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1. Philosophy of Images

   By John Kulvicki

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-55701-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. On Manners

   By Karen Stohr

   Many otherwise enlightened people often dismiss etiquette as a trivial subject or—worse yet—as nothing but a disguise for moral hypocrisy or unjust social hierarchies. Such sentiments either mistakenly assume that most manners merely frame the “real issues” of any interpersonal exchange or...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-87538-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Crime Scenes: Forensics and Aesthetics

   By Rebecca Scott Bray

   Focusing upon the representations that take place in law, forensic medicine, criminology and culture, Crime Scenes examines the ways in which knowledge about crime, death and the dead body is produced. Forensic and medico-legal practices are charged with ‘handling’ the dead (who cannot...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-48391-9 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)

4. Proust as Philosopher

   By Miguel de Beistegui

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58432-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. The Politics of Imagination

   Edited by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand

   The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-60154-2 | Hardback (Birkbeck Law Press)

6. Law and Art: Ethics, Aesthetics, Justice

   Edited by Oren Ben-Dor

   The contributions to Law and Art address the interaction between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic. The exercise of the legal role and the scholarly understanding of legal texts were classically defined as ars iuris - an art of law - which drew on the panoply of humanist disciplines, from...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-56021-4 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

7. The Continental Aesthetics Reader, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Clive Cazeaux

   The Continental Aesthetics Reader collects together classic writings on art and aesthetics from the major ?gures in Continental thought. The second edition is clearly divided into seven sections: •Nineteenth-Century German Aesthetics • Phenomenology and Hermeneutics • Marxism and Critical...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-48184-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music

   Edited by Andrew Kania, Theodore Gracyk

   The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections: general issues emotion...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-48603-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film

   Edited by Paisley Livingston, Carl Plantinga

   The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film is the first comprehensive volume to explore the main themes, topics, thinkers and issues in philosophy and film. The Companion features sixty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars and is divided into four clear parts: issues...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-49394-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Art and Phenomenology

    Edited by Joseph Parry

    Philosophy of art is traditionally concerned with the definition, appreciation and value of art. Through a close examination of art from recent centuries, Art and Phenomenology is one of the first books to explore visual art as a mode of experiencing the world itself, showing how in the words of...

    November 2010 | 978-0-415-77450-5 | Paperback (Routledge)