Philosophy: Aesthetics

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 ...

How is performer-object interaction enacted and perceived in the theatre? How thereby are varieties of 'meaning' also enacted and perceived? Using ...

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

Every good giving and every perfect gift is from on high, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turni...

How new conceptions of humanenvironment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s At the end of the 1960s, new model...

Nobody knows how to write. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers o...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Air conditioning aspires to be unnotice...

In Anteaesthetics, Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness cannot be represented in modernity's aesthetic regime, but is neverth...

In Anteaesthetics, Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness cannot be represented in modernity's aesthetic regime, but is neverth...

Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal draws on insights from leading neuroscientists and scholars in the humanit...

In Opera as Art: Philosophical Sketches, Paul Thom argues for opera as an art, standing alongside other artforms that employ visual and sonic media...

This book asks that we consider the practices that facilitate audience participation on equal terms with other elements of the theatre maker's art;...