Philosophy: aesthetics books

Since the Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series (KSMS) was first published in 1997, it has served as the authoritative...  Read More >>

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This wide-ranging survey, spanning four centuries, illuminates shifting perceptions of female beauty through works...  Read More >>

Jacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic...  Read More >>

This publication brings together eminent philosophers to discuss the inter-dependence of critical communities and...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them...  Read More >>

This book explores the intersection of improvised music-making and political community-building, with particular...  Read More >>

More manifesto than polite discussion, more call to action than criticism, this book aims squarely at the hyper-institutionalism...  Read More >>

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This publication brings together eminent philosophers to discuss the inter-dependence of critical communities and...  Read More >>

Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls....  Read More >>

This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno)...  Read More >>

This book shows how the Romantics aesthetic views of animality interacted with their moral, scientific and religious...  Read More >>

This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages and cultures of visual studies. It provides the...  Read More >>

The thoroughly contemporary question of the relationship between emotion and reason was debated with such complexity...  Read More >>

Deleuze and the Diagram charts Deleuze's corpus according to aesthetic concepts such as the map, the sketch and...  Read More >>

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment...  Read More >>

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A groundbreaking collection that studies noise not merely as a sonic phenomenon but as an essential component of...  Read More >>

Art has always been important for religion or spirituality. Secular art displayed in museums can also be spiritual,...  Read More >>

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-Inklings- nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste...  Read More >>

Sub-titled How Literature Works this essay by the renown novelist is a provocative and entertaining work of postmodern...  Read More >>

Il libro mira ad offrire una nuova prospettiva dalla quale leggere la dialettica fra cultura pagano-mitica e cultura...  Read More >>