Philosophy: aesthetics books

This book analyzes the role that the physical body plays in foundational Mormon doctrine, and claims that such an...  Read More >>

While much feminist philosophy is enjoying third- and fourth-wave developments and can build on its scholarly roots...  Read More >>

Serendipity and creativity are both broad, widely disputed, and yet consistently popular concepts which are relevant...  Read More >>

Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers...  Read More >>

Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) fährt Auto, erkennt Krebs und sucht Bewerber*innen aus – und das teilweise besser, schneller...  Read More >>

Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language collects together Gadamer's most important untranslated...  Read More >>

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 A critical analysis of contemporary art collections and the value form,...  Read More >>

This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological,...  Read More >>

Artists engage with materiality and value, with subatomic particles and radiation, as well as with the objectification...  Read More >>

This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity...  Read More >>

Phenomenologically speaking, the task of the study is to excavate, listen to, unfold, divulge, and reconstruct the...  Read More >>

Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny takes the philosophy of the body into the field of dance, through the lens of subjectivity...  Read More >>

An outstanding guide and reference source to this important and fascinating topic. Comprising seventy-five chapters...  Read More >>

This edited collection investigates the kinds of philosophical reflection we can undertake in the imaginative worlds...  Read More >>

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Bringing together eight previously published essays by M. W. Rowe and a substantial new study of Larkin, this book...  Read More >>

First published in 1954, The Contemplative Activity analyses our knowledge of aesthetic experience, making the basic...  Read More >>

First published in 1938, An Essay on Critical Appreciation aims to provide a language suited for the explication...  Read More >>

Bridging the gap between cognition and culture, this handbook explