Philosophy: aesthetics books

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

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

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This volume advances the contemporary debate on five central issues in the philosophy of film. These issues concern...  Read More >>

This book connects Schopenhauer’s philosophy with transcendental idealism by exploring the distinctly Kantian roots...  Read More >>

Offering new and original readings of literature, poetry, and education as interpreted through the conceptual lens...  Read More >>

This volume explores the place of the sublime in contemporary culture and the aesthetic, cultural, and political...  Read More >>

This book probes the feminist faultlines in Derrida's thought and generates original feminist insight into key concerns...  Read More >>

The prominence of the imagination in David Hume's philosophy has been recognised by generations of readers. In this...  Read More >>

These essays explore the surprisingly varied dimensions of ratio:an unacknowledged keystone of Spinoza's thought....  Read More >>

This book offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. Acknowledging both movements’ passion for the...  Read More >>

This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form which necessitates the...  Read More >>

Tinguely argues that the significance of Kant’s aesthetics lies in its implicit account of intentionality. His investigations...  Read More >>

This book aims to provide scholars active in television aesthetics with a critical overview of the relevant philosophical...  Read More >>

This book explores the concept of the end of literature through the lens of Hegel's philosophy of art. In his version...  Read More >>

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On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular...  Read More >>

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These essays reflect on national and transnational legacies of African American activism as an element of artistic...  Read More >>

Short essays by Rubem Alves, touching on life, sex, nature, soup, childhood, crime, Brazil, bovine wisdom, magnolias,...  Read More >>

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

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