Philosophy: Aesthetics

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.These days the bicycle often appears as a...

Now available in a fully revised and updated second edition, this accessible and insightful introduction outlines the central theories and ongoing ...

The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 1886–87. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the vo...

The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse abo...

The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most significant English-speaking philosopher and often seen...

The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design. The first book t...

This volume brings together essential essays by an important but neglected thinker in early twentieth-century German philosophy, Edith Landmann-Kal...

The five physical senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching have been held to underpin the complexity of human experience ever sinc...

Past philosophical ideas about arts influence contemporary artistic practices. We still use traditional Idealist concepts, such as the autonomy of ...

The Arts-Based Research Primer explores the arts-based research paradigm and its potential to intersect with and augment traditional social science...

Repressive Regimes, Aesthetic States, and Arts of Resistance investigates the tensions between politics and aesthetics by exploring the ways in whi...

The purpose of Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Aesthetics is simple and straightforward: to discuss empty, nothing, opening, white, nature colo...

This book interrogates the concept of the subject in the poem, against the broader background of literary-theoretical issues related to the lyric s...

The purpose of this book is to show the philosophical and anthropological foundation of the dispute about culture, especially in the perspective of...

Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time has long fascinated philosophers for its complex accounts of time, personal identity and narrative, amongst ...

Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game desi...

This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. The purpose of this book is restore the centrality of...

A profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of traditions, disciplin...

Provides an account of 'practising', its mechanisms and implications, in conversation with Deleuze's Difference and Repetition Offers a detailed a...

Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philo...

In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality, and the design...

From explorations of video game series to Netflix shows to Facebook timelines, Subjective Experiences of Interactive Nostalgia helps readers unders...