Philosophy: aesthetics books

This book addresses the question of the meaning of life from the point of view of a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s...  Read More >>

This book considers how Samuel Beckett’s critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical...  Read More >>

This book highlights aesthetics as pertaining to the structural component in architectural design. Based on comprehensive...  Read More >>

This book introduces traditional and modern aesthetics and arts, comparing the similarities and differences between...  Read More >>

This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method...  Read More >>

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The Charmides is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy in a conversation about...  Read More >>

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

Dietrich von Hildebrand's Comprehensive, Two-Volume Work on Beauty. The first volume develops an original theory...  Read More >>

Noël Carroll is one of the most prolific, widely-cited and distinguished philosophers of art, but how, specifically,...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book uses observations made by Marshall McLuhan to analyze the aesthetics of science fiction...  Read More >>

The book features an in-depth analysis of pre-modern Chinese discourses on artistic style especially the concept...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1989. This history of modern France explores the long-term origins of the libertarian revolt....  Read More >>

Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly...  Read More >>

This volume collects seventeen new essays by well-established and junior scholars on the philosophical relevance...  Read More >>

This unique study opens up a new dimension of Terrence Malick’s cinema – its expressions of unseeing and hearing....  Read More >>

The theme of this book is the documentarian—what the documentarian is and how we can understand it as a concept....  Read More >>

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In the first centuries BCE and CE, Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art, especially...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Life is a study of modern Japan, engaging the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies,...  Read More >>

This critical introduction and guide to Gilles Deleuze's 1988 bookBergsonism gives readers of both Deleuze and Bergson...  Read More >>

This monograph presents a synthesis and reconstruction of Rudolf Arnheim’s theory of media.  Read More >>

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Was ist ein Werk? So verschieden die Gegenstände auch sind, die wir als Werke zu bezeichnen pflegen - literarische...  Read More >>