Philosophy: Aesthetics

What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of ar...

Women on Philosophy of Art is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. It looks at seven women spanning t...

These essays, half of them appearing here for the first time, address issues concerning the two key singularities that Kant identified in aesthetic...

In the quarter century following the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, art museums, along with other public institutions, were task...

This book rethinks the discussion of sport as a cinematic subject. Arguing for the vitality of the sports film as distinctively modern genre, the b...

This book rethinks the discussion of sport as a cinematic subject. Arguing for the vitality of the sports film as distinctively modern genre, the b...

Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema looks at the power of cinema in creating ideas that inspire our culture. Sylvie Magerstädt discusses the relations...

Wir Menschen wissen bereits seit über 400 Jahren, dass wir uns unverschämterweise nicht im Zentrum des Universums befinden. Dennoch war die Überras...

Art and Reality is a collection of general theoretical reflections and particular critical studies, in which John Anderson asserts the essential ro...

In this book, Jana S. Roker offers the first comprehensive overview and exegesis of the work of Li Zehou, who is one of the most significant and in...

An in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporas Spirals in the Caribbean respon...

Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of art production not only in animals, but al...

A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, de...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. They keep us ...

Von Absenz bis Zeitalter/Epoche enthält diese Enzyklopädie 170 Artikel, die von 150 renommierten Wissenschaftlern erarbeitet wurden. Ausgehend von ...

Von Absenz bis Zeitalter/Epoche enthält diese Enzyklopädie 170 Artikel, die von 150 renommierten Wissenschaftlern erarbeitet wurden. Ausgehend von ...

Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persis...

The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is celebrated as challenging the status quo. From the political films of the 1970s through to the more existential ...

Art has always been central to moments of great social change. From the avant-garde to the ages of revolution, the act of rebellious creation has b...