Philosophy: Aesthetics

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...

Discover Spinoza's philosophy of ratio, from geometry and reason to bodies, affects and architectureFrom his geometrical method to his geometrical ...

This book analyses how modern conceptions of ethics, psychoanalysis and aesthetics are linked through the question of pain. Through a series of rig...

This book is a collection of insightful writings on aesthetics and Chinese and Western art by ZONG Baihua, one of the most esteemed scholars of aes...

This accessible book explores the nature and importance of kinaesthesia, considering how action, agency and movement intertwine and are fundamental...

This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a...

This book orchestrates a convergence of two discourses from the 1960sNelson Goodmans aesthetic theory on one side and critiques of modern architect...

This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendts philosophical approa...

This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendts philosophical approa...

The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, the focus has been on the b...

Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture? Why rely on literary pieces instead of architectural treatises and writings when it comes ...

Beloved by film and art aficionados and fans of neo-noir cinema, Mulholland Drive is one of the most important and enigmatic films of recent years....

Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sci...

In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and ...

Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts o...

This book is a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary visual culture and image studies, exploring ideas about space and p...

This book argues that the philosophical significance of Kants aesthetics lies not in its explicit account of beauty but in its implicit account of ...

Kant on Intuition: Western and Asian Perspectives on Transcendental Idealism consists of 20 chapters, many of which feature engagements between Kan...

Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another 'ism.' It emerged in the 1960s as a transformation of artistic creativity inspired by Duchamp'...

Is art created with computers really art? This book answers yes. Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovatio...

This book presents a counter-history to the relentless critique of the humanist subject and authorial agency that has taken place over the past fif...

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal epist...

Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics...

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal epist...

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to i...

This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. Even as they denounced the imaginations potential for...

This book places Benjamins writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge. The fundamental problem that faces any a...

First published in 1985, this book draws together the authors artistic with analytical practices which had been developed over many years of sociol...

Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on arc...

This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Rich...

This collection features original essays that examine Walter Benjamins and Theodor Adornos essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together,...

The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from an iconoclastic literary the...

Climate change is a key challenge in the contemporary world. This volume studies climate change through many lenses: politics, law, ethics, philoso...

David Wangs Architecture and Sacrament considers architectural theory from a Christian theological perspective, specifically, the analogy of being ...