Philosophy: Aesthetics

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;...

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

Timothy Deane-Freeman traces Deleuze's remarks about the digital to reveal both their origins and implications. In so doing, we encounter a positio...

Two ways of understanding the aesthetic organization of literary works have come down to us from the late 18th century and dominate discussions of ...

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

A comprehensive, critical and accessible account of Theodor W. Adorno's materialist-dialectical aesthetic theory of art from a contemporary perspec...

Provides a scholarly account of the striking interplay between the Gothic and theory over two-and-a-half centuriesThis collection provides a thorou...

A cultural and historical philosophy of fashion in economic and social life from the 1830s to the present dayUlrich Lehmann brings together methods...

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 ...