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  • Nietzsche and Jung

    The Whole Self in the Union of Opposites

    Was Jung's interpretation and assessment of Nietzsche accurate?Nietzsche and Jung considers the thought and personalities of two icons of twentieth century philosophical and psychological thought, and reveals the extraordinary connections between them. Through a thorough examination of their work, Nietzsche and Jung succeeds in illuminating complex areas of Nietzsche's thought and resolving ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Nietzsche for Architects

    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    Nietzsche’s philosophy is provocative and complex and has been hugely influential on modern intellectual history and European culture. But his critical approach and writing style invites misunderstandings, sometimes with disastrous consequences. His ideas—or those loosely associated with him—are often briefly cited in scholarly studies in architectural theory and history. His ideas are thought to ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Architecture and the Mimetic Self

    A Psychoanalytic Study of How Buildings Make and Break Our Lives

    Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit. Architecture and the Mimetic Self provides a useful theoretical guide to our unconscious behaviour in relation to buildings, and explains both how and why we are drawn to specific ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Urban Uncanny

    A collection of interdisciplinary studies

    Edited by Lucy Huskinson ...
    The Urban Uncanny explores through ten engaging essays the slippage or mismatch between our expectations of the city—as the organised and familiar environments in which citizens live, work, and go about their lives—and the often surprising and unsettling experiences it evokes. The city is uncanny when it reveals itself in new and unexpected light; when its streets, buildings, and people suddenly ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Eavesdropping

    The psychotherapist in film and television

    What can depictions of psychotherapy on screen teach us about ourselves?In Eavesdropping, a selection of contributions from internationally-based film consultants, practicing psychotherapists and interdisciplinary scholars investigate the curious dynamics that occur when films and television programmes attempt to portray the psychotherapist, and the complexities of psychotherapy, for popular ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • The Eyes of the Skin

    Architecture and the Senses

    THE EYES OF THE SKINFirst published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense – sight – become so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, it is a subject that has become all the ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Heidegger for Architects

    by Adam Sharr ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    Informing the designs of architects as diverse as Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Hans Scharoun and Colin St. John Wilson, the work of Martin Heidegger has proved of great interest to architects and architectural theorists.The first introduction to Heidegger’s philosophy written specifically for architects and students of architecture introduces key themes in his thinking, which has proved highly ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Beyond Art

    Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts. Having traced philosophical interest in theories of art to a reaction to certain puzzle cases of avant-garde art, he argues that none of the theories that have dominated philosophy since the 1960s adequately copes with these works. Whereas these theories ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Transformative Power of Performance

    A New Aesthetics

    Translated by Saskya Jain ...
    In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame)

    by Paul Crowther ...
    Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively and aesthetically. He develops a phenomenology that emphasizes how visual art gives unique aesthetic ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Philosophy of Art

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Noël Carroll ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics.It introduces the techniques of analytic philosophy as well as key topics such as the representational theory of art, formalism, neo-formalism, aesthetic theories of art, neo-Wittgensteinism, the Institutional Theory of Art. as well as historical approaches to the nature of art.Throughout ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy

    Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics

    Challenging traditional therapeutic approaches to the arts in which art is often secondary to a psychological model, Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy provides a coherent theoretical framework for an expressive arts therapy practice that places the process of art-making and the art work itself at the center.This book lays the philosophical foundation for a fresh interpretation of ... Read more

    $36.09 USD