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Brecht On Art & Politics (Hardcover): Bertolt Brecht Brecht On Art & Politics (Hardcover)
Bertolt Brecht; Edited by Steve Giles, Tom Kuhn; Translated by Laura Bradley, Steve Giles, …
R1,843 Discovery Miles 18 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first single-volume anthology of Brecht's writings on both art and politics This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century's most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-section of Brecht's wide-ranging thoughts which offer us an extraordinary window onto the concerns of a modern world in four decades of economic and political disorder. The book is designed to give wider access to the experience of a dynamic intellect, radically engaged with social, political and cultural processes. Each section begins with a short essay by the editors introducing and summarising Brecht's thought in the relevant year.

The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche (Hardcover): Ken Gemes, John Richardson The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche (Hardcover)
Ken Gemes, John Richardson
R4,832 Discovery Miles 48 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The diversity of Nietzsche's books, and the sheer range of his philosophical interests, have posed daunting challenges to his interpreters. This Oxford Handbook addresses this multiplicity by devoting each of its 32 essays to a focused topic, picked out by the book's systematic plan. The aim is to treat each topic at the best current level of philosophical scholarship on Nietzsche. The first group of papers treat selected biographical issues: his family relations, his relations to women, and his ill health and eventual insanity. In Part 2 the papers treat Nietzsche in historical context: his relations back to other philosophers-the Greeks, Kant, and Schopenhauer-and to the cultural movement of Romanticism, as well as his own later influence in an unlikely place, on analytic philosophy. The papers in Part 3 treat a variety of Nietzsche's works, from early to late and in styles ranging from the 'aphoristic' The Gay Science and Beyond Good and Evil through the poetic-mythic Thus Spoke Zarathustra to the florid autobiography Ecce Homo. This focus on individual works, their internal unity, and the way issues are handled within them, is an important complement to the final three groups of papers, which divide up Nietzsche's philosophical thought topically. The papers in Part 4 treat issues in Nietzsche's value theory, ranging from his metaethical views as to what values are, to his own values of freedom and the overman, to his insistence on 'order of rank', and his social-political views. The fifth group of papers treat Nietzsche's epistemology and metaphysics, including such well-known ideas as his perspectivism, his INSERT: Included in Starkmann 40% promotion, September-October 2014 being, and his thought of eternal recurrence. Finally, Part 6 treats another famous idea-the will to power-as well as two linked ideas that he uses will to power to explain, the drives, and life. This Handbook will be a key resource for all scholars and advanced students who work on Nietzsche.

Understanding Love - Philosophy, Film, and Fiction (Hardcover, New): Susan Wolf, Christopher Grau Understanding Love - Philosophy, Film, and Fiction (Hardcover, New)
Susan Wolf, Christopher Grau
R4,092 Discovery Miles 40 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection of original essays, written by scholars from disciplines across the humanities, addresses a wide range of questions about love through a focus on individual films, novels, plays, and works of philosophy. The essays touch on many varieties of love, including friendship, romantic love, parental love, and even the love of an author for her characters. How do social forces shape the types of love that can flourish and sustain themselves? What is the relationship between love and passion? Is love between human and nonhuman animals possible? What is the role of projection in love? These questions and more are explored through an investigation of works by authors ranging from Henrik Ibsen to Ian McEwan, from Rousseau to the Coen Brothers.

A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time (Hardcover): Adrian Bardon A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time (Hardcover)
Adrian Bardon
R3,041 Discovery Miles 30 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short yet thorough introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. Its treatment is roughly chronological, starting with the ancient Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Parmenides and proceeding through the history of Western philosophy and science up to the present. Using illustrations and keeping technical language to a minimum, A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and change, the experience of time, physical and metaphysical approaches to the nature of time, the direction of time, time-travel, time and freedom of the will, and scientific and philosophical approaches to eternity and the beginning of time. Bardon brings the resources of over 2500 years of philosophy and science to bear on some of humanity's most fundamental and enduring questions.

Glory of the Lord VOL 6 - Theology: The Old Covenant (Hardcover): Hans Urs Von Balthasar Glory of the Lord VOL 6 - Theology: The Old Covenant (Hardcover)
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
R5,961 Discovery Miles 59 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume initiates von Balthasar's study of the biblical vision and understanding of God's glory. Starting with the theopanies of the Patriarchal period, it shows how such glory is most fully expressed in the graciousness of the Covenant relationship between God and Israel.

