Philosophy: Aesthetics

Over the last three decades Slavoj iek has become an iconic figure of intellectuel engagé and his works have engendered ongoing reflection within a...

Obwohl Komik und Behinderung gerade in den Künsten immer wieder zusammentreffen, gibt es so gut wie keine theoretisch und methodisch fundierten Aus...

This book explores how speculative thinking is shaping how we relate to our entangled social, mental, and environmental ecologies. It examines how ...

The Logic of Filtering traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: how do media technologies shape sound? How does...

This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how uglines...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For a century, magazines were the autho...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Barcodes are about as ordinary as an ob...

Now available in English for the first time, The Visibility of the Image explores the development of an influential aesthetic tradition through the...

Philosophy Bites Again is a brand new selection of interviews from the popular podcast of the same name. It offers engaging and thought-provoking c...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For over two thousand years magnets ha...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The story of the compact disc is also ...

More than two hundred years after the publication of his seminal The World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer's influence is still fel...

What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation betwe...

There Are No Such Things as Theories considers the fundamental question: what is a scientific theory? It presents a range of options - from theorie...

Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant provides the first in-depth examination of the lifelong intellectual relationship between two of the ...