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Music, Art, and Metaphysics
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 34.99This is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson's 1990 book Music, Art, and Metaphysics, which gathers together the writings that made him a leading figure in contemporary aesthetics. Most of the essays are distinguished by a concern with metaphysical questions about artworks and their properties, but other essays address the problem of art's... more...
Critique of Judgement
Free Press 2008; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Danto and His Critics
Wiley 2012; US$ 103.95Updated and revised, the Second Edition of Danto and His Critics presents a series of essays by leading Danto scholars who offer their critical assessment of the influential works and ideas of Arthur C. Danto, the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and long-time art critic for The Nation . Reflects... more...
An Ethics of Improvisation
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 64.99This book explores the intersection of improvised music-making and political community-building, with particular attention to creative ways to redress historic injustices and to constitute responsive, democratic societies. more...
Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 29.99Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual tradition, and psychoanalytic theory, and each is accompanied by an overview and interpretation. ... more...
Afterimage of Empire
University of Minnesota Press 2012; US$ 90.00Afterimage of Empire provides a philosophical and historical account of early photography in India that focuses on how aesthetic experiments in colonial photography changed the nature of perception. Considering photographs from the Sepoy Revolt of 1857 along with landscape, portraiture, and famine photography, Zahid R. Chaudhary explores larger issues... more...
The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 34.99Joseph Margolis, known for his considerable contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics, pragmatism, and American philosophy, has focused primarily on the troublesome concepts of culture, history, language, agency, art, interpretation, and the human person or self. For Margolis, the signal problem has always been the same: how can we distinguish... more...
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 149.99Music education thrives on philosophical inquiry, the systematic and critical examination of beliefs and assumptions. Yet philosophy, often considered abstract and irrelevant, is often absent from the daily life of music instructors. In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, editors Wayne D. Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega have drawn together... more...
On Art and Life
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 9.99Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals... more...
Nuclear Futurism
John Hunt Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99In the time of ends, the most dangerous technology of nuclear weapons confronts us with a new philosophy of the future. more...









