Philosophy: aesthetics books

and, second, that we should therefore defend the view that the meaning of artworks can be changed by later events...  Read More >>

Accessible and scholarly, this classic book considers the underlying philosophy and the aesthetics of Chinese art...  Read More >>

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A philosophical inquiry into the strengths and weaknesses of theism and naturalism in accounting for the emergence...  Read More >>

Reality Hunger questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap,...  Read More >>

This book explores the concept of creativity. Is creativity exemplified by works of art? Or, is creativity exemplified...  Read More >>

Mit diesem vierbändigen Werk zur Geschichte der ästhetischen Bildung wird eine schmerzliche Lücke in der Geschichte...  Read More >>

The philosophical thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein continues to have a profound influence that transcends barriers...  Read More >>

Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia captures the excitement of a key period...  Read More >>

A journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics.  Read More >>

The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously...  Read More >>

Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy,...  Read More >>

Synopsis: This book offers an important new perspective on the Western tradition of musical aesthetics through an...  Read More >>

Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art, art history and perceptual psychology, this book places...  Read More >>

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The topic of the present volume is the mysterious ways in which Imaginatio Creatix plays within the human ingrowness...  Read More >>

Although various sections of this work have been published separately in various journals and volumes their separate...  Read More >>

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Disgust is among the strongest of aversions, characterized by involuntary physical recoil and even nausea. Yet paradoxically,...  Read More >>

Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique...  Read More >>

The book is a comprehensive phenomenological study of meanings that are unique to the major visual art forms.  Read More >>

Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art, art history and perceptual psychology, this book places...  Read More >>