Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Imagination: Cross-Cultural Philosophical Analyses is a rare intercultural inquiry into the conceptions and functions...  Read More >>

Andrews argues for the efficacy of painting to enlarge our perspective on 'thought' through Maurice Merleau-Ponty's...  Read More >>

This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime....  Read More >>

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of “good” music—highly serious,...  Read More >>

There is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.' This book examines a number of questions about...  Read More >>

For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing...  Read More >>

This book offers the first comprehensive critical study of David Hume’s Four Dissertations of 1757. This book is...  Read More >>

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, is a book by 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally...  Read More >>

Est-il legitime de parler d'une ""esthetique"" au Moyen Age? Comment l'homme medieval articule-t-il son experience...  Read More >>

This book features engagements between Kant and various Asian philosophers. Key themes include the nature of human...  Read More >>

Does it make sense to refer to bird song—a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns...  Read More >>

From the archaic funerary and sacred stones to the most recent three-dimensional objects, sculpture has been determined...  Read More >>

This volume presents an autobiography of one writer's existence in poetry, the tracks left by a clumsy bear taming...  Read More >>

This book explores the aesthetics of the novel from the perspective of Continental European philosophy, presenting...  Read More >>

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Fred Evans develops philosophical and political criteria for assessing how public art can respond to the fragility...  Read More >>

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Supposition is frequently invoked in many fields within philosophy, including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, philosophy...  Read More >>

This book presents the convergence of architecture and storytelling across a broad temporal, geographic and cultural...  Read More >>

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Experimental philosophy has blossomed into a variety of philosophical fields including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics...  Read More >>

This book examines the little understood end-of-art theses of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Danto. Hegel sees the overcoming...  Read More >>

Die gr te L ge die man sich selbst erz hlt ist, dass man etwas braucht. Sei es ein Haus, Job oder eine Beziehung....  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>