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Reason's Grief
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 37.00Harris takes W. B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics. We must accept an ethical perspective that avoids fantasies about redemption yet finds a way to think and act with both passion and hope. more...
Kant and the Power of Imagination
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00An exploration of imagination as a creative power in Kants aesthetics and his philosophical enterprise. more...
The Sublime
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 24.95Often labelled as ?indescribable?, the sublime is a term that has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists. Usually related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. Offering historical overviews and explanations, Philip... more...
Sociology,, Religion and Grace
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 44.95Grace is a central concept of theology, while the term also has a wide range of meanings in many fields. For the first time in book format, the sociology of grace (or enchantment) is comprehensively explained in detail, with fascinating results. The author?s writings on this topic take the reader on an intriguing journey which traverses subjects... more...
Aesthetic Ideology
University of Minnesota Press 1996; US$ 60.00Offers the definitive resource to de Man's thoughts on philosophy, politics, and history. The texts collected here were written or delivered as lectures during the last years of de Man's life, between 1977 and 1983. Many of them have never been available previously in any form. more...
Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller and Jung, Volume 1
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 42.95In this volume, Paul Bishop investigates the extent to which analytical psychology draws on concepts found in German classical aesthetics. It aims to place analytical psychology in the German-speaking tradition of Goethe and Schiller, with which Jung was well acquainted. Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics argues that analytical... more...
Aesthetic Experience
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 49.95In this volume, a team of internationally respected contributors theorize the concept of aesthetic experience and its value. Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presuppositions of what constitutes aesthetic experience, the book aims to re-explore and affirm the place of aesthetic experience--in its evaluative, phenomenological... more...
The Total Work of Art
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 36.95The Total Work of Art provides a broad survey that incorporates many canonical artists into a single narrative. With particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern theatre and performance, this brief introduction will also be of interest to students in such fields as film studies, music history, history of art, cultural... more...
Marvelous Images
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 23.99Introduction. Part I: Aesthetic and Moral Values. 1. "How Marvelous": Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value. Postscripts to "How Marvelous!". 2. The Test of Time. 3. Morals in Fiction and Fictional Morality. 4. On the (So-Called) Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance. Part II: Pictures and Photographs. 5. Pictures & Hobby Horses: Make-Believe... more...
Philosophy and Conceptual Art
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 44.99Fourteen prominent analytic philosophers engage with the philosophical puzzles raised by conceptual art: What kind of art is conceptual art? What follows from the fact that conceptual art does not aim to have aesthetic value? What knowledge or understanding can we gain from conceptual art? How ought we to appreciate conceptual art? - ;The fourteen... more...









