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  • Sensational Subjects

    The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World

    by Dr John Jervis ...
    Series series The WISH List
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Under what conditions does 'sensation' become 'sensational'?In the early nineteenth century murder was a staple of the sensationalizing popular press and gruesome descriptions were deployed to make a direct impact on the sensations of the reader. By the end of the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Sympathetic Sentiments

    Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World

    by Dr John Jervis ...
    Series series The WISH List
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Sympathetic Sentiments develops an innovative interdisciplinary framework to explore the implications of living in a culture of feeling that seems ill at ease with itself, one in which sentiments are frequently denounced for being sentimental and self-indulgent.These ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema

    The Musical Poetry of Motion Pictures Revisited

    by Daniel Barnett ...
    Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein's concepts of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Philosophy Bites Again

    by David Edmonds, Nigel Warburton ...
    Philosophy Bites Again is a brand new selection of interviews from the popular podcast of the same name. It offers engaging and thought-provoking conversations with leading philosophers on a selection of major philosophical issues that affect our lives. Their subjects include pleasure, pain, and humour; consciousness and the self; free will, responsibility, and punishment; the meaning of life and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Film Worlds

    A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema

    by Daniel Yacavone ...
    Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the continental and analytic traditions, as well as classical and contemporary film theory, it weaves together multiple strands of thought and analysis to provide new understandings of filmic representation, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Architecture of Happiness

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet a concern for architecture is too often ... Read more

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  • The Birth of Tragedy

    Out of the Spirit of Music

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in lifeThis landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner, to whom the book was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between two central forces in art: the Apolline, representing beauty and order ... Read more

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  • Bob Dylan and Philosophy

    It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Thinking)

    Edited by Carl J. Porter, Peter Vernezze, William Irwin ...
    Series Book 17 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan’s ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial attitudes toward religion. All phases of Dylan’s output are covered, from his early acoustic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Shapes

    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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  • Rites of Way

    The Politics and Poetics of Public Space

    Edited by Mark Kingwell, Patrick Turmel ...
    Series series Canadian Commentaries
    There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public space remains an evanescent and multidimensional concept that too often escapes scrutiny.The essays in Rites of Way: The ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Emmanuel Levinas

    by Seán Hand ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Best known for his theories of ethics and responsibility, Emmanuel Levinas was one of the most profound and influential thinkers of the last century. In this clear, accessible guide, Seán Hand examines why Levinas is increasingly fundamental to the study of literature and culture today. Exploring the intellectual and social contexts of his work and the events that shaped it, Hand considers:the ... Read more

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  • The Don Giovanni Moment

    Essays on the Legacy of an Opera

    Edited by Lydia Goehr, Daniel Herwitz ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism.The Don Giovanni Moment is the first book to examine the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in ... Read more

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