Philosophy: aesthetics books

Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn...  Read More >>

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This original study examines Jean-François Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored...  Read More >>

Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson investigates a fundamental shift, from the...  Read More >>

A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a contemporary focus, which addresses...  Read More >>

A comprehensive, critical and accessible account of Theodor W. Adorno's materialist-dialectical aesthetic theory...  Read More >>

This is the first collection in English devoted exclusively to pragmatist aesthetics. Its main aim is to employ...  Read More >>

This book provides an literary and psychological definition of human evil by analyzing Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Der...  Read More >>

This book addresses the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the framework of pragmatist aesthetics,...  Read More >>

A Festschrift in Honor of Paolo Valesio on his 70th birthday held at Stony Brook University, April 23, 2010  Read More >>

Decentring the Avant-Garde presents a collection of articles dealing with the topography of the avant-garde. The...  Read More >>

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Art’s Undoing is about radical aestheticism, the term that best describes a recurring event in some of the most...  Read More >>

Art’s Undoing is about radical aestheticism, the term that best describes a recurring event in some of the most...  Read More >>

Nesta coletanea, a semiotica peirceana e a grande estrela. Ela serve de referencial teorico para analises diversas,...  Read More >>

In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant s body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning...  Read More >>

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility -...  Read More >>

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Auch der vormoderne Mittel- und Nordeuropäer ist als „homo ludens“ vorzustellen. So begegnen uns verschiedenste...  Read More >>

Wolfgang Krause was one of the founders of German-language runology. The study of runes can uncover clues about...  Read More >>

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Cothey gives a concise and systematic account of the leading philosophical ideas about art and aesthetics from ancient...  Read More >>

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Bringing some of the insights of modern critical theory to bear on Pound's activities as a literary critics, K.K....  Read More >>

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