Philosophy: Aesthetics

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...

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. ...