Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

Aesthetics eBooks

If you like Aesthetics eBooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 2185 - 2208 of 3692 Results
Skip side bar filters
  • Thinking with Kant’s Critique of Judgment

    Why read Kant’s Critique of Judgment today? Does this classic of aesthetic theory still possess the vitality to prompt those of us engaged with art and criticism to think more deeply about issues that move us, issues such as the force of aesthetic experience, the essence of art, and the relationship of beauty and meaning? It does, if we find the right way into it.Michel Chaouli shows us one such ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Tempus

    The World of Discussion and the World of Narration

    Translated by Jane K. Brown, Marshall Brown ...
    Series series Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
    A foundational book by one of the most distinguished German humanists of the last half century, Tempus joins cultural linguistics and literary interpretation at the hip. Developing two controversial theses—that sentences are not truly meaningful in isolation from their contexts and that verb tenses are primarily indicators not of time but of the attitude of the speaker or writer—Tempus surveys a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Mass-Produced Original Paintings, the Psychology of Art, and an Everyday Aesthetics

    This book examines the contribution of mass-produced original painting to the psychology of art, psychological aesthetics, and art criticism. Mass-produced paintings are an inexpensive, accessible, ubiquitous, and hand-painted popular art by anonymous artists or teams. Sold in an array of outlets, ranging from flea markets to shopping centers to cruise ships, they decorate hotels, offices, and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Everyday Aesthetics

    by Yuriko Saito ...
    Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone examine their significance. Western aesthetic theories of the past few centuries also neglect everyday aesthetics because of their almost exclusive emphasis on art. In a ground-breaking new study, Yuriko ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts

    Attraction Images

    Edited by Anna Schober ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appeal to "all of us". One key figure these practices bring into play—the "everybody" (which stands for "all of us" and is sometimes a "new man" or a "new woman")—is discussed in an interdisciplinary way involving scholars from several European countries. A ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Inceptions

    Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form

    by Kevin Ohi ...
    The beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that noncoincidence points to the text’s vexed relation with its outside. Hence the nontrivial self-reflexivity of any textual beginning, which must bear witness to the self-grounding quality of the literary work— its inability either to comprise its inception or to externalize it in an authorizing exteriority. In a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • DEPTH CHARGES

    by Thomas Calten ...
    Are you living fully... or just on the surface? How often do you really submerge yourself in life? In Depth Charges, the author shows us how a deeper, more sensitive approach to life can extract valuable insight from our daily experiences. In a series of thought provoking essays, we accompany Calten on an incisive journey through childhood days, the Vietnam war years, life in corporate America, on ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • John Dewey and the Artful Life

    Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality

    Series series American and European Philosophy
    Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a human’s interaction with nature or art frequently has been conceptualized as separate from issues of practical activity or moral value. This book examines how art can be seen as a way of moral cultivation. Scott Stroud uses the thought of the American pragmatist John Dewey ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • 美的历程(简体中文版)

    by 李泽厚 ...
    Series series 李泽厚论著集
    本书以宏观鸟瞰角度对中国数千年的艺术、文学作了概括描述和美学把握。从原始远古艺术的「龙飞凤舞」,殷周青铜器艺术的「狞厉的美」,先秦理性精神的「儒道互补」,楚辞、汉赋、汉画像石之「浪漫主义」,「人的觉醒」的魏晋风度,到六朝、唐、宋佛像雕塑,宋元山水绘画以及诗、词、曲各具审美三品类,明清时期小说、戏曲等等的艺术表现,作者皆提出了许多前人所未发的重要观念,形成美学上的重要议题。作者簡介:李泽厚湖南长沙人。一九五四年北京大学哲学系毕业。曾任中国社会科学院哲学研究所研究员,美国科罗拉多学院客席讲座教授。一九八0年被选为中华全国美学学会副会长,一九八八年被巴黎国际哲学院(IIP)选为院士。 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A History of Light

    The Idea of Photography

    When was photography invented, in 1826 with the first permanent photograph? If we depart from the technologically oriented accounts and consider photography as a philosophical discourse an alternative history appears, one which examines the human impulse to reconstruct the photographic or “the evoking of light”. It's significance throughout the history of ideas is explored via the Platonic ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Imaginal Politics

    Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary

    Series Book 68 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Between the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated by images or (re)presentations that are presences in themselves. Offering a new, systematic understanding of the imaginal and its nexus with the political, Chiara Bottici brings fresh perspective to the formation of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • What Is an Emotion?

