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Aguilar Press

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Aguilar Press is an independent e-book publisher of well-researched historical novels and of scholarly works on aesthetic theory, preferably with a firm grounding in contemporary cognitive science and evolutionary theory. We publish in English, French, Spanish and German, and also consider new translations into English of Spanish and German classics. Our preference is for short manuscripts of under 50,000 words.

Where to find Aguilar Press online

Website: https://aguilarpress.wordpress.com/

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Naturalizing Aesthetics and Art by Ekbert Faas

Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 91,040. Language: English. Published: December 28, 2021 by Aguilar Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Science & Nature » Cognitive Science, Nonfiction » Philosophy » Aesthetics

Art theorists, traditional and Darwinian, tend to speak in simplistic formulas such as significant form or poetic instinct. Instead, Faas offers an unprecedented theory organized around five categories derived from cognitive and evolutionary science while also drawing on prior works like his Shakespeare’s Poetics, The Genealogy of Aesthetics (both Cambridge) and Retreat into the Mind (Princeton).

The Survival of Beauty and Art by Ekbert Faas

Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 137,600. Language: English. Published: May 3, 2013 by Aguilar Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Science & Nature » Evolution, Nonfiction » Philosophy » Aesthetics

The Survival of Beauty and Art, a direct follow-up of The Genealogy of Aesthetics (Cambridge, first 2002), tries to develop a new theory of aesthetics and art based on the cognitive and evolutionary sciences. Both books proceed by interpretating numerous illustrations by also using the more traditional methods of critical and historical analysis.

Mengele's Friend? by Simon Kogon

Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 54,770. Language: English. Published: November 21, 2012 by Aguilar Press. Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Travel, Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure

An adventure story set in 1969-72 North and South America, Mengele’s Friend? narrates Kurt’s search for a father known for his war heroics and literary genius, but also for befriending human monsters like Mengele and Eichmann.

God's Will Be Death by Hugh Werister

Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 53,580. Language: English. Published: November 21, 2012 by Aguilar Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Plays & Screenplays

Cognitive scientist John Paulus, inspired by a Spanish short story, practices magical conjurations in order to bring about the death of his wife, Claire. After Claire dies in a house fire set by someone else, Paulus is convicted of murder. Paulus’s pact with the devil, as told through tabloid releases, provides a black-humour framework to this otherwise stark tale of a miscarriage of justice.

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