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  • Soul and Form

    Translated by Anna Bostock ...
    by Georg Lukács ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    György Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Destruction of Reason

    by Georg Lukacs ...
    Translated by Peter Palmer ...
    How Western philosophy lost its innocence: from Enlightenment to fascismThe Destruction of Reason is Georg Lukács’s trenchant criticism of certain strands of philosophy after Marx and the role they played in the rise of National Socialism: ‘Germany’s path to Hitler in the sphere of philosophy,’ as he put it. Starting with the revolutions of 1848, his analysis spans post-Hegelian philosophy and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Black Hyperbox

    "A point alienates from itself and becomes a line. A line alienates from itself and becomes a square. A square alienates from itself and becomes a cube. A cube alienates from itself and becomes a hypercube. Black Hyperbox is a dimension of productive alienation from concepts through experience and from experience through thinking. Black Hyperbox is a productive lie, a future-oriented ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics and Politics

    Series series Radical Thinkers
    No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Tactics and Ethics

    1919-1929

    by Georg Lukacs ...
    Series Book 8 - Radical Thinkers
    Tactics and Ethics collects Georg Lukács’s articles from the most politically active time of his life, a period encompassing his stint as deputy commissar of education in the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Including his famed essay on parliamentarianism—which earned Lukács the respectful yet severe criticism of Lenin—this book is a treasure chest of valuable insights from one of history’s great ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts

    by Philip Ball ...
    Patterns are everywhere in nature - in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? It creates itself. The patterns we see come from self-organization. Whether living or non-living, scientists have found that there is a pattern-forming tendency inherent in the basic structure and processes of ... Read more

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  • Beyond Unwanted Sound

    Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism

    Noise is so often a 'stench in the ear' – an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as unwanted sound.Beyond Unwanted Sound is about noise and how we talk about it. Weaving together affect theory with cybernetics, media histories, acoustic ecology, geo-politics, sonic art practices and a range of noises, Marie Thompson critiques ... Read more

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  • Pragmatist Aesthetics

    Living Beauty, Rethinking Art

    This much acclaimed book has emerged as neo-pragmatism's most significant contribution to contemporary aesthetics. By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic experience and the art of living, and by providing a compellingly rigorous defense of popular art-crowned by a pioneer study of hip hop-Richard Shusterman reorients aesthetics towards a fresher, more relevant, and socially ... Read more

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  • Introducing Kant

    A Graphic Guide

    Series series Graphic Guides
    Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant's attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of philosophical enquiry. And yet, Kant's relentless systematic formalism made him a controversial figure in the history of the philosophy that he helped to shape.Introducing Kant focuses on the three critiques of ... Read more

    $5.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Adorno

    Edited by Tom Huhn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The great German philosopher and aesthetic theorist Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903–69) was one of the main philosophers of the first generation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. An accomplished musician, Adorno first focused on the theory of culture and art. Later he turned to the problem of the self-defeating dialectic of modern reason and freedom. In this collection of essays, imbued ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Art

    by Aaron Ridley ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
    Nietzsche is one of the most important modern philosophers and his writings on the nature of art are amongst the most influential of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This GuideBook introduces and assesses:Nietzsche's life and the background to his writings on artthe ideas and texts of his works which contribute to art, including The Birth of Tragedy, Human, All Too Human and Thus Spoke ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Production of Subjectivity in «The Diamond Age» by Neal Stephenson

    Series Book 9 - Beyond Humanism: Trans- and Posthumanism / Jenseits des Humanismus: Trans- und Posthumanismus
    The book brings to light Neal Stephenson’s answer to the technologically induced crisis in identity. The author of this book analyses the ethnocultural, technological, and ideological skeins that make up the biopolitical production of the self. The coming-of-age novel «The Diamond Age» reflects the processes surrounding the emergence of conscience. Through his inspired recycling of cultural ... Read more

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