Philosophy: aesthetics books

Manuscript Poetics explores the interrelationship between the material features of textual artifacts and the literary...  Read More >>

An outstanding, wide-ranging collection that explores the rich nature of Schopenhauer's ideas, texts and legacy....  Read More >>

This book offers a philosophical approach to tourism as a permanent factor in the lifestyle, economy, and culture...  Read More >>

This book examines the power of words. It explores the links between communication, language and identity, arguing...  Read More >>

It has long been accepted that participating in music, either as a performer, listener, or composer, can contribute...  Read More >>

During the decades of his world fame, Tolstoy wrote this series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social...  Read More >>

This book examines the power of words. It explores the links between communication, language and identity, arguing...  Read More >>

During the decades of his world fame, Tolstoy wrote this series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social...  Read More >>

"This interdisciplinary volume addresses the tension between illusion and appearance. The starting point is three...  Read More >>

Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position”...  Read More >>

"This volume is about how and whether art can be morally bad (or morally good). Politicians, media pundits, and...  Read More >>

This book explores how speculative thinking is shaping how we relate to our entangled social, mental, and environmental...  Read More >>

"""The magazine's heyday--its century--as the arbiter of culture is over, and so it is time to pay tribute to its...  Read More >>

"""arcodes are one of the most ignored yet impactful objects of the last fifty years, and they have a much more...  Read More >>

Published in 1896, The Sense of Beauty secured Santayana's reputation as a philosopher and continued to outsell...  Read More >>

Carefully considering the difference in the philosophical potential of page poetry and performance poetry, Karen...  Read More >>

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In volume two of a Janus-faced diagnostic of the cathartic and contagious effects of (new) media violence, Nidesh...  Read More >>

It has long been accepted that participating in music, either as a performer, listener, or composer, can contribute...  Read More >>

This stimulating volume brings together an international team of emerging, mid-career, and senior scholars to investigate...  Read More >>

The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological...  Read More >>

Develops a theory of cinecepts: a new framework for how philosophy can proceed in and through film/video/audiovisual...  Read More >>

This is the first English translation of Gombrich: una teor a del arte, by Joaqu n Lorda, originally published in...  Read More >>

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This book argues there can be no theory of ethics and that any attempt at such a theory ends up distorting the moral...  Read More >>