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Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical
By: Eaton, Marcia Muelder
Published by: Oxford University Press (US)
To "look good" and to "be good" have traditionally been held to be two very different things. Philosophers have seen aesthetic and ethical values as fundamentally separate. This work introduces a notion of merit in which "being good" and "looking good" are integrated into one.
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Price: $120.00
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Mind in Art
By: Dorn, Charles M.
Published by: Routledge
This book is for the reader who believes that thinking about and making art is intelligent behavior and that art as a subject in the K-12 school curriculum should not be used as an alibi for other curricular objectives. It examines and makes explicit thos
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Price: $41.95
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Mirrors to One Another
By: Dadlez, E. M.
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austen’s literary themes and characters with David Hume’s views on morality and human nature.:.; Argues that the normative perspectives endorsed in Jane Austen's novels are best characterized in terms of a Humean approach, and that the merits of Hume's account of ethical, aesthetic and epistemic virtue are vividly illustrated by Austen's writing.; Illustrates how Hume and Austen complement one another, each providing a lens that allows us to expand and elaborate on the ideas of the other.; Proposes that literature may serve as a thought experiment, articulating hypothetical cases which allow the reader to test her moral intuitions.; Contributes to ongoing debates on the philosophy of literature, ethics, and emotion.
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Price: $89.95
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Music and the Emotions
By: Budd, Malcolm
Published by: Routledge
Is there any artistically important connection between music and emotions? Budd examines the theories of music that support and deny such a correction.
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Price: $38.95
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Music, Language, and Cognition
By: Kivy, Peter
Published by: Clarendon Press
Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy's seminal papers in the philosophy of music. In essays which span his earliest work in the field and his more recent contributions to journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings, Kivy considers the origin of music, the medium of expression in opera, the role of music in film, the nature of an 'ideal' performance, and the question of whether absolute music has a meaning, among other issues. Rich with. critical analysis and informed by the history of both philosophy and music, this volume will be of interest to anyone who likes not only to listen to music, but to think about it as well. - ;Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy's seminal papers in the philosophy of music. In essays which span his earliest work in the field and his more recent contributions to journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings, Kivy considers the origin of music, the medium of expression in opera, the role of music in film, the nature of an 'ideal' performance, and the question of whether absolute music has a meaning, among other issues. Rich with. critical analysis and informed by the history of both philosophy and music, this volume will be of interest to anyone who likes not only to listen to music, but to think about it as well. -
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Price: $50.00
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Musical Performance
By: Godlovitch, Stan
Published by: Routledge
This radical new evaluation of music making in the past and future will be essential reading for students of aesthetics, the philosophy of music, as well as musicologists and performance specialists.
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Price: $37.95
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The New Aestheticism
By: Joughin, John J.
Published by: Manchester University Press
Introduces the idea of a new aestheticism - "new" in that it identifies a turn taken by contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focusing on the specifically aesthetic impact of a work of art or literature has the potential to open different ways of thinking about identity, politics and culture.
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Price: $74.95
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New Waves in Aesthetics
By: Stock, K.; Thomson-Jones, K.
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.
Leading young scholars present a collection of wide-ranging essays covering central problems in meta-aesthetics and aesthetic issues in the philosophy of mind, as well as offering analyses of key aesthetic concepts, new perspectives on the history of aesthetics, and specialized treatment of individual art forms.
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Price: $95.00
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Nominalism and Its Aftermath
By: Hendricks, Vincent F.; Symons, John; Dalen, Dirk; Kuipers, Theo A. F.; Seidenfeld, Teddy; Suppes, Patrick
Published by: Springer Netherlands
Presents a chronology of Nelson Goodman's writings. This book delineates the constraints imposed upon the aesthetics by both the metaphysics and the epistemology. It is suitable for those who want to understand Goodman's disparate writings within their proper context.
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Price: $139.00
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