Philosophy: Aesthetics

In the 19th century, the history of philosophy becomes the history of a particular science. Modern philosophical historiography is an ambivalent pr...

This volume brings Cassirers work into the arena of contemporary debates both within and outside of philosophy. All articles offer a fresh and cont...

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experien...

Textile is at once a language, a concept and a material thing. Philosophers such as Plato, Deleuze and Derrida have notably drawn on weaving proces...

How many words do we use in a day? How many of them are actually necessary to convey the flow of our thoughts? And how many could we do without, if...

This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse...

The essays collected in Aesthetics and Environment comprise a set of variations on art and culture guided by the theme of environment. The essays d...

In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honest...

Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture...

What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically, others the latter...

Bringing together eight previously published essays by M. W. Rowe and a substantial new study of Larkin, this book emphasizes the profound affiniti...

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones ca...

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

Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which ...

Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly char...

This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication,...

Phenomenology was one of the twentieth centurys major philosophical movements, and it continues to be a vibrant and widely studied subject today wi...

First published in 1988, this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art, culture, and the issues of postmodernism in a style ap...

Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary devic...

Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary devic...

This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appea...

In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruin...

Jacques Ranciere has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic distributions of the sensible, wh...

In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruin...

Reading Architecture with Freud and Lacan: Shadowing the Public Realm methodically outlines key concepts in psychoanalytic discourse by reading the...

Aesthetic judgements that are formed on the basis of testimony are commonly held to be defective, illegitimate, or otherwise problematic. This book...

This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies. Contributors question the binary oppositions generally d...

Analysis of the Traditional Chinese Garden is a seminal resource for the spatial principles and techniques that shape traditional Chinese gardens. ...

The visual arts have long been held to have an intimate link with emotions. Despite this, the topic remains underexplored; when the expression of e...

The writings of Jacques Derrida have had a profound but complex influence on both film studies and on feminism. In the first work of its kind, Deco...

This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They al...

The Scottish poet Kenneth White and the Australian philosopher Jeff Malpas came together by chance when Malpas heard an interview with White on ABC...