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Aesthetics

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  • Skønhedby Dorthe Jørgensen

    Aarhus University Press 2006; US$ 19.88

    Hvorfor spilde tiden på skønhed i en verden fuld af problemer? Med dette provokerende spørgsmål indleder filosof og idéhistoriker Dorthe Jørgensen sin undersøgelse af, hvad skønhed er, og hvordan den kan hjælpe os i vor søgen efter det gode liv. Hun fortæller ikke bare om, hvad kunstnere og tænkere forstår ved skønhed. Hun undersøger også, hvilke skønhedsforståelser,... more...

  • Exploring Textual Actionby Lars Sætre; Anders Kristian Strand; Mads Thygesen

    Aarhus University Press 2010; US$ 32.48

    Exploring Textual Action questions how we analyse works of art after the performative turn and shows how the interplay of performativity (textual action), space and topography, and the converging of genres and art forms is essential in modern drama, theatre, prose fiction, poetry and film. The volume also fosters a keen concern for the development... more...

  • Death-Devoted Heartby Roger Scruton

    Oxford University Press, USA 2003; US$ 18.99

    A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music, they have denounced the drama as a "mere... more...

  • Greek Aesthetic Theory (RLE: Plato)by J G Warry

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 100.00

    This book provides a clear and informed account of aesthetic and callistic concepts as they occur in the works of Plato and Aristotle. The author illustrates their ideas on art and beauty by close reference to their texts and finds a profound similarity which unites them, revealing many of their differences to be complementary aspects of an essentially... more...

  • The Educational Imperativeby University of Sussex. Peter Abbs Lecturer in Education

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 58.95

    Written with both the cultural and moral crisis and the challenge of the future in mind, Peter Abbs's book charts an open, clear, and positive way forward for education. Divided into four sections, the first examines the true and fitting ends of education and outlines a positive conception of education as an initiation into critical enquiry and the... more...

  • Marginal Modernityby Leonardo Lisi

    Fordham University Press 2012; US$ 44.99

    Two ways of understanding the aesthetic organization of literary works have come down to us from the late 18th century and dominate discussions of European modernism today: the aesthetics of autonomy, associated with the self-sufficient work of art, and the aesthetics of fragmentation, practiced by the avant-gardes. In this revisionary study, Leonardo... more...

  • The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenmentby Stefanie Buchenau

    Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 79.00

    Stefanie Buchenau explores the philosophical and conceptual origins of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. more...

  • On Beauty and Being Justby Elaine Scarry

    Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 16.95

    Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political... more...

  • The A to Z of Aestheticsby Dabney Townsend

    Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 33.99

    The A to Z of Aesthetics covers its history from Classical Greece to the present, including entries on non-western aesthetics. The book contains a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the main concepts, terminology, important persons (philosophers, critics, and artists), and the... more...

  • Walter Paterby Denis Donoghue

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 28.00

    A TWENTIETH-CENTURY intellectual of the first rank presents the case for the nineteenth-century aesthetician whose elegant subversions delivered us to modernism. Walter Pater (1839-1894) was an obscure Oxford don until 1873, when his first book, The Renaissance, exposed his argument favoring sensation over though and, in doing so, ignited a hard,... more...