Philosophy: aesthetics books

Abe Kobo (1924–1993) was one of Japan's greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative science...  Read More >>

Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does not have access...  Read More >>

In Five Classics of Fengshui Michael Paton traces the theoretical development of this form of spiritual geography...  Read More >>

What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an...  Read More >>

In Endless Andness, Mieke Bal pioneers a new understanding of the political potential of abstract art which does...  Read More >>

A scholarly study of cinematic emotions, highlighting the relationship between spectator and film, and thematically...  Read More >>

What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theoristMieke Bal engages in an...  Read More >>

Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines...  Read More >>

Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines...  Read More >>

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By fusing biographical, historical, cultural, and literary materials with the insights of psychology and archetypal...  Read More >>

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Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this study presents the first discussion...  Read More >>

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

A disciple of Kant and a significant factor in shaping Nietzsche's thinking, Arthur Schopenhauer worked from the...  Read More >>

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

Since the 18th century, the aesthetics of antiquity have mainly been assessed from the perspective of the Platonic...  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 >>

A collection of essays from one of the great philosophers of the modern era, Arthur Schopenhauer.  Read More >>

THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Theosophical Siftings: A Collection of Essays, by Plotinus . To...  Read More >>

The contributors of this volume examine beauty and aesthetic theory in nature and human society, in the humanities...  Read More >>

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In this book, Mark LeBar develops Virtue Eudaimonism, which brings the philosophy of the ancient Greeks to bear...  Read More >>