Philosophy: aesthetics books

Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living...  Read More >>

At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word—and...  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 >>

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Through the whole history of mankind philosophers have taken pride in being reasonable agents. Bittner, a German...  Read More >>

Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living...  Read More >>

In The Marriage of Aesthetics and Ethics, fifteen authors reflect on the nature of friendship and love and on the...  Read More >>

Die AutorInnen dieses Sammelbandes widmen sich zum einen empirischen Erhebungen zur kulturellen Infra- und Angebotsstruktur...  Read More >>

The architects of absolute music (Hanslick, Schopenhauer, and others) held that it is precisely because instrumental...  Read More >>

In this important new book, leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship...  Read More >>

In this important new book, leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship...  Read More >>

Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination  Read More >>

To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features...  Read More >>

In Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction, Jeanette Bicknell explores philosophical questions that have...  Read More >>

By concentrating on Sam Shepard's visual aesthetics, Emma Creedon argues that a consideration of Shepard's plays...  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 >>

What makes advances in experience possible? Does this question demand a metaphysical, fundamentally epistemological,...  Read More >>

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The book proposes a set of original contributions in research areas shared by planning theory, architectural research,...  Read More >>

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The sublime has been much discussed since Longinus's ancient treatise, On Sublime Writing. Since then, it has been...  Read More >>

This book offers a compelling account of the evolution of sensibility, weaving together Darwinian and biosemiotic...  Read More >>

The late Preston H. Epps, author of GREEK LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION and THOUGHTS FROM THE GREEKS, analyzes the POETICS...  Read More >>