Philosophy: Aesthetics

This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aest...

The Aesthetic Movement, a collection of artists, writers and thinkers who rejected traditional ideas of beauty as guided and judged by morals and u...

'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates an...

Arthur Danto is the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and the most influential philosopher of art in the last half...

A holistic and systematic analysis of Ernst Gombrich as theorist Offers the first holistic and systematic analysis of Gombrich's theoretical ideas...

In The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologie...

This book explores how law can be understood through film by engaging creatively with the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of both fields.Chal...

One of the foremost exponents of the Sikh religion and of related Punjabi literature offers here a sustained exploration of the aesthetics of Sikhi...

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...