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René Daumal (b. 1908) is best known for his novel Mt. Analogue, unfinished at his death, in 1944 (other works in English......more
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Intentions consists of multiple essays in which Wilde combats the popular argument that art must adhere to a moral stand......more
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Here the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art are assembled in a single volume. They do ......more
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A classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosop......more
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It may be asked whether the present book is of theological nature. The very fact that the problem of God’s Beauty will b......more
This volume is the first collection of articles dedicated to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thoughts on colour, focusing in parti......more
German poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller’s famous text on art, politics, and society "The artist is certainly the ......more
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