Philosophy: Aesthetics

Artful Truths offers a concise guide to the fundamental philosophical questions that arise when writing a literary work about your own life. Bringi...

In Infinite Good: The Mountains of William James, author and naturalist, J. Parker Huber, follows the famed naturalist and philosopher William Jame...

Valery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of his generation. Here his most famous work is translated into English for the first time. ...

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) is a philosophical treatise published in pamphlet form by ...

In this book, Barry and Gail Lord focus their two lifetimes of international experience working in the cultural sector on the challenging questions...

Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human e...

Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human e...

In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores films connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise an...

Connecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art mea...

Connecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art mea...

In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores films connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise an...

Life as Art brings the resources of contemporary aesthetics since Nietzsche to bear on the problems of how one integrates the aesthetic emphases of...

Mieke Bal takes us on a journey through the range of her work, using the concept of image-thinking as a point of connection between cultural analys...

Aidan Tynan provocatively rethinks some of the core assumptions of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Showing the significance of deser...

The early medieval Scottish philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus shook traditional doctrines of universality and particularity by arguing fo...

This book explores the aesthetics of the objects and environments we encounter in daily life. Thomas Leddy stresses the close relationship between ...

'GORGEOUS, VIVIDLY ALIVE' NEW YORK TIMES'BOLD, HONEST AND SUPERBLY WELL-WRITTEN' ANDRÉ ACIMAN, AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME'GRACEFUL AND SOUL-BAR...