Philosophy: Aesthetics

Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and su...

Aesthetic disgust is a key component of most classic works of drama because it has much more potential than to simply shock the audience. This firs...

Elements of Criticism (1762) is a philosophical work by Henry Home, Lord Kames. Published at the height of his career as a leading legal and cultur...

John Dewey is known as a pragmatic philosopher and progressive architect of American educational reform, but some of his most important contributio...

An extraordinary collaboration between contemporary art and critical discourse, Narrating the Catastrophe guides readers through unfamiliar textual...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and all...

Examining the core concepts of Deleuze and the surrounding literature, this Deleuze Studies Special Issue problematizes our ordinary understanding ...

Seventeen curious, well-tuned writers (theyre fans, too) turn their philosophical attention to Tom Petty in this intellectually rigorous and wildly...

Black is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, provi...

If 2019 was an Adornian year because of the 50th anniversary of the untimely death of Theodor W. Adorno in August 1969, also 2020 has been an Adorn...

Why do we make things? Why do we choose the emotionally and physically demanding work of bringing new objects into the world with creativity and sk...