Philosophy: Aesthetics

This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological appr...

When the lights dim in a movie theatre and the projector begins to click and whir, the light and sounds of the motion picture become the gateway to...

This innovative collection of essays is focused on the idea of transmedialization: the ways that the traditional forms of the predominantly oral cu...

The Possibility of Culture: Pleasure and Moral Development in Kant’s Aesthetics presents an in-depth exploration and deconstruction of Kant’s depic...

This monumental collection of new and recent essays from an international team of eminent scholars represents the best contemporary critical thinki...

An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between perfo...

Abstraction is one of the most important words in modernism and in the critical thought of modernity, yet its complex work is invariably hidden in ...

When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images," she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pict...

An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken...

Aesthetics and Video Games introduces current issues and ideas in philosophical aesthetics that help us to better understand why video games are di...

Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting. By connecting ideas about faith with...

Yuriko Saito explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people's everyday life. Everyday aesthetics has the recognized val...

This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathy’s role in int...

Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epi...

This volume discusses ways in which the history of philosophy has been written, from 1800 to 1950, and how it has been informed and guided by insti...

This book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it.The volume explores three...

This book reclaims Hegel’s notion of the “end of art”—or, more precisely, of “art’s past character”—not just as a piece of the history of philosoph...

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmedia...

A lively and thorough exploration of the aesthetic, metaphysical, ethical, political, and legal implications of Taylor Swift’s ongoing project of r...

Mojca Kuplen connects 18th-century German aesthetics to contemporary theories of self-knowledge in order to highlight the unique cognitive value of...

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century “Anti-Aesthetic” movement ...