Richard Osborne Knihy

Kniha předkládá zábavnou formou přehled všech důležitých historických i současných myšlenek a teorií, týkajících se umění. Začíná od jeskynních nástěnných maleb lovců mamutů, uvádí myšlenky řeckých klasiků Platona a Aristotela, mapuje klasiky středověku a renesance (Tomáše Akvinského, Giorgia Vasariho, Leonarda da Vinciho), probírá filozofii estetiky anglických racionalistů, německých hegeliánů, zmiňuje se o klasicích moderny a končí postmodernou. Kniha je určena studentům filozofie, estetiky, dějin umění, ale i všem zájemcům o teorii umění.

With innovative graphics, "Introducing Sociology" traces the discipline's history, and explains the intricacies of its major thinkers from Comte and Marx to Baudrillard and beyond.

Kniha předkládá zábavnou komiksovou formou přehled důležitých myšlenek a konceptů východní filozofie. Zvláště se zabývá myšlenkovými proudy, které se zrodily v Číně a Indii, mají prastaré kořeny a dnes stále víc ovlivňují myšlení a náboženské vnímání západního světa. Brilantním a zároveň humorným způsobem se zde vysvětlují základy různých škol indického hinduismu a buddhismu nebo čínská konfuciánská a taoistická. Seznámíme se tak se základy východní eschatologie, neosobní etiky, s pojmy osvícení a nirvána v kontrastu se západním pojetím individualismu a vědeckého pohledu na svět. Kniha je určena studentům filozofie a religionistiky.

A detective, a female crime writer accused of murder and a woman police psychiatrist, the ex-lover of the detective, all feature in this sexual psychothriller. The male detective is caught between the two women who have a strange, uncanny connection. The film stars Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone.

Why does philosophy give some people a headache, others a real buzz, and yet others a feeling that it is subversive and dangerous? Why do a lot of people think philosophy is totally irrelevant? What is philosophy anyway? The ABCs of philosophy - easy to understand but never simplistic. Beginning with basic questions posed by the ancient Greeks - What is the world made of? What is a man? What is knowledge? What is good and evil? - Philosophy For Beginners traces the development of these questions as the key to understanding how Western philosophy developed over the last 2,500 years.

Richard Osborne is known to classical music lovers as the presenter of Radio 3's Saturday Review. With this book, he presents a major biography of Herbert von Karajan, the controversial Austrian composer.

Owning the Masters provides the first in-depth history of sound recording copyright. It is this form of intellectual property that underpins the workings of the recording industry. Rather than being focused on the manufacture of goods, this industry is centred on the creation, exploitation and protection of rights. The development and control of these rights has not been straightforward. This book explores the lobbying activities of record the principal creators, owners and defenders of sound recording copyright. It addresses the counter-activity of recording artists, in particular those who have fought against the legislative and contractual practices of record companies to claim these master rights for themselves. In addition, this book looks at the activities of the listening public, large numbers of whom have been labelled 'pirates' for trespassing on these rights. The public has played its own part in shaping copyright legislation. This is an essential subject for an understanding of the economic, artistic and political value of recorded sound.

The authors show how the idea of art has developed in the last 5,000 years and how we have reached the point we are at now. They provide a complete survey of all of the aesthetic, historical and practical questions that surround the idea of art. it's a concise and coherent overview/introduction to the main ideas that have shaped western art and culture from the ancient Greeks up to the present day.This is a unique introduction to the ideas of art and not only describes the theories of art but puts them in an historical context to give the reader a wider understanding. Clearly written in demystifies complex theories of art and shows the reader how to make sense of the history of art and of how theory has influenced artists. Illustrated by key images from art history it allows the reader to grasp both the ideas and the images, and how they relate. There are references to Eastern art and other art traditions and these are related to the development of Western art. Contemporary art and art theories are also dealt with, providing the most complete introduction to art theory in existence.

This book describes in detail a culture and way of thinking which predates Western philosophy by several centuries. It is an ideal guide for the Western reader to the historical and philosophical basis of Eastern cultures.