Philosophy: aesthetics books

This book presents an extended dialogue in essay form between specialists in the work of Moses Mendelssohn, and...  Read More >>

Deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens,...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Art is a highly accessible introduction to current key issues and debates in aesthetics and philosophy...  Read More >>

Die Ästhetik Friedrich Schillers nimmt im Horizont einer Literatur- und Ideengeschichte der 'Sattelzeit' vor und...  Read More >>

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An investigation of the “occurrent arts” through the concepts of the “semblance” and “lived abstraction.”  Read More >>

The history of aesthetics, like the histories of other sciences, may be treated in a two-fold manner: as the history...  Read More >>

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The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical...  Read More >>

This book undertakes an extensive study of the constellation of two eminent thinkers of post-idealism for the first...  Read More >>

This fascinating spectrum of studies into the various rationalities of our human dealings with life - psychological,...  Read More >>

The Myth of the Twentieth Century (German: Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts) by Alfred Rosenberg, one of...  Read More >>

Offers texts and images that has evolved from papers given at the inaugural Making Sense colloquium, which was held...  Read More >>

Can games be art or is all art a kind of game? A philosophical investigation of play and imaginary things.  Read More >>

Roman Ingarden's very extensive philosophical work in metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, and aesthetics con­ tinues...  Read More >>

This makes it hard to understand the ideas of particular thinkers and sometimes makes it impossible to decide whether...  Read More >>

The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking.  Read More >>

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing...  Read More >>

Questions about the temporality and historicity of knowledge have gained new urgency in the human sciences in recent...  Read More >>

A study of cinematic emotions, highlighting the relationship between spectator and film. Divided into chapters including...  Read More >>

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Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film explores how the experience of viewing Terrence Malick's films enables imaginative...  Read More >>

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What does it mean to think of Western Art music - and the Austro-German contribution to that repertory - as a tradition?...  Read More >>