Philosophy: Aesthetics

Benjamin Tilghman has been a leading commentator on analytic philosophy for many years. This book brings together his most significant and influent...

In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruin...

This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies. Contributors question the binary oppositions generally d...

The visual arts have long been held to have an intimate link with emotions. Despite this, the topic remains underexplored; when the expression of e...

The writings of Jacques Derrida have had a profound but complex influence on both film studies and on feminism. In the first work of its kind, Deco...

This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They al...

The Scottish poet Kenneth White and the Australian philosopher Jeff Malpas came together by chance when Malpas heard an interview with White on ABC...

Discover Spinoza's philosophy of ratio, from geometry and reason to bodies, affects and architectureFrom his geometrical method to his geometrical ...

This book analyses how modern conceptions of ethics, psychoanalysis and aesthetics are linked through the question of pain. Through a series of rig...

This accessible book explores the nature and importance of kinaesthesia, considering how action, agency and movement intertwine and are fundamental...

This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a...

This book orchestrates a convergence of two discourses from the 1960s—Nelson Goodman’s aesthetic theory on one side and critiques of modern archite...

This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical appro...

The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, the focus has been on the b...

Beloved by film and art aficionados and fans of neo-noir cinema, Mulholland Drive is one of the most important and enigmatic films of recent years....

In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and ...

This book argues that the philosophical significance of Kant’s aesthetics lies not in its explicit account of beauty but in its implicit account of...

Kant on Intuition: Western and Asian Perspectives on Transcendental Idealism consists of 20 chapters, many of which feature engagements between Kan...

Is art created with computers really art? This book answers ‘yes.’ Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovat...

This book presents a counter-history to the relentless critique of the humanist subject and authorial agency that has taken place over the past fif...

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal epist...