Philosophy: Aesthetics

In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charte...

Dieses Buch zum Phänomen Mozart zeigt und erschließt den genialen Komponisten von vielen Seiten. Es ist eine fakten- und analysebasierte Synthese, ...

An important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürers depictions of Muslim figures and subjects are considered...

How did Collingwood become Collingwood? It is by thinking through the nature of persons, art, play, history, archaeology, anthropology, ideas, perc...

Is art a form of communication? If so, what does art express or represent? How should we interpret the meaning of works created by more than one ar...

Is art a form of communication? If so, what does art express or represent? How should we interpret the meaning of works created by more than one ar...

In the first book to examine the overlooked relationship between musical improvisation and philosophical hermeneutics, Sam McAuliffe asks: what...

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

The hegemonic meaning of depression as a universal mental illness embodied by an individualized subject is propped up by psychiatrys clinical gaze....

The prostheses Peter Szendy exploresthose peculiar artifacts known as musical instrumentsare not only technical devices but also bodies that live a...

This book looks at three different kinds of writing practice - theory-fiction, autofiction/autotheory and art writing - that are increasingly preva...

This book explores the meaning of love and intimacy from a variety of perspectives, specifically philosophical, psychological and cultural. This vo...

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is a towering figure of modern Western philosophy, someone whose thought continues to exert an influence across all areas...

The book is the first English translation of Nicolai Hartmann's final book, published in 1953. It will be of value to graduate students in philosop...

This volume is the first collection of articles dedicated to Ludwig Wittgensteins thoughts on colour, focusing in particular onhis so-called Remark...

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

Michael Mitias presents, explains, and defends in some detail the features that make an artwork great magic, universality, and the test of time. A...

What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of ar...

Women on Philosophy of Art is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. It looks at seven women spanning t...

These essays, half of them appearing here for the first time, address issues concerning the two key singularities that Kant identified in aesthetic...

In the quarter century following the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, art museums, along with other public institutions, were task...

This book rethinks the discussion of sport as a cinematic subject. Arguing for the vitality of the sports film as distinctively modern genre, the b...

This book rethinks the discussion of sport as a cinematic subject. Arguing for the vitality of the sports film as distinctively modern genre, the b...

Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema looks at the power of cinema in creating ideas that inspire our culture. Sylvie Magerstädt discusses the relations...

Wir Menschen wissen bereits seit über 400 Jahren, dass wir uns unverschämterweise nicht im Zentrum des Universums befinden. Dennoch war die Überras...

Art and Reality is a collection of general theoretical reflections and particular critical studies, in which John Anderson asserts the essential ro...

In this book, Jana S. Roker offers the first comprehensive overview and exegesis of the work of Li Zehou, who is one of the most significant and in...

An in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporas Spirals in the Caribbean respon...

Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of art production not only in animals, but al...

A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, de...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. They keep us ...

Von Absenz bis Zeitalter/Epoche enthält diese Enzyklopädie 170 Artikel, die von 150 renommierten Wissenschaftlern erarbeitet wurden. Ausgehend von ...

Von Absenz bis Zeitalter/Epoche enthält diese Enzyklopädie 170 Artikel, die von 150 renommierten Wissenschaftlern erarbeitet wurden. Ausgehend von ...

Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persis...

The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is celebrated as challenging the status quo. From the political films of the 1970s through to the more existential ...

Art has always been central to moments of great social change. From the avant-garde to the ages of revolution, the act of rebellious creation has b...

How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in todays worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtu...

The fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that is, they are valuable in themselves. But this poses a problem for architecture: ...

Modernism's Inhuman Worlds explores the centrality of ecological precarity, species indeterminacy, planetary change, and the specter of extinction ...