Philosophy: aesthetics books

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In this new book, Florian Klinger gives readers a basic action-theoretical account of the aesthetic. While normal...  Read More >>

Are artistic engagements evolving, or attracting more attention? The range of artistic protest actions shows how...  Read More >>

A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno’s work as a critique animated by happiness.   Theodor Adorno is...  Read More >>

New Critical Nostalgia explores literary study’s nostalgic attachments to its past by recasting an essential episode...  Read More >>

This volume delves into the semantics and resistances of material and uses mediality to draw out the central aesthetic...  Read More >>

This book provides a thorough analysis focused on the sound expression produced by human-crafted musical instrument...  Read More >>

Who is morally permitted to tell jokes about Jews, Poles, women? Only those in the group? Anyone, since they are...  Read More >>

Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun...  Read More >>

Taste and Experience in Eighteenth Century Aesthetics acknowledges theories of taste, beauty, the fine arts, genius,...  Read More >>

What is the future of conceptualism? What expressions can it take in the 21st century? Is there a new role for aesthetic...  Read More >>

This book offers a new definition of metaphor—as an ontological and visual construction, whose roots are external...  Read More >>

Imagination will remain a mystery--we will not be able to explain imagination--until we can break it into parts...  Read More >>

""In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger's philosophy of art to include his ontological account...  Read More >>

How do words and images function hermeneutically? How does hermeneutic practice work? Answering these questions...  Read More >>

Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun...  Read More >>

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Wabi-Sabi ist eine Perspektive, die auf der Akzeptanz von Unvollkommenheit und Vergänglichkeit basiert. Es hat seinen...  Read More >>

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Chart Your Course For Ascension... Then Let Your Spirit Fly! Unlock your ultimate spiritual potential by removing...  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early...  Read More >>

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This volume brings together essential essays by an important but neglected thinker in early twentieth-century German...  Read More >>

This book gathers an interdisciplinary group of thinkers to ask if intersubjective acts of relating can be transferred...  Read More >>

This book is an exploration of original, critical, and creative thinking through the lens of my creative philosophy....  Read More >>