Philosophy: Aesthetics

Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language collects together Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on ethics, aesthetics ...

Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US...

A brief study of select Western art from Italys foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince wit...

Why is love taken for granted as a part of human experience? And why is sexual or romantic love in particular so important to us? This book aims to...

F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel as one of the great philosophers of the German idealist tradition. The S...

What are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vul...

Suspicious of what he called the spectators sticky adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a cautious attitude towards cinema. Falling into a h...

Paul Virilio is one of contemporary continental thought's most original and provocative critical voices. His vision of the impact of modern techno...

Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietz...

Selected and introduced by Juli Carson, this book presents a collection of essential essays, interviews, and never-before published archival materi...

Selected and introduced by Juli Carson, this book presents a collection of essential essays, interviews, and never-before published archival materi...

Multiple artworks are works that can have multiple 'instances' which can play a particular kind of role in the appreciation of those works: for exa...

The aim of the volume is to show in which sense the study of culture, literature and the arts can contribute to a better understanding of human cog...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. These days the bicycle often appears ...

Once an overlooked figure in 20th-century philosophy, Susanne K. Langer has become a prominent thinker among philosophers and artists, particularly...

In this detailed and comprehensive study of concepts from Gilles Deleuzes philosophy of time, Tromans undertakes a series of practice as research p...

Chiara Botticis influential work on imaginal politics has provided a rich theoretical framework and incisive critical analysis with which to engage...

Dangerous Art takes up the problem of judging works of art using moral standards. When we think that a work is racist, or morally dangerous, what d...

`We are fools to turn from the superhuman beauty The Forbidden Subject launches from Ed Abbeys affirmation in Desert Solitaire: `This is the most b...

This collection delves into the conceptual and semantic dissection of aesthetic and moral emotions. It grapples with their definition, scope, funct...