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  • Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel

    Why Literature Is Not Philosophy

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry
    Lyra Ekström Lindbäck revisits the crucial distinction between literature and philosophy in Iris Murdoch's work to make a convincing case for understanding the particularity of literature and her insistence on the separation between the two.Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel makes a break with existing scholarship on Murdoch's philosophy and literature that ultimately re-states the philosophical ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • The Art and Philosophy of the Garden

    The Art and Philosophy of the Garden offers the first authoritative and comprehensive philosophical discussion of the aesthetics of gardens. Philosopher David Fenner and horticulturist Ethan Fenner address such questions as: what is a garden? Are some gardens works of art? What does it mean to appreciate gardens aesthetically? Given that gardens are always changing in a variety of ways, how is it ... Read more

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  • Philosophy with Clarice Lispector

    Edited by Fernanda Negrete ...
    Series series Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities
    This book examines Clarice Lispector’s body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophical questions, which are placed in conversation with a range of theoretical frameworks and approaches.Contributions to this volume engage with the philosophical dimension of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. The book features essays by renowned and ... Read more

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  • All Things Are Too Small

    Essays in Praise of Excess

    A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.In her debut essay collection, “brilliant and stylish” (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and ... Read more

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  • Is Harpo Free?

    And Other Questions of the Metaphysical Screen

    by Matthew Cipa ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Is Harpo Free? is a lively appreciation of film and television's ability to artistically explore concepts typical of philosophical metaphysics, such as free will, causality, and personal identity. Rather than using films and television programs as vehicles for philosophical arguments, the book instead celebrates the artistic ways in which they give life to various metaphysical concepts and how the ... Read more

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  • Is It Wrong to Buy Sex?

    A Debate

    Series series Little Debates about Big Questions
    Is it wrong for a man to buy sex from a woman? In this book, Holly Lawford-Smith argues that it is wrong: commercial sex is quintessentially hierarchical sex, and it is wrong both to have, and to perpetuate a market in, hierarchical sex. Angie Pepper argues that it isn’t wrong: men are permitted to buy sex from those women who freely choose to sell it.Important but different interests are at stake ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Intercultural Thinking in African Philosophy

    A Critical Dialogue with Kant and Foucault

    Series series Routledge Studies in African Philosophy
    This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of key African thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Tsenay Serequeberhahn, and Henry Odera Oruka.The book challenges western-centric visions of an African future by demonstrating the richness of thought that can be found in African and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Design for Sustainability and Inclusion in Space

    How New European Bauhaus Principles Drive Nature & Parastronauts Projects

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    This book offers a cutting-edge perspective of design for space to increase astronauts’ wellbeing and performance creating a more sustainable and inclusive environment, but without to forget beauty. The relevant aspect is that these design principles are now also supported and promoted by the European Community with the New European Bauhaus project. It is legitimate to affirm that Space Design is ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Aristotle: The Complete Works

    by Aristotle ...
    Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and student of Plato who stunningly changed the course of Western philosophy. He has gone down in history as one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, once called his writing style "a river of gold;" and his scope of thought and subsequent influence on the study of science, logic, philosophical ... Read more

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  • Box Grandes Obras de Platão

    by Platão ...
    Este livro contém 23 das principais obras de Platão: - Êutifron - Apologia de Sócrates - Críton - Fédon - Crátilo - Teeteto - O Sofista - O Político - Parmênides - Filebo - O Banquete - Fedro - Alcibíades - Laques - Eutidemo - Protágoras - Górgias - Mênon - Hípias menor - Hípias maior - A República - Timeu - Crítias ... Read more

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  • Plato: The Complete Works

    by Plato ...
    This ebook contains Plato's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters ... Read more

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  • Caída Libre, ensayos

    8 ensayos sobre temas posmodernosMAPA DE BOLSILLOS: Una reflexión sobre el lenguaje de los nuevos medios, el no lineal, el interactivo, el responsable de la novena arte, el que ha permeado nuestro pensamiento posmoderno triste y fragmentado, el que obliga a la taxonomía y la categorización.POSTHUMANOS: Un acercamiento al futuro, a uno en que biotecnología, nanotecnología, e inteligencia artificial ... Read more

