Philosophy: Aesthetics

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

Between 1926 and 1928, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein designed a house for his sister in Vienna (the Kundmanngasse). This book aims to clarify...

What is jazz? How does it differ from other kinds of music? To what extent is it an important subject for thinking about aesthetic questions? Philo...

Volume one of Søren Kierkegaards Either/Or explores the crisis of the modern secular voidwith its attendant doubt, ennui, and alienationfrom the fi...

The newly expanded and revised edition of Coopers popular anthology featuring classic writings on aesthetics, both historical and contemporary The ...

A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a contemporary focus, which addresses the problem of explaining t...

What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection ...

This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central ...

This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central ...

Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art, art history and perceptual psychology, this book places seeing at the centre of an original...

Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. ...

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 ...

Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination For Pleasure proposes that experim...

John Dewey was the most celebrated and publicly engaged American philosopher in the twentieth century. His naturalistic theory of experience genera...

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aesthetic mer...

Karl Morrison discusses historical writing at a turning point in European culture: the so-called Renaissance of the twelfth century. Why do texts c...

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the con...

A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass media This fascinat...

Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific mod...

In this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected concept of the soul and to tr...

Dag Petersson offers a comprehensive critique of the philosophy that has dominated 200 years of modern thought, politics, economy, and culture. The...

Fictional narratives of the late twentieth century often cross boundaries. This study argues that the undoing of structure in postmodern art form d...

Deftly deploying Derridas notion of the unexperienced experience and building on Paul Virilios ideas about the aesthetics of disappearance, Vanishi...

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of good musichighly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically aut...

Does it make sense to refer to bird songa complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo...

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of good musichighly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically aut...

More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a ce...

All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldnt be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it i...

What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merit...

Ted Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply humane feel for life. For Cohen...

Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition. Deakin critiques fo...

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamins concept of the historical constellation, ...

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamins concept of the historical constellation, ...

The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art...

Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly-the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of adoration, fantasy, and cu...