Philosophy: Aesthetics

The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to be universally valid. In Beauty Matters, Anri Ya...

In Hegels aesthetics, the element of speculative philosophy is always a notorious aspect that attracts the most complaints from modern art criticis...

The volume The Many Faces of Beauty joins the rich debate on beauty and aesthetic theory by presenting an ambitious, interdisciplinary examination ...

The ambition of Michael Psellos on Literature and Art is to illustrate an important chapter in the history of Greek literary and art criticism and ...

Body Language: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Language in Johann Georg Hamann addresses the centrality of sensual perception to the constitution o...

Ennead I.6 is probably the best known and most influential treatise of Plotinus, especially for Renaissance artists and thinkers. Although the titl...

Much of contemporary philosophy, especially in the analytical tradition, regards aesthetics as of lesser significance than epistemology, ethics, me...

What does it mean to be nude? What does the nude do? In a series of constantly surprising reflections, Jean-Luc Nancy and Federico Ferrari encounte...

Twenty-first-century Western culture is characterized by profound transformations in its forms of collective organization. While traditional instit...

Die erste große zusammenfassende Darstellung der Geschichte musikalischer Interpretation in den  letzten beiden Jahrhunderten:  dem 20. Jahrhundert...

Aesthetics has long been the preserve of philosophy, art history, and the creative arts but, more recently, the fields of psychology and neuroscien...

Poetry, or poisis, has long been understood as a practice of making. But how are experiments in the making of poetic forms related to formal making...

This collection features original essays that examine Walter Benjamins and Theodor Adornos essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together,...

This book offers a theory of those formal properties of art that are apt to afford strong aesthetic experience a project resembling Aristotles in ...

In this first ever book-length study of aesthetic expertise, Ole Martin Skilleås outlines the nature and purpose of aesthetic expertise, with parti...

Wie ist es möglich, dass im Erklingen einer komplexen Folge von Lauten ein Sinn offenbar wird, der mit der lautenden Gestalt selbst scheinbar wenig...

This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattaris philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging impact on lat...

Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: what are the key concepts i...

In this major new contribution to Heidegger studies, Christopher Fynsk provides an original account of Heideggers reflections on art, and in pa...

The book aims to provide a contemporary individual with an extensive but focused set of examples of kitsch in non-artistic spheres to create theore...

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health. ...

Originally published in 1995 as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new se...

This book explores three connected insights into humor. First, that humor provides a privileged access to the deepest kind of truth, the sense as s...

What do we mean by semiotic perception? Why should the concepts of perception and expressivity be reinterpreted within the encompassing framework o...

Bringing together the latest research and perspectives in the fields of analytic philosophy and theatre studies, this collection of essays provides...

Bringing together the latest research and perspectives in the fields of analytic philosophy and theatre studies, this collection of essays provides...

Weil jede Note zählt: Dies ist das interpretatorische Credo, das Alfred Brendel in diesem Buch entwirft. Es ist eine Aufforderung, über den Umgang ...

An invigorating exploration of the pleasures and social benefits of conversationTalking Cure is a timely and enticing excursion into the art of goo...

Dieses Lexikon ist ein Novum der Musikliteratur. Erstmals werden alle wichtigen Texte zur Musiktheorie und Musikästhetik in lexikalischer Form von ...

These essays discuss various ontological and epistemological questions in moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the...

A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and stagedThe need to...

Iagos I am not what I am epitomises how Shakespeares work is rich in philosophy, from issues of deception and moral deviance to those concerning th...

This study uncovers the plethora of new, innovative drawing strategies that shaped French visual arts at the height of Frances imperial power.Horac...

The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers...

This volume shows how Nancy was able to deconstruct the founding sign of all metaphysics and all transcendence by redefining the concepts of existe...

This book considers the cognitive, behavioural and socio-emotional aspects of autism in relation to music perception, musical engagement and music ...

Disagreement is one of the deepest and most pervasive topics in philosophy; arguably its very bedrock, and is an ever-increasing feature of politic...