Philosophy: aesthetics

The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature; Revised Edition (Centenary Edition)

By Ayn Rand

In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhead and Atlas...

Published: 01/08/1987

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780451149169

RRP: $12.95

One-Way Street and Other Writings

By Walter Benjamin

Translated by
J. A. Underwood

With an Introduction by
Amit Choudhuri

'There has been no more original, no more serious, critic and reader in our time'
George Steiner

Translated by
J. A. Underwood

With an Introduction by
Amit Choudhuri

'There has been no more original, no more serious, critic and reader in our time'
George Steiner

Published: 08/12/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141189475

RRP: $24.95

Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity faced complicating - and ultimately disabling - questions. Christianity, with its code of unworldliness...

Published: 01/07/1993

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140433357

RRP: $9.95