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The Reception of British Aesthetics in Germany
Continuum International Publishing 2001; US$ 600.00This is a collection of contemporary translations of seven rare and influential 18th-century British aesthetic texts into German. They are important for understanding the dissemination of intellectual ideas across Europe. more...
New Waves in Aesthetics
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 41.00Leading young scholars present a collection of wide-ranging essays covering central problems in meta-aesthetics and aesthetic issues in the philosophy of mind, as well as offering analyses of key aesthetic concepts, new perspectives on the history of aesthetics, and specialized treatment of individual art forms. more...
Extreme Beauty
Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 150.00What do we mean when we speak of "beauty"? What do we experience? Beauty is no longer the human experience of the harmonious object; today an aesthetics of difference has revolutionised our ways of seeing the beautiful. Now, we live in a time of "extreme beauty." Extreme Beauty explores art, literature, politics, and philosophy... more...
Diotima's Children
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 34.99Diotima's Children is a re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics which prevailed in Germany in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century. It is partly an historical survey of the central figures and themes of this tradition But it is also a philosophical defense of some of its leading ideas, viz., that beauty plays an integral... more...
Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 64.99The ten essays in this collection were written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lectures which became Wilfrid Sellars's Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, one of the crowning achievements of 20th-century analytic philosophy. Both appreciative and critical of Sellars's accomplishment, they engage with his treatment of crucial issues... more...
Transfigurements
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 20.00Transfigurements develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. Sallis exposes new layers in their texts and theories while also marking their limits. By doing so, his aim is to show that philosophy needs to attend to art directly.... more...
Aesthetics and Morality
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 110.00Aesthetic and moral value are often seen to go hand in hand. They do so not only practically, such as in our everyday assessments of artworks that raise moral questions, but also theoretically, such as in Kant’s theory that bea more...
Art and Fear
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 50.00Paul Virilio is one of contemporary Continental thought's most original and provocative critical voices. His vision of the impact of modern technology on the contemporary global condition is powerful and disturbing, ranging over art, science, politics an more...
Neo-Avant-Garde
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 131.60The neo-avant-garde of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, is due for a thoroughgoing reassessment. This collection of essays represents the first full-scale attempt to deal with the concept from an interdisciplinary standpoint. A number of essays in this book concentrate on fine art, particularly painting and sculpture, thereby adding significantly to the growing... more...
A Critical Rationalist Aesthetics
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 56.00This book is a first attempt to cover the whole area of aesthetics from the point of view of critical rationalism. It takes up and expands upon the more narrowly focused work of E. H. Gombrich, Sheldon Richmond, and Raphael Sassower and Louis Ciccotello. The authors integrate the arts into the scientific world view and acknowledge that there is an... more...









