Philosophy: aesthetics books

A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann(1717-68).  Read More >>

Addresses several questions regarding sense and the senses in art and aesthetics. This book draws upon a wide range...  Read More >>

Sustaining Loss explores the uncanny, traumatic weaving together of the living and the dead in art, and the morbid...  Read More >>

Eleve d'Alban Berg, ardent defenseur de la seconde Ecole de Vienne, T-W Adorno execrait le jazz. Cette mode intemporelle...  Read More >>

Sustaining Loss explores the uncanny, traumatic weaving together of the living and the dead in art, and the morbid...  Read More >>

Papers presented at a workshop held by the Frankfurter DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich ""Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher...  Read More >>

Sind wir zu natürlicher oder politischer Feindschaft unvermeidlich verurteilt? Der vorliegende Band zeigt, dass...  Read More >>

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Friedrich-Schiller-Universiteat Jena, 1998.  Read More >>

This text explores art, literature, politics, and philosophy to illuminate how the concept and experience of beauty...  Read More >>

These essays focus on Russell's positions on the key issues of nuclear war, peace, and language. The contributors...  Read More >>

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Ever since the renaissance, the female body has been a primary symbol of artistic beauty in the West. With the advent...  Read More >>

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What do we mean when we speak of beauty ? What do we experience? Beauty is no longer the human experience of the...  Read More >>

Interpretation and Construction examines the interpretation of intentional human behavior, focusing primarily on...  Read More >>

Art In Its Time takes a close look at the way in which art has become integral to the everyday 'ordinary' life of...  Read More >>

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The rise of literary theory spawned the rise of anti-aestheticism, so that even for cultural theorists, discussions...  Read More >>

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A philosophical essay in support of the argument that progress in art is both possible and necessary.  Read More >>

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

This volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously...  Read More >>

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