Philosophy: Aesthetics

How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in todays worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtu...

The fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that is, they are valuable in themselves. But this poses a problem for architecture: ...

Modernism's Inhuman Worlds explores the centrality of ecological precarity, species indeterminacy, planetary change, and the specter of extinction ...

Between 1926 and 1928, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein designed a house for his sister in Vienna (the Kundmanngasse). This book aims to clarify...

What is jazz? How does it differ from other kinds of music? To what extent is it an important subject for thinking about aesthetic questions? Philo...

Volume one of Søren Kierkegaards Either/Or explores the crisis of the modern secular voidwith its attendant doubt, ennui, and alienationfrom the fi...

The newly expanded and revised edition of Coopers popular anthology featuring classic writings on aesthetics, both historical and contemporary The ...

A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a contemporary focus, which addresses the problem of explaining t...

What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection ...

This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central ...

This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central ...

Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art, art history and perceptual psychology, this book places seeing at the centre of an original...

Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. ...

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 ...

Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination For Pleasure proposes that experim...

John Dewey was the most celebrated and publicly engaged American philosopher in the twentieth century. His naturalistic theory of experience genera...

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aesthetic mer...

Karl Morrison discusses historical writing at a turning point in European culture: the so-called Renaissance of the twelfth century. Why do texts c...