Philosophy: aesthetics books

Examining the work of the Elizabethan playwright, Robert Greene, this book argues that Greene's plays are innovative...  Read More >>

In this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected...  Read More >>

From German idealism onward, Western thinkers have sought to revalue tragedy, invariably converging at one cardinal...  Read More >>

Art has the capacity to shape and alter our identities. It can influence who and what we are. Those who have had...  Read More >>

The book presents five philosophical and axiological studies devoted to the relationship between aesthetics and...  Read More >>

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Drawing on work in contemporary analytic philosophy and Adorno’s normative aesthetic theory, this book aims to show...  Read More >>

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Reprint. Originally published: London: Bristol Classical Press, 1994.  Read More >>

In this unique philosophical anthology 16 authors- including both established feminists and some of today’s most...  Read More >>

Street theatre invades a public space, shakes it up and disappears, but the memory of the disruption haunts the...  Read More >>

This book, spanning the years 1650-1730 in France and England, looks primarily at the history of literary criticism...  Read More >>

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The Sublime Today considers contemporary applications of aesthetic philosophy and earlier theories of the sublime...  Read More >>

Success good, failure bad? Each holds the germ of the other. They are more alike than you think.  Read More >>

Surveys every account of the imagination that has ever been proposed. The author identifies five central types of...  Read More >>

This is the story of how my family and I had to flee from our homeland, Congo, during the war in 1996-97. It is...  Read More >>

Isidor von Sevilla sammelte in seinen Etymologien um 600 vorhandenes Wissen aus historischen und zeitgenössischen...  Read More >>

This book reconceives modern aesthetics by reconstructing its genesis in the eighteenth century, between Baumgarten's...  Read More >>

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This book reconceives modern aesthetics by reconstructing its genesis in the eighteenth century, between Baumgarten's...  Read More >>

Marginal Modernity traces the emergence and dissemination of a new aesthetic paradigm from the periphery to the...  Read More >>

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Offers a fresh account of Continental aesthetic thought in the 20th Century. Surveying 100 years of writing on art,...  Read More >>