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Transfigured Stages
Editions Rodopi 2011; US$ 48.00Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia captures the excitement of a key period in the emergence of postdramatic theatre in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. It is the first book to discuss work by The Sydney Front (1986 1993) and Open City (1987 ), and engages contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory... more...
The Hidden Order Of Art
Orion 2011; Not AvailableA revealing study into the relationship between psychology and the arts. more...
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
Penguin Books Ltd 2004; Not AvailableNo philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects ? despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity faced complicating ? and ultimately disabling ? questions.... more...
The Birth of Tragedy
Penguin Books Ltd 2003; Not AvailableA compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche?s first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner, to whom this work was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between its two central forces: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac,... more...
Blanchot and Literary Criticism
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 22.95Blanchot's writings on literature have imposed themselves in the canon of modern literary theory and yet have remained a mysterious presence. This is in part due to their almost hypnotic literary style, in part due to their distinctive amalgam of a number of philosophical sources (Hegel, Heidegger, Levinas, Bataille), which, although hardly unknown... more...
New Philosophies of Film
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 100.00The relationship between film and philosophy has become a topic of intense intellectual interest. But how should we understand this relationship? Can philosophy renew our understanding of film? Can film challenge or even transform how we understand philosophy? New Philosophies of Film explores these questions in relation to both analytic and Continental... more...
Art, Self and Knowledge
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 23.99Art can provide us with a sensory experience that provokes us to reconfigure how we think about our world and ourselves. Theories of art have often sought to find some feature of art that isolates it from the rest of experience. Keith Lehrer argues, in opposition, that art is connected, not isolated, from how we think and feel, represent and react.... more...
Critique of Judgement
Free Press 2008; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
The Concept of the Beautiful
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 64.99This book details the history of the concept of the beautiful, starting with a distinction between the 'warm' metaphysics of beauty and the 'cold' one modeled on Plato's Janus-faced relationship to beauty, and ending with a fragmented yet hopeful vision propagated by the likes of Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Adorno. The most important intellectual figures... more...
The Art Kettle
John Hunt Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99The theme of 'disinterest' is a dominant one in philosophical accounts of aesthetic experience, and, unlike many philosophical themes, it has had and continues to have a huge effect, on presuppositions about the nature of judgment, of feeling, of art, of resistance, of all of those experiences and activities that appear to operate at least partly... more...









