Philosophy: Aesthetics

For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively...

The years before World War I were a time of profound social and political ferment in Europe that deeply affected the art world. The center of this ...

Translation exposes aspects of language that can easily be ignored, renewing the sense of the proximity and inseparability of language and thought....

We live in a mediatized society, a society one could call a society of images. Working at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vaud...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. No matter how much you fight against it,...

Omnipresent in popular culture, especially in film and literature, the theme of the 'end of the world' is often rejected from contemporary philosop...

This highly original new book highlights the importance and significance of Heidegger's engagement with the Greeks, the ways in which his views are...

This highly original new book highlights the importance and significance of Heidegger's engagement with the Greeks, the ways in which his views are...

Translation exposes aspects of language that can easily be ignored, renewing the sense of the proximity and inseparability of language and thought....

The world is increasingly polarized along religious, ethnic, race, gender, class, and ideological lines. But must such diversity necessarily breed ...

In Contingent Computation, M. Beatrice Fazi offers a new theoretical perspective through which we can engage philosophically with computing. The bo...

John Dewey is known as a pragmatic philosopher and progressive architect of American educational reform, but some of his most important contributio...

The post humanist movement which currently traverses various disciplines in the arts and humanities, as well as the role that the thought of Deleuz...

Considered an exemplar of Art-for-Art's Sake in Victorian art and literature, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was co-opted as a standard bearer for the cu...

Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as...

This book makes available for the first time in Englishand for the first time in its entirety in any languagean important yet little-known intervie...

Environmental aesthetics crosses several commonly recognized divides: between analytic and continental philosophy, Eastern and Western traditions, ...

In Always More Than One, the philosopher, visual artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept of the more than human in the context of move...

Kant on Freedom and Rational Agency provides a novel interpretation and rational reconstruction of Kant's doctrine of freedom. Markus Kohl shows ho...

This is the first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed literary-critical interest in the tradition of philosophical ae...

This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on 'the sublime', the singular aesthetic response elicit...

This work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful aro...