Philosophy: Aesthetics

At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the wordand the words power to redeemhas almost ...

A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in todays ambivalent ecologies and patterns of lifeBleak Joys develops an understanding...

This book examines Samuel Becketts unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanisms postwar crisisthe courage to go on living even after experienc...

This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how modern and contemporary artists a...

Philosophers for millennia have tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bod...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fog, a cloud that touches the ground, ...

Bernard Bolzanos (17811848) writings in aesthetics are clear, concise, and explicit about method. Provocative and revisionary, they champion broad ...

For Alain Badiou, theatre-unlike cinema-creates a space in which philosophy can be lived. It is, of all the arts, the most closely related to pol...

The book aims at a new exposition of the basic idea of modern aesthetics by way of a reconstruction of its genesis in the 18th century, between Bau...

Philosophy Bites is a selection of the best interviews from the hugely successful podcast of the same name. Leading philosophers discuss a wide ran...

As the sunset swings into view, you think, That's beautiful. You take a bite of cake and you think, Wow, that's sweet-maybe too sweet. You hear tha...

Not rediscovered until the twentieth century, the works of Georges de La Tour retain an aura of mystery. At first sight, his paintings suggest a ve...

Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollif...

Oxi (Gr. Determiner, lit. No, fig. Resistance, pronounced ochi) retells Sophocles Antigone through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern Europea...

Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics Here, Arne De Boever proposes the notion of aesthetic exceptionalism to describe the wid...

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthet...

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...