Philosophy: aesthetics books

Examining how people relate to objects, this book focuses on every day objects and how these objects enter into...  Read More >>

Focusing on comparative aesthetics, this is an anthology of essays, ranging across cultures and time periods as...  Read More >>

How can we design a better world? This book explores utopianism, but a more tentative, temporary, pluralized and...  Read More >>

This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical and creative issues in Western...  Read More >>

A classic of twentieth-century thought, charting how reason regressed back into myth and superstition  Read More >>

Since the late-1980s the rise of the Internet and the emergence of the Networked Society have led to a rapid and...  Read More >>

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

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Since the late-1980s the rise of the Internet and the emergence of the Networked Society have led to a rapid and...  Read More >>

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

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The principal motif that runs throughout The Virtual Point of Freedom is a confrontation with the discourse of freedom,...  Read More >>

Weiss, Propen, and Reid gather a diverse group of scholars to analyze the growing obsolescence of the human-object...  Read More >>

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A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves In Strange Tools:...  Read More >>

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Shows how key metaphors of Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis - splitting, projection, sublimation, identification,...  Read More >>

Darwin and Theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History is a significant contribution to the fields of theory, Darwin...  Read More >>

As far as we know, only human beings have a sense of humour – although chimps might laugh when tickled, and dogs...  Read More >>

This book explores Levinas’ phenomenology of ethical motivation. In this book, the author locates this ethics in...  Read More >>

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By drawing some parallels between the history of ideas and literary discourses of late modernity, this book traces...  Read More >>

Projections of Memory argues that the long-form modernist art film of the twentieth century is more or less the...  Read More >>