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  • On Music, Value and Utopia

    Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come?

    by Stan Erraught ...
    Series series
    Adorno’s writings are often the starting point for the teaching of popular music studies, usually passing swiftly on, after concluding that ‘he didn’t listen to the right jazz’ or ‘he was a snob’. In this book, using Adorno’s aesthetic theory more generally, a viable philosophical approach to the study of idiomatic, non- standard music is constructed. The links between Adorno’s work and its ... Read more

    $46.99 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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  • Gesture of Awareness

    A Radical Approach to Time, Space, and Movement

    by Charles Genoud ...
    From a major mind of Buddhism today comes this unique philosophical work, which hearkens back to the classical verse-form, but in a modern voice that speaks directly to the twenty-first century reader and practitioner.Gesture of Awareness involves a fascinating philosophical exploration of time, space, and movement but at the same time is a manual for an embodied "practice of exploration."Genoud ... Read more

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  • Philosophy's Artful Conversation

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  • Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

    by Georg W. F. Hegel ...
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a late 18th and early 19th century German philosopher, was one of the foremost thinkers of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism. He created a framework known as Absolute Idealism that was able to account for the relation of the mind, ... Read more

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  • What Art Is

    The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand

    by Michelle Kamhi, Louis Torres ...
    What is art? The arts establishment has a simple answer: anything is art if a reputed artist or expert says it is. Though many people are skeptical about the alleged new art forms that have proliferated since the early twentieth century, today's critics claim that all such work, however incomprehensible, is art.A groundbreaking alternative to this view is provided by philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand ... Read more

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  • The Sympathy of Things

    Ruskin and the Ecology of Design

    by Lars Spuybroek ...
    'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era.Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth century and learn to understand the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin, ... Read more

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  • Philosophers on Music

    Experience, Meaning, and Work

    Edited by Kathleen Stock ...
    Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work presents significant new contributions to central issues in the philosophy of music, written by leading philosophers working in the analytic tradition. Music is an increasingly popular object of reflection for professional philosophers, as it raises special questions not only of relevance to music practitioners, theorists, and philosophers of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • And Slowly Beauty

    by Michel Nadeau ...
    Translated by Maureen Labonté ...
    Everything changes on what begins as a typical day in the life of the aptly named Mr. Mann, a forty-eight-year-old, buttoned-down, middle-management type in a pinstriped grey suit, who feels himself losing touch with his job, his wife, his children, and the rest of his urban life. He wins tickets to a production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters and realizes that the mid-life cocoon he has spun around ... Read more

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  • The Ground of the Image

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Jeff Fort ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    The renowned philosopher provides "noteworthy contributions to themes connected with images, imagination, representation, aesthetics, and . . . religion." — Journal of American Academy of ReligionWhat is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image—which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the figures of an image—which never does ... Read more

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  • Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Visual Art

    Edited by Ian Buchanan, Lorna Collins ...
    Series series Schizoanalytic Applications
    The concept of schizoanalysis is Deleuze and Guattari's fusion of psychoanalytic-inspired theories of the self, the libido and desire with Marx-inspired theories of the economy, history and society. Schizoanalysis holds that art's function is both political and aesthetic – it changes perception. If one cannot change perception, then, one cannot change anything politically. This is why Deleuze and ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance

    New Materialisms

    Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance brings cultural studies’ perspectives to bear on Arts practices. Each contribution synthesizes creative approaches to philosophy and new materialist understanding of practice to show how human-nonhuman interaction at the core of Arts practice is a critical post human pedagogy.Across fine art, dance, gallery education, film and philosophy, the book contends ... Read more

    $48.99 USD