Philosophy: aesthetics books

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Gin...  Read More >>

30,000-year-old handprints, animal scent, celebrity autographs, air trapped in Antarctic ice, and graffiti tags...  Read More >>

""Fat combines the cultural imaginary about fat as object of fear, pathology, and obsession with the material realities...  Read More >>

This unique book is about freeing psychology's poetic imagination from the dead weight of unconscious assumptions...  Read More >>

In drawing upon the work of Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and aligning it with a new trend...  Read More >>

Therapeutic Aesthetics focuses on moving image artworks as expressive of social psychopathological symptoms that...  Read More >>

While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a...  Read More >>

This volume reconsiders poststructuralism historically and demonstrates the ways in which it remains relevant, especially...  Read More >>

""The first book on timbre (or, tone color), and one that covers both classical and popular music""--  Read More >>

​This book discusses the influence of creative work on human life, and the role it has played in shaping human civilization...  Read More >>

Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal draws on insights from leading neuroscientists...  Read More >>

Far from an elite practice reserved for the highly educated, criticism is all around us. We turn to the Yelp reviewers...  Read More >>

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This book is the first comprehensive account of the reception of Kant's Critique of Judgment in the 20th century....  Read More >>

Collected here, are five short essays, General Rules, Our Relation to Ourselves, Our Relation to Others, Worldly...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of four works and compiled to help you on your journey of faith and prayer. The four books...  Read More >>

This book discusses affective practices in performance through the study of four contemporary performers – Keith...  Read More >>

Traditional Chinese Edition of [The Practice: Shipping Creative Work] Do you always get stuck at work and want to...  Read More >>

Rom Harré’s career spans more than 40 years of original contributions to the development of both psychology and...  Read More >>

In einem Gesprach sowohl mit den modernen Naturwissenschaften wie mit der kunstlerischen Moderne entwickelte Gaston...  Read More >>

The volume explores the intervention potential of the smallest units of time and asks how literary, musical and...  Read More >>

Speculative essays that probe the mythology of the face by the author of The Old Drift  Read More >>

This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory...  Read More >>

Les trois grandes branches de la philosophie kantienne sont: la philosophie de la connaissance (developpee surtout...  Read More >>

Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect...  Read More >>