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Philosophy After Postmodernism
Routledge 2003; US$ 161.00Formulating a new approach to philosophy, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization understood as a process of cumulative advance. more...
Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame)
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 22.95The book is a comprehensive phenomenological study of meanings that are unique to the major visual art forms. more...
The Kantian Aesthetic
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 59.99The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant's aesthetics to a critically upgraded account of his theory of knowledge. This upgraded theory emphasizes those conceptual and imaginative structures which Kant terms, respectively, 'categories' and 'schemata'.... more...
Phenomenology of Modern Art
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 75.00As a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned with structure in how phenomena are experienced. The Phenomenology of Modern Art uses phenomenological insights to explain the significance of style in modern art, most notably in Impressionism, Expressionism, Cezanne and Cubism, Duchampian conceptualism and abstract art. Paul Crowther explores... more...
Phenomenologies of Art and Vision
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 23.99Contemporary discussions of the image like to emphasize art's societal functions. Few studies come close to answering why pictures and sculptures fascinate and intrigue regardless of any practical functions they might serve. In this original, thought-provoking study, Paul Crowther reveals the intrinsic significance of pictures and sculptures. To... more...
Meanings of Abstract Art
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 135.00Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature (taking nature in the broadest sense?the world of recognisable... more...
Understanding Modernisation in Criminal Justice
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 210.00How have different criminal justice agencies responded to the modernization process? What forms does modernization take? This book theorizes modernization in the context of criminal justice. It is suitable for those concerned with the administration of criminal justice at both a policy and managerial level. more...
From Luminous Hot Stars to Starburst Galaxies
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 60.00Detailed introduction for graduate students and researchers, which connects the astrophysics of massive stars with the extremes of galaxy evolution. more...
Through a Glass Darkly
University of Alabama Press 2012; US$ 34.95Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;... more...
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