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  • A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class…

    Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

    By Matthew B. Crawford rating of short cover   ( 2838 customer ratings) Penguin Group US, May 2009 ISBN: 9781101057292 Career Planning & Job Hunting, Labor Language:  English
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  • The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our…

    The Architecture of Happiness

    Vintage By Alain De Botton rating of short cover   ( 2963 customer ratings) Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, December 2008 ISBN: 9780307481566 Art & Architecture, Architecture Language:  English
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  • Sub-titled "How Literature Works" this essay by the renown novelist is a provocative and entertaining work of postmodern theory that re-evaluates literature and literary meaning from Aeschylus to…

    Transmission and the Individual Remix

    Vintage By Tom McCarthy rating of short cover   ( 15 customer ratings) Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, June 2012 ISBN: 9780345803276 Literary Theory & Criticism, Theory Language:  English
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  • Arguing that traditional answers to the question ?What is art?? are partial at best, Arnold Berleant contends that we need to understand art as a complex aesthetic field encompassing all the factors…
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    The Aesthetic Field: A Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience

    By Berleant, Arnold Cybereditions Corporation, December 2001 ISBN: 9781877275104 Philosophy, Aesthetics Language:  English
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  • Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic popular and avant-garde…

    Listening through the Noise : The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    By Joanna Demers Oxford University Press, USA, July 2010 ISBN: 9780199889051 Philosophy, Aesthetics Language:  English
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  • Is nothing everything? As strange as that question looks at first sight, it will definitely make sense after reading NOTHING MATTERS. Provocative and accessible, free of jargon, NOTHING MATTERS shows…

    Nothing Matters: a book about nothing

    By Ronald Green John Hunt Publishing, August 2011 ISBN: 9781780990163 Philosophy, Aesthetics Language:  English
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  • Extraordinarily influential treatise on fine art contains seminal ideas on nature of drama, tragedy, poetry, music and more. Catharsis, tragic flaw, unities of time and place, other concepts.

    Poetics

    By Aristotle rating of short cover   ( 5242 customer ratings) Penguin Group US, March 1997 ISBN: 9781101160497 Literary Theory & Criticism, Ancient & Classical Language:  English
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  • In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and…

    Thinking of Others - On the Talent for Metaphor

    Princeton Monographs in Philosophy By Ted Cohen rating of short cover   ( 14 customer ratings) Princeton University Press, January 2009 ISBN: 9781400828951 Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism Language:  English
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  • The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers."You don't write a novel out of…

    Nonconformity - Writing on Writing

    By C.S. O'Brien, Daniel Simon, Nelson Algren rating of short cover   ( 124 customer ratings) Seven Stories Press, January 2011 ISBN: 9781609802738 Writing & Publishing, Authorship Language:  English
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  • A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive rethinking of postmodern, Derridean critique. Building on her notion of…

    Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing - Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction

    Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture By Catherine Malabou rating of short cover   ( 9 customer ratings) Columbia University Press, June 2012 ISBN: 9780231521666 Philosophy, Political Language:  English
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