Philosophy: aesthetics books

Failures to listen or mishearings can be a matter of life and death. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates the intimate...  Read More >>

Arguing that new music in this era reflects a historical moment when the idea of materiality itself is in flux,...  Read More >>

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Traces a conceptual history of critique in German philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present.  Read More >>

Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding...  Read More >>

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Dionysos y el genio dionisíaco. La influencia romántica en la filosofía del joven Nietzsche. A través de las páginas...  Read More >>

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Ugly, Useless, Unstable traces productive intersections between architecture and the discourses of post-structuralism...  Read More >>

This book breaks new ground by suggesting that liturgy is the means par excellence by which an experience of beauty...  Read More >>

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Kierkegaard’s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard’s...  Read More >>

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This book is an exploration of how art—specifically paintings in the European manner—can be mobilized to make knowledge...  Read More >>

This book brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to...  Read More >>

This book is the first English-language translation of Li Zehou’s work on classical Chinese thought. It includes...  Read More >>

This book explores how four contemporary artists—Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, and Damien Hirst—pursue...  Read More >>

This book contends that many practitioners of underground rap have absorbed religious traditions and ideas, and...  Read More >>

This book presents a philosophical account of contemporary art school teaching. Understanding this gives new insights...  Read More >>

This book outlines an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become...  Read More >>