Philosophy: aesthetics books

This book contains six chapters covering key areas of musical aesthetics, including aesthetics of emotions; aesthetics...  Read More >>

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

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How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important...  Read More >>

This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and...  Read More >>

The prominence of the imagination in David Hume's philosophy has been recognised by generations of readers. In this...  Read More >>

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Emotion and Postmodernism: is it possible to imagine an odder couple, stranger bedfellows, less bad company? The...  Read More >>

All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn’t be more different: the fundamental...  Read More >>

All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn’t be more different: the fundamental...  Read More >>

Excerpt from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and on the Will in Nature; Two Essays:...  Read More >>

The first collection to address the vexing issue of Nabokov’s moral stances, this book argues that he designed his...  Read More >>

Though inspired by a Panofskyan legacy, this book diverges at certain points from Erwin Panofsky's declared objectives,...  Read More >>

This book defines theatricality and performativity through metaphors of texture and weaving, drawn mainly from anthropologist...  Read More >>

Contemporary art is often preoccupied with time, or acts in which the past is recovered. Through specific case studies...  Read More >>

Investigates the long and controversial tradition of representing the sex act in Western art.  Read More >>

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Georg Simmel (1858-1918) war ein deutscher Philosoph und Soziologe. Er leistete wichtige Beiträge zur Kulturphilosophie,...  Read More >>

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History of psychoanalytic view on aesthetics focussing on the Kleinian Object Relations School.  Read More >>

An introduction to the psychoanalytic writings of Donald Meltzer on clinical work, the family, and philosophy of...  Read More >>

Ted Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply...  Read More >>

Beauty is one of those rare concepts that spans virtually every domain of human knowledge and is present in every...  Read More >>

What is beauty, and is it a necessary element of art? And what qualifies as a work of art in the first place?...  Read More >>

Ted Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply...  Read More >>