Philosophy: aesthetics books

This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations,...  Read More >>

This title provides a systematic examination of the philosophy of Chinese art, exploring the peculiarity of artistic...  Read More >>

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus.  Read More >>

Thinking about Science, Relecting on Art is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between the...  Read More >>

An outstanding reference source to this subject and the first collection of its kind. Essential reading for students...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Shakespeare is essential reading for students of aesthetics, philosophy...  Read More >>

Beginning with an introduction and biography of Sartre, this book comprises 42 chapters covering all the major aspects...  Read More >>

This book investigates key issues such as relation between atmospheres & moods, how atmospheres define psychopathological...  Read More >>

Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks....  Read More >>

This book addresses a prominent group of virtues and vices as portrayed in popular films to further our understanding...  Read More >>

""An innovative reading of Baudelaire's poetry and criticism in dialogue with the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno""--...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Kierkegaard's work, not only placing it in its historical context but...  Read More >>

Reconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy...  Read More >>

"In this study I argue that paradox or paradoxicality in Seneca's works and the Epistulae Morales in particular...  Read More >>

"Recently, many social and political philosophers have expressed doubts about an ""ideal theory"" of a perfectly...  Read More >>

This book features writing by 17 authors from Germany and from African and Latin American countries on highly diverse...  Read More >>

Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics,...  Read More >>

This thesis is concerned with the themes of individuality and relational connections between one and other. It starts...  Read More >>

"Of all of the things that seem intuitive and immediate to us, the ""thing"" is a choice example - so choice, in...  Read More >>

This book presents a skeptical eliminativist philosophy of race and the theory of racelessness, a methodological...  Read More >>

"I argue for the basic continuity of Plato's account of causation, from the Forms-asaitiai hypothesis of his middle...  Read More >>

Only in his Statesman does Plato present a philosopher of the caliber of the Eleatic Stranger giving a non-Socratic...  Read More >>

Many commentators on the work of Martin Heidegger think that Heidegger neglects ethics. The standard criticism is...  Read More >>

Imagine a world where there are not enough resources to meet basic human needs. Imagine a world without enough food...  Read More >>

People have always looked to the sky for inspiration, imagining a world that is above our own. Looking at the stars...  Read More >>