Philosophy: Aesthetics

Peter Adamson explores the rich intellectual history of the Byzantine Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Peter Adamson presents an engaging and w...

As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas...

The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers ...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. You cant think about travel without thin...

Zombies, werewolves and chainsaw-wielding maniacs are tried-and-true staples of horror films. But none can match the visceral dread evoked by a ...

Beauty and ugliness are two sides of the same coin; by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty and we often define the first in order to un...

Artful Truths offers a concise guide to the fundamental philosophical questions that arise when writing a literary work about your own life. Bringi...

In Infinite Good: The Mountains of William James, author and naturalist, J. Parker Huber, follows the famed naturalist and philosopher William Jame...

Valery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of his generation. Here his most famous work is translated into English for the first time. ...

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) is a philosophical treatise published in pamphlet form by ...

In this book, Barry and Gail Lord focus their two lifetimes of international experience working in the cultural sector on the challenging questions...

Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human e...

Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human e...

In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores films connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise an...

Connecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art mea...

Connecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art mea...

In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores films connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise an...

Life as Art brings the resources of contemporary aesthetics since Nietzsche to bear on the problems of how one integrates the aesthetic emphases of...

Mieke Bal takes us on a journey through the range of her work, using the concept of image-thinking as a point of connection between cultural analys...

Aidan Tynan provocatively rethinks some of the core assumptions of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Showing the significance of deser...

The early medieval Scottish philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus shook traditional doctrines of universality and particularity by arguing fo...

This book explores the aesthetics of the objects and environments we encounter in daily life. Thomas Leddy stresses the close relationship between ...

'GORGEOUS, VIVIDLY ALIVE' NEW YORK TIMES'BOLD, HONEST AND SUPERBLY WELL-WRITTEN' ANDRÉ ACIMAN, AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME'GRACEFUL AND SOUL-BAR...

Robert E. Burns, a World War I veteran coerced into taking part in a petty crime in Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to hard labor on a chain gan...

For over five decades, Samuel Hazo has taught his readers about literature and life with generosity and awareness, taking everyday experiences and ...