Philosophy: aesthetics books

Applies the principles of process philosophy and Deleuzian film aesthetics to animation as a genre and medium.  Read More >>

Philosophers analyze the last of the great rock stars.  Read More >>

Hegel’s critique of Early German Romanticism and its theory of irony resonates to the core of his own philosophy...  Read More >>

Archaeology of Play proposes that play’s antithesis is not seriousness, but rather one-dimensionality. It argues...  Read More >>

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

While large bodies of scholarship exist on the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Heidegger, this book is...  Read More >>

Heinrich Heine's role in the formation of Critical Theory has been systematically overlooked in the course of the...  Read More >>

The interdisciplinary French-American thinker René Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the...  Read More >>

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How can art change society? What aesthetic quality does dialog bring to art? What is the role of autonomy in dialogical...  Read More >>

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This book assesses the pivotal role played by the concept of beauty in Italian literature and language in the construction...  Read More >>

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From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest...  Read More >>

A collection of poems, written in 2017/2018... . . . . The poems range from love to nuclear devastation, with some...  Read More >>

Claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted by performance, and brings performance theory into dialogue...  Read More >>

Drawing on insights from Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Art and Selfhood: A Kierkegaardian Account defends the idea...  Read More >>

The Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato reveals the underpinnings of contemporary subjectivity in the aesthetics...  Read More >>

The Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato reveals the underpinnings of contemporary subjectivity in the aesthetics...  Read More >>

Employing the lived experience of the DSQ members, it also engages and challenges core ideas in phenomenology, philosophy...  Read More >>

This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces...  Read More >>

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With Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature: Metaphor, Myth, Memory, Leo Courbot offers the first research monograph...  Read More >>