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  • Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon

    Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry

    Modifié par Avi Lifschitz, Michael Squire ...
    Collections series Classical Presences
    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (Laocoon, or on the Limits of Painting and Poetry) in 1766. Over the last 250 years, Lessing's essay has exerted an incalculable influence on western critical thinking. Not only has it directed the history of post-Enlightenment aesthetics, it has also shaped the very practices of 'poetry' and 'painting ... En savoir plus

    $117.99 CAD

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  • Ecce Homo

    How One Becomes What One is

    par Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Traduit par R. J. Hollingdale ...
    In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a philosopher, examines the heroes he has identified with, struggled against and then overcome - ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

    par Edmund Burke ...
    First published in 1757, the treatise “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, by the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke, provides a distinct transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. Burke’s treatise was the first fully realized exposition that separated the definition of the sublime from the beautiful. His work received much attention from other ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Immortal Comedy

    The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life

    par Agnes Heller ...
    Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In both its subject and style, Immortal Comedy is a seminal book. In it, Heller takes us on a journey ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • Hip-Hop and Philosophy

    Rhyme 2 Reason

    par Derrick Darby, Tommie Shelby ...
    Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What’s the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a "black" thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit - and often explicit - in hip-hop ... En savoir plus

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  • The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece

    par Lynette Mitchell ...
    With an in-depth exploration of rule by a single man and how this was seen as heroic activity, the title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down traditional ideas about the relationship between so-called hereditary rule and tyranny. It looks at how a common heroic ideology among rulers was based upon excellence, or arete, and also surveys dynastic ruling, where ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists

    A Critical Reader

    Modifié par Christopher Kul-Want ...
    Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual tradition, and psychoanalytic theory, and each is accompanied by an overview and interpretation.The volume features Martin Heidegger on Van Gogh's ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Concept of the Beautiful

    par Agnes Heller ...
    The main purpose of this book is to explicate the problematic relationship between the heterogeneity of what is experienced as beautiful and the homogeneity of the conceptualization of that experience, or attempt at such a conceptualization in the era of modern philosophy. While the heterogeneity of what is experienced as beautiful was permitted, and indeed celebrated, in the dominant ancient ... En savoir plus

    $136.99 CAD

  • The Insistence of Art

    Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity

    Modifié par Paul A. Kottman ...
    Philosophers working on aesthetics have paid considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely figure in recent work on the emergence of aesthetics as a branch of philosophy over the course the eighteenth century. This book addresses that gap, elaborating the extent to which artworks and practices of the fifteenth through the ... En savoir plus

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  • Hegel and the English Romantic Tradition

    par W. Deakin ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition. Deakin critiques four canonical writers of the English Romantic tradition, Coleridge, Wordsworth, P.B. Shelley and Mary Shelley, arguing that they, as Hegel, are engaged in a struggle towards philosophical recognition. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Diagnosing Contemporary Philosophy with the Matrix Movies

    par O. Bradley Bassler ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book charts the shape of future philosophical investigation by posing the question: “What is the Matrix?” Guided by the example of the Matrix film trilogy, the author examines issues ranging from simulation, proof and action to value, culture and mythology, offering a progressively deeper diagnosis of modern philosophical conditions. In contrast to the contemporary focus upon cognitive ... En savoir plus

    $77.99 CAD

  • Nefer

    The Aesthetic Ideal in Classical Egypt

    par Willie Cannon-Brown ...
    Collections series African Studies
    This book provides an original treatment of the concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks to examine the dimensions of nefer, the term used to describe the good and the beautiful, within the context of ordinary life. Because the book is based upon original research on ancient Egypt it opens up space for a review of the aesthetics of other African societies in the Nile Valley. Thus, it ... En savoir plus

    $117.99 CAD