Philosophy: Aesthetics

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 ...

This work outlines a new methodology for film analysis based on the radical materialist thought of Baruch Spinoza, re-evaluating contemporary cogni...

This book advances an enactivist theory of aesthetics through the study of inscrutable artworks that challenge us to think because we do not know w...

Love and depression are key elements in the cultural script of emotions or affectual life within contemporary Western society, and the two have bec...

As the prototypical exemplar of modern visual technology, photography was once viewed as a way to enable vision to bypass imagination, producing mo...

Drawing from the work of Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger, this book aims to relate a series of philosophic insights to the practice of engaging i...

This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that make the aesthetic and artistic wo...

Masculinities and Desire considers the question of male subjectivity in relation to Deleuze and Guattaris theory of desire. Western tradition has t...

Aesthetic theory in the West has, until now, been dominated by ideas of effect, autonomy, and reception. Transformative Aesthetics uncovers these t...

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

Color is one of cinemas most alluring formal systems, building on a range of artistic traditions that orchestrate visual cues to tell stories, stag...

Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age challenges orthodoxies of photographic theory and practice. Beyond understanding the ima...

First published in 1999, this study begins with a review of basic biological functions, stressing the importance to the organism of various kinds o...

Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the diffe...

Pictorial representation is one of the core questions in aesthetics and philosophy of art. What is a picture? How do pictures represent things? Thi...

This title was first published in 2000. This is an interdisciplinary and international collection on aesthetics with contributions from artists and...