Philosophy: aesthetics books

Dreaming is the second part of the trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. It investigates...  Read More >>

Concept Formation is the final part of the trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. It investigates...  Read More >>

The branch of philosophy that focuses on the nature of beauty and taste along with the philosophy of art is called...  Read More >>

This book investigates the ontological state of relations in a unique way. Starting with the notion of system, it...  Read More >>

This collection explores Ranciere's thought along a number of music-historical trajectories, including Italian and...  Read More >>

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Published in 1896, The Sense of Beauty secured Santayana's reputation as a philosopher and continued to outsell...  Read More >>

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A powerful and original statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of ""film imagination"" to our...  Read More >>

The contributors to Somaesthetics and Sport explore our embodied experiences of watching and playing sport, including...  Read More >>

Schoonheid is de kwaliteit, het karakter of de deugd van wat wordt gepresenteerd als mooi en aangenaam, van zijn...  Read More >>

Beauty is the quality, character or virtue of what is presented as beautiful and pleasant, of being or things with...  Read More >>

La beaute est la qualite, le caractere ou la vertu de ce qui est presente comme beau et agreable, d'etre ou de choses...  Read More >>

Schoenheit ist die Qualitat, der Charakter oder die Tugend dessen, was als schoen und angenehm prasentiert wird,...  Read More >>

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

Throughout his work, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno repeatedly invokes the rhinoceros. Taking its cue from one...  Read More >>

Thirteen original essays explore the qualities and challenges of urban life (in Europe, Asia, and the Americas)...  Read More >>

Although Plotinus’ two treatises on beauty could be taken to reflect an evolution in his thought, a careful examination...  Read More >>

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Mark C. Taylor explores the many variations of silence by considering the work of leading visual artists, philosophers,...  Read More >>

This Element demonstrates how landscape paintings of unfamiliar terrains required historical and geological subject...  Read More >>

Gregory Currie defends the view that works of fiction guide the imagination, and then considers whether fiction...  Read More >>

Contemporary art can seem chaotic: sometimes it made of weird things, sometimes it just comprises ideas. Sherri...  Read More >>

Nach wissenschaftstheoretischen und politischen Büchern, die ihn berühmt machten, begann Karl Popper mit der evolutionsgeschichtlichen...  Read More >>