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  • The Poetic Imagination in Heidegger and Schelling

    by Prof. Christopher Yates ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
    The imagination is a decisive, if underappreciated, theme in German thought since Kant. In this rigorous historical and textual analysis, Christopher Yates challenges an oversight of traditional readings by presenting the first comparative study of F.W.J. Schelling and Martin Heidegger on this theme.By investigating the importance of the imagination in the thought of Schelling and Heidegger, Yates ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by Walter Kaufmann ...
    The book Nietzsche called "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of ... Read more

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  • Two Treatises of Government

    by John Locke ...
    The Two Treatises of Government is a defense of the natural rights of individuals, and it argues that governments are created by the consent of the governed and that they have only limited powers. Locke also argues that individuals have the right to overthrow a government that becomes tyrannical.The First Treatise of Government is a critique of the patriarchal theory of government, which was ... Read more

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  • Rites of Way

    The Politics and Poetics of Public Space

    Edited by Mark Kingwell, Patrick Turmel ...
    Series series Canadian Commentaries
    There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public space remains an evanescent and multidimensional concept that too often escapes scrutiny.The essays in Rites of Way: The ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Pragmatist Aesthetics

    Living Beauty, Rethinking Art

    by Richard Shusterman ...
    This much acclaimed book has emerged as neo-pragmatism's most significant contribution to contemporary aesthetics. By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic experience and the art of living, and by providing a compellingly rigorous defense of popular art-crowned by a pioneer study of hip hop-Richard Shusterman reorients aesthetics towards a fresher, more relevant, and socially ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Landscape of Humanity

    Art, Culture and Society

    by Anthony O'Hear ...
    Series Book 10 - St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    The fourteen essays in this book develop a conception of human culture, which is humane and traditionalist. Focusing particularly on notions of beauty and the aesthetic, it sees within our culture intimations of the transcendent, and in two essays the nature of religion is directly addressed. A number of essays also explore the relation between politics and tradition. ... Read more

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  • The Don Giovanni Moment

    Essays on the Legacy of an Opera

    Edited by Lydia Goehr, Daniel Herwitz ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism.The Don Giovanni Moment is the first book to examine the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in ... Read more

    $30.99 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

  • Film Worlds

    A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema

    by Daniel Yacavone ...
    Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the continental and analytic traditions, as well as classical and contemporary film theory, it weaves together multiple strands of thought and analysis to provide new understandings of filmic representation, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Remote Control

    by Dr. Caetlin Benson-Allott ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory has changed the way we occupy our houses, ... Read more

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  • Shadow Philosophy: Plato's Cave and Cinema

    by Nathan Andersen ...
    Shadow Philosophy: Plato’s Cave and Cinema is an accessible and exciting new contribution to film-philosophy, which shows that to take film seriously is also to engage with the fundamental questions of philosophy. Nathan Andersen brings Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange into philosophical conversation with Plato’s Republic, comparing their contributions to themes such as the nature of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Critical Models

    Interventions and Catchwords

    by Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Henry Pickford ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Critical Models combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works — Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969). Written after his return to Germany in 1949, the articles, essays, and radio talks included in this volume speak to the pressing political, cultural, and philosophical concerns of the postwar era. The pieces in Critical ... Read more

    $35.99 USD