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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Jet Lag

    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Jet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being pitched against the time-leaping effects of modern aviation. But more than that, it is a situation that explains time, technology, and the human body. Jet lag epitomizes the accelerated world we live in. ... Read more

    R39,39

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  • The Art of Creative Thinking

    100 Lessons to Transform Your Mind

    by Rod Judkins ...
    OVER 150,000 COPIES SOLDNOW WITH 13 NEW CHAPTERS TO UNLOCK YOUR CREATIVITY Learn the art of creative thinking to transform your mind, your work, and the world around youToo often we go through life on autopilot. We restrict our imagination and stifle our decision-making. But by learning from some of the world's greatest innovators, we can transform everyday choices into creative opportunities ... Read more

    R201,70

  • Ecce Homo

    How One Becomes What One is

    Translated by R. J. Hollingdale ...
    In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a philosopher, examines the heroes he has identified with, struggled against and then overcome - ... Read more

    R165,70

  • Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception

    by Bence Nanay ...
    Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to bring the discussion of aesthetics and perception together. Bence Nanay ... Read more

    R525,88

  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

    by Edmund Burke ...
    First published in 1757, the treatise “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, by the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke, provides a distinct transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. Burke’s treatise was the first fully realized exposition that separated the definition of the sublime from the beautiful. His work received much attention from other ... Read more

    R104,75

  • Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

    by John Lechte ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies that a faith in the principle of an "evidential force" – of the impossibility of doubting that the subject was before the lens – is no longer ... Read more

    R1 296,17

  • The Value of Popular Music

    An Approach from Post-Kantian Aesthetics

    by Alison Stone ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this book, Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-‘n’-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value. That value is that popular music affirms the importance of materiality and the body, challenging the long-standing Western elevation of the intellect above all things corporeal. Stone also argues that popular music’s stress on materiality gives it aesthetic value, drawing ... Read more

    R642,26

  • Spaces of Aid

    How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

    by Lisa Smirl ...
    Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they've signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, or checking emails from within gated compounds while surrounding communities have no running water.Spaces of Aid provides the first book-length analysis of ... Read more

    R459,64

  • Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation

    Series series Music since 1900
    This is the first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the Western art music tradition. Through a series of chronological case studies grounded in primary source analysis, Amy Lynn Wlodarski analyses the compositional processes and conceptual frameworks that provide key pieces with their unique representational structures and ... Read more

    R729,78

  • Hollywood Aesthetic

    Pleasure in American Cinema

    by Todd Berliner ...
    Hollywood makes the most widely successful pleasure-giving artworks the world has ever known. The industry operates under the assumption that pleasurable aesthetic experiences, among huge populations, translate into box office success. With that goal in mind, Hollywood has systematized the delivery of aesthetic pleasure, packaging and selling it on a massive scale. In Hollywood Aesthetic, Todd ... Read more

    R759,79

  • Growing Pains

    the future of democracy (and work)

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    We are now living in a world where Brexit and Trump are daily realities. But how did this come about? And what does it mean for the future?Populism and ultra-nationalism brought about the rise of Hitler and Mussolini in the 1930s. Now, as Trump sits in the White House, Britain negotiates its way out of the EU, and countries across Europe see substantial gains in support for the extreme Right, ... Read more

    R465,62

  • Animality in British Romanticism

    The Aesthetics of Species

    by Peter Heymans ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book’s novel approach focuses on the role of aesthetic taste in the Romantic understanding of the animal. Concentrating on the discourses of the ... Read more

    R1 395,90