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Aesthetics

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  • Consequences of Enlightenmentby A. J. Cascardi; Anthony Cascardi; Richard Macksey

    Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 39.00

    What 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 of the Artsby Gordon Graham

    Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 41.95

    Philosophy of the Arts presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to those coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time. The third edition is greatly enhanced by new sections on art and beauty, modern art, Aristotle and katharsis, and Hegel. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised with fresh material and extended... more...

  • Aesthetics in a Multicultural Ageby Emory Elliott

    Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 59.99

    These articles address the relation of the arts and criticism to contemporary social, political, and cultural issues of ethnicity, race, class, and gender in the US. The volume provides an assessment of aesthetic theory and practices within the arts and letters of a multicultural society. more...

  • Merit, Aesthetic and Ethicalby Marcia Muelder Eaton

    Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 119.99

    To "look good" and to "be good" have traditionally been held to be two very different things. Philosophers have seen aesthetic and ethical values as fundamentally separate. This work introduces a notion of merit in which "being good" and "looking good" are integrated into one. more...

  • A Changing Worldby Felix Kienast; Sucharita Ghosh; Otto Wildi

    Springer 2007; US$ 79.99

    Landscape Research is established as an interdisciplinary field dealing with complex environmental processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. This book identifies emerging fields and challenges that are discussed within the framework of the "driving forces" of Landscape Development. more...

  • Knowing Artby Matthew Kieran; Dominic McIver Lopes

    Springer 2007; US$ 39.99

    Artworks potentially convey two kinds of knowledge. They afford knowledge of art itself, and they also afford general empirical knowledge, especially knowledge of human psychology and value. This book presents ten original essays written by philosophers who distill and build upon work at the intersection of aesthetics and epistemology. more...

  • Blackwell Guide to Aestheticsby Peter Kivy

    Wiley 2008; US$ 135.95

    The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and music. Provides a guide to the central traditional... more...

  • Art and Ethical Criticismby Garry L. Hagberg

    Wiley 2009; US$ 109.95

    Through a series of essays, Art and Ethical Criticism explores the complex relationship between the arts and morality. Reflects the importance of a moral life of engagement with works of art Forms part of the prestigious New Directions in Aesthetics series, which confronts the most intriguing problems in aesthetics and the philosophy of art today... more...

  • Art in Progressby Maarten Doorman

    Amsterdam University Press 2003; US$ 40.50

    A philosophical essay in support of the argument that progress in art is both possible and necessary. more...

  • The Century of Tasteby George Dickie

    Oxford University Press, USA 1996; US$ 109.99

    The Century of Taste offers an exposition and critical account of the central figures in the early development of the modern philosophy of art. Dickie traces the modern theory of taste from its first formulation by Francis Hutcheson, to blind alleys followed by Alexander Gerard and Archibald Allison, its refinement and complete expression by Hume,... more...