Philosophy: aesthetics books

Sound Pressure reveals how speaker systems mounted in public, employment, military and entertainment environments...  Read More >>

The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual arts In his search for a common...  Read More >>

A classic study of the art of painting and its relationship to reality In this book, tienne Gilson puts forward...  Read More >>

Television series seem to be made of images and sounds just like films, but Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone suggest...  Read More >>

While it is valuable to appreciate Percy as a novelist, Bonanno approaches Percy from the perspective of Continental...  Read More >>

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By surveying historical constructions of childhood, this book explores how representations of the child in visual...  Read More >>

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By surveying historical constructions of childhood, this book explores how representations of the child in visual...  Read More >>

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Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines...  Read More >>

This book is the first collection of essays to offer detailed examinations of the role that close attention to individual...  Read More >>

Synthesizes the work of three titans of mid-century art and critical theory, proposing an aesthetics of the political...  Read More >>

It is sometimes proclaimed that crises generate creative powers. An idea to consider, beyond the banal advertising...  Read More >>

For over fifty years, Peter Blegvad has been collecting quotations about milk, this book gathers these quotations...  Read More >>

Brings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought...  Read More >>

Rodowick takes after the theories of Hannah Arendt and argues that thinking is an art we practice with and for each...  Read More >>

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This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely,...  Read More >>

"In what follows I offer a philosophy of communication at the boundaries of disciplinarity. Philosophy and communication...  Read More >>

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at...  Read More >>

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist...  Read More >>

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of ""carefree wandering,"" deconstruct the puritanism...  Read More >>

First collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini's passion for painting  Read More >>

The Beatles and the Beatlesque address a paradox emanating from The Beatles’ music through a cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>