Philosophy: aesthetics books

Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the...  Read More >>

Presents an application of Foucault's ideas to music theory.  Read More >>

Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and reconcieve the key...  Read More >>

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The category of the aesthetic has been accused of promoting class-based ideologies of distinction, of cultivating...  Read More >>

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Noel Carroll, film philosopher, has gathered in this book 18 of his most recent essays on cinema and television...  Read More >>

""Awakening Beauty"" is an unprecedented exposé on the subject of beauty. It is both entertaining and thought provoking,...  Read More >>

In meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine, Keats and other artists, Chretien shows how ""talking hands...  Read More >>

In meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine, Keats and other artists, Chretien shows how ""talking hands...  Read More >>

This concise yet comprehensive introduction to the discipline of western aesthetical philosophy is focused directly...  Read More >>

In three instructive instances—a pair of paintings by Cy Twombly, the problem of doubling the area of a square,...  Read More >>

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Provides a comprehensive account of the significance of this forceful emotion in philosophy, aesthetics, literature,...  Read More >>

Demonstrates the remarkable resurgence of interest in the aesthetic Recent calls for a return to aesthetics occur...  Read More >>

Focuses on the relationship between American pragmatism and ethics. This book elaborates pragmatism's distinctive...  Read More >>

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This anthology provides coverage of the major contributions of analytic philosophy to aesthetics and the philosophy...  Read More >>

In this book Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance...  Read More >>

In a collection of interlocking essays, Shattuck assesses the contributions of modern, primarily French, art and...  Read More >>

Addresses the end of art and the task of metaphysics.  Read More >>

Demonstrates the remarkable resurgence of interest in the aesthetic Recent calls for a return to aesthetics occur...  Read More >>

This text presents an interpretation of the principle of utility in moral and political theory based on the writings...  Read More >>

Clement Greenberg was, and remains, America's most perceptive and influential art critic. These letters form part...  Read More >>

Through an approach which combines theoretical framings of Lee's texts in terms of feminist and cultural criticism...  Read More >>