Philosophy: aesthetics books

Gyorgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist...  Read More >>

Wissen, so lautet die unausgesprochene Maxime der Humanisten und Polyhistoren der Fruhen Neuzeit, kann man nie genug...  Read More >>

Was bedeutet es fur eine Regelschule in einem sozialen Brennpunktgebiet mit einem kunstbetonten Schulprofil zu arbeiten?...  Read More >>

Parsons and Carlson examine the relationship between function and aesthetic value. They develop the concept of...  Read More >>

Brings together the important research on how social relations are embodied in artistic and aesthetic products and...  Read More >>

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Explores the connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning that first begun in the classic ""Metaphors...  Read More >>

"The ""Philosophical Enquiry"" is a study of the relationship between strong feelings and forms of art, that considers...  Read More >>

Ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text...  Read More >>

Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of landscape/place studies that explores symbolic and cultural...  Read More >>

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Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching...  Read More >>

Taken from a series of influential lectures delivered by Russell during the second decade of the twentieth century,...  Read More >>

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Eisenstein on the Audiovisual is winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation s And/Or Award for the Best Moving Image...  Read More >>

Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many, Dr. Peter Baofu argues that the current popularity of postmodernism...  Read More >>

As both a literary genre and a view of life, tragedy has from the very beginning spurred a dialogue between poetry...  Read More >>

Taking a philosophical epistemological perspective, this work examines Thomas Mann s The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg),...  Read More >>

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At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises...  Read More >>

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It...  Read More >>

Through a series of essays, Art and Ethical Criticism explores the complex relationship between the arts and morality....  Read More >>