Philosophy: aesthetics
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Philosophy: aesthetics
Paperback. From "The Birth of Tragedy" to his experimental "physiology of art," Nietzsche examines the aesthetic, erotic and sacred dimensions of rapture, hinting at how an ecstatic philosophy is realized in his elusive doctrine of Eternal Return. Jill Marsden pursues the implications of this legacy. Series: Renewing Philosophy. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 12. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349423712
- ISBN
- 9781349423712
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€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. Series: Swansea Studies in Philosophy. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPN; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349418473
- ISBN
- 9781349418473
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€ 121.56
€ 121.56
Paperback. Philip Goldstein explains the socio-historical context of the diverse interpretive practices which make up the humanities in the USA in the 21st century. He considers the rise of college-educated women, minority readers, the increased influence of the Universities, the media and the dominance of the Universities by the sciences. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBTB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2009
- Number of pages
- 181
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349377022
- ISBN
- 9781349377022
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€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray. Arguing that female-directed cinema provides new ways to explore ideas of representation and spectatorship, it also examines the importance of contexts of production, direction and reception. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HPN; JFCX; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349363216
- ISBN
- 9781349363216
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€ 63.51
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paperback. Examining multiple modes of spatio-temporal and geometric figurations of life, the author explores how relationships between space, geometry and aesthetics generate productive expressions of subjectivity, developed through Kant's 'reflective subject' and 'geometric' texts by Plato and others towards Deleuze's philosophy of sense. Series: Renewing Philosophy. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; HPCF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 357.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- SKU
- V9781349362745
- ISBN
- 9781349362745
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€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life. Although it has long been argued that aestheticism aims to de-humanize art, this volume seeks to consider the counterclaim that such de-humanization can also lead to re-humanization and to a deepened relationship between the aesthetic sphere and the world at large. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; DSA; DSB; DSBF; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362042
- ISBN
- 9781349362042
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€ 64.31
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Paperback. Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical analysis, interdisciplinary theory and ethnographic writing about community radio, this book provides a novel theorization of democratic aesthetics, with important implications for the study of old and new media alike. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; AV; HPN; JFD; JPA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351282
- ISBN
- 9781349351282
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€ 63.51
€ 63.51
paperback. What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection will give the reader a fuller and deeper understanding of the commonalities and frictions between artistic and pornographic representations. Editor(s): Maes, Hans. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; HPN; HPQ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349349821
- ISBN
- 9781349349821
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€ 122.37
€ 122.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; HBTB; HPN; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349349432
- ISBN
- 9781349349432
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€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a contemporary focus, which addresses the problem of explaining the appeal of artworks whose appreciation entails negative or difficult emotions on the appreciator's part - what has traditionally been known as "the paradox of tragedy." Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; HPN; JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 369.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349345984
- ISBN
- 9781349345984
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€ 121.87
€ 121.87
Paperback. A comprehensive, critical and accessible account of Theodor W. Adorno's materialist-dialectical aesthetic theory of art from a contemporary perspective, this volume shows how Adorno's critical theory is awash with images crystallising thoughts to such a degree that it has every reason to be described as aesthetic. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; HPC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349345090
- ISBN
- 9781349345090
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€ 63.19
€ 63.19
paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; HPQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349343621
- ISBN
- 9781349343621
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€ 64.46
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Paperback. This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic, but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, motivated emotions. Series: Philosophers in Depth. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; DSBB; HPCA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339655
- ISBN
- 9781349339655
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€ 143.09
€ 143.09
Paperback. Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific models by comparing them to the dolls and toy trucks of children's imaginative games, and offers a unified framework to solve difficult metaphysical problems and help to make sense of scientific practice. Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 164 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPN; PDA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349336876
- ISBN
- 9781349336876
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€ 62.99
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paperback. Using hybrid phenomenological approaches to film, this book focuses on how moving images are 'experienced' and 'encountered' as well as 'read' and 'viewed'. Its close engagements with films and installations by four contemporary French filmmakers explore the limits and possibilities of 'cinematic' subjectivity. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HPCF3; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349335220
- ISBN
- 9781349335220
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€ 64.46
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Paperback. This sourcebook presents nearly 200 specially-translated Greek and Roman texts from Homer to Plutarch, revealing the place of the animal in the moral consciousness of the Classical era. Philosophical, historical, dramatic and poetic texts explore how animals were regarded in all aspects of ancient life, from philosophy to farming. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; HPCA; HPN; HPQ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349325269
- ISBN
- 9781349325269
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€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. "Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art, art history and perceptual psychology, this book places seeing at the centre of an original theory of pictorial representation and explores the ramifications such a theory has for the visual arts"-- Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349325191
- ISBN
- 9781349325191
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€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Paperback. The angelcan be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures.This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentieth-century debates over the secular and/or religious character of the modern age." Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349324743
- ISBN
- 9781349324743
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€ 63.81
€ 63.81
Paperback. "Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy, this original study elaborates fresh perspectives on the experiences of undoing, fiasco and disaster that shadow both the both stage and everyday life"-- Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; HPN; J. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349322770
- ISBN
- 9781349322770
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€ 63.89
€ 63.89
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: AF; HPCF; HPN; HPQ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349320998
- ISBN
- 9781349320998
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€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Paperback. Street theatre invades a public space, shakes it up and disappears, but the memory of the disruption haunts the site for audiences who experience it. This book looks at how the dynamic interrelationship of performance, participant and place creates a politicized aesthetic of public space that enables the public to rehearse democratic practices. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASD; D; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349305858
- ISBN
- 9781349305858
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Paperback. Editor(s): Sanborn, Geoffrey; Otter, Samuel. Num Pages: 271 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; HPN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349295562
- ISBN
- 9781349295562
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€ 64.46
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Paperback. This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual propriety and identity politics. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSA; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349291625
- ISBN
- 9781349291625
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€ 63.54
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Paperback. A materialist critique of the politics, poetics and economics of suffering in liberalism that argues for attention to the labour of suffering of the victim in many well-meaning but flawed politics of redress, and imagines forms of representation, solidarity and justice that better honour the history and materiality of this labour. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPN; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349288984
- ISBN
- 9781349288984
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€ 64.46
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