Philosophy: Aesthetics

An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, techno...

With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not...

**AS SEEN ON BBC2's BETWEEN THE COVERS**A Guardian Book of the YearMaggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, ...

Vladimir S. Soloviev (18531900), moral philosopher, social and literary critic, theologian, and poet, is considered one of Russias greatest philoso...

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You didn't choose to live this life, in this body, in these conditions-this delicate and difficult life. Yet when you consider that your existence ...

From the first stirrings of modernism to contemporary poetics, the modernist aesthetic project could be described as a form of phenomenological red...

This achingly jawdropping book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, presenting captivati...

The volume The Many Faces of Beauty joins the rich debate on beauty and aesthetic theory by presenting an ambitious, interdisciplinary examination ...

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Jet lag is a momentary condition resul...

Confessions of a Heretic is a collection of provocative essays by the influential social commentator and polemicist Roger Scruton. Each confession ...

The definitive statement on aesthetics and the history of modernism from one of France's most renowned philosophers. Composed of a series of scenes...

Though philosopher Alfred North Whitehead did not dedicate any books or articles specifically to aesthetics, aesthetic motifs nonetheless permeate ...

Part of the acclaimed ''''Documents of Contemporary Art'''' series of anthologies . ...this volume persuasively argues that there can be an ...

Asks what political art look like today, and how art can act critically under neoliberalism Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and f...

From documentary to art-house cinema and from an abundance of onscreen images to their complete absence films that experiment variously with narr...

States of Decadence is a two volume anthology that focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence. Particular attention is given to l...

In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color gre...

From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentIn this richly illustrated book, Michel...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bo...

Connects Cold War material and conceptual technologies to 21st century arts, society and cultureFrom futures research, pattern recognition algorith...