Theory of the Gimmick. Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form, Hardback - Sianne Ngai

Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism. Gimmicks make promises o...

This book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the preeminent interpreters of Kant, Henry ...

Envy, irritation, paranoia--in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated ...

Explores tensions in aesthetics and art theory between antique figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional ...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Florian KlingerIllustration(s): 10 halftonesNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

If 2019 was an "Adornian year" because of the 50th anniversary of the untimely death of Theodor W. Adorno in August 1969, also 2020 has been an "Ad...

Articulates, develops, and significantly revises the traditional interpretation of Aristotle's theory of generation, thereby improving our understa...

Examining works by Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, Vikram Seth and the photography of Dayanita Singh, Tania Roy examines the delayed claims of...

This book draws on aesthetic theory, including ideas from the history of painting, music and dance, to offer a fresh perspective on the video game ...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Dr Patrick TreacyIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 239 ...

Publisher: Regnery PublishingAuthor(s): George GilderNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 217 x 30Cover type: Paperback / so...

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 1966, Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy published Monopoly Capital, a monumental work of economic theory and social criticism that sought to reveal the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Stephen David RossThis anthology has been significantly expanded for this edition to include a wider range of contemporary ...

An introduction to philosophy of Li Zezhou, one of the contemporary China's foremost intellectuals. It presents Li's synthesis of Chinese aesthetic...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hans-Hermann HoppeNew 2nd Edition w/ new Intro by Hans Hoppe Here is Hans Hoppe's first treatise in English - actually his ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Florian KlingerIllustration(s): 10 halftonesNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

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Critical Aesthetic PedagogyPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Yolanda MedinaNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 227 x...

Offering an in-depth analysis of the theory of the firm, this book argues that the theory of the firm has no validity in law. It corrects the mista...

Althusser and Art examines the relationship between Althusser's political theory and his writings on art.

Analyses landmark US Supreme Court cases involving children's free speech and due process rights and argues that our ideas about civic and legal ju...

Kant famously argues that our experience of the empirical world is shaped by our cognitive faculties. But an important part of this story is yet to...

Structural Information Theory: The Simplicity of Visual Form - Emanuel Leeuwenberg, Peter A. van der Helm

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. This book addresses how music, the phonograph, and film served...

Examining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers' experiments with new technologies of racial data produced experimental aesthetics.Publi...

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DescriptionFiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s dissents are influential because of their literary qualities of superfluity and energy he inherited from Emerson. The a...

Reducere. This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia: Plato - Aristotle ...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Dr Patrick TreacyIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 233 x 156 ...

How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrat...

Publisher: Globe Law and BusinessAuthor(s): Max BarrettNumber of pages: 373Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 240 x 29Cover type: HardbackRede...

A ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union, presenting a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): John (University of Wolverhampton, UK) RobertsNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

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This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 112 color illusNumber of pages: 240Collection: Dress CulturesPublication date: 2022Dimensions:...