Philosophy : Aesthetics

Peter Lamarque's refreshing, polemical anthology on the philosophy of literature covers the field's key debates: the role of the author, literary appreciation, the nature of fiction, the pleasures of tragedy, and the question of censorship. After a comprehensive and engaging introduction, five robust essays examine the central themes of the aesthetics of literature. A significant feature of the Cybereditions edition is Lamarque's new Preface, which includes an up-dated bibliography. more...

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This is the ideal up-to-date textbook for students of philosophy, art or literature, coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time. more...

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In this book, Jeff Malpas advances an account of the nature and significance of place as a complex but unitary structure that encompasses self and other, space and time, and subjectivity and objectivity. more...

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Psychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation.:.; Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values, debates and controversies that have been hallmarks of visual representation in the modern and contemporary periods.; Covers topics including melancholia, sex, and pathology to the body, and parent-child relations.; Advances theoretical debates in art history while offering substantive analyses of significant bodies of twentieth century art.; Edited by internationally renowned art historian Griselda Pollock. more...

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Revealing Art is a stimulating and lucid book about why art is important and the role of the imagination in art, illustrated with colour and black-and-white plates of examples from Michaelangelo to Matisse and from Poussin to Pollock. more...

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