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 ...

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...

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the con...

A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass media This fascinat...

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...