Philosophy: Aesthetics

For over five decades, Samuel Hazo has taught his readers about literature and life with generosity and awareness, taking everyday experiences and ...

This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory. It builds on the idea that theory i...

Early Modern Aesthetics is a concise and accessible guide to the history of aesthetics in the early modern period. J. Colin McQuillan shows how phi...

Deeply erudite but also playful and full of wit. Salman Rushdie Fashion | Sense is designed to explode fashion, and with it, the stigma in philos...

Sarah A. Mattice explores contemporary philosophical activity and the way in which one aspect of languagemetaphorgives shape and boundary to the la...

The Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior...

This book represents a primer on artistic research, presenting diverse perspectives, strategies, methodologies, and concrete examples of research p...

For over fifty years the concept of memory has played a crucial role in a large number of academic and societal debates. The Work of Forgetting: Or...

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the...

In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published. This first English language edition, updated with an introduction by Stefano ...

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of ...

First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartres LÊtre et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, ...

Friedrich Schillers Abhandlung Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen in einer Reihe von Briefen aus dem Jahre 1795 gehört zu den wirkmächtigs...

The Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) presents outstanding monographic interpretations by scholars, active in various academic ...

First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartres LÊtre et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, ...

A critical look at the aesthetic encounter with semi-detachment through literature and artWhen you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to ...

Philosophers have long distinguished between appearance and reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface and a more profound ...

Philosophers have long distinguished between appearance and reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface and a more profound ...

Bridging the gap between cognition and culture, this handbook explores both social scientific and humanities approaches to understanding the physic...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For thousands of years humanity has engaged in creative expression, allowing us to relate t...