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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Tree

    by Matthew Battles ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower over us and yet fade into background. Their lifespan outstrips ours, and yet their wisdom remains inscrutable, treasured up in the heartwood. They serve ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs

    by Soren Kierkegaard, Edward F. Mooney ...
    Translated by M.G. Piety ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love' So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard's pseudonymous narrator, is a repetition, and in the course of this witty, playful work Constantius explores the nature of love and happiness, the passing of time and the importance of moving forward (and backward). The ... Read more

    $10.99 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 Intellectual and His People

    Staging the People Volume 2

    by Jacques Ranciere ...
    Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Rancière from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive and original way with current political and cultural issues, including the “discovery” of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Chaos Imagined

    Literature, Art, Science

    by Martin Meisel ...
    The stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world—our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art—are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine and even harder to represent. In this book, Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • 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

    $15.99 USD

  • Badiou and His Interlocutors

    Lectures, Interviews and Responses

    by Alain Badiou ...
    This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou – one concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It also includes six ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

    Edited by Professor Arindam Chakrabarti ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy
    The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art provides an extensive research resource to the burgeoning field of Asian aesthetics. Featuring leading international scholars and teachers whose work defines the field, this unique volume reflects the very best scholarship in creative, analytic, and comparative philosophy.Beginning with a philosophical reconstruction ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Life In The Infinite : EXPANSIO

    The Incomplete Range

    by Ethan Lesley ...
    Series series The Incomplete Range
    Life In The Infinite is the first release for my very first free verse poetry collection, The Incomplete Range. Infinite deals with the basics of human emotion, existentialism, ageing, self-destruction, identity, and mid-life crises. Expansio edition features a total of 25 poems. ... Read more

    $5.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Style and Creativity in Design

    by Chiu-Shui Chan ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book looks at causative reasons behind creative acts and stylistic expressions. It explores how creativity is initiated by design cognition and explains relationships between style and creativity. The book establishes a new cognitive theory of style and creativity in design and provides designers with insights into their own cognitive processes and styles of thinking, supporting a better ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ineffability and Philosophy

    by André Kukla ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    Presenting a fascinating analysis of the idea of what can't be said, this book ascertains whether the notion of there being a truth, or a state of affairs, or knowledge that can't be expressed linguistically is a coherent notion. The author distinguishes different senses in which it might be said that something can't be said.The first part looks at the question of whether ineffability is a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Oxi: An Act of Resistance

    The Screenplay and Commentary, Including interviews with Derrida, Cixous, Balibar and Negri

    by Martin McQuillan, Ken McMullen ...
    Oxi (Gr. Determiner, lit. ‘No’, fig. ‘Resistance’, pronounced ‘ochi’) retells Sophocles’ Antigone through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern European philosophy. A collaboration between the renowned British auteur Ken McMullen and the literary theorist Martin McQuillan, the film draws upon and responds to the importance of the Antigone of modern thought (Hegel, Arendt, Lacan, Derrida, Butler ... Read more

    $29.99 USD