Philosophy: aesthetics books

This book theorizes the baroque as neither a time period nor an artistic style but as a collection of bodily practices...  Read More >>

The Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider...  Read More >>

A close analysis of the writings of Søren Kierkegaard reveals new relationships between the aesthetic and the religious....  Read More >>

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Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics views textual and extra-textual worlds as intimately connected, as forming...  Read More >>

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Bilingual English-German edition of second collection published by the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher Karoline...  Read More >>

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Assesses Merleau-Ponty's contribution to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay between perception and imagination,...  Read More >>

Comprehensive overview of the entire spectrum of works by one of twentieth-century France's most original thinkers....  Read More >>

The vital, carefullycrafted discussion on Wagner’s masterpiece, offering deep insight into both thework itself and...  Read More >>

There is a long history of interest in ‘strangers’ and ‘strangeness’ in the West. Literature lends itself particularly...  Read More >>

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A raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any,...  Read More >>

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Presents contemporary reflections of Chinese and Western philosophers who explore issues of common interest in aesthetics...  Read More >>

Elaborates and defends an account of the experience of self-identity that underwrites the possibility of authenticity...  Read More >>

With a critical eye, Gabriel Rockhill guides you through complex debates in history, politics and aesthetics, giving...  Read More >>

""A fascinating look"" (The Boston Globe) at how we think and talk about beauty in the twenty-first century--and...  Read More >>

The First and Second Comings of capitalism are conceptual shorthands used to capture the radical changes in global...  Read More >>

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What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about...  Read More >>

Leopardi’s Zibaldone has been considered to be a collection of temporary thoughts and impressions lacking coherence...  Read More >>