Glory of the Lord VOL 5 (Hardcover): Hans Urs Von Balthasar Glory of the Lord VOL 5 (Hardcover)
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
R5,648 Discovery Miles 56 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume presents a series of studies of representative mystics, theologians, philosophers, and poets and explores the three mainstreams of metaphysics which have developed since the catastrophe of Nominalism.

Glory of the Lord VOL 7 - Theology: The New Covenant (Hardcover): Hans Urs Von Balthasar Glory of the Lord VOL 7 - Theology: The New Covenant (Hardcover)
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
R5,970 Discovery Miles 59 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work presents a sustained reflection on the New Testament vision of God's revelation of his glory in Christ. This divine "appearing" is grounded in the self-emptying of the eternal Logos in the incarnation, cross and descent into hell, yet this is the means whereby his glory is manifested and enriches all who are seized by its beauty.

The Glory Of The Lord: A Theological Aesthetics - Volume 3: Studies In Theological Style: Lay Styles (Hardcover): Hans Urs Von... The Glory Of The Lord: A Theological Aesthetics - Volume 3: Studies In Theological Style: Lay Styles (Hardcover)
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
R5,631 Discovery Miles 56 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this volume von Balthasar turns to the works of the lay theologians, the poets and the philosopher theologians who have kept alive the Grand Tradition of Christian theology in writings formally very different from the works of the Fathers and the great Scholastics. This volume contains studies of Dante, John of the Cross, Pascal, Hamann, Soloviev, Hopkins and Peguy.

The Glory Of The Lord: A Theological Aesthetics - Volume 2: Studies In Theological Style - Clerical Styles (Hardcover): Hans... The Glory Of The Lord: A Theological Aesthetics - Volume 2: Studies In Theological Style - Clerical Styles (Hardcover)
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
R5,962 Discovery Miles 59 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

offers a series of earlier Christian theology when the aesthetic view was still held and appreciated. Drawing insights from some of the leading figures of the early Church such as Anselm, Augustine, Bonaventura, Denys and Irenaeus, von Balthasar presents his views with a freshness and vigour rarely excelled in contemporary theological writing about the Grand Tradition.

The Wabi-Sabi Way - Simple Principles to Bring Calm, Meaning & Authenticity to Your Daily Life (Paperback): Mike Sturm The Wabi-Sabi Way - Simple Principles to Bring Calm, Meaning & Authenticity to Your Daily Life (Paperback)
Mike Sturm
R292 Discovery Miles 2 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Glory of the Lord VOL 1 - Seeing The Form (Hardcover): Hans Urs Von Balthasar Glory of the Lord VOL 1 - Seeing The Form (Hardcover)
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
R5,645 Discovery Miles 56 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This text opens with a critical review of developments in Protestant and Catholic theology since the Reformation which have led to the steady neglect of aesthetics in Christian theology. Then, von Balthasar turns to the central theme of the volume, the question of theological knowledge. He re-examines the nature of Christian believing, drawing widely on such theological figures as Anselm, Pascal and Newman.

Georg Lukacs Reconsidered - Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics (Hardcover, New): Michael J. Thompson Georg Lukacs Reconsidered - Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics (Hardcover, New)
Michael J. Thompson
R5,270 Discovery Miles 52 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Georg Lukcs stands as a towering figure in the areas of critical theory, literary criticism, aesthetics, ethical theory and the philosophy of Marxism and German Idealism. Yet, despite his influence throughout the twentieth century, his contributions to the humanities and theoretical social sciences are marked by neglect. What has been lost is a crucial thinker in the tradition of critical theory, but also, by extension, a crucial set of ideas that can be used to shed new light on the major problems of contemporary society. This book reconsiders Lukcs intellectual contributions in the light of recent intellectual developments in political theory, aesthetics, ethical theory, and social and cultural theory. An international team of contributors contend that Luk ideas and theoretical contributions have much to offer the theoretical paucity of the present. Ultimately the book reintegrates Lukcs as a central thinker, not only in the tradition of critical theory, but also as a major theorist and critic of modernity, of capitalism, and of new trends in political theory, cultural criticism and legal theory.

