Philosophy: aesthetics books

In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Frederick Turner presents a new theory of aesthetics based on the...  Read More >>

Art is often said to be timeless, but specific works of art always take place within time and maintain a dynamic...  Read More >>

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This volume brings Cassirer's work into the arena of contemporary debates both within and outside of philosophy....  Read More >>

In this volume, Zangwill develops a view of the nature of music and our experience of music that foregrounds the...  Read More >>

In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines the aesthetic and ethical theories of Su Shi, the primary poet,...  Read More >>

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Aesthetics presents a practical study guide to emerging topics and art forms in aesthetics...  Read More >>

Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics...  Read More >>

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Charles Altieri argues for a reconsideration of the Kantian tradition of Idealist ethics, which he believes can...  Read More >>

In the last few decades, literary critics have increasingly drawn insights from cognitive neuroscience to deepen...  Read More >>

To understand why the concept of aesthetic sexuality is important, we must consider the influence of the first...  Read More >>

The Contracts of Fiction invites readers to consider the advantages of describing fictions as governed by a set...  Read More >>

Charles Altieri argues for a reconsideration of the Kantian tradition of Idealist ethics, which he believes can...  Read More >>

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A collection of critical essays by leading scholars on British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott. Essays cover...  Read More >>

Collected here, are five short essays, General Rules, Our Relation to Ourselves, Our Relation to Others, Worldly...  Read More >>

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason is an elaboration on the classical Principle of Sufficient...  Read More >>

The writings of German philosopher ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860) were a profound influence on art and aesthetics,...  Read More >>

Controversial Dialectic is the art of disputing, and of disputing in such a way as to hold one's own, whether one...  Read More >>

In this essay from his final work, Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), the philosopher examines the ways in which life...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, first published in 1785, is an essential contribution...  Read More >>

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