Philosophy: Aesthetics

A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. ‘We find beauty not in the ...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Phil...

'Incisive and provocative ... a sensitive and probing critique' The New York Times'Essential reading ... gripping, inspirational, beautifully writ...

The Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional Japanese life.Par...

A Japanese-inspired guide to living a happier, more fulfilled life. Japonisme explores the Japanese art of finding contentment ...

Green Sky, Blue Grass - this title is perhaps irritating: isnt the sky blue and the grass green? In ancient Japanese poetry the sky is sometimes de...

Giorgio Manganelli (1922-1990), one of Italys most radical and original writers, went further than most in exploring the creative possibilities of ...

A reading of Blanchot's idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland A comprehensive examination of ...

The highly practical lessons in How to Get to Great Ideas are based on neuroscience, psychology and sociology. Written by former advertising creati...

The book contains analyses and interpretations of multidimensional perspectives in philosophical, economical and psychological research on imaginat...

In Deleuze and Art Anne Sauvagnargues, one of the world's most renowned Deleuze scholars, offers a unique insight into the constitutive role play...

The influential cultural critic Elisabeth Bronfen sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema, and visual culture. The crossmap...

How does something as potent and evocative as the body become a relatively neutral artistic material? From the 1960s, much body art and performance...

Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, mo...

Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. Thirty specially commissioned essays introduce ...

Christopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and also of arthouse films l...

Can you have a transformative experience as a result of falling through a programming error in the latest triple-A title? Does looking out across a...

Visual art has a ubiquitous political cast today. But which politics? Daniel Herwitz seeks clarity on the various things meant by politics, and how...

This volume addresses key questions related to how content in thought is derived from perceptual experience. It includes chapters that focus on sin...

The essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality, while its neglect of perfection and vi...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. As a former world-ranked swimmer whose ...

Christian Gauss Award ShortlistWinner of the ASAP Book PrizeA Literary Hub Book of the YearMakes the case that the gimmickis of tremendous critical...