Philosophy: Aesthetics

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...