Philosophy: aesthetics books

Already in 1929, Walter Benjamin described ""a one hundred per cent image-space."" Such an image space saturates...  Read More >>

Examining the work of writers and artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Allan...  Read More >>

Philosopher's classic study declares that Greek tragedy achieved greatness through a fusion of elements of Apollonian...  Read More >>

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Examining the work of writers and artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Allan...  Read More >>

This book sets out to unravel the jumble of aesthetic faultlines and prejudices found wherever we find artistic...  Read More >>

The years since its publication in 1991 have proven this book's central thesis-that our digitized, technological...  Read More >>

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This book asks how the aesthetic might be activated and applied through philosophies of education, and how we can...  Read More >>

Writing for non-specialists and students as well as for fellow philosophers, this book explores some basic issues...  Read More >>

Dies ist die erste Gesamtdarstellung der spaten Wissenschaftslehre J. G. Fichtes, wie er sie zwischen 1807 und seinem...  Read More >>

In literature and the visual arts, zero degree represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to and outside...  Read More >>

The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media. Defined as a pleasurable mental state...  Read More >>

High Heel is a dive into the labyrinthine nature of modern womanhood and sexual politics, with the world's most...  Read More >>

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

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

This book outlines an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become...  Read More >>

An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive...  Read More >>

Writing for non-specialists and students as well as for fellow philosophers, this book explores some basic issues...  Read More >>

Offering an abundance of accessible examples, author John Mark Miravalle demonstrates that beauty is neither in...  Read More >>

Wabi-sabi is a philosophy that appreciates the imperfection and impermanence of life. For writers of all kinds,...  Read More >>

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Shifting the focus from human interiority toward the agency of cultural objects, social arrangements and aesthetic...  Read More >>

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