Philosophy: aesthetics books

Returning to the Greek understanding of art to rethink its capacities, Creation and the Function of Art focuses...  Read More >>

The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Žižek would...  Read More >>

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Fundamental ontology is not possible because of the nonuniformity of time. Physicists privately acknowledge that...  Read More >>

Care Ethics and Poetry is the first book to address the relationship between poetry and feminist care ethics. The...  Read More >>

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Theory of the Image offers a new and systematic philosophy of art and aesthetics from the perspective of movement....  Read More >>

Santiago Zabala declares that in an age where the greatest emergency is the absence of emergency, contemporary art's...  Read More >>

Ad Vivum? explores the issues raised by this Latin term and its vernacular cognates al vivo, au vif, nach dem Leben...  Read More >>

Winner of the NAVSA Best Book of the Year, North American Victorian Studies Association From the opening of trade...  Read More >>

This book explores how Edwardian art writing shaped and narrated embodied, performative forms of aesthetic spectatorship....  Read More >>

Si Benjamin n'a jamais acheve la redaction d'un essai consacre a la critique, elle n'en est pas moins une des preoccupations...  Read More >>

From explorations of video game series to Netflix shows to Facebook timelines, Subjective Experiences of Interactive...  Read More >>

Der Fokus der Untersuchung liegt auf dem empirischen Erfassen und der Versprachlichung eines zumeist unsichtbaren...  Read More >>

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This compelling book defends realism concerning the aesthetic—in particular, concerning the aesthetic properties...  Read More >>

This impressive edited collection investigates the relationship between British Pop Art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi...  Read More >>

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An account of the intellectual and cultural history of church architecture in Stuart England based upon the discourse...  Read More >>

This book is an exploration of how art—specifically paintings in the European manner—can be mobilized to make knowledge...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Kierkegaard's work, not only placing it in its historical context but...  Read More >>

What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about...  Read More >>

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Object-Oriented Cartography provides an innovative perspective on the changing nature of maps and cartographic study....  Read More >>