Philosophy: Aesthetics

Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific mod...

In this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected concept of the soul and to tr...

Dag Petersson offers a comprehensive critique of the philosophy that has dominated 200 years of modern thought, politics, economy, and culture. The...

Fictional narratives of the late twentieth century often cross boundaries. This study argues that the undoing of structure in postmodern art form d...

Deftly deploying Derridas notion of the unexperienced experience and building on Paul Virilios ideas about the aesthetics of disappearance, Vanishi...

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of good musichighly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically aut...

Does it make sense to refer to bird songa complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo...

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of good musichighly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically aut...

More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a ce...

All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldnt be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it i...

What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merit...

Ted Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply humane feel for life. For Cohen...

Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition. Deakin critiques fo...

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamins concept of the historical constellation, ...

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamins concept of the historical constellation, ...

The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art...

Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly-the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of adoration, fantasy, and cu...