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Gadamer's Poetics
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 100.99Gadamers writing on art is typically seen as supporting his philosophical theory of truth. Drawing together a coherent theory of the work of art from the corpus of Gadamers writings, this is the first full-length examination of Gadamer's theory of the work of art in its own right. Close readings of Gadamers treatment of aesthetics... more...
Philosophy and Fiction
Cybereditions 2000; US$ 12.95Peter Lamarque's refreshing, polemical anthology on the philosophy of literature covers the field's key debates: the role of the author, literary appreciation, the nature of fiction, the pleasures of tragedy, and the question of censorship. After a comprehensive and engaging introduction, five robust essays examine the central themes of the aesthetics... more...
The Aesthetic Field
Cybereditions 2001; US$ 12.95Arguing that traditional answers to the question ?What is art?? are partial at best, Arnold Berleant contends that we need to understand art as a complex aesthetic field encompassing all the factors that form the context and experience of art. more...
Place and Experience
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 44.00In this book, Jeff Malpas advances an account of the nature and significance of place as a complex but unitary structure that encompasses self and other, space and time, and subjectivity and objectivity. more...
Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 33.00A wide-ranging and original study of Claude Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic thought. more...
A Philosophy of Gardens
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 24.99Why do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is surprising that the question has been so long neglected by modern philosophy. Now at last there is a philosophy... more...
Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 41.95Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. Yet they have frequently been considered mere deviations from ideal language or obstacles to be avoided in the construction of scientific systems. First published in 1979, Beyond the Letter offers a consecutive study of these features... more...
How to Study Art Worlds
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 35.00This necessary and thought-provoking study brings together the organisational side of the world of the arts and the understanding of the many functions art fulfi lls in our culture. more...
Listening
Fordham University Press 2007; US$ 17.99In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How is listening different from hearing? What does listening entail? How does what is heard differ from what is seen? Can philosophy even address listening, écouter, as opposed to entendre, which means both hearing and understanding?Unlike the... more...
Critique of Judgement
Free Press 2008; US$ 19.95A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...









