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  • Wittgenstein on Mathematics

    by Severin Schroeder ...
    Series series Wittgenstein's Thought and Legacy
    This book offers a detailed account and discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics. In Part I, the stage is set with a brief presentation of Frege’s logicist attempt to provide arithmetic with a foundation and Wittgenstein’s criticisms of it, followed by sketches of Wittgenstein’s early views of mathematics, in the Tractatus and in the early 1930s. Then (in Part II), ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Literature

    Edited by Severin Schroeder ...
    Series Book 7 - Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts
    Philosophy of Literature presents six newly-commissioned essays from international scholars that address some of the key issues relating to the philosophy of literature, a thriving and increasingly influential branch of aestheticsFeatures a half dozen newly commissioned articles from leading scholars in the field of philosophy of literatureFocuses on a branch of aesthetics that has not received ... Read more

    Was $29.99 CAD Now $26.99 CAD

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  • What We See When We Read

    by Peter Mendelsund ...
    **A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader.“A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images.” —The New York Times**What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did ... Read more

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  • Showing Off!

    A Philosophy of Image

    by Dr Jorella Andrews ...
    Drawing on art, media, and phenomenological sources, Showing Off!: A Philosophy of Image challenges much recent thought by proposing a fundamentally positive relationship between visuality and the ethical. In philosophy, cultural studies and art, relationships between visuality and the ethical are usually theorized in negative terms, according to the dyadic logics of seeing on the one hand, and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Beauty

    The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea

    by David Konstan ...
    Series series Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture
    What does it mean to say something is beautiful? On the one hand, beauty is associated with erotic attraction; on the other, it is the primary category in aesthetics, and it is widely supposed that the proper response to a work of art is one of objective contemplation. At its core, then, beauty is a contested concept, and both sides feel comfortable appealing to the authority of Plato, and via him ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Bookshelf

    by Lydia Pyne ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Writer and historian Lydia Pyne finds bookshelves to be holders not just of books but of so ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Art: The Question of Definition

    From Hegel to Post-Dantian Theories

    by Tiziana Andina ...
    Translated by Natalia Iacobelli ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy
    Drawing on the philosophies of art developed by the continental authors and studies of Anglo-American philosophers, this book presents a panorama of the philosophy of art. It discusses definitions offered from the analytical school including Arthur Danto's representationalism, Dipert's theories of artefactualism, Dickie's institutional and procedural theories and Levinson's historical and cultural ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Literary Wittgenstein

    Edited by John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer ...
    The Literary Wittgenstein is a stellar collection of articles relating the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to core problems in the theory and philosophy of literature.Amid growing recognition that Wittgenstein's philosophy has important implications for literary studies, this book brings together twenty-one articles by the most prominent figures in the field. Eighteen of the articles ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • On Being in the World (Routledge Revivals)

    Wittgenstein and Heidegger on Seeing Aspects

    by Stephen Mulhall ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    On Being in the World, first published in 1990, illumines a neglected but important area of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, revealing its pertinence to the central concerns of contemporary analytic philosophy.The starting point is the idea of ‘continuous aspect perception’, which connects Wittgenstein’s treatment of certain issues relating to aesthetics with fundamental questions in the philosophy of ... Read more

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  • Art and Authority

    Moral Rights and Meaning in Contemporary Visual Art

    by K. E. Gover ...
    People engage with authored works all the time. They buy paintings, read books, download songs - they may even be artists themselves. Very rarely, however, is the concept of authorship brought into question. The basic idea that the artist as an author maintains some kind of claim to his or her creation, even as it circulates in the world at large, seems natural. It is the basis for copyright law ... Read more

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  • Life the Human Quest for an Ideal

    25th Anniversary Publication Book II

    Edited by M. Kronegger, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ...
    Series Book 2 - Philosophy and Religion (R0)

    $179.99 CAD

  • Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature

    by Ulrich Plass ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Language and History in Theodor W. Adorno's Notes to Literature explores Adorno’s essays on literature as an independent contribution to his aesthetics with an emphasis on his theory and practice of literary interpretation. Essential to Adorno’s essays is his unorthodox treatment of language and history and his elaboration of the links between the two. One of Adorno’s major but often-neglected ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD