Philosophy: Aesthetics

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When is the beautiful game at its most ...

In Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth, Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno's epistemology and its mat...

'Both knowledge and truth are beautiful things, but the Good is other and more beautiful than they.' - Plato, Republic, 508e. This book traces the ...

Far from an elite practice reserved for the highly educated, criticism is all around us. We turn to the Yelp reviewers to decide what restaurants a...

In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion...

What is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. In our everyday life, we talk about the 'aesth...

Theory has been an embattled discourse in the academy for decades. But now it faces a serious challenge from those who want to model the analytical...

'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experi...

Kant on Sublimity and Morality provides an argument to the essential moral significance of the Kantian sublime and situates this argument within th...

This motivational analysis of the protagonists in Thomas Hardy's three most widely read novels--Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridg...

What does mathematics have to do with poetry? Seemingly, nothing. Mathematics deals with abstractions while poetry with emotions. And yet, the two ...

There is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.' This book examines a number of questions about the arts (broadly defined to in...

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

The paradigmatic moment of the opposition between the verbal and the visual arts may be seen in Lessings treatise on the Laocoön sculptural group, ...

Art of the Real is devoted to registering the materialist turn of contemporary theory in visual studies. For many years, visual studies was dominat...

Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer undoubtedly belong among the most important representatives of twentieth-century phenomenological hermeneut...

From his geometrical method to his geometrical examples; from his doctrine of reason to his explanation of bodies in motion; and from his account o...

The Sublime Today considers contemporary applications of aesthetic philosophy and earlier theories of the sublime from Longinus, Boileau, Burke, Ka...

''''Thinking Through Dance'''' explores important philosophical questions raised in and by dance. Its themes include the embodiment and personhood ...

The eighteenth-century Enlightenment represents a turn toward experience, that is, toward the experiencing subject. Still the Enlightenment involve...