Philosophy: Aesthetics

This book explains and contextualises the key concepts in Jean Luc Nancy's entire body of work. Jean Luc Nancy (1940), Professor of Political Philo...

What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesth...

Since the time of the Ancient Greeks, philosophers have pondered on the nature and purpose of the arts, but artists have gone on making them and au...

Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persis...

Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline o...

I suggest that although at any given place and moment the aesthetic expressions of a political system just are that political system, the concepts ...

If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the newnew ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But th...

As the sunset swings into view, you think, That's beautiful. You take a bite of cake and you think, Wow, that's sweet-maybe too sweet. You hear tha...

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...

'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...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The veil can be an instrument of femin...

Praise for Solitude: This is a thoughtful and sensitive book from a man who endured the fear and loneliness of captivity. Now, years later, Terry ...

Specifically engaging with contemporary art examples, this is a comprehensive introduction designed to help students studying aesthetics for the fi...

This title takes an immanent turn in art history. Immanence is a theory of divine presence, in which the divine is found in the material world, not...

The unwritten contract of the internet, that a user is what is used, extends from the well-examined issue of data privacy and consent to the very s...

The intense relationship between philosopher Martin Heidegger and his cabin in the Black Forest: the first substantial account of die Hutte and i...