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Richard Wollheim
Writing on Art presents the text of a short book by Richard Wollheim (1923-2003) comprising two lectures on formalism and pictortial representation. The volume also contains reviews, short essays, and…
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The son of affluent parents - a distant, dandified impresario father he revered; a beautiful, mindless ‘Gaiety Girl’ mother he came to regret loathing - Richard Wollheim grew up in…
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Presents an account of the author’s growing up in the English suburbia of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Distinguished philosopher Richard Wollheim’s rich and thought-provoking account of the emotions considers what emotions are, how they arise in our lives, and how standard and moral emotions differ. Drawing on…
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In this book, first published in 1984, Richard Wollheim looks at the philosophical understanding of a person.
Richard Wollheim’s classic reflection on art continues to be an important and illuminating exploration of art and its objects. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery with a specially commissioned…
This book brings together Wollheim’s broad and abiding concerns to illuminate human thought at its furthest reaches of introspection and expression. Interweaving philosophy, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics, these essays reveal the…
One of the twentieth century's most influential texts on philosophical aesthetics
Painting as an Art is acclaimed philosopher Richard Wollheim's encompassing vision of how to view art. Transcending the traditional…
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Richard Wollheim is one of the dominant figures in the philosophy of art. In this collection, a distinguished group of thinkers in the fields of art history and philosophical aesthetics…
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the…
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1965 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and…
Richard Wollheim,Sheila Heti
Originally published in Great Britain by the Waywiser Press in 2004. –Title page verso
Philosophers are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of Freudian theory for the understanding of the mind. The picture Freud presents of the mind’s growth and organization holds implications not…
F. H. Bradley
Bradley’s classic counterblast to utilitarianism is now available again; his polemic retains all its force and vigour.
