Philosophy: aesthetics books

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This collection of essays from a range of philosophers and art practitioners offers tools through which we can action...  Read More >>

An academic reader bridging the disciplines of aesthetics and film studies by focusing on cinematic sublimity. Original...  Read More >>

F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel as one of the great philosophers of the...  Read More >>

F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel as one of the great philosophers of the...  Read More >>

This book seeks to explore recent research on how notions of romanticism and post-romanticism affect therapeutic...  Read More >>

This book examines animal welfare themes in fiction, and considers how authors of the last two centuries undermine...  Read More >>

Stuart Sim explores how Lyotard's brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in our...  Read More >>

Stuart Sim explores how Lyotard's brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in our...  Read More >>

This collection of essays re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

There is history ruled by chaos, and history ruled by order but humans experience ""history"" in a continuous flow...  Read More >>

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In which one can never quite tell if a thought that comes to one came from one, had arrived onto one, or if one...  Read More >>

What grounds a judgment that a work of art is immoral? This book argues that we cannot judge artworks morally in...  Read More >>

This book situates Ralph Waldo Emerson in the tradition of philosophy as “spiritual exercise”, arguing that the...  Read More >>

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This book examines the contribution of mass-produced original painting to the psychology of art, psychological aesthetics,...  Read More >>

This volume offers an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn, a text that has been studied up to the...  Read More >>

John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman,...  Read More >>

Does art need to be beautiful? Can humour be beautiful? What is the relationship between beauty and mimetic behaviour?...  Read More >>

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In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the...  Read More >>

What does it mean to see time in the visual arts and how does art reveal the nature of time? Paul Atkinson investigates...  Read More >>