Philosophy: aesthetics books

This collection brings together artists and theoreticians to provide the first anthology of a new field: Practical...  Read More >>

""A cultural and philosophical exploration of the art, science, and business of perfume""--  Read More >>

Addressing objective and subjective views of the self and the world in philosophy and poetry, this collection brings...  Read More >>

How is meaning in our bodies constructed? To what extent is meaning in bodies innate, evolved through biological...  Read More >>

These two essays by Raïssa Maritain-""Sense and Non-Sense in Poetry"" and ""Magic, Poetry, and Mysticism""-comprise...  Read More >>

Apart from the work of God in creation, it's notoriously difficult to explain the presence of beauty in the world...  Read More >>

From the author of the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original...  Read More >>

Mit dem Schonen ist es ganz anders bewandt."" Aber wie ist es mit ihm bewandt? Das, so Kant, kann allein die Analyse...  Read More >>

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Dawn of a New Feeling acknowledges that computers have become a formidable tool for creating art but contends that...  Read More >>

Some artists have an inclination towards violence, with art helping to mitigate or redirect their destructive energy....  Read More >>

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Through a series of accessible conversations with contemporary philosophers, The Things That Really Matter comprehensively...  Read More >>

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fog,...  Read More >>

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Learning to Look is a collection of short and accessible essays on how we experience art. In each chapter, Alva...  Read More >>

Un libro que nace con el estallido de octubre y se termina en...  Read More >>

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Much of contemporary philosophy regards aesthetics as of lesser significance than epistemology, ethics, metaphysics,...  Read More >>

This volume stages a series of encounters between the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and leading scholars of...  Read More >>

Elements of Criticism (1762) is a philosophical work by Henry Home, Lord Kames. Published at the height of his career...  Read More >>

Bethany Henning argues that within the naturalistic strains of American philosophy, there is an implicit theory...  Read More >>

La bellezza e la qualita, il carattere o la virtu di cio che viene presentato come bello e piacevole, dell'essere...  Read More >>

La belleza es la cualidad, el caracter o la virtud de lo que se presenta como bello y agradable, del ser o las cosas...  Read More >>