Philosophy: aesthetics Books

Adriani Turnebi Lucubrationes Variae (1597) est liber qui continet varias exercitationes et annotationes Adriani Turnebi, eruditi Galli, in opera M. T. Ciceronis. In hoc libro, Turnebus commentarios et notulas adhibet ad varias Ciceronis orationes et...

In the late 19th and early 20th century Peter Lamborn Wilson hosted The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade on WBAI-FM in NYC, where he would read his essays as "Radio Sermonettes." One of these, “Utopian Trails in Central Park,” was...

The Supreme Law of the Future Man, written by Julius Hochfelder in 1909, is a philosophical work that explores the concept of a higher law that governs humanity's future. The book argues that traditional legal systems are insufficient for the progress of...

The Praise of Nothing is a literary work written by Edward Dyer and published in 1585. The book is a collection of poems and prose that celebrate the concept of nothingness. Dyer explores the paradoxical nature of nothingness, arguing that it is both...

The Esthetics Of Motion: With Special Reference To The Psychology Of Grace (1917) is a book written by Paul Souriau. The book is focused on the study of the aesthetics of motion, particularly the psychology of grace. Souriau delves into the concept of...

The Eighth Book of Thucydides' History is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War, written by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides. This book covers the period between 413 and 411 BCE, focusing on the events that occurred in the Aegean and the...

M. Tullii Ciceronis Academica est liber a Marco Tullio Cicerone compositus, qui anno MDCCCXXV editus est. In hoc libro, Ciceronis disputatio inter Academicos et Stoicos describitur, ubi Academicos defendit. Libellus constat ex tribus libris, quorum...

M. T. Ciceronis Orationes V7 (1786) est liber qui continet septem orationes a Marco Tullio Cicerone scriptas. Orationes in hoc libro sunt: ""In Verrem"", ""Pro Lege Manilia"", ""Pro Archia Poeta"", ""Pro Flacco"", ""In Catilinam I-IV"", et ""Pro Milone""...

M. Antonii Mureti Opera Omnia V3 (1841) est tomus tertius operum completorum Marci Antonii Mureti, qui fuit eruditus et celeberrimus orator et philologus Gallicus saeculi XVI. In hoc volumine continentur varia scripta eius, inter quae sunt orationes,...

This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, it...

The Re-enchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Gordon Graham takes as his starting point Max Weber's idea that contemporary...

Oedipus presents ceaseless paradoxes that have fascinated readers for centuries. He is proud of his intellect, but he does not know himself and succumbs easily to self-deceptions. As a ruler he expresses the greatest good will toward his people, but as...

An Art Philosopher's Cabinet is a collection of selected passages from the works of George Lansing Raymond, a renowned philosopher and scholar of aesthetics. The book, published in 1915, presents a comprehensive overview of comparative aesthetics,...

""An Essay On Painting: In Two Epistles To Mr. Romney"" is a book written by William Hayley in 1781. The book is a collection of two letters or epistles addressed to the famous painter George Romney. In these letters, Hayley presents his thoughts and...

Antiphontis Orationes XV is a book written by the ancient Greek orator Antiphon, and was first published in 1838. This book includes fifteen of Antiphon's speeches, which were originally delivered in the fifth century BC in Athens. The speeches cover a...

""An Introduction To The Study Of Aesthetics"" is a book written by James Clement Moffat in 1856 that aims to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the philosophical study of aesthetics. Moffat begins by defining aesthetics as the study...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging 21st century terrain of critical and performance...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this volume, Zangwill develops a view of the nature of music and our experience of music that foregrounds the aesthetic properties of music. He focuses on metaphysical issues about aesthetic properties of music, psychological issues about the nature...

Cicero Historicus (1881) est liber a Wilhelmo Freundo scriptus, qui de vita et operibus Ciceronis, celeberrimi oratoris et philosophi Romani, tractat. In hoc libro, Freund non solum vitam Ciceronis narrat, sed etiam eius scripta et orationes explicat...

