Philosophy: Aesthetics

This volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the f...

Contrast the glittering palette used to decorate rickshaws on the streets of Mumbai, the phlegmatic angst of Nordic noir, the taut ovoids of Kwakwa...

Through a series of essays, Art and Ethical Criticism explores the complex relationship between the arts and morality. Reflects the importance of...

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

Aesthetics after Modernism defends the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to art after modernism. Diarmuid Costello traces the art world's rejection o...

This book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Followi...

Is Harpo Free? is a lively appreciation of film and television's ability to artistically explore concepts typical of philosophical metaphysics, suc...

How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into...

Cinema as an aesthetic construct exists in a specific historical and political context, reflecting the society and its aesthetic values. Visual rep...

This volume presents original contributions from former students of Paul Guyer, the 2024 recipient of the International Kant Prize. The authors eng...

Focusing on the anthropological consequences of the disappearing of materiality and sensory embodiment, On Insignificance highlights some of the mo...

Now that cinema is offline and online, the capacity of cinema to relate to philosophy and science has increased. In this regard, this book seeks to...

The Logic of Filtering traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: how do media technologies shape sound? How does...

Shadow Philosophy: Platos Cave and Cinema is an accessible and exciting new contribution to film-philosophy, which shows that to take film seriousl...

Das Buch beschreibt und analysiert ein Bildungsprojekt des Friedensgedächtnismuseums Hiroshima und der städtischen Motomachi Senior High-School, da...

Creativity matters. We want people to be more creative and admire those who are. Yet creativity is deeply puzzling. Just what is it to be creative?...

The sense of smell has long been the most neglected of the human senses in literature. Common Scents sets out to undo this forgetting of olfactory ...

This book reassesses the place of politics and emotion within Romantic music aesthetics. Drawing together insights from the history of emotions, cu...