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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “monique roelofs”
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  • Strange Tastes

    Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms

    by Monique Roelofs ...
    Strange Tastes is a philosophical excursion into aesthetic experience and the public through the works of contemporary Latin American and Latinx women writers and artists. In a careful study of this revelatory archive, Monique Roelofs shows how life lived aesthetically can embrace public space instead of surrendering it to the constrictive forces of gendering and racial capital. Joining notions of ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Arts of Address

    Being Alive to Language and the World

    by Monique Roelofs ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Modes of address are forms of signification that we direct at living beings, things, and places, and they at us and at each other. Seeing is a form of address. So are speaking, singing, and painting. Initiating or responding to such calls, we participate in encounters with the world. Widely used yet less often examined in its own right, the notion of address cries out for analysis.Monique Roelofs ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Arts of Address

    Being Alive to Language and the World

    by Monique Roelofs ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Modes of address are forms of signification that we direct at living beings, things, and places, and they at us and at each other. Seeing is a form of address. So are speaking, singing, and painting. Initiating or responding to such calls, we participate in encounters with the world. Widely used yet less often examined in its own right, the notion of address cries out for analysis.Monique Roelofs ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Life in Art

    Phenomenology and World Making

    by Martina Ferrari, Stefan Kristensen, Anna Barseghian, Amanda Boetzkes, Nader El-Bizri, Jorella Andrews, Monique Roelofs, Rajiv Kaushik, Sarah Stefana Smith, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, Mary Bunch ...
    Art practices reveal the entwinement of perception and understanding, opening possibilities for new ways of enacting the political. An artwork can serve as more than solely an aesthetic object: in the public sphere it beckons us to resist, challenge, and change the world around us.Wide-ranging in scope and application, Life in Art showcases how, at the intersection of art and phenomenology, ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic

    by Prof Monique Roelofs ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy
    Aesthetic desire and distaste prime everyday life in surprising ways. The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic casts much-needed light on the complex mix of meanings our aesthetic activities weave into cultural existence.Anchoring aesthetic experience in our relationships with persons, places, and things, Monique Roelofs explores aesthetic life as a multimodal, socially embedded, corporeal endeavor. ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Black Art and Aesthetics

    Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings

    Edited by Michael Kelly, Prof Monique Roelofs ...
    Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y. Davis, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Theaster Gates, Aracelis Girmay, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Deborah Goffe, James B. Haile III, Vijay Iyer, Isaac Julien, Benjamin Krusling, Daphne Lamothe, George E. Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Meleko Mokgosi, Wangechi Mutu, Fumi Okiji, Nell ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • White on White/Black on Black

    by Kal Alston, Molefi Kete Asante, Bettina G. Bergo, Robert Bernasconi, Janine Jones, Chris Cuomo, Clarence Sholé Johnson, John H. McClendon III, Greg Moses, Monique Roelofs, Crispin Sartwell, Anna Stubblefield ...
    White on White/Black on Black is a unique contribution to the philosophy of race. The book explores how fourteen philosophers, seven white and seven black, philosophically understand the dynamics of the process of racialization. Combined, the contributions demonstrate different and similar conceptual trajectories of raced identities that emerge from within and across the racial divide. Each of the ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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    The Lives and Loves of Images

    by Professor W. J. T. Mitchell ...
    Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray?According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Justice for Hedgehogs

    by Ronald Dworkin ...
    In Dworkin’s master work, the central thesis is that all areas of value depend on one another. This is one, big thing that the hedgehog knows, in contrast to the fox, who knows many little things. Dworkin’s understanding of the relationship—between ethics, morality, and political morality—is significantly revised and also greatly elaborated. He argues that “dignity” is the essential core of living ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Hooked

    Art and Attachment

    by Rita Felski ...
    "Examines the way we connect to novels, films, paintings and music, and argues that our enthusiasms should be an integral part of conversations about art." —Helen Thaventhiran, London Review of BooksHow does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How To Read Foucault

    by Johanna Oksala ...
    Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He shaped the ways we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual tools that Foucault gave us for constructing new forms of thinking as well as for smashing ... Read more

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  • Landscape Theory

    Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD