Philosophy: Aesthetics

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of “good” music—highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically ...

Does it make sense to refer to bird song—a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to wo...

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of “good” music—highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically ...

More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a ce...

All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn’t be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it ...

Ted Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply humane feel for life. For Cohen...

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamin’s concept of the historical constellation,...

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamin’s concept of the historical constellation,...

The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art...

Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly-the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of adoration, fantasy, and cu...

The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSA’s w...

We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world ...

We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world ...

Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both geographically and aestheti...

From Edison’s invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domai...

Teachers of literature make judgments about value. They tell their students which works are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange, or insightful...

There is no place on earth that does not echo with the near or distant sounds of human activity. More than half of humanity lives in cities, meanin...

This volume brings together a series of cutting-edge studies on significant controversies and prize essay contests of the German Enlightenment. It ...

In Between the Lines: A Philosophy of Theatre, theatre theorist, Michael Y. Bennett offers a systematic account of theatre--thinking about theatre ...

Being True to Works of Music explores the varieties of authenticity involved in our practice of performing works of Western classical music. Its ke...