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...

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century Anti-Aesthetic movement an...

Following the narratives explored in Hominescence, Incandescent and The Bough, Michel Serres continues and concludes his 'grand story' of humanity ...

Following the narratives explored in Hominescence, Incandescent and The Bough, Michel Serres continues and concludes his 'grand story' of humanity ...

From its original meaning as a gaping void, or the emptiness that precedes the whole of creation, chaos has taken on the exclusive meaning of confu...

While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a different perspective of the founde...

Our image of the Roman world is shaped by the writings of Roman statesmen and upper class intellectuals. Yet most of the material evidence we have ...

This edited volume explores the notion of artifice in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, in countries aroun...

In this book, Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir uncovers the crucial role of esotericism in the art of the Vienna Actionistsa group of Austrian neo-avant-gard...

François Laruelle emerged from the hallowed generation of French postwar philosophers that included luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Dele...

Hitchcock was a masterful director, popular with audiences of all ages and critically acclaimed both during and after his unusually long career. Wh...

What exactly are comics? Can they be art, literature, or even pornography? How should we understand the characters, stories, and genres that shape ...

Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. Digital instruments ma...

Legendary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) developed concepts which are bywords within poststructuralist and new histori...

This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of par...

In this book, Richard Dien Winfield builds upon Hegels Aesthetics to provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the individual fine arts, w...

Human flourishing depends upon the mental health of the individuals. Throughout history, various cultural traditions have established and practiced...

Visual Arts and Human Flourishing brings together thoughtful and innovative thinkers from various visual arts fields such as art history, architect...

What do conspiracy theories, algorithms and meritocracy have in common? All three avoid contingency and frantically look for necessities. The COVID...

Kant entwickelt in der Kritik der Urteilskraft eine philosophische Ästhetik, eine Theorie der organischen Natur. Die beiden scheinbar heterogenen ...

Aesthetic acts and artifacts are conditioned just as much by their materials as by the medial processes in which they are embedded. This interdisc...

Die Publikation hat das Ziel, Analogierelationen als heuristische Zauberstäbe bzw. als semiotische Universalien anzusehen, über die sich Unbekannte...

Life Configurations focuses on the analysis and reflection on the various forms in which human beings imagine, design, conjecture, and plan their b...