Philosophy: Aesthetics

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 ...

This work outlines a new methodology for film analysis based on the radical materialist thought of Baruch Spinoza, re-evaluating contemporary cogni...

This book advances an enactivist theory of aesthetics through the study of inscrutable artworks that challenge us to think because we do not know w...

Love and depression are key elements in the cultural script of emotions or affectual life within contemporary Western society, and the two have bec...

As the prototypical exemplar of modern visual technology, photography was once viewed as a way to enable vision to bypass imagination, producing mo...

Drawing from the work of Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger, this book aims to relate a series of philosophic insights to the practice of engaging i...

This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that make the aesthetic and artistic wo...

Masculinities and Desire considers the question of male subjectivity in relation to Deleuze and Guattaris theory of desire. Western tradition has t...

Aesthetic theory in the West has, until now, been dominated by ideas of effect, autonomy, and reception. Transformative Aesthetics uncovers these t...

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

Color is one of cinemas most alluring formal systems, building on a range of artistic traditions that orchestrate visual cues to tell stories, stag...

Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age challenges orthodoxies of photographic theory and practice. Beyond understanding the ima...

First published in 1999, this study begins with a review of basic biological functions, stressing the importance to the organism of various kinds o...

Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the diffe...

Pictorial representation is one of the core questions in aesthetics and philosophy of art. What is a picture? How do pictures represent things? Thi...

This title was first published in 2000. This is an interdisciplinary and international collection on aesthetics with contributions from artists and...

Responding to Heideggers stark warnings concerning the essence of technology, this book demonstrates arts capacity to emancipate the life-world fro...

The conception of modernity as a radical rupture from the past runs parallel to the conception of Europe as the primary locus of global history. Th...

Architecture, and its pedagogy in the academy, is dominated by the technology of image production that veils the naked power behind its operation. ...

Sport aesthetics is an important but often marginalized field in the philosophy of sport. Kinetic Beauty offers a comprehensive, principled, plural...

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

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of ...

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of ...

This title was first published in 2000. This is an interdisciplinary and international collection on aesthetics with contributions from artists and...

This is the first survey of Murdochs exploration of evil, addressing aesthetic, philosophical, political and theological perspectives. The study de...

Unfreezing Music Education argues that discussing the conflicting meanings of music should occupy a more central role in formal music education and...

Sublime Subjects explores two fundamental questions: what is the start of humanity? When and how does a newborn child become a subject? These are r...

This book addresses a prominent group of virtues and vices as portrayed in popular films to further our understanding of these moral character trai...

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and exper...

Dismembers and remembers the sensual and spiritual body of Lady Justice in a wholly novel interpretation of the optical allegory of Iustitia Prese...

Hans-Georg Gadamer was one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. As a philosopher trained in phenomenology, he established...

In the past twenty years or more, there has been a growing interest among philosophers and theologians alike in the transcendentals and especially ...