Philosophy: Aesthetics

What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and comm...

When Oscar Wilde said he had seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime, his joke played on an idea tha...

A groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth-century aesthetics   In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of...

Darwin and Theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History is a significant contribution to the fields of theory, Darwin studies, and cultural history....

There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on ...

This volume is about how and whether art can be morally bad (or morally good). Politicians, media pundits, and others frequently complain that part...

How grace shaped the Renaissance in ItalyGrace emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian...

Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic tha...

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as we...

Fostering a dialogue enriched by contributions from both the analytic and the continental tradition (and drawing on authors such as Broch, Diderot,...

In this highly original interdisciplinary study incorporating close readings of literary texts and philosophical argumentation, Henry W. Pickford d...

Although the arts of incense and perfume making are among the oldest of human cultural practices, it is only in the last two decades that the use o...

For Alain Badiou, theatre - unlike cinema - is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject. In this sense theatre is, of a...

Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association Winner of the 2023 Otto Gründler Book Prize from Western Michigan Uni...

This collection of essays turns on a shift in Romantic studies from viewing wholeness as an absolute value to critiquing it as a limiting construct...

Rodowick takes after the theories of Hannah Arendt and argues that thinking is an art we practice with and for each other in our communities. In An...

All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldnt be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it i...

Essays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time.   In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikingly demonstrates the inte...

John Dewey was the foremost philosophical figure and public intellectual in early to mid-twentieth century America. He is still the most academical...

Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood pursues three main questions: What role does literature pla...