    I should say first of all that the only emotions I propose expressly to consider here are those that have a distinct bodily expression. That there are feelings of pleasure and displeasure, of interest and excitement, bound up with mental operations, but having no obvious bodily expression for their consequence, would, I suppose, be held true by most readers. Certain arrangements of sounds, of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Logic of Gilles Deleuze

    Basic Principles

    by Corry Shores ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
    French philosopher Gilles Deleuze wrote two 'logic' books: Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation and The Logic of Sense. However, in neither of these books nor in any other works does Deleuze articulate in a formal way the features of the logic he employs. He certainly does not use classical logic. And the best options for the non-classical logic that he may be implementing are: fuzzy, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • La filosofía de la decoración

    La habitación ideal

    La filosofía de la decoración, es un artículo poco conocido de Edgar Allan Poe, originalmente escrito para ser publicado en una revista. Sin embargo, fue leído atentamente y recuperado por autores tan relevantes como Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Mario Praz , e incluso, Roberto Bolaño. La habitación ideal, de Pablo Chiuminatto y Begoña Alberdi, recupera los escritos de estos intelectuales, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Aesthetics and Neuroscience

    Scientific and Artistic Perspectives

    Edited by Marine Vernet, Zoï Kapoula ...
    This edited monograph provides a compelling analysis of the interplay between neuroscience and aesthetics. The book broaches a wide spectrum of topics including, but not limited to, mathematics and creator algorithms, neurosciences of artistic creativity, paintings and dynamical systems as well as computational research for architecture. The international authorship is genuinely interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Nietzsche

    by Paul Carus ...
    Nietzsche is a great overview of the philosopher and his work, complete with illustrations. A table of contents is included. ... Read more

    $2.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

    An Introduction

    Series series Elements of Philosophy
    Praised in its original edition for its up-to-date, rigorous presentation of current debates and for the clarity of its presentation, Robert Stecker's new edition of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art preserves the major themes and conclusions of the original, while expanding its content, providing new features, and enhancing accessibility. Stecker introduces students to the history and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy
    The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice investigates the widely debated, deeply flawed yet influential concept of the uncanny through the lens of feminist theory and contemporary art practice. Not merely a subversive strategy but a cipher of the fraught but fertile dialogue between feminism and psychoanalysis, the uncanny makes an ideal vehicle for an arrangement marked by ambivalence and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge

    by M. Rosengren ...
    Using the example of prehistoric paintings discovered in the late 19th century in Spain and France Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge inquires into epistemic questions related to images, depicting and perception that this rich material has given rise to. The book traces the outline of the doxa of cave art studies. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD $49.99 USD

  • Henri Bergson and Visual Culture

    A Philosophy for a New Aesthetic

    by Paul Atkinson ...
    What does it mean to see time in the visual arts and how does art reveal the nature of time? Paul Atkinson investigates these questions through the work of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, whose theory of time as duration made him one of the most prominent thinkers of the fin de siècle. Although Bergson never enunciated an aesthetic theory and did not explicitly write on the visual arts, his ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Savoring Disgust

    The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics

    Disgust is among the strongest of aversions, characterized by involuntary physical recoil and even nausea. Yet paradoxically, disgusting objects can sometimes exert a grisly allure, and this emotion can constitute a positive, appreciative aesthetic response when exploited by works of art -- a phenomenon labelled here "aesthetic disgust." While the reactive, visceral quality of disgust contributes ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Judgement

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Kant
    This book expounds Kant's Critique of Judgement by interpreting all the details in the light of what Kant himself declares to be his fundamental problem. Providing an excellent introduction to Kant's third critique, it will be of interest to students of philosophy. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Listening to Noise and Silence

    Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art

    Listening to Noise and Silence engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. In this original and challenging work, Salomé Voegelin immerses the reader in concepts of listening to sound artwork and the everyday acoustic environment, establishing an aesthetics and philosophy of sound and promoting the notion of a sonic sensibility ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Talking Poetry

    Conversations with Ashoke Vajpeyi

    This is an interesting book of conversations, which not only endorses the life and thoughts of Ashok Vajpeyi, but also praises poetry in general. Ashok Vajpeyi is a poet who is at home with the word. He speaks to the mortals and the divinities. He makes the mystery of the world visible to us by speaking with/of poetry. Throughout these conversations we encounter a poet who sets his own pace ... Read more

    $80.99 USD