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Theology of the Sublimeby Clayton Crockett
Routledge 2001; US$ 41.95The first major response to the controversial series, Radical Orthodoxy . Develops a constructive radical theology from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant - a philosophy attacked by Radical Orthodoxy . more...
Kitschby Catherine A. Lugg
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 150.00Kitsch-or tacky, simplistic art and art forms-is used by various political actors to shape and limit what we know about ourselves, what we know about our past and our future, as well as what our present-day public policy options might be. Using a plethora of historic and contemporary examples (such as Forrest Gump and Boys Town), the author maps out how kitsch is employed in various political and educational sites to shape public opinion and understandings. more...
Environmental Aestheticsby J. Douglas Porteous
Routledge 1996; US$ 67.95Environmental Aesthetics is a comprehensive introduction. It includes a history of aesthetics, discussing the psychology of human-environment relations, and artistic influences on the city and analysing the roles of policy and planning. more...
On Creativityby David Bohm; Lee Nichol
Routledge 1998; US$ 17.95A collection of essays related directly to the nature of creativity - drawing from Bohm's perceptions as a practicing scientist and edited by Lee Nichol. more...
Opening of Visionby David Michael Levin
Routledge 1988; US$ 43.95Nietzsche and Heidegger saw in modernity a time endangered by nihilism. Starting out from this interpretation, David Levin links the nihilism raging today in Western society and culture to our concrete historical experience with vision. more...
Imagination, Philosophy and the Artsby Matthew Kieran; Dominic McIver Lopes
Routledge 2003; US$ 120.00A fascinating collection of articles looking for the first time at the connection between imagination and philosophy, and its impact on diverse forms of art. more...
Six Names for Beautyby Crispin Sartwell
Routledge 2004; US$ 25.95Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's also in the language we use and everywhere in the world around us. In this elegant, witty, and ultimately profound meditation on what is beautiful, Sartwell begins with six words from six different cultures - ancient Greek's 'to kalon', the Japanese idea of 'wabi-sabi', Hebrew's 'yapha', the Navajo concept 'hozho', Sanskrit 'sundara', and our own English-language 'beauty'. Each word becomes a door onto another way of thinking about, and looking at, what is beautiful in the world, and in our lives. The earthy and the exalted, the imperfect and the ideal: things, spaces, high art, sounds, aromas, nothingness. Sartwell writes about handfuls of beautiful things - among them, a Japanese teapot... more...
Consequences of Enlightenmentby A. J. Cascardi; Anthony Cascardi; Richard Macksey
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 38.00What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment? In Consequences of Enlightenment, Anthony Cascardi argues that postmodern culture does not reject Enlightenment beliefs and explores the link between aesthetics and politics in thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Derrida, Arendt, Nietzsche, Hegel and Wittgenstein. more...
Philosophy And Tragedyby Simon Sparks; Miguel de Beistegui
Routledge 1999; US$ 40.95Philosophy and Tragedy is a compelling contribution to that oversight and the first book to address the topic in a major way. Eleven new essays by internationally renowned philosophers clearly show how time and again, major thinkers have returned to tragedy in many of their key works. Philosophy and Tragedy asks why it is that thinkers as far apart as Hegel and Benjamin should make tragedy such and important strand of philosophy should present itself tragically. From Headgear's reading of Sophocles' Antigone to Nietzsche and Benjamin's book length studies of tragedy, Philosophy and Tragedy presents and outstanding and original study of this preoccupation. more...
Aesthetics And The Environmentby Allen Carlson
Taylor & Francis 2002; US$ 36.95This books presents fresh and fascinating insights into our interpretation of the environment and shows how our aesthetic experience encompasses nature rather than art. more...