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  • Æsthetica in nuce

    Contemporaneo e concittadino di Kant, Johann Georg Hamann è stato definito il “Mago del Nord” per il carattere oracolare delle sue opere. Crociate di un filologo, di cui Æsthetica in nuce fa parte, è il titolo di una raccolta di saggi nei quali troviamo esposta, attraverso un intreccio di narrazione autobiografica e riflessione filosofica, la sua interpretazione della religione e del linguaggio. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Estéticas perdidas

    Un encuentro con las sensibilidades olvidadas

    Series Book 51 - Estètica & Crítica
    'Estéticas perdidas' invita a deshacer el relato asimilado usualmente por las historias de las ideas estéticas, a romper con la linealidad del discurso temporal de las ideas filosóficas, con el encadenamiento forzado de autores que se suceden en una causalidad generalmente aceptada. No se trata de ofrecer otro relato, de oponer a la historia asumida de las ideas estéticas una historia alternativa, ... Read more

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  • Novalis: Philosophical, Literary, and Poetic Writings

    Despite his short life, Friedrich von Hardenberg (otherwise known as Novalis, 1772-1801) was one of the most original and polymathic figures of the early Romantic movement in Germany. Novalis: Philosophical, Literary, and Poetic Writings assembles, for the first time in English, translations of Novalis's published philosophical works, a large share of his surviving philosophical notes and ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Creative Gesture

    Contexts, Processes, Actors of Creativity

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
    This open access book offers a concise overview of the theories constructed within the various human sciences around the theme of creativity as a symbolic capacity to link things together: it manifests itself when the individual endowed with a certain type of intelligence encounters cultural and social conditions that enable them to develop that capacity to the maximum, rather than inhibiting it ... Read more

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  • The Birth of Tragedy

    First published in 1872, "The Birth of Tragedy" (AKA The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music) is a work of dramatic theory by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche."The Birth of Tragedy", Nietzsche’s first book, defended an aesthetic view of life, which was one of the major themes of all his early writings. Dedicated to Richard Wagner, the book expressed the perspective of the German ... Read more

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  • Making History Move

    Five Principles of the Historical Film

    by Kim Nelson ...
    Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in visual culture by proposing a methodology of five principles to analyze history in moving images in the digital age. It charts a path to understanding the form of history with the most significant impact on public perceptions of the past. The book develops insights across these ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Thoughts on Creativity, Spirit, and the Ethical Life

    This is a collection of miscellaneous notes by the author of The Immaterial Structure of Human Experience, The Limits of Reason, and The Thinking Process. These thoughts represent an exploration of spiritual and creative concerns, covering such topics as literature, art, philosophy, and human behavior. ... Read more

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  • The Musician as Philosopher

    New York’s Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978

    An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music’s ineffability.The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical thought of avant-garde musicians in postwar New York: David Tudor, Ornette Coleman, the Velvet Underground, Alice Coltrane, Patti Smith, and Richard Hell. It contends that these musicians—all of whom ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Procedures of Resistance

    Contents, Positions and the 'Doings' of Literary Theory

    This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory. It builds on the idea that theory is historically constituted as it is “always becoming something else” as Leslie Fiedler claimed in the 1950s, arguing that the historical constitution of theory relies on theory’s procedural nature. In order to assess theory’s procedural challenge to the ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Film as a Medium of Seduction

    Introduction to the Seduction-Theory of Film

    The seduction-theory defines film in a broader sense as a medium of seduction, based on the French concept of séduction. It is a theoretical approach influenced by continental philosophy and classical film theory, linked to a three-stage analytical model. The book introduces the theoretical foundations and, using various classical and contemporary examples from film history, presents a genuine ... Read more

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  • The Tears and Smiles of Things

    Stories, Sketches, Meditations

    Translated by Roman Ivashkiv, Sabrina Jaszi ...
    Series series Ukrainian Studies
    An evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraine’s “voice” of classical antiquity, now available in English for the first time.Inspired by Virgil’s exquisitely ambivalent phrase “sunt lacrimae rerum” (there are tears of/for/in things), Andriy Sodomora, the Ukrainian “voice” of classical antiquity, has produced a series of original vignettes and essays about things: the big things in ... Read more

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  • Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary

    Rites of Disimagination

    Edited by Nicoletta Isar ...
    Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary*: Rites Of Disimagination* brings together scholars from art history and image theory, literary studies and philosophy. Chapters of this volume engage with the overarching theme of imagination as a pulsatile force embedded in words, images, and all imaginative modes of instantiation of the work of art in their elemental ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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