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From Romanticism to Critical Theory(1996) BOWIE, ANDREWThis study offers a new view of literary theory as an essential part of modern philosophy and contests the view that it is a product of deconstruction.Vezava: Mehka80,13 €
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Very Little ... Almost Nothing(2004) CRITCHLEY, SIMONA compelling read, Very Little ... Almost Nothing opens up new ways of understanding finitude, modernity and the nature of imagination. Revised edition with a new preface by the author.Vezava: Mehka73,49 €
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Sound Pressure(2023) HEYS, TOBY, PROFESSOR IN DIGITAL MEDIA, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYSound Pressure reveals how speaker systems mounted in public, employment, military and entertainment environments have played a pivotal role in the way that humans have been physiologically and psychologically organised and disciplined throughout the pastVezava: Mehka51,68 €
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Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic(2015) ROELOFS, MONIQUE (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS)Vezava: Mehka51,44 €
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Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters(2023) LOPES, DOMINIC MCIVER (PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA),NANAY, BENCE (PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND BOF RESEARCH PROFESSOR, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND BOF RESEARCH PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP),RIGGLE, NICK (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO)Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters offers three new answers to Socrates's great question about how we should live, which focus on the place of aesthetic engagement in well-being. Three philosophers offer their perspectives on how aesthetic commitments moveVezava: Mehka26,86 €
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Only a Promise of Happiness(2010) NEHAMAS, ALEXANDERNeither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty tVezava: Mehka34,36 €
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Aesthetics of Music(1999) SCRUTON, ROGERWhat is music, what is its value, and what does it mean? In this exciting book, the philosopher Roger Scruton explores the nature and meaning of music from first principles and gives a fascinating analysis of musical organization, together with a provocatVezava: Mehka68,88 €
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Enchantment of Modern Life(2001) BENNETT, JANEIt is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted - that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. This title challenges that view. It seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is posVezava: Mehka54,67 €
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Philosophy of the Enlightenment(2009) CASSIRER, ERNSTPresents an analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the diverse strands of thought of this period, this book shows how Enlightenment philosophers drew upon the ideasVezava: Mehka49,98 €
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Homo Aestheticus(1995) DISSANAYAKE, ELLENDiscusses the place of art in human evolution and in the futureVezava: Mehka41,79 €
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Social Choreography(2005) HEWITT, ANDREWWork links dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to ideas about social order.Vezava: Mehka35,36 €
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Handbook of Music and Emotion(2011)A successor to the acclaimed 'Music and Emotion', The Handbook of Music and Emotion provides comprehensive coverage of the field, in all its breadth and depth. As well as summarizing what is currently known about music and emotion, it will also stimulateVezava: Mehka118,73 €
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Art Theory(2003) FREELAND, CYNTHIA (, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, TEXAS)Explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, bringing together philosophy, art theory, and many examples. This work discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, sex, web sites, and research on the brain's role in perceiving art. It is suitaVezava: Mehka13,88 €
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Philosophy Bites(2012) EDMONDS, DAVID (OXFORD UNIVERSITY, BBC),WARBURTON, NIGEL (OPEN UNIVERSITY)Philosophy Bites is a selection of the best interviews from the hugely successful podcast of the same name. Leading philosophers discuss a wide range of philosophical issues, from ethics to aesthetics to metaphysics, in a lively, informal, personal way. TVezava: Mehka13,18 €
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