Philosophy: Aesthetics

This volume brings together a series of cutting-edge studies on significant controversies and prize essay contests of the German Enlightenment. It ...

In this synthetic introduction to the history of the philosophy of art, Noël Carroll elucidates and analyzes selected writings on art by Plato, Ari...

In Between the Lines: A Philosophy of Theatre, theatre theorist, Michael Y. Bennett offers a systematic account of theatre--thinking about theatre ...

Being True to Works of Music explores the varieties of authenticity involved in our practice of performing works of Western classical music. Its ke...

Die Anthologie Theorien des Wohnens versammelt erstmals systematisch die zentralen Wohntheorien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die hier ausgewählten philoso...

Current debates in the environmental humanities, animal studies, and related fields increasingly revolve around this question: What to do with the ...

In The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through ...

Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the po...

The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook and gan...

This open access neuroaesthetics textbook, the first in the world, is designed for teaching a semester module (14 meetings) to undergraduate/master...

The notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contemplation. Likewise, aesthetics is often seen as apolitical, a m...

The notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contemplation. Likewise, aesthetics is often seen as apolitical, a m...

The birth of the Enlightenment heralded a new reverence for the power of reason. But as science flourished in Europe, violence and brutality did no...

Ever since Plato expelled the poets from his ideal state, the ethics of art has had to confront philosophys denial of arts morality. In Art before ...

Since the industrial revolution, when everything ran by clockwork, people have understood how important it is to live in the moment. But over time ...

Widely heard and read throughout the middle ages, romance literature has persisted for centuries and has lately re-emerged in the form of speculati...

A pioneering work in the history of philosophy, the ancient text of the Lives presents engaging portraits of nearly a hundred Greek philosophers. I...

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from t...

The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with problems as broad and di...

The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics...

Ideas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics. It uses stories ...