Philosophy: Aesthetics

When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an ecology of images, she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictur...

An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken...

Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabita...

Aesthetics and Video Games introduces current issues and ideas in philosophical aesthetics that help us to better understand why video games are di...

Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting. By connecting ideas about faith with...

Yuriko Saito explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people's everyday life. Everyday aesthetics has the recognized val...

This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathys role in inte...

Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epi...

This volume discusses ways in which the history of philosophy has been written, from 1800 to 1950, and how it has been informed and guided by insti...

This book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it.The volume explores three...

This book reclaims Hegels notion of the end of artor, more precisely, of arts past characternot just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as...

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmedia...

Aesthetics and Video Games introduces current issues and ideas in philosophical aesthetics that help us to better understand why video games are di...

A lively and thorough exploration of the aesthetic, metaphysical, ethical, political, and legal implications of Taylor Swifts ongoing project of re...

A lively and thorough exploration of the aesthetic, metaphysical, ethical, political, and legal implications of Taylor Swifts ongoing project of re...

Mojca Kuplen connects 18th-century German aesthetics to contemporary theories of self-knowledge in order to highlight the unique cognitive value of...