject that has become all the ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

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  • Philosophy as Poetry

    by Richard Rorty, Mary Varney Rorty ...
    Series series Page-Barbour Lectures
    Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy. Rorty was skeptical of systems claiming to have answers, seeing scientific and aesthetic schools as vocabularies rather than as indispensable paths to truth. But his work displays a profound awareness of philosophical tradition and an urgent ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Art Instinct

    Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

    by Denis Dutton ...
    The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary science, in a provocative new work that will revolutionize the way art itself is perceived. Aesthetic taste, argues Denis Dutton, is an evolutionary trait, and is shaped by natural selection. It's not, as almost all contemporary art criticism and academic theory would have it, "socially ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Full Text of 1909 Edition (Illustrated)

    by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ...
    The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter directly. Marx and Engels presented an analytical approach to the class struggle and the problems of capitalism in the book, The Communist Manifesto. The book also contains their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism. However, the book is lack of ... Read more

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  • Levels of Organic Life and the Human

    An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology

    by Helmuth Plessner ...
    Translated by Millay Hyatt ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    The groundbreaking classic of twentieth-century German philosophy now available in English—with an introduction by J.M. Bernstein.Helmuth Plessner's Levels of Organic Life and the Human, draws on phenomenological, biological, and social scientific sources to offer a systematic account of nature, life, and human existence. The book considers non-living nature, plants, non-human animals, and human ... Read more

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