Philosophy: aesthetics books

This is the first modern, annotated and scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Du Bos’ Critical Reflections on Poetry...  Read More >>

""Art and Cosmotechnics addresses the challenge of technology to the existence of art and traditional thought, especially...  Read More >>

In this volume, Baz offers a wide-ranging discussion of Wittgenstein’s remarks on aspect-perception, with special...  Read More >>

This volume gathers together some of the most brilliant and influential essays ever written in English.The Spirit...  Read More >>

This book re-examines Adorno’s aesthetics, developing a new literary approach that aims to unveil hidden elements...  Read More >>

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Fred Evans develops philosophical and political criteria for assessing how public art can respond to the fragility...  Read More >>

This book investigates a new interactive data visualisation concept that employs traditional Chinese aesthetics...  Read More >>

This book offers an insightful history of dystopian literature, integrating it within the conceptual schemas of...  Read More >>

Drawing on the culture’s history before and after the birth of rap music, this book argues that the values attributed...  Read More >>

Is it appropriate to honour and admire artists, intellectuals, athletes or politicians if those people have also...  Read More >>

Through the precession of simulacra, we have arrived at a landscape of e-girls and sad boys, the aesthetic values...  Read More >>

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This 1913 volume explores the philosophical significance of the concepts of beauty and aesthetic preference.  Read More >>

Widely regarded as one of the foremost cultural critics of the last century, Walter Benjamin’s relation to Modernism...  Read More >>

Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive...  Read More >>

What can political theory teach us about architecture, and what can it learn from paying closer attention to architecture?...  Read More >>

Bringing thinking from the arts and digital humanities into dialogue with one another, this book investigates what...  Read More >>

A radical reassessment not only of Hegel's oeuvre and legacy, but also of contemporary postcolonial political theory...  Read More >>

Through an exploration of both practice and theory, this book investigates the relationship between listening and...  Read More >>

Paul Gordon proposes a new theory of art as synaesthetic and applies this idea to various media, including works--such...  Read More >>

In the last couple of years, we're sure you've come across a certain word: Hygge. But what in the world does hygge...  Read More >>

In the last couple of years, we're sure you've come across a certain word: Hygge. But what in the world does hygge...  Read More >>

In the last couple of years, we're sure you've come across a certain word: Hygge. But what in the world does hygge...  Read More >>