Philosophy: aesthetics books

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized...  Read More >>

Only Imagine offers a new theory of fictional content. Kathleen Stock argues for a controversial view known as 'extreme...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive view of the aesthetic realm, placing the various major artforms within the setting...  Read More >>

The book traces the literary journey that Proust’s work made to China and back by means of translation, intertextual...  Read More >>

""The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as...  Read More >>

Santiago Zabala declares that in an age where the greatest emergency is the absence of emergency, contemporary art's...  Read More >>

This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory. It focuses on the conceptual connections between...  Read More >>

""Alcibiades attempted to seduce Socrates, he wanted to make him, and in the most openly avowed way possible, into...  Read More >>

Das Internationale Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik repräsentiert eine der Hauptströmungen in der Philosophie der Gegenwart...  Read More >>

""All The Living Things"" pairs words and images in an exploration of associative meanings addressing art, philosophy,...  Read More >>

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Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized...  Read More >>

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Only Imagine offers a theory of fictional content or, as it is sometimes known, 'fictional truth'. The theory of...  Read More >>

These probing interpretations of the nature of phenomenology, the philosophy of art, history, and politics, are...  Read More >>

These probing interpretations of the nature of phenomenology, the philosophy of art, history, and politics, are...  Read More >>

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

This 1913 volume explores the philosophical significance of the concepts of beauty and aesthetic preference.  Read More >>

In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty...  Read More >>

Specifically engaging with contemporary art examples, this title offers a comprehensive introduction designed to...  Read More >>

The relevance of painting has been questioned many times over the last century, by the arrival of photography, installation...  Read More >>

Specifically engaging with contemporary art examples, this title offers a comprehensive introduction designed to...  Read More >>

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Applies the principles of process philosophy and Deleuzian film aesthetics to animation as a genre and medium.  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>