Philosophy: aesthetics books

The notion of nihilism assumes a prominent place in Nietzsche's thinking during the 1880s. Yet he had already condemned...  Read More >>

Today's artworld experts accept virtually anything as ""art""--from all-black paintings and facsimiles of supermarket...  Read More >>

En plaçant le travail de Richir dans un contexte plus large de la tradition Français de la philosophie, et en évaluant...  Read More >>

This book argues that changes in sensory relationships, often claimed to be symptoms of 21st-century technology,...  Read More >>

Under what conditions does 'sensation' become 'sensational'? In the early nineteenth century murder was a staple...  Read More >>

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Adam Lowenstein argues that Surrealism's encounter with film can help redefine the meaning of cinematic spectatorship...  Read More >>

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Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the...  Read More >>

Regarding Santayana it has been claimed that he lacks a system while contradicting himself in outrageous ways. An...  Read More >>

Leo Bersani s career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields including French studies,...  Read More >>

Whilst aesthetics as a discipline did not exist before the modern age, ancient philosophers give many insights about...  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 >>

The contemporary media landscape might be described in simple terms as a digital terrain where real and virtual...  Read More >>

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What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction? In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation...  Read More >>

Artistic Research Methodology argues for artistic research as a context-aware and historical process that works...  Read More >>

English summary: The use of images has expanded exponentially over the course of the last two centuries. Lambert...  Read More >>

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This volume brings together new work by leading philosophers on emotion and value. They address questions including...  Read More >>

Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and...  Read More >>

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Reinhold Martin's ""Mediators"" is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural,...  Read More >>

The essays deal with the aesthetic and aesthetics; Bourdieu’s critique of aesthetics form and content in the arts,...  Read More >>