Philosophy: Aesthetics

Das Wortfeld, das mit Ausdrücken wie schön, das Schöne und die Schönheit aufgerufen ist kurz: die Schönrede , ist Gegenstand der vorliegenden Unte...

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

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Newspaper is about more than news printed...

Born at the intersection of literary analysis and cultural history, the present book collects evidence in support of the idea that, far from being ...

Walter Pater and Persons investigates the vital concept of the Person in the work of Walter Pater, a major influence on late nineteenth- and early ...

Arguing for the necessity of taking arts contribution to contemporary realism seriously, this edited collection intervenes in contemporary debates ...

In this thought-provoking book, Jane Rendell explores how architectural space registers in psychoanalysis. She investigates both the inherently spa...

Fred Orton's teaching and writing has always combined theoretical and formal-which is to say structural-analysis with historical research and refle...

In Towards a Productive Aesthetics: Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht, Keith O'Regan mobilises a constellative approach...

Building upon her previous work on everyday aesthetics, Yuriko Saito argues in this book that the aesthetic and ethical concerns are intimately con...

The Art of Gerhard Richter: Hermeneutics, Images, Meaning presents the first philosophical investigation of, arguably, one of the most popular and ...

What can we learn from the way artists live and operate in the world? This is one of the questions that Nietzsche asks himself throughout the cours...

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

Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an...

We tend to think of ourselves using language. What if we thought instead about language working on us, or about language as something we experience...

In a present marked by planetary crisis, a radical rethinking of aesthetics is necessary. This inspirational collection proposes a new way of think...

Forces elude perception. Since antiquity, however, perception itself (aisthesis) has been considered a force (dynamis). Thinking about perception m...