Philosophy: aesthetics books

This is the first volume devoted to the topic of dance and quality of life. The volume will interest dance specialists,...  Read More >>

This monograph presents new ideas in nomic truth approximation. It features original and revised papers from a (formal)...  Read More >>

Combining insights from disciplines in the humanities and the cognitive sciences, this book explores the contribution...  Read More >>

Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play.  Read More >>

This book gives an account of characterization in moving image fictions. Areas of investigation include the importance...  Read More >>

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Wir fuhlen es mehr und mehr, dass der Gedanke des deutschen Staates, wie er von den Denkern des achtzehnten und...  Read More >>

This volume studies a range of modernist works by writers such as Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and...  Read More >>

I wrote this book for me. I decided to publish it for those wading through the solitary but [would like to be]...  Read More >>

In the past decades, with the decline of the Grand Narratives and the subsequent need for new historical and political...  Read More >>

Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European - and, above all, German - Romanticism...  Read More >>

Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics...  Read More >>

To be used in tandem with any reasonable translation or with the ancient Greek, this book is designed for students....  Read More >>

Why black is more and more the new black? This issue of Viceversa investigates the gap between the huge mass of...  Read More >>

In this extensively illustrated book containing over 80 diagrams and images of artworks, David Burrows and Simon...  Read More >>

Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European - and, above all, German - Romanticism...  Read More >>

The Conversational Enlightenment traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including...  Read More >>

To be used in tandem with any reasonable translation or with the ancient Greek, this book is designed for students....  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Thierry de Duve argues in the first volume of Aesthetics at Large, is as relevant...  Read More >>

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

Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like...  Read More >>

The relevance of painting has been questioned many times over the last century, by the arrival of photography, installation...  Read More >>