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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Waste

    by Dr. Brian Thill ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it's also waste-or was, or will be. All that is needed is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance. Waste is not merely the field of discarded objects, but the name we give to our troubled ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Nature

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a fabulous philosophical interpretation of nature and how it influences man physically and spiritually. Emerson's writing is redolent with the wonder of the true romantic, but never sinks to the level of maudlin fluff. ... Read more

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  • Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

    by Georg Hegel ...
    Translated by Bernard Bosanquet ...
    No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity faced complicating - and ultimately disabling - questions. Christianity, with its code of unworldliness, ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Aesthetico-Political

    The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière

    by Dr. Martín Plot ...
    This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy.First, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help delineate the contours of an aesthetico-political understanding of democracy, which is developed further by studying Merleau-Ponty, Rancière, and Arendt.The ideas of Merleau-Ponty serve to ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Savoring Disgust

    The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics

    by Carolyn Korsmeyer ...
    Disgust is among the strongest of aversions, characterized by involuntary physical recoil and even nausea. Yet paradoxically, disgusting objects can sometimes exert a grisly allure, and this emotion can constitute a positive, appreciative aesthetic response when exploited by works of art -- a phenomenon labelled here "aesthetic disgust." While the reactive, visceral quality of disgust contributes ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Adorno's Modernism

    Art, Experience, and Catastrophe

    by Espen Hammer ...
    Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetics has dominated discussions about art and aesthetic modernism since World War II, and continues to inform contemporary theorizing. Situating Adorno's aesthetic theory in the context of post-Kantian European philosophy, Espen Hammer explores Adorno's critical view of art as engaged in reconsidering fundamental features of our relation to nature and reality. His book is ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Placing Aesthetics

    Reflections on the Philosophic Tradition

    by Robert E. Wood ...
    Series Book 18 - Series in Continental Thought
    Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics seeks to locate the aesthetic concern within the larger framework of each thinker’s philosophy.In Professor Robert Wood’s study, aesthetics is not peripheral but rather central to the speculative tradition and to human existence ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Soul of Film Theory

    by S. Cooper ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected concept of the soul and to trace its changing fortunes. The Soul of Film Theory charts the legacy of this multi-faceted, contested term, from the classical to the contemporary era. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • De Gustibus

    Arguing About Taste and Why We Do It

    by Peter Kivy ...
    In De Gustibus Peter Kivy deals with a question that has never been fully addressed by philosophers of art: why do we argue about art? We argue about the 'facts' of the world either to influence people's behaviour or simply to get them to see what we take to be the truth about the world. We argue over ethical matters, if we are ethical 'realists,' because we think we are arguing about 'facts' in ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature

    by Ulrich Plass ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Language and History in Theodor W. Adorno's Notes to Literature explores Adorno’s essays on literature as an independent contribution to his aesthetics with an emphasis on his theory and practice of literary interpretation. Essential to Adorno’s essays is his unorthodox treatment of language and history and his elaboration of the links between the two. One of Adorno’s major but often-neglected ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysics and Aesthetics

    Edited by Reinier Munk ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in German Idealism
    This book presents an extended dialogue in essay form between specialists in the work of Moses Mendelssohn, and experts in important trends in related late-seventeenth and eighteenth century thought. The first group of contributors explores themes in Mendelssohn’s metaphysics and aesthetics, presenting both their internal argumentative coherence and their historical context. The second outlines ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology

    Edited by Susan Hallam, Michael Thaut, Ian Cross ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology updates the original landmark text and provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. Covering both experimental and theoretical perspectives, each of the 11 sections is edited by an internationally recognised authority in the area. The first ten parts present chapters that focus on ... Read more

    $51.99 USD