Das Buch ""Aristotelis Ars Rhetorica"" von Aristoteles wurde im Jahr 1885 ver������ffentlicht und ist ein Werk �����ber die Kunst der Rhetorik. Aristoteles, einer der bedeutendsten Philosophen der antiken Welt, besch�����ftigte sich in diesem Werk mit...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

A wide-ranging attempt to develop a theory of ethical life from a hermeneutic understanding of language.

Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) originated much of twentieth- and twenty-first-century theology's renewed interest in aesthetics. Von Balthasar's theology is both poetic and philosophical, and while this combination is often...

Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). He explores a variety of articulations (in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the arts) of the idea...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Philopatris Dialogus Lucianeus Disputationem De Illius Aetate Et Auctore (1715) est liber scriptus a Samosatensi Luciano. In hoc libro, Lucianus dialogum Philopatris narrat, quae disputationem de aetate et auctore eiusdem dialogi continet. Dialogus...

Luciani Samosatensis Opera V1 (1858) est editio critica operum Luciani, scriptoris Graeci qui floruit saeculo secundo post Christum natum. In hoc volumine, continetur pars prima operum Luciani, quae est divisa in quattuor libros. Primum librum continet...

This book reads Alfred Hitchcock as a philosopher of what constitutes the erotic. The author argues that Hitchcock is doing a post-Nietzschean, postmodern kind of philosophy in which he is exploring and creating possibilities of what the erotic can feel...

This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer's reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines fundamental themes in Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics such as play, festival, symbol, contemporaneity, enactment, art's performative...

This book is an exploration of how art-specifically paintings in the European manner-can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings...

Liber ""Dicendi Genus Tacitinum Quatenus Differat A Liviano"" auctore Petzke, Paulo editus est anno MDCCCLXXXVIII. In hoc libro, auctor comparat opera duo historiographorum, Taciti et Livii, et investigat differentias inter eorum dicendi genera. Petzke...

Essays and Tracts is a collection of essays and tracts written by John Abercrombie, a Scottish physician and philosopher, and published in 1842. The book is divided into two parts: the first part contains essays on various topics such as the nature of...

Essais Historiques Et Philosophiques Sur Le Gout (1737) est un livre �����crit par Fran�����ois Cartaud De La Villate. Ce livre explore les th�����mes de l'esth�����tique et du go�����t en philosophie et en histoire. Il examine comment le go�����t est...

Elogium Tiberii Hemsterhusii (1875) est liber a Ruhnkenio, David scriptus, qui Hemsterhusium, doctorem et philologum Batavum, laudibus celebrat. In hoc libro, Ruhnkenius vitae et operibus Hemsterhusii tributa solvit, eique testimonium reddit, quod...

Il libro ""Elogio di Gessner"" scritto da Aurelio Giorgio Bertola nel 1798 ����� una raccolta di elogi dedicati al celebre pittore e incisore svizzero Salomon Gessner. L'autore, che era un grande ammiratore del lavoro di Gessner, descrive la sua vita, la...

""Dissertazioni Sopra Varj Punti Interessanti D�������Istoria V1: Ecclesiastica, Pontificia, E Canonica"" ����� un libro scritto da Gaetano Cenni nel 1778. Questo volume ����� composto da una serie di dissertazioni che trattano vari argomenti di storia...

This book examines Clarice Lispector's body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophical questions, which are placed in conversation with a range of theoretical frameworks and approaches. It was originally published as...

Hellenistic philosophy concerns the thought of the Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics, the most influential philosophical groups in the era between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) and the defeat of the last Greek stronghold in the ancient world...

Underground rap is largely a subversive, grassroots, and revolutionary movement in underground hip-hop, tending to privilege creative freedom as well as progressive and liberating thoughts and actions. This book contends that many practitioners of...

This book explores how four contemporary artists-Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, and Damien Hirst-pursue the question of death through their fraught appropriations of Christian imagery. Each artist is shown to not only pose provocative...

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...