Philosophy: Aesthetics

'Man defines himself by his deeds - and what kind of image of man do we see in the mirror of our present times?' The poet and dramatist Friedrich S...

Drawing on a rich legacy of pictorial evidence, Images of Childhood examines historical constructions of childhood and how they reinforce or challe...

One of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker, novelist, and poli...

How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.Are games art? This question is a dominant mode o...

A unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history. - Publishers Weekly A book that sticks with you long after youv...

Modes of address are forms of signification that we direct at living beings, things, and places, and they at us and at each other. Seeing is a form...

In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have...

For two millennia philosophy has restlessly stalked a fundamental problemthe answer to the question what is art, really? Aesthetic discourse, focus...

Classical music shows a close relationship to language, and both musicology and philosophy have tended to approach music from that angle, exploring...

Real Likenesses presents a radical new approach to artistic representation. At its heart is a serious reconsideration of the relationship between m...

This volume presents new philosophical essays on a topic that's been neglected in most recent philosophy: games, sports, and play. Some contributio...

What makes a colour work? What do colours mean to artists or cultures? Why does grey make a colour stand out? What colour are the oceans? Why is t...

Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their bodies, tools, and...

One of the most influential scholars of the Renaissance, Pietro Bembo (14701547) gained fame not only for his literary theory and poetry, but for h...

Grootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and interpretive thought.   While the philos...

In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples, he argues that luxury is an...

Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenonand why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselvesIn The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë expl...

Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transfor...

In every psychic experience, even in the production of a work of art, there exists a nucleus that is impossible to transform. It resists any and ev...

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the con...

This book is centred around the examination of whether it is possible to find cognitive aspects or purposes in aesthetic judgements and in percepti...

Much of the recent confidence in the future of science and technology stems from advances in scientific visualisation. But is it right to assume th...