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  • Art, Education, and the Democratic Commitment

    A Defense of State Support for the Arts

    by D.T. Schwartz ...
    Series Book 7 - Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
    In reflecting on this book and the process of writing it, the most pervasive theme I find is that of confluence. I drew much of the energy needed to write the book from the energy that resides at the confluence, or nexus, of contrasting ideas. At the most general level, the topic of arts subsidy offered a means of exploring simultaneously two of my favorite philosophical subjects-aesthetics and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • The Art Spirit

    by Robert Henri ...
    A classic work of advice, criticism, and inspiration for aspiring artists and lovers of art“One of the finest voices which express the philosophy of modern men in painting.” —George Bellows, American painter“Art when really understood is the province of every human being.” So begins The Art Spirit, the collected words, teachings, and wisdom of innovative artist and beloved teacher Robert Henri. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Grammars of Creation

    by George Steiner ...
    "A fresh, revelatory, golden eagle's eye-view of western literature." — Financial TimesEarly in Grammars of Creation, George Steiner references Plato's maxim that in "all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent." Creation, he argues, is linguistically fundamental in theology, philosophy, art, music, literature—central, in fact, to our very humanity. Since the Holocaust, however ... Read more

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  • Animals in the Classical World

    Ethical Perspectives from Greek and Roman Texts

    by A. Harden ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This sourcebook presents nearly 200 specially-translated Greek and Roman texts from Homer to Plutarch, revealing the place of the animal in the moral consciousness of the Classical era. Philosophical, historical, dramatic and poetic texts explore how animals were regarded in all aspects of ancient life, from philosophy to farming. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Aesthetics

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Charles Taliaferro ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Explaining what art is and what’s not art.What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping introduction, Charles Taliaferro skilfully guides us through different theories of art and beauty, tackling issues such as who owns art and what happens when art ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy and Politics of Aesthetic Experience

    German Romanticism and Critical Theory

    by Nathan Ross ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory. In examining the relationship between these two closely intertwined movements, we see that aesthetic experience is not merely a passive response to art—it is the capacity to cultivate true personal autonomy, and to critique the social ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Age of Figurative Theo-humanism

    The Beauty of God and Man in German Aesthetics of Painting and Sculpture (1754-1828)

    by Franco Cirulli ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This is a comprehensive, integrated account of eighteenth and early nineteenth century German figurative aesthetics. The author focuses on the theologically-minded discourse on the visual arts that unfolded in Germany, circa 1754-1828, to critique the assumption that German romanticism and idealism pursued a formalist worship of beauty and of unbridled artistic autonomy. This book foregrounds what ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Baroque, Venice, Theatre, Philosophy

    by Will Daddario ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book theorizes the baroque as neither a time period nor an artistic style but as a collection of bodily practices developed from clashes between governmental discipline and artistic excess, moving between the dramaturgy of Jesuit spiritual exercises, the political theatre-making of Angelo Beolco (aka Ruzzante), and the civic governance of the Venetian Republic at a time of great tumult. The ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

    by Corinne Saunders, David Fuller ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. ... Read more

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  • Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art

    Neuro-aesthetics, Perception and Comprehension

    by Paul M.W. Hackett ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book examines how we perceive and understand abstract art in contrast to artworks that represent reality. Philosophical, psychological and neuroscience research, including the work of philosopher Paul Crowther, are considered and out of these approaches a complex model is developed to account for this experience. The understanding embodied in this model is rooted in facet theory, mapping ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Abjection and Representation

    An Exploration of Abjection in the Visual Arts, Film and Literature

    by R. Arya ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature. It examines the complexity of the concept and its significance as a cultural category. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Aesthetics of Communication

    Pragmatics and Beyond

    Translated by Stuart Rennie ...
    by H. Parret ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    AESTHETICIZING PRAGMATICS The Gamut of Pragmatics Pragmatics emerged among the sciences of language at the end of the 1960's in reaction to certain totalizing models in linguistics: structuralism (primarily in Europe) and generative grammar (initially in the United States). Certain disciples of Chomsky became dissatisfied with autono mous syntax and later with generative semantics: they decided to ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD