Philosophy: aesthetics books

Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner...  Read More >>

A critical study of the concept of form in Adorno's writings on art and literature.  Read More >>

What does it mean to be a spectator?  Read More >>

The best way to offer a capsule-impression of this book is to reproduce a few passages. Here Professor Harris defines...  Read More >>

The book aims to bring art back into psychology, to provide an understanding for the art of psychology.An Old Melody...  Read More >>

Rhapsody of Northern Art presents fascinating artefacts produced between the late Bronze Age and the start of the...  Read More >>

Half a century after his samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima remains a controversial figure. Though his writings...  Read More >>

This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley Cavell’s lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic...  Read More >>

This book explores the possibility of philosophical praxis by weaving an ontological thread through four principal...  Read More >>

Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be...  Read More >>

Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both...  Read More >>

The author analyses the relation between the Idealist conception of the arts (including literature) and present-day...  Read More >>

A provocative account of the philosophical problem of ‘difference’ in art history, Tintoretto’s Difference offers...  Read More >>

Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both...  Read More >>

Afterlives of Abandoned Work considers the relevance of unfinished projects to literary history and criticism, looking...  Read More >>

Accordingly, this book (1) clearly establishes the objective parameters of aesthetics, (2) puts forward a method...  Read More >>

In a sense, this book is a long riff on the number 3. More accurately, it's a meditation on three distinct but overlapping...  Read More >>

This book argues that Hip Hop’s early history in the South Bronx charts a course remarkably similar to the conceptual...  Read More >>

""First published in language as Le musâee transitoire.""  Read More >>

Die rätselhafte homerische Beschreibung einer Nymphengrotte führt Porphyrios zu einer faszinierenden Ausdeutung,...  Read More >>

""First published in language as Le musâee transitoire.""  Read More >>

Adorno’s philosophy of the nonidentical reveals itself not only as a powerful hermeneutics of the past, but also...  Read More >>

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It shows how she offers a challenging provocative way of seeing things which is related to but distinct from standard...  Read More >>

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