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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Cigarette Lighter

    by Jack Pendarvis ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, collectors…. The cigarette lighter is a charged, complex, yet often entirely disposable object that moves across these various groups of people, acquiring and emitting different meanings while always supplying its primary function, that of ignition. While the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Walter Benjamin's Concept of the Image

    by Alison Ross ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    In this book, Alison Ross engages in a detailed study of Walter Benjamin’s concept of the image, exploring the significant shifts in Benjamin’s approach to the topic over the course of his career. Using Kant’s treatment of the topic of sensuous form in his aesthetics as a comparative reference, Ross argues that Benjamin’s thinking on the image undergoes a major shift between his 1924 essay on ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Tao and Trinity: Notes on Self-Reference and the Unity of Opposites in Philosophy

    by S. Austin ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with problems as broad and diverse as how to describe the entire universe, how a system can talk about itself, the relationship between symbols and realities, and the nature of signs and sacraments. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Surrealism: Key Concepts

    Edited by Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Emerging from the disruption of the First World War, surrealism confronted the resulting ‘crisis of consciousness’ in a way that was arguably more profound than any other cultural movement of the time.The past few decades have seen an expansion of interest in surrealist writers, whose contribution to the history of ideas in the twentieth-century is only now being recognised. Surrealism: Key ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • 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

    $2.99 USD

  • The British Aesthetic Tradition

    From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein

    by Timothy M. Costelloe ...
    The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in Britain and beyond in the late twentieth century. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, and is divided into three parts. The first ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Art as Abstract Machine

    Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari

    by Stephen Zepke ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    The aim of this book is to understand what Deleuze and Guattari mean by art. Stephen Zepke argues that art, in their account, is an ontological term and an ontological practice that results in a new understanding of aesthetics. For Deleuze and Guattari understanding what art is means understanding how it works, what it does, how it becomes, and finally, how it lives. This book illuminates these ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Hiroshima After Iraq

    Three Studies in Art and War

    by Rosalyn Deutsche ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Many on the left lament an apathy or amnesia toward recent acts of war. Particularly during the George W. Bush administration's invasion of Iraq, opposition to war seemed to lack the heat and potency of the 1960s and 1970s, giving the impression that passionate dissent was all but dead.Through an analysis of three politically engaged works of art, Rosalyn Deutsche argues against this melancholic ... Read more

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  • The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust

    Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque

    by Michel Delville, Andrew Norris ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body’s heterogeneity and plasticity can reveal. From literary motif or psychosomatic symptom to revolutionary gesture or existential malady, the double crux of hunger and disgust is a powerful force which can define the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge

    by M. Rosengren ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Using the example of prehistoric paintings discovered in the late 19th century in Spain and France Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge inquires into epistemic questions related to images, depicting and perception that this rich material has given rise to. The book traces the outline of the doxa of cave art studies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger

    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

    $49.49 USD

  • The Human Eros

    Eco-ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence

    by Thomas M. Alexander ...
    Series series American Philosophy
    In these philosophical essays, a leading John Dewey scholar presents a new conceptual framework for exploring human experience as it relates to nature.The Human Eros explores themes in classical American philosophy, primarily the thought of John Dewey, but also that of Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Santayana, and Native American traditions. Using these works as a critical base, Thomas M. Alexander ... Read more

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