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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
by Mary Wollstonecraft
<b>Vintage Feminism- classic feminist texts in short form</b>WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMS<b> ...
ISBN: 9781784870393
Binding: Paperback
$12.99
A Heathrow Diary
by Alain de Botton
We all spend longer than we would like waiting around in airports, but we rarely discover anything about our fellow travellers or those who work there. In the summer of 2009, however, Alain de Botton was given unprecedented, unrestricted access
ISBN: 9781743153918
Binding: CD-Audio
Audio Book$19.95
A Heathrow Diary
by Alain de Botton
We all spend longer than we would like waiting around in airports, but we rarely discover anything about our fellow travellers or those who work there. In the summer of 2009, however, Alain de Botton was given unprecedented, unrestricted access
ISBN: 9781743153925
Binding: CD-Extra
Audio Book$14.95
A Heathrow Diary
by Alain de Botton
An uplifting and unique journey through the days and nights of the UK's largest airport. ...
ISBN: 9781846683596
Binding: Paperback
$19.99
Addresses to the German Nation
by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
In the winter of 1807, while Berlin was occupied by French troops, the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte presented fourteen public lectures that have long been studied as a major statement of modern nationalism. Yet Fichte’s <i>Addresses to the
ISBN: 9781603849340
Binding: Paperback
$32.00
Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy
by Andrew Bowie
Theodor Adorno’s reputation as a cultural critic has been well-established for some time, but his status as a philosopher remains unclear. In <i>Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy</i> Andrew Bowie seeks to establish what Adorno can ...
ISBN: 9780745671598
Binding: Paperback
$37.95
by Theodor W Adorno
Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved ...
ISBN: 9781780936598
Binding: Paperback
$29.99
The Big Questions
by Carolyn Korsmeyer
Philosophers have considered questions raised by the nature of art, of beauty, and critical appreciation since ancient times, and the discipline of aesthetics has a long tradition that stretches from Plato to the present. ...
ISBN: 9780631205937
Binding: Hardback
$219.95
by Theodor W. Adorno
<p>This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958/59, formed the foundation for his later text <i>Aesthetic Theory</i>, widely regarded as one of Adorno’s greatest works. <br /> <br /> The lectures ...
ISBN: 9780745679396
Binding: Hardback
$115.95
by Theodor W. Adorno
<p>This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958/59, formed the foundation for his later text <i>Aesthetic Theory</i>, widely regarded as one of Adorno’s greatest works. <br /> <br /> The lectures ...
ISBN: 9780745679402
Binding: Paperback
$39.95
A Comprehensive Anthology
by Steven M. Cahn
From Plato's <i>Ion</i> to works by contemporary philosophers, this anthology showcases classic texts to illuminate the development of philosophical thought about art and the aesthetic. This volume is the most comprehensive collection of ...
ISBN: 9781405154345
Binding: Hardback
$199.95
A Comprehensive Anthology
by Steven M. Cahn
From Plato's <i>Ion</i> to works by contemporary philosophers, this anthology showcases classic texts to illuminate the development of philosophical thought about art and the aesthetic. This volume is the most comprehensive collection of ...
ISBN: 9781405154352
Binding: Paperback
$60.95
by Charles Taliaferro
What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping introduction, Charles Taliaferro skilfully guides
ISBN: 9781743104422
Binding: CD-Extra
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by Karl Rosenkranz
In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty without being reducible to evil, materiality, or other negative terms used it 's conventional condemnation. This insistence on ...
ISBN: 9781350022928
Binding: Paperback
$49.99
by Nikki Gemmell
Nikki Gemmell’s world changed forever when the body of her elderly mother was found and it became clear she had decided to end her own life. After the immediate shock came the guilt and the horror, for Nikki, her family, relatives and friends. ...
ISBN: 9781460796283
Binding: CD-Audio
Audio Book$49.95
by Nikki Gemmell
Nikki Gemmell’s world changed forever when the body of her elderly mother was found and it became clear she had decided to end her own life. After the immediate shock came the guilt and the horror, for Nikki, her family, relatives and friends. ...
ISBN: 9781460796290
Binding: CD-Extra
Audio Book$49.95
by Richard Grusin
<p> <i>After Extinction </i>looks at the future of humans and nonhumans, exploring how the scale of risk posed by extinction has changed in light of the accelerated networks of the twentyfirst century. Considering extinction as a cultural, ...
ISBN: 9781517902896
Binding: Paperback
$37.99
by Alasdair MacIntyre
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language ...
ISBN: 9781780936253
Binding: Paperback
$29.99
Agamben and the Signature of Astrology: Spheres of Potentiality
by Paul Colilli
ISBN: 9781498505970
Binding: Paperback
$67.00
Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
by A. C. Grayling
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching <i>Macbeth</i> at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd,
ISBN: 9781408870389
Binding: Paperback