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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Dust

    by Dr. Michael Marder ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking the passage of time. In itself, it is also a gathering place, a random community of what has been and what is yet to be, a catalog of traces and a set of ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film

    Edited by Paisley Livingston, Carl Plantinga ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film is the first comprehensive volume to explore the main themes, topics, thinkers and issues in philosophy and film. The Companion features sixty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars and is divided into four clear parts:• issues and concepts• authors and trends• genres• film as philosophy.Part one is a comprehensive section ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Immortal Comedy

    The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life

    by Agnes Heller ...
    Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In both its subject and style, Immortal Comedy is a seminal book. In it, Heller takes us on a journey ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Attending to Movement

    Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World

    Edited by Sarah Whatley, Natalie Garrett Brown, Kirsty Alexander ...
    This edited collection draws on the conference, Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World, run at C-DaRE, the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 12 – 14 July, 2013.Somatic practitioners, dance artists and scholars from a wide range of subject domains cross discipline borders and investigate the approaches that embodied thinking and action can offer to ... Read more

    $32.86 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When the Machine Made Art

    The Troubled History of Computer Art

    by Grant D. Taylor ...
    Series series International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics
    Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Machine Made Art examines the cultural and critical response to computer art, or what we refer to today as digital art. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Narrating the Catastrophe

    An Artist’s Dialogue with Deleuze and Ricoeur

    by Jac Saorsa ...
    An extraordinary collaboration between contemporary art and critical discourse, Narrating the Catastrophe guides readers through unfamiliar textual landscapes where “being” is defined as an act rather than a form. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur’s notion of intersubjective narrative identity as well as the catastrophe theory of Gilles Deleuze, Jac Saorsa establishes an alternative perspective from which ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Visible and the Invisible in the Interplay between Philosophy, Literature and Reality

    Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Merleau-Ponty's categories of the visible and the invisible are investigated afresh and with originality in this penetrating collection of literary and philosophical inquiries. Going beyond the traditional and current references to the mental and the sensory, mind and body, perceptual content and the abstract ideas conveyed in language, etc., these studies range from the `hidden spheres of reality ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters

    The Relevance of Ancient Wisdom for the Global Age

    Edited by Ming Dong Gu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
    Traditional Chinese philosophy, if engaged at all, is often regarded as an object of antiquated curiosity and dismissed as unimportant in the current age of globalization.Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this book, however, challenges this judgement and offers an in-depth study of pre-modern Chinese philosophy from an interdisciplinary perspective. Exploring the relevance of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Kant in Brazil

    Edited by Frederick Rauscher, Daniel Omar Perez ...
    Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best work on Kant produced by Brazilian scholars. The availability of this material in English for the first time will promote interaction between North American and Brazilian scholars as well as enable Anglophone readers ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Against Value in the Arts and Education

    Edited by Sam Ladkin, Robert McKay, Emile Bojesen ...
    Series series Disruptions
    Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its painful truths, and by instrumentalizing its ambivalence. The result is that rather than expanding the autonomy of thought and feeling of the artist and the audience, art’s defenders make art self-satisfied ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain

    One Hundred Years Later

    by Robert Kilroy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book marks the centenary of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain by critically re-examining the established interpretation of the work. It introduces a new methodological approach to art-historical practice rooted in a revised understanding of Lacan, Freud and Slavoj Žižek. In weaving an alternative narrative, Kilroy shows us that not only has Fountain been fundamentally misunderstood but that this very ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Aesthetic Ground of Critical Theory

    New Readings of Benjamin and Adorno

    Edited by Nathan Ross ...
    Series series Founding Critical Theory
    Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno are considered today to be the two most significant early theorists in founding critical theory. In their works and correspondence, both thinkers turn to art and the aesthetic as a vital way for understanding modern society and developing philosophical methods. This volume of original essays seeks to understand how they influenced each other and disagreed with ... Read more

    $48.59 USD