The Analysis of Beauty - Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste. by William Hogarth (Paperback): William... The Analysis of Beauty - Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste. by William Hogarth (Paperback)
William Hogarth
R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Wisdom of Life - and Other Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer (Paperback): Arthur Schopenhauer The Wisdom of Life - and Other Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer (Paperback)
Arthur Schopenhauer
R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback): Edmund Burke A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback)
Edmund Burke
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback): Edmund Burke A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback)
Edmund Burke
R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback): Edmund Burke A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback)
Edmund Burke
R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The Art of Literature; A Series of Essays (Paperback): Arthur Schopenhauer The Art of Literature; A Series of Essays (Paperback)
Arthur Schopenhauer
R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

A History of Aesthetic (Paperback): Bernard Bosanquet A History of Aesthetic (Paperback)
Bernard Bosanquet
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Philosophy of Painting - Ancient, Modern, Contemporary (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Jason Gaiger Philosophy of Painting - Ancient, Modern, Contemporary (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Jason Gaiger
R2,518 Discovery Miles 25 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What can philosophy reveal about painting and how might it deepen our understanding of this enduring art form? Philosophy of Painting investigates the complex relationship between the painted surface and the depicted subject, opening up current debates to address questions concerning the historicality of art. Embracing contemporary painting, it examines topics such as the post-medium condition and the digital divide, and the work of artists such as Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Amy Sillman and Katharina Grosse. Illustrated with 24 colour plates and highly readable throughout, Philosophy of Painting provides a philosophically rigorous defence of the relevance of painting in the 21st century, making an original contribution to the major ideas informing painting as an art. Here is a clear and coherent account of the contemporary significance of painting and the pressures and possibilities that distinguish it from other art forms.

A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art (Hardcover): Mark Staff Brandl A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
Mark Staff Brandl
R3,028 Discovery Miles 30 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Metaphor, which allows us to talk about things by comparing them to other things, is one of the most ubiquitous and adaptable features of language and thought. It allows us to clarify meaning, yet also evaluate and transform the ways we think, create and act. While we are alert to metaphor in spoken or written texts, it has, within the visual arts, been critically overlooked. Taking into consideration how metaphors are inventively embodied in the formal, technical, and stylistic aspects of visual artworks, Mark Staff Brandl shows how extensively artists rely on creative metaphor within their work. Exploring the work of a broad variety of artists - including Dawoud Bey, Dan Ramirez, Gaelle Villedary, Raoul Deal, Sonya Clark, Titus Kaphar, Charles Boetschi, and more- he argues that metaphors are the foundation of visual thought, are chiefly determined by bodily and environmental experiences, and are embodied in artistic form. Visual artistic creation is philosophical thought. By grounding these arguments in the work of philosophers and cultural theorists, including Noel Carroll, Hans Georg Gadamer, and George Lakoff, Brandl shows how important metaphor is to understanding contemporary art. A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art takes a neglected feature of the visual arts and shows us what a vital role it plays within them. Bridging theory and practice, and drawing upon a capacious array of examples, this book is essential reading for art historians and practitioners, as well as analytic philosophers working in aesthetics and meaning.

Lachgemeinschaften? - Komik und Behinderung im Schnittpunkt von Aesthetik und Soziologie (Hardcover, New edition): Susanne... Lachgemeinschaften? - Komik und Behinderung im Schnittpunkt von Aesthetik und Soziologie (Hardcover, New edition)
Susanne Hartwig
R1,375 Discovery Miles 13 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Obwohl Komik und Behinderung gerade in den Kunsten immer wieder zusammentreffen, gibt es so gut wie keine theoretisch und methodisch fundierten Auseinandersetzungen mit dieser Thematik in den Literatur-, Kultur- oder Sozialwissenschaften. Gerade im Kontext von Inklusionsdiskussionen jedoch sind Fragen nach dem Potential des Lachens und der Komik, aber auch nach deren Ambivalenz im Zusammenhang mit Behinderung von weitreichender Bedeutung. Der vorliegende Band unternimmt eine Bestandsaufnahme moeglicher Theorien und Analysekonzepte anhand konkreter Einzelanalysen. Die Autor:innen vertreten die Sozial-, Erziehungs-, Literatur-, Kultur-, Medien-, Theater- und Filmwissenschaften.

The Birth of Tragedy (Hardcover): Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy (Hardcover)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
R1,049 R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Save R277 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Appreciation - Painting, Poetry and Prose (Hardcover): Leo Stein Appreciation - Painting, Poetry and Prose (Hardcover)
Leo Stein
R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Arthemist Statement 2.6 - Why create art that nobody asked for? (Hardcover): Bjorn Veno Arthemist Statement 2.6 - Why create art that nobody asked for? (Hardcover)
Bjorn Veno
R1,120 R954 Discovery Miles 9 540 Save R166 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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