Philosophy: Aesthetics

Althusser and Art offers a reading of Althusserianism as a meta-mediation on the question concerning the aesthetics of theory. Fardy shows that Alt...

From the archaic funerary and sacred stones to the most recent three-dimensional objects, sculpture has been determined by a dualistic tension betw...

Ideas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics. It uses stories ...

This volume is based on The Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2017-18. It consists of fourteen original papers in which lea...

In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science mu...

A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western cultureby one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged ...

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...