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  • German Aesthetics

    Fundamental Concepts from Baumgarten to Adorno

    Edited by Dr. J. D. Mininger, Dr. Jason Michael Peck ...
    Series series New Directions in German Studies
    German Aesthetics provides English-speaking audiences with accessible explanations of fundamental concepts from the German tradition of philosophical aesthetics. Organized with the understanding that aesthetic concepts are often highly contested intellectual territory, and that the usage and meanings of terms often shift within historical, cultural, and political debates, this volume brings ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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  • Miniature Metropolis

    Literature in an Age of Photography and Film

    by Andreas Huyssen ...
    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe’s modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with aesthetic experimentation in old and new media, and from this milieu emerged metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about the experiences of urban life written for European newspapers. Miniature ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Expressions of Judgment

    by Eli Friedlander ...
    Kant’s The Critique of Judgment laid the groundwork of modern aesthetics when it appeared in 1790. Eli Friedlander’s reappraisal emphasizes the internal connection of judgment and meaning, showing how the pleasure in judging is intimately related to our capacity to draw meaning from our encounter with beauty. ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • The Philosophy of Poetry

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • The End of the World

    Contemporary Philosophy and Art

    Edited by Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback, Susanna Lindberg ...
    Series series Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies
    The 'end of the world' opens up philosophical questions concerning the very notion of the world, which is a fundamental element of all existential, phenomenological and hermeneutical philosophy. Is the 'end of the world' for us 'somebody's' death (the end of 'being-in-the-world') or the extinction of many or of all (the end of the world itself)? Is the erosion of the 'world' a phenomenon that does ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • 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

    $60.99 USD

  • Contracts of Fiction

    Cognition, Culture, Community

    by Ellen Spolsky ...
    The Contracts of Fiction reconnects our fictional worlds to the rest of our lives. Countering the contemporary tendency to dismiss works of imagination as enjoyable but epistemologically inert, the book considers how various kinds of fictions construct, guide, and challenge institutional relationships within social groups. The contracts of fiction, like the contracts of language, law, kinship, and ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • Reading for Wonder

    Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment

    by Glenn Willmott ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements. Yet this deeply felt experience—at once cognitive, aesthetic, and ethical—has been dangerously neglected in our cultural education. In order to cultivate the imaginative empathy and caution this feeling evokes, we need to teach ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Receptive Spirit

    German Idealism and the Dynamics of Cultural Transmission

    by Márton Dornbach ...
    Series series Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
    Premised on the assumption that the mind is fundamentally active and self-determining, the German Idealist project gave rise to new ways of thinking about our dependence upon culturally transmitted models of thought, feeling, and creativity. Receptive Spirit elucidates the ways in which Kant, Fichte, Schlegel, and Hegel envisioned and enacted the conjunction of receptivity and spontaneous activity ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Poetry of Life in Literature

    Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Poetry of life in literature and through literature, and the vast territory in between - as vast as human life itself - where they interact and influence each other, is the nerve of human existence. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are profoundly dissatisfied with the stark reality of life's swift progress onward, and the enigmatic and irretrievable meaning of the past. And so we dramatise ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • 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

    $60.99 USD

  • The Elemental Dialectic of Light and Darkness

    The Passions of the Soul in the Onto-Poiesis of Life

    Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The dialectic of light and darkness studied in this collection of essays reveals itself as a primal factor of life as well as the essential element of the specifically human world. From its borderline position between physis and psyche, natural growth and techne, bios and ethos, it functions as the essential factor in all the sectors of life at large. We see its crucial role in all sectors of life ... Read more

    $206.09 USD