Philosophy: Aesthetics

Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture? Why rely on literary pieces instead of architectural treatises and writings when it comes ...

Beloved by film and art aficionados and fans of neo-noir cinema, Mulholland Drive is one of the most important and enigmatic films of recent years....

Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sci...

In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and ...

Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts o...

This book is a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary visual culture and image studies, exploring ideas about space and p...

This book argues that the philosophical significance of Kants aesthetics lies not in its explicit account of beauty but in its implicit account of ...

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

Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another 'ism.' It emerged in the 1960s as a transformation of artistic creativity inspired by Duchamp'...

Is art created with computers really art? This book answers yes. Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovatio...

This book presents a counter-history to the relentless critique of the humanist subject and authorial agency that has taken place over the past fif...

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal epist...

Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics...

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal epist...

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

This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. Even as they denounced the imaginations potential for...

This book places Benjamins writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge. The fundamental problem that faces any a...

First published in 1985, this book draws together the authors artistic with analytical practices which had been developed over many years of sociol...

Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on arc...

This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Rich...

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 ...