Philosophy: Aesthetics

This book is an anthology of small texts chosen from a sequence of significant writers whose work fell between the Renaissance and the later sevent...

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

This book is the first collection of essays to offer detailed examinations of the role that close attention to individual films plays in the philos...

Focusing on the aesthetic representation of trauma, George Smith outlines the nexus points between poetics and hermeneutics and shows how a particu...

The highly practical lessons in How to Get to Great Ideas are based on neuroscience, psychology and sociology. Written by former advertising creati...

Ernst Cassirers philosophy of culture has been much discussed in recent years. However, it remains unclear how it evolved from his older theory of ...

2019 witnessed the 30th anniversary of the German reunification. But the remembrance of the fall of the Berlin Wall coincided with another event o...

A rediscovery of Thoreaus interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought.   Though we may associate Henry David Thoreau with as...

The human body is the primary instrument of war, yet those waging war often confront soldiers' bodies in a detached or merely intellectual way. In ...

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from t...

This volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the f...

Contrast the glittering palette used to decorate rickshaws on the streets of Mumbai, the phlegmatic angst of Nordic noir, the taut ovoids of Kwakwa...

Through a series of essays, Art and Ethical Criticism explores the complex relationship between the arts and morality. Reflects the importance of...

This monumental collection of new and recent essays from an international team of eminent scholars represents the best contemporary critical thinki...

Aesthetics after Modernism defends the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to art after modernism. Diarmuid Costello traces the art world's rejection o...

This book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Followi...

Is Harpo Free? is a lively appreciation of film and television's ability to artistically explore concepts typical of philosophical metaphysics, suc...

How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into...

Cinema as an aesthetic construct exists in a specific historical and political context, reflecting the society and its aesthetic values. Visual rep...

This volume presents original contributions from former students of Paul Guyer, the 2024 recipient of the International Kant Prize. The authors eng...

Focusing on the anthropological consequences of the disappearing of materiality and sensory embodiment, On Insignificance highlights some of the mo...

Now that cinema is offline and online, the capacity of cinema to relate to philosophy and science has increased. In this regard, this book seeks to...

The Logic of Filtering traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: how do media technologies shape sound? How does...

Shadow Philosophy: Platos Cave and Cinema is an accessible and exciting new contribution to film-philosophy, which shows that to take film seriousl...

Das Buch beschreibt und analysiert ein Bildungsprojekt des Friedensgedächtnismuseums Hiroshima und der städtischen Motomachi Senior High-School, da...

Creativity matters. We want people to be more creative and admire those who are. Yet creativity is deeply puzzling. Just what is it to be creative?...

The sense of smell has long been the most neglected of the human senses in literature. Common Scents sets out to undo this forgetting of olfactory ...

This book reassesses the place of politics and emotion within Romantic music aesthetics. Drawing together insights from the history of emotions, cu...

This collection consists of a selection of papers presented at the 2014 Uehiro Cross Currents Philosophy Conference, which focused on comparative p...

The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from an iconoclastic literary the...

A pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter.   In this study of the practice of contemporary painter G...

'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses...

Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers...

Leading international scholars present analysis and case studies from different cultural settings, East and West, exploring aesthetic interest and ...