Introducing Aesthetics (Pocket)
avChristopher Kul-Want, Piero, Christopher Kul-Want
ISBN: 9781848311671 - UTGIVEN: 201010What is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. In our everyday life, we talk about the 'aesthetics' of an artwork or a piece of design. But aesthetics goes beyond the simple experience of art. It is also a branch of philosophy concerned with the [...]
Introducing Kant (Häftad)
avChristopher Kul-Want
ISBN: 9781848312098 - UTGIVEN: 201102Illustrated INTRODUCING guide to the pre-eminent philosopher of the Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant?s attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of philosophical enquiry. And y[...]
Introducing Slavoj Zizek (Häftad)
avChristopher Kul-Want
ISBN: 9781848312937 - UTGIVEN: 201109Dubbed "The Elvis of Philosophy," Slavoj Zizeck is both a serious revolutionary and an absurdist prankster, published in academic journals and Abercrombie & Fitch catalogs. Besides his work on popular culture, Zizek is concerned with politics and ideology. "Introducing Slavoj Zizek "reveals a provoc[...]
Introducing Continental Philosophy (Häftad)
avChristopher Kul-Want
ISBN: 9781848314177 - UTGIVEN: 201303What makes philosophy on the continent of Europe so different and exciting? And why does it have such a reputation for being 'difficult'? Continental philosophy was initiated amid the revolutionary ferment of the 18th century, philosophers such as Kant and Hegel confronting the extremism of the time[...]
Introducing Slavoj Zizek (e-bok)
avChristopher Kul-Want
ISBN: 9781848317765Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Zizek's timely analyses of today's global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and revolution.Covering topics from philosophy and ethics, politics and ideology, religion and art, to literature,[...]
