Philosophy: Aesthetics

Adorno and Modern Theatre explores the drama of Edward Bond, David Rudkin, Howard Barker and Sarah Kane in the context of the work of leading philo...

The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSAs wa...

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through...

The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy transforms our understanding of Schopenhauer's aesthetics and anthropology. Vandenabeele seeks ultimately ...

We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world ...

We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world ...

Black is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, provi...

The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for aesthetics, seen in arti...

The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This ...

Max Bense (19101990) suchte in der Nachkriegsära entschieden die Öffentlichkeit. Er war Diskursträger und eine Persönlichkeit, die polarisierte. De...

This sourcebook presents nearly 200 specially-translated Greek and Roman texts from Homer to Plutarch, revealing the place of the animal in the mor...

This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, t...

This book offers a series of critical commentaries on, and forced encounters between, different thinkers. At stake in this philosophical and psycho...

Philosophy and Blade Runner explores philosophical issues in the film Blade Runner , including human nature, personhood, identity, consciousness, f...

Utilizing a wide range of theoretical and creative texts, Phillips offers an examination of subjectivity as considered, enacted, and embodied, thro...

There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between ethics and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need f...

Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation give...

Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both geographically and aestheti...

Teachers of literature make judgments about value. They tell their students which works are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange, or insightful...

There is no place on earth that does not echo with the near or distant sounds of human activity. More than half of humanity lives in cities, meanin...

There is no place on earth that does not echo with the near or distant sounds of human activity. More than half of humanity lives in cities, meanin...

A spirited memoir by artist Aviva Rahmani, offering a relatable narrative to discuss trigger point theory and the importance of eco-art activism. D...