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A spirited memoir by artist Aviva Rahmani, offering a relatable narrative to discuss trigger point theory and the importance of eco-art activism. Divining Chaos is an intimate personal memoir of unp……続きを見る

William Desmond argues that philosophy, religion, and art begin in wonder. Desmond is widely recognized for his original metaphysics and his provocative philosophy of religion. Desmond's extensive w……続きを見る

This book offers a psychological account of thrills (goosebumps and tears), of the epiphanic experience of seeing ordinary things in a profoundly new way, and of the experience of the sublime. The u……続きを見る

This book establishes an argument for deeper attention to the aesthetic qualities of literature, to the question of the relation between the aesthetic and more immediate, practical, and urgent socia……続きを見る

This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of Stevens’s poetry using the philosophical framework of Martin Heidegg……続きを見る

"En rose er lige skøn i dag, enten den i morgen skal visne eller ej. Der er mange aforismer og digte, som udtrykker denne tanke, at værdien (i hvert fald skønhedsværdien) ikke ligger i varigheden el……続きを見る

Jede Gesellschaft hat die Körper, die sie verdient. Und jede Gesellschaft muss ihre Körper ändern, wenn sie sich selbst verändern will. Björn Vedders Essay betrachtet die harten und sauber geputzten……続きを見る

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill On Liberty is a philosophical essay by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill. Published in 1859, it applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and s……続きを見る

Parmenides by Plato (Greek: Παρμενίδης) is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the most challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues. The Parmenides purports to be ……続きを見る

Philebus by Plato (/fɪˈliːbəs/; occasionally given as Philebos; Greek: Φίληβος) is a Socratic dialogue written in the 4th century BC by Plato. Besides Socrates (the main speaker) the other interlocu……続きを見る

Protagoras by Plato is a dialogue by Plato. The traditional subtitle (which may or may not be Plato's) is "or the Sophists". The main argument is between Socrates and the elderly Protagoras, a celeb……続きを見る

Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the previous century's most provocative thinkers. Can his work help us address the crisis currently facing the humanities? The dominant economic discours……続きを見る

Exploring the five elements of cooking and eating: Taste, Flavour (smell), Texture (touch and sound), Temperature (touch) and Appearance, this book explains how these elements work together and how ……続きを見る

Martin Heidegger's (1889-1976) criticism of Friedrich Nietzsche's nihilism represented a 'turn' in his thought. In this new and perceptive book, Dominic Kelly explores nihilism through the work of t……続きを見る

By analysing the philosophical lineage of notions of representation, time, being, light, exposure, image, and truth, this book argues that photography is the visual manifestation of the philosophica……続きを見る

This book undertakes to show how the exercise of reading Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” involves articulating for ourselves, as readers, what it means to liberate life through death. What Tols……続きを見る

《審美生產主義：消費時代馬克思美學的經濟哲學重構》研究的主要對象是在全球化進程中的當代西方消費社會的轉型，而在此轉型中，全球範圍內的社會衝突和生態衝突日趨尖銳，西方主流意識形態和方法論發生了轉型。從……続きを見る

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic Demet……続きを見る

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthe……続きを見る

Reza Negarestani, autore del libro-rivelazione Cyclonopedia (Luiss University Press, 2021), ci offre in questo saggio il frutto del confronto serrato con l’artista Jean-Luc Moulène sul tema dell’ast……続きを見る

Thirteen essays in the book explore and investigate diverse contemporary philosophically current themes and issues. The title is derived from Wittgenstein's statement that 'anguage is a labyrinth of……続きを見る

The New Organon by Francis Bacon The Novum Organum, fully Novum Organum, sive Indicia Vera de Interpretatione Naturae ("New organon, or true directions concerning the interpretation of nature") or I……続きを見る

Enea Bianchi provides the first in-depth introduction to the pioneering thought of 20th-century Italian philosopher, Mario Perniola. Examining Perniola's entire oeuvre, this book also pushes his phi……続きを見る

Valery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of his generation. Here his most famous work is translated into English for the first time. In it he gives a panorama view of Russian writing, ……続きを見る

Este libro ofrece una teoría de la estética poshumana en los paisajes de información mediados por procesos computacionales. A partir de innovaciones científicas, tecnológicas y conceptuales, se inve……続きを見る

The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith is a 1759 book by Adam Smith. It provided the ethical, philosophical, psychological, and methodological underpinnings to Smith's later works, including T……続きを見る

Around the turn of the nineteenth century, no task seemed more urgent to German Romantics than the creation of a new mythology. It would unite modern poets and grant them common ground, and bring ph……続きを見る

The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fre……続きを見る

A short but engaging exploration of our changing perception of creativity. Creativity was once seen as the mark of mad geniuses, troubled souls, and avant-garde eccentrics. Today, however, we expect……続きを見る

The Best Books of 2022, The New Yorker Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Among the many things expectant parents are told to ……続きを見る