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Philosophy of the Arts
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 29.95A new edition of this bestselling introduction to aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Includes new sections on digital music and environmental aesthetics. All other chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated. more...
Six Names of Beauty
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 35.95Beauty 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... more...
Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts is the first comprehensive collection of papers by philosophers examining the nature of imagination and its role in understanding and making art. Imagination is a central concept in aesthetics with close ties to issues in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, yet it has not received the kind... more...
Art as Performance
Wiley 2008; US$ 142.95In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines. Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the... more...
Aesthetics and the Environment
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 42.95Traditional aesthetics is often associated with the appreciation of art, Allen Carlson shows how much of our aesthetic experience does not encompass art but nature, in our response to sunsets, mountains or horizons or more mundane surroundings, like gardens or the view from our window. He argues that knowledge of what it is we are appreciating is essential... more...
Aesthetics and Subjectivity
Manchester University Press 2003; US$ 74.95Offering an account of the German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self, this text looks at recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities following the path of German philosophy from Kant through Hegel to Nietzsche. more...
The Paradoxes of Art
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 30.00Alan Paskow asks why fictional characters matter to us and how they emotionally affect us. He applies these questions to painting, demonstrating that certain paintings beckon us to view their contents as real. more...
Modernism and the Language of Philosophy
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 155.00Modernism can be characterised by the acute attention it gives to language, to its potential and its limitations. Philosophers, artists and literary critics working in the first third of the twentieth century emphasized language?s creative potential, but also stressed its inability to express meaning completely and accurately. In particular, modernists... more...
Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 34.00In a series of philosophical discussions and artistic case studies, this volume develops a materialist and immanent approach to modern and contemporary art. The argument is made for a return to aesthetics - an aesthetics of affect - and for the theorization of art as an expanded and complex practice. Staging a series of encounters between specific... more...
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...









