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On the Nature of Things
A long philosophical poem in six books of Latin hexameters setting out the physics and ethics of Epicurus, whom Lucretius praises as the man who freed humanity from…
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The Development of Logic
A large history of logic from its Greek beginnings to the twentieth century. William and Martha Kneale begin with the forerunners of logic in Greek argument and with…
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Epistemology, Logic, and Grammar in Indian Philosophical Analysis
Matilal's early study brings debates from classical Indian philosophy into conversation with analytic philosophy of logic and language. Working from Nyāya, Buddhist and grammatical texts, he examines problems…
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An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic
A textbook covering the main logics that depart from classical logic, taught throughout with the tableau method so that each system can be compared with the others. After…
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Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction
Nanay argues that aesthetics is not only about art and not only about beauty. Its subject is a wide range of experiences: noticing the light on a building,…
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Art and Its Objects
Wollheim approaches the question 'What is art?' by asking what kind of thing a work of art is. He tests the hypothesis that works of art are physical…
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Art, Emotion and Ethics
Gaut defends ethicism: the view that an ethical flaw in a work of art is, other things being equal, an aesthetic flaw in it, and an ethical merit…
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A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics
A sourcebook of translated texts on rasa, the central concept of classical Indian aesthetics, usually rendered as the aesthetic emotion or 'taste' that a drama or poem produces…
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The Aesthetic Experience According to Abhinavagupta
Gnoli's study centres on the passage of Abhinavagupta's commentary on the Nāṭyaśāstra, the Abhinavabhāratī, in which he discusses Bharata's formula for how rasa arises. Gnoli provides the Sanskrit…
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In Praise of Shadows
A long essay by the novelist Tanizaki on Japanese taste and the beauty of dimness. Writing as electric lighting and Western fittings spread through Japan, he reflects on…
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