Philosophy: Aesthetics

New framework for the aesthetic representation of the sea.We are no strangers today to visual representations of human suffering at sea: the refuge...

How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our mindsand of all those who...

Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Association for Israeli Studies. Exploring the politics of the image in the context of Israeli militarized v...

The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza-also known as Benedict or Bento de Spinoza-spent the most intense years of his short life writ...

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As...

Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideology Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the ex...

Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the...

Leo Bersanis career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fieldsincluding French studies, modernism, realist fiction, p...

This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslicks influential aesthetic treatise, On th...

Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating todayand for more than three decades, one of the main sites of De...

Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekpl...

Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history of the cinema from its bir...

An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of musics ineffability.  Th...

Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of cliches. Es...

A compelling and innovative reflection on the way photography captures and condenses time Two photographs, connected by a ladder, separated by a ce...

Based on the revelation and analysis of the social self-consciousness contained in the individual self-consciousness of the meaning of life, the bo...

The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design. The first book t...

This book challenges two of the most commonly held assumptions about Samuel Beckett. First, that he belongs exclusively to a literary tradition and...

Das vorliegende Buch Der Mensch, das Spiel und der Zufall bietet eine historisch-systematische Analyse des Gewinnspiels und seines ewigen Reizes fü...

Das vorliegende Buch Der Mensch, das Spiel und der Zufall bietet eine historisch-systematische Analyse des Gewinnspiels und seines ewigen Reizes fü...

This book explores Iris Murdoch as a philosopher who, through her distinctive methodology, exploits the advantages of having a mind on the borders ...

This edited collection presents the complex theory of kitsch from aesthetic and artistic points of view, transposed into managerial and organisatio...

How can the dichotomy between body and language be overcome by means of the performing arts? What does the art of performing contribute to philosop...

Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture: An Introduction to Music Criticism offers a clear, hands-on guide for emerging music critics that brings toge...

Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture: An Introduction to Music Criticism offers a clear, hands-on guide for emerging music critics that brings toge...

A revelatory critique of public display in the United States.   In Religion in Plain View, Sally M. Promey analyzes religions visible saturation of...

Fregean Realism: Frodo Lives! and Other Fictions argues that literary fictions, pictures, and other artworks are modes of access to Gottlob Freges ...

If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, it is the function of artistic form.to make historical content into a philosophical truth then it is the function o...

This book brings into conversation geographically diverse theorists to question the meaning, purpose, and place of conceptual borders in philosophy...

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) is known to many as a leading figure of 1960s counter-culture, and a Guru of the New Left.However, the deeper philosoph...

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) is known to many as a leading figure of 1960s counter-culture, and a Guru of the New Left.However, the deeper philosoph...

Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studiesAfter the linguistic and the...

In an era of cancel culture, digital identities and thriving conversation surrounding parasocial relationships, we question today the nature of the...

An alternative occult and esoteric history of England told through one of its most popular cultural forms: the comedy sitcom.Code: Damp is a someti...

The Beatles and the Beatlesque address a paradox emanating from The Beatles music through a cross-disciplinary hybrid of reflections, drawing from ...

Focusing on John Ruskin as a teacher and on his greatest educational work, Fors Clavigera, Sara Atwood examines Ruskin's varied roles in education,...

Focusing on John Ruskin as a teacher and on his greatest educational work, Fors Clavigera, Sara Atwood examines Ruskin's varied roles in education,...

Sport and Art explores relationship of sport to art. It does not argue that sport is one of the arts, but rather that sport and art hold common gro...