Search results for “[Subject: aesthetics]”

• Author(s): Glenn Parsons • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsAesthetics and Nature offers a clear and accessible introduction to the field of nature aesthetics. Glenn Parsons explores the current d...

• Author(s): Alessandro Giovannelli • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsAesthetics: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. Eighteen specially commissi...

• Author(s): Elisabeth Schellekens • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsAesthetic and moral value are often seen to go hand in hand. They do so not only practically, such as in our everyday assessment...

• Author(s): David Davies • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsThe Continuum Aesthetics series looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by all major art forms. Stimulating, engaging and high...

• Author(s): Andrew Eastham • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSince the development of British Aestheticism in the 1870s, the concept of irony has focused a series of anxieties...

• Author(s): David Berger • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsTaste is ordinarily thought of in terms of two very different idioms - a normative idiom of taste as a standard of appraisal and a non-no...

• Author(s): David James • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsArt, Myth and Society in Hegel's Aesthetics returns to the student transcripts of Hegel's lectures on aesthetics, which have yet to be tra...

• Author(s): David Berger • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsTaste is ordinarily thought of in terms of two very different idioms - a normative idiom of taste as a standard of appraisal and a non-no...

• Author(s): Tiger C. Roholt • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsKey Terms in Philosophy of Art offers a clear, concise and accessible introduction to a vital sub-field of philosophy. The book offers...

• Author(s): Karen Jurs-Munby • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIs postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate to Brecht's ideas of political theatre, fo...

• Author(s): Jakub Zdebik • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsDeleuze and the Diagram charts Deleuze's corpus according to aesthetic concepts such as the map, the sketch and the drawing to bring out ...

• Author(s): Anthony O'Hear • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this powerful re-examination of the purpose and direction of philosophy for the next century, Anthony O'Hear eng...

• Author(s): Rajiv Kaushik • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsArt and Institution examines how for Merleau-Ponty the work of art opens up, without conceptualizing, the event of being. Rajiv Kaushik ...

• Author(s): Kathrin Yacavone • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsBenjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography presents two of the most important intellectual figures of the twentieth century...

• Author(s): David Cunningham • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsDespite the recent upsurge of interest in Theodor Adorno's work, his literary writings are generally under-represented. However, lite...

• Author(s): Michael J. Thompson • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsGeorg Lukács stands as a towering figure in the areas of critical theory, literary criticism, aesthetics, ethical theory and the ...

• Author(s): Julia Straub • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: European - GeneralThe figure of Dante's Beatrice can be seen as a cultural phenomenon or myth during the nineteenth century, inspiring a wide varie...

• Author(s): Jeremy Begbie • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligiousAn introduction to the theology of art and the art of theology.

• Author(s): Marco Sgarbi • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThe concept of spontaneity is central to Kant's philosophy, yet Kant himself never dealt with it explicitly. Instead i...

• Author(s): Sonia Sedivy • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsBeauty and the End of Art shows how a resurgence of interest in beauty and a sense of ending in Western art are challenging us to rethink...

• Author(s): Richard Bradford • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: PoetryConcrete', 'pattern' or 'shaped' poems are well documented as experimental curiosities. While giving some attention to this sub-genre the...

• Author(s): Milena Marinkova • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: American - GeneralThis study of selected literary and cinematic works by Michael Ondaatje investigates the political potential of the Canadian ...