Philosophy: aesthetics books

How can we understand Foucault's work on ancient philosophy, and its practices of truth-telling and technologies...  Read More >>

J. M. F. Heath reads Clement of Alexandria's Paedagogus alongside modern approaches to the judgement of taste and...  Read More >>

The book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus’ On the Hieratic...  Read More >>

There is a long-standing tradition in philosophy that defines imagination as engaging with things that are not real...  Read More >>

What are the methodological, conceptual, and perceptual conditions under which an artwork is entitled to the status...  Read More >>

Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental...  Read More >>

Through an original interpretation of Hannah Arendt’s historiography, Marcin Moskalewicz reveals an under-acknowledged...  Read More >>

We do politics in, through, and as bodies. All our political activity is inevitably corporeal. Parliamentary debates,...  Read More >>

This imaginative collection invites readers to explore how a broader view of aesthetics can reshape areas like,...  Read More >>

Interrogates how the images of migrants and refugees effect the legitimacy of legal changes in the area of migration...  Read More >>

Muhammad Hasan Askari describes the issue of obscenity in art and literature in this book.  Read More >>

Eleven distinguished authors from philosophy, cultural studies and the arts discuss a wide range of topics including...  Read More >>

All duties are either duties of right that is juridical duties or duties of virtue that is ethical duties. Juridical...  Read More >>

The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain expounds the scene of reading as one...  Read More >>

A summary of the philosophical system developed in the book, The Immaterial Structure of Human Experience which...  Read More >>

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The human person is a truth seeker, and one of the most compelling ways human beings pursue truth is through the...  Read More >>

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This book departs from the concept and practice of “design and technology” and argues that most crises that endanger...  Read More >>

Offering an alternative mode of visual cultural analysis to the prevalent discursive model, this book proposes to...  Read More >>

A brief study of select Western art from Italy's foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was...  Read More >>

Standing at the intersection of criminology and philosophy, this book demonstrates the ways in which mythic movies...  Read More >>

Situated at the intersection of film and media studies, literary theory, and continental philosophy, The Traces...  Read More >>

""Das Erhabene rührt, das Schöne reizt."" - I. Kant ""Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen""...  Read More >>

""Explores the vehicles and robotic extensions of ourselves that we cast out into the solar system to photograph,...  Read More >>