Philosophy: aesthetics
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Philosophy: aesthetics
Hardcover. This work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal; and second, that its emergence owes as much to Puritan Protestantism and its inner- or this-worldly asceticism as does the emergence of modern rationalized capitalism. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSK; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137556752
- ISBN
- 9781137556752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardback. Series: The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education. Num Pages: 128 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPN; JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 303.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1 st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137556066
- ISBN
- 9781137556066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.40
€ 63.40
Hardback. The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for aesthetics, seen in artisan markets, was born out of the ashes of McDonaldization to become a potent force today, capable of both regulating social identity and sparking social change. Num Pages: 113 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPN; JFCA; JFFT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 297.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 113
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137544278
- ISBN
- 9781137544278
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€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Hardback. Adorno and Modern Theatre explores the drama of Edward Bond, David Rudkin, Howard Barker and Sarah Kane in the context of the work of leading philosopher Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). The book engages with key principles of Adorno's aesthetic theory and cultural critique and examines their influence on a generation of seminal post-war dramatists. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSG; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137534460
- ISBN
- 9781137534460
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with problems as broad and diverse as how to describe the entire universe, how a system can talk about itself, the relationship between symbols and realities, and the nature of signs and sacraments. Num Pages: 140 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPCA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137501585
- ISBN
- 9781137501585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.54
€ 63.54
Hardcover. Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting. This is connected to the historical materialist project of social change by way of the radical Italian composer Luigi Nono. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; HPCF; HPJ; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487247
- ISBN
- 9781137487247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.06
€ 64.06
Hardcover. Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition. Deakin critiques four canonical writers of the English Romantic tradition, Coleridge, Wordsworth, P.B. Shelley and Mary Shelley, arguing that they, as Hegel, are engaged in a struggle towards philosophical recognition. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482174
- ISBN
- 9781137482174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardback. Editor(s): Middeke, Prof. Martin; Reinfandt, Christoph. Num Pages: 374 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 218 x 2. Weight in Grams: 614.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137474278
- ISBN
- 9781137474278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.13
€ 134.13
Hardcover. A Critical Theory of Creativity argues that a Utopian drive is aesthetically encoded within the language of form. But coupled with this opportunity comes a very human obligation which cannot be delegated to God, to nature or to market forces. As Ernst Bloch declared: 'Life has been put into our hands.' Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; HPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137446169
- ISBN
- 9781137446169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. This monograph is based on archival research and close readings of James Joyce's and W. B. Yeats's poetics and political aesthetics. Georges Sorel's theory of social myth is used as a starting point for exploring the ways in which the experience of art can be seen as a form of religious experience. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; HPN; HRA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137434760
- ISBN
- 9781137434760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.06
€ 64.06
Paperback. This book offers a series of critical commentaries on, and forced encounters between, different thinkers. At stake in this philosophical and psychoanalytical enquiry is the drawing of a series of diagrams of the finite/infinite relation, and the mapping out of the contours for a speculative and pragmatic production of subjectivity. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430281
- ISBN
- 9781137430281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardcover. An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; HPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426734
- ISBN
- 9781137426734
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Condition: New
€ 122.96
€ 122.96
Hardcover. This original study examines Jean-Francois Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to postmodern works by authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Jonathan Safran Foer. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTE; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383341
- ISBN
- 9781137383341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Hardcover. What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merits of the previous theories on the matter while dropping their defects. Thus, not only perceptual, but also both conventional and causal factors contribute in making something a picture of something else. Num Pages: 284 pages, 67. BIC Classification: ABA; HPM; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263285
- ISBN
- 9781137263285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardback. In the "Critique of Judgment", Kant argues that feeling is part of the system of the mind. This title demonstrates how feeling, disassociated from rational activities in Kant's earlier works, is central in reaching rational ends and understanding humans as unified rational beings. Series: Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPN; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792347644
- ISBN
- 9780792347644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.65
€ 127.65
hardcover. Focusing on aesthetics, this book provides a theory of emotion; application of the cognitive-emotive theory to aesthetics; analysis of the relationship between aesthetics, metaphor and emotion; a full theory of meaning and its application to aesthetics; and more. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Edition
- 1995th Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792336181
- ISBN
- 9780792336181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.68
€ 191.68
Hardback. A collection of essays in appreciation, analysis and honor of Paul Ziff, one of the leading American philosophers of the post-World War II period. It addresses questions that loomed large in Ziff's own work. It contains essays by Zeno Vendler, Jay Rosenberg, and Tom Patton who address topics in philosophy of language. Editor(s): Jamieson, Dale. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792328100
- ISBN
- 9780792328100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.67
€ 190.67
Hardback. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 375 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 708.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792310143
- ISBN
- 9780792310143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 246.85
€ 246.85
Hardback. Editor(s): Kronegger, Marlies. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 597.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792307389
- ISBN
- 9780792307389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.88
€ 191.88
Hardback. Series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 150 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 870.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792304180
- ISBN
- 9780792304180
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.38
€ 125.38
Hardback. Editor(s): Dziemidok, Bohdan; McCormick, Peter. Series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 625.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 313
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792300717
- ISBN
- 9780792300717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.26
€ 192.26
Hardcover. This work provides a unitary reading of the "Critique of Judgement", situated in relation to Kant's attempt to think ends in general. The question of how to think ends is argued to guide Kant in his treatment of aesthetics and teleology and to provide the rationale for critique. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333732229
- ISBN
- 9780333732229
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.49
€ 122.49
Hardback. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312068271
- ISBN
- 9780312068271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.24
€ 123.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; HPN; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600911
- ISBN
- 9780230600911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11