Philosophy: Aesthetics

Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary artIf, as Walter Benjamin claimed, it is the function of artistic form . to make historical ...

New framework for the aesthetic representation of the sea.We are no strangers today to visual representations of human suffering at sea: the refuge...

How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our mindsand of all those who...

Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Association for Israeli Studies. Exploring the politics of the image in the context of Israeli militarized v...

The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza-also known as Benedict or Bento de Spinoza-spent the most intense years of his short life writ...

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As...

Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideology Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the ex...

Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the...

Leo Bersanis career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fieldsincluding French studies, modernism, realist fiction, p...

This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslicks influential aesthetic treatise, On th...

Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating todayand for more than three decades, one of the main sites of De...

Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekpl...

Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history of the cinema from its bir...

An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of musics ineffability.  Th...

Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of cliches. Es...

A compelling and innovative reflection on the way photography captures and condenses time Two photographs, connected by a ladder, separated by a ce...

Based on the revelation and analysis of the social self-consciousness contained in the individual self-consciousness of the meaning of life, the bo...

The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design. The first book t...