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Aesthetics

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  • 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...

  • The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophyby Scott Campbell; Paul W. Bruno

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 100.99

    Lebensphilosophie , central to nineteenth-century philosophical thought, is concerned with the meaning, value and purpose of life. In this much-needed study, historical lebensphilosophie is returned to the core of philosophical investigations and revealed in the contemporary ascendency of 'life' in philosophical thinking. Scholars from aesthetics,... more...

  • Nature of Artby A. L. Cothey

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 163.00

    Although various aesthetic themes have preoccupied many major philosophers, from Plato to Goodman, the central questions of the philosophy of art have remained ill-defined. This book gives a concise and systematic account of the leading philosophical ideas about art and aesthetics from ancient times to the present day, and goes on to propose a new... more...

  • A Companion to Aestheticsby Stephen Davies; David E. Cooper; Robert Hopkins; Robert Stecker; Kathleen Marie Higgins

    Wiley 2009; US$ 218.95

    In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics. Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art Features revised and expanded entries from the first edition, as... more...

  • Selected Writings on Aestheticsby Johann Gottfried Herder; Gregory Moore

    Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 92.50

    A seminal figure in the philosophy of history, culture, and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) also produced some of the most important and original works in the history of aesthetic theory. A student of Kant, he spent much of his life striving to reconcile the opposing poles of Enlightenment thought represented by his early mentors. His... more...

  • Bildung als Kunstby Lars-Thade Ulrichs; Jürgen Stolzenberg

    De Gruyter 2010; US$ 126.00

    This collection illuminates the concept of ?Bildung? in the works of Fichte, Schiller, Humboldt, and Nietzsche. Besides seeking to work out the theoretical contour of aesthetic education in the 18th and 19th centuries, the contributions attempt to make reason known to itself in the interdisciplinary study of ?Bildung?, a concept important in fields... more...

  • Emile Durkheim (4-Volume Set)by Various

    Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 400.00

    This four volume set is dedicated to the work of Emile Durkheim, one of the most important and prolific sociologists in the field, who is commonly cited as a founding father of modern social science. With volumes published between 1975 and 1991, this collection brings together a range of modern critical responses to Durkheim's work across a broad... more...

  • Greek and Roman Aestheticsby Oleg V. Bychkov; Anne Sheppard

    Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 26.00

    An anthology of works commenting on the perception of beauty in art, structure and style in literature, and aesthetic judgement. more...

  • Aesthetics A–Zby Eran Guter

    Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 65.00

    An ideal guide to aesthetics more...