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Alain De Botton
[Paperback 2007]
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With his trademark lucidity and humor, de Botton traces how human needs and desires have been served by styles of architecture, from stately Classical to minimalist Modern, arguing that the stylistic choices of a society can represent both its cherished ideals and the qualities it desperately lacks. The Architecture of... more
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ,
Michael Tanner ,
Shaun Whiteside
[Paperback 1995]
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In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche expounds on the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. He declares it to be the expression of a culture which has achieved a delicate but powerful balance between Dionysian insight into the chaos and suffering which... more
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Christopher Want ,
Andrzej Klimowski
[Paperback 2011]
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Unique graphic introductions to big ideas and thinkers, written by experts in the field.... more
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy ,
Larissa Volokhonsky ,
Richard Pevear
[Paperback 1996]
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During the decades of his world fame as sage and preacher as well as author of War and Peace and Anna Karenin, Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Although... more
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John D Barrow
[Paperback 1996]
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In this eclectic and entertaining study of the interrelationship between the arts and the sciences, Barrow explains how the landscape of the Universe has influenced the development of philosophy and mythology, and how millions of years of evolutionary history have fashioned our attraction to certain patterns of sound and color.... more
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Gaston Bachelard ,
John R Stilgoe
[Paperback 2010]
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A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint... more
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Carafoli Ernesto ,
Gian Antonio Danieli ,
Giuseppe O Longo
[Paperback 2009]
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The aim of the book is to encourage an in-depth discussion of problems of fundamental importance that are common to the two cultures, but that are traditionally seen from different perspectives. The forum will bring together scientists, philosophers, humanists, musicians with the aim of fostering comprehension of problems that have... more
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Gilles Deleuze
[Paperback 2005]
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Translated and with an Introduction by Daniel W. Smith Afterword by Tom Conley Gilles Deleuze had several paintings by Francis Bacon hanging in his Paris apartment, and the painter's method and style as well as his motifs of seriality, difference, and repetition influenced Deleuze's work. This first English translation shows... more
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Jerrold Levinson
[Paperback 2007]
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Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The twenty-four essays range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts--in particular music, film, and literature. It will appeal not only to philosophers but... more
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Dominic Lopes
[Hardcover 2005]
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Images have power--for good or ill. They may challenge us to see things anew and, in widening our experience, profoundly change who we are. The change can be ugly, as with propaganda, or enriching, as with many works of art. Sight and Sensibility explores the impact of images on what... more
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Andrea Poma
[Hardcover 2006]
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Hermann Cohena (TM)s philosophy has now, finally, received the recognition it deserves. His thought undoubtedly has all the characteristics of a classic. It faced the great problems of philosophical tradition, with full critical awareness and at the same time, with the capacity to open up new, original routes. It represents... more
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Edmund Husserl ,
John B Brough ,
J B Brough
[Paperback 2007]
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This is the first English translation of Husserliana XXIII, the volume in the critical edition of Edmund Husserl's works that gathers together a rich array of posthumous texts on representational consciousness. The lectures and sketches comprising Husserliana XXIII come from a period of enormous productivity and pivotal development in Husserl's... more
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Anna Teresa Tymieniecka ,
A T Tymieniecka
[Hardcover 2002]
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What is truth? This fascinating spectrum of studies into the various rationalities of our human dealings with life - psychological, aesthetic, economic, spiritual - reveals their joints and calls for a new approach to truth. Putting both classical and contemporary conceptions aside, we find the primogenital ground of truth in... more
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A T Tymieniecka
[Hardcover 2006]
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Having established in the ontopoiesis/phenomenology of life the creative function of the human being as the fulcrum of our beingness-in-becoming, let us now turn to investigate the creative logos. In this collection, the momentum of a gathering "creative brainstorm" leads to the vertiginous imaginative transformability of the creative logos as... more
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Anna Teresa Tymieniecka
[Paperback 2010]
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Richard L Anderson
[Paperback 2004, 2nd Edition]
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Augusto Garau ,
Nicola Bruno ,
Rudolf Arnheim
[Paperback 1993]
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Because theories of visual perception have traditionally concentrated on form, artists have generally dealt with the problem of color through their own observation and intuition. In "Color Harmonies," Augusto Garau systematically investigates the role of both color and form in visual perception and presents an original theory of the aesthetic... more
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Jenefer Robinson
[Paperback 2007]
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Deeper than Reason takes the insights of modern psychological and neuroscientific research on the emotions and brings them to bear on questions about our emotional involvement with the arts. Robinson begins by laying out a theory of emotion, one that is supported by the best evidence from current empirical work... more
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Smith Allen ,
Richard Allen ,
Murray Smith
[Hardcover 1998]
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This volume of new essays energizes a growing movement in film theory which questions and seeks to overturn many of the assumptions that have governed film theory for the last twenty years. The book brings together film scholars and philosophers in a united commitment to the standards of argumentation that... more
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James I Porter
[Paperback 2000]
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The Invention of Dionysus breaks new ground in our appreciation of Nietzsche...Porter's minute and innovative reading...is both challenging and stimuling, requiring us to return to a work too often glossed over." --Thomas L. Cooksey, Armongstrong Atlantic State University This book argues that "The Birth of Tragedy," Nietzsche's first book, does... more
