Philosophy: aesthetics books

Even those who take themselves to be breaking from tradition—from the metaphysical tradition of philosophy, from...  Read More >>

This book marks the centenary of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain by critically re-examining the established interpretation...  Read More >>

By challenging many of the assumptions, misguided presuppositions and even legends that have surrounded the legacy...  Read More >>

This anthology fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue between the mathematical and artistic approaches in the field...  Read More >>

This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art. In particular,...  Read More >>

Architecture and Control addresses the urgent question residing at the intersection of architectural and cultural...  Read More >>

Although Auden has often been hailed as the twentieth century's master of metre and most outstanding practitioner...  Read More >>

A collection of new essays on the philosophy of theatre and the philosophy of drama, combining historical perspectives...  Read More >>

This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore...  Read More >>

A fascinating rectification for the distortion of technical necessity in Western Society due to unbridled instrumental...  Read More >>

This book explores philosophical thinking that refuses the tragic model of thought, by turning instead to comedy....  Read More >>

An aesthetic and phenomenological account of feelings.  Read More >>

Explores the science and creative process behind Poe's cosmological treatise.  Read More >>

Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven...  Read More >>

Develops the sustained, relational, dynamic, and reflective attention demanded by Gertrude Stein's novel into a...  Read More >>

In the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, legendary furniture craftsman and teacher Gary Rogowski...  Read More >>

Women's Experimental Writing considers six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes...  Read More >>

The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice investigates the widely debated, deeply flawed yet influential concept...  Read More >>

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The book shows the various aspects of understanding cognitive characteristics of aesthetic experience. The authors...  Read More >>

Returning to the Greek understanding of art to rethink its capacities, Creation and the Function of Art focuses...  Read More >>

Offering an ambitious study of the aesthetics of violence across art, literature, film and theatre, this volume...  Read More >>

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