Philosophy: aesthetics books

Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida...  Read More >>

Rhythm and Critique presents 12 new essays from a range of specialists to define, contextualise and challenge the...  Read More >>

Aist elkyt shows us that Stoic views about beauty were substantial and compelling.  Read More >>

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

This book considers the Chinese conception of beauty from a historical perspective with regard to its significant...  Read More >>

Alongside the well-researched defamiliarization aesthetics of Russian formalism, a hitherto little-received phenomenological...  Read More >>

The study demonstrates how Nietzsche influenced literature and how his themes were translated into literature. This...  Read More >>

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

This book focuses on piano teachers and the many pains they encounter in their careers. These pains play an essential...  Read More >>

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In drawing upon the work of Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and aligning it with a new trend...  Read More >>

Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, with his work...  Read More >>

""The first book on timbre (or, tone color), and one that covers both classical and popular music""--  Read More >>

Emotional Ethics of The Hunger Games expands the ‘ethical turn’ in Film Studies by analysing emotions as a source...  Read More >>

The 1929 debate between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger in Davos is considered one of the most important intellectual...  Read More >>

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

This book deals with the philosophy of Daya Krishna, an Indian philosopher of the twentieth century.  Read More >>

For the first time, readers are granted access to fifty years of the author's personal writings in this posthumous...  Read More >>

A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humor and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents....  Read More >>

For the first time, readers are granted access to fifty years of the author's personal writings in this posthumous...  Read More >>

What happens when a woman goes online? She becomes a girl.  Read More >>

This book outlines how the protagonists in The Nibelung's Ring, The Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones attempt...  Read More >>

A Arte como aquela valoriza o conflito, a contradicao, a condicao paradoxal da existencia efetiva que nao podera...  Read More >>

This book presents essays that address fundamental issues in social and cultural theory by viewing them through...  Read More >>

This book offers a sustained, interdisciplinary examination of taste. It addresses a range of topics that have been...  Read More >>