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Thinking in Action Série de Livres électroniques

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  • On Film

    par Stephen Mulhall ...
    Collections series Thinking in Action
    First published in 2002. Few movies have captured our imagination as deeply and enduringly as those of the 'Alien' quartet, which follow the odyssey of Sigourney Weaver's Flight Lieutenant Ellen Ripley. In this gripping and limpidly written book, Stephen Mulhall shows why these films fascinate us, by showing that they are compelling examples of philosophy in action. Bringing a philosopher's eye to ... En savoir plus

    $81.99 CAD

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  • The Severed Head

    Capital Visions

    par Julia Kristeva ...
    Traduit par Jody Gladding ...
    Collections series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the head as symbol and metaphor, as religious object and physical fact, further developing a critical theme in ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Why the Romantics Matter

    par Peter Gay ...
    Collections series Why X Matters Series
    With his usual wit and élan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of the immense achievements of romantic writers and artists in all media.Gay’s scope is wide, his insights sharp. He takes on the recurring questions ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Bookshelf

    par Lydia Pyne ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Literary Wittgenstein

    Modifié par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Poetry

    Modifié par John Gibson ...
    In recent years philosophers have produced important books on nearly all the major arts: the novel and painting, music and theatre, dance and architecture, conceptual art and even gardening. Poetry is the sole exception. This is an astonishing omission, one this collection of original essays will correct. If contemporary philosophy still regards metaphors such as 'Juliet is the sun' as a serious ... En savoir plus

    $86.99 CAD

  • Deleuze on Literature

    par Ronald Bogue ...
    Collections series Deleuze and the Arts
    This is the first comprehensive introduction to Deleuze's work on literature. It provides thorough treatments of Deleuze's early book on Proust and his seminal volume on Kafka and minor literature. Deleuze on Literature situates those studies and many other scattered writings within a general project that extends throughout Deleuze's career-that of conceiving of literature as a form of health and ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • Aesthetics of the Familiar

    Everyday Life and World-Making

    par Yuriko Saito ...
    Yuriko Saito explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people's everyday life. Everyday aesthetics has the recognized value of enriching one's life experiences and sharpening one's attentiveness and sensibility. Saito draws out its broader importance for how we make our worlds, environmentally, morally, as citizens and consumers. Saito urges that we have a social ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying

    Modifié par Professor Darren Hudson Hick, Reinold Schmücker ...
    The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying responds to the rapidly changing attitudes towards the use of another's ideas, styles, and artworks. With advances in technology making the copying of artworks and other artefacts exponentially easier, questions of copying no longer focus on the problems of forgery: they now expand into aesthetic and ethical legal concerns. This volume addresses the changes and ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • Deaths in Venice

    The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach

    par Philip Kitcher ...
    Collections series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the predicament of the novella's central character to Western thought's most compelling questions.In ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Sublime in Antiquity

    par James I. Porter ...
    Current understandings of the sublime are focused by a single word ('sublimity') and by a single author ('Longinus'). The sublime is not a word: it is a concept and an experience, or rather a whole range of ideas, meanings and experiences that are embedded in conceptual and experiential patterns. Once we train our sights on these patterns a radically different prospect on the sublime in antiquity ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • Art's Philosophical Work

    par Andrew Benjamin ...
    What is the work of art? How does art work as art? Andrew Benjamin contends that the only way to address these questions is by developing a radically new materialist philosophy of art, and by rethinking the history of art from within that perspective.A materialist philosophy of art starts with the contention that meaning is only ever the after effect of the way in which materials work. Starting ... En savoir plus

    $49.99 CAD