Philosophy: aesthetics books

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Mimesis, Expression, Construction brings Fredric Jameson's famous Duke University seminar on Adorno's Aesthetic...  Read More >>

This process does not properly imply a destruction of image, but rather a withdrawal of image from the realm of...  Read More >>

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'Realism' is contrasted by its supposed opponent, anti-realism. Markus Schreiber's critical inquiry deals with selected...  Read More >>

David Davies examines the ontology of multiple artworks, such as books and musical performances. He argues against...  Read More >>

A philosophical exploration of aesthetic experience during bereavement. In Aesthetics of Grief and Mourning, philosopher...  Read More >>

The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close...  Read More >>

""This book traces allusions to smell in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political economy by probing the key question:...  Read More >>

This volume, the first to tackle Heidegger and music, features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators,...  Read More >>

This is the second volume in a three-volume work that explores the influence of G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophical thinking...  Read More >>

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences...  Read More >>

Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema.  Read More >>

Understanding the neural underpinnings of emotion enables a re-imagining of traditional aesthetics in which landscape...  Read More >>

Drawing on an extensive yet concise review of the history of cross-cultural aesthetics, the volume presents the...  Read More >>

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Drawing on an extensive yet concise review of the history of cross-cultural aesthetics, the volume presents the...  Read More >>

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in...  Read More >>

Art and Entertainment: A Philosophical Exploration will appeal to those working in art and aesthetics, and those...  Read More >>

Art and Entertainment: A Philosophical Exploration will appeal to those working in art and aesthetics, and those...  Read More >>

The contributors converge on the intersection of New Materialism, Media Studies and Cultural Theory and offer speculative...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary perspective on the origin and significance of the numeral zero. Over 40 international scholars...  Read More >>

When you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? Semi-Detached delves into this state...  Read More >>

This book explores how aquatic environments are as networked together by algae as the terrestrial world is by plants....  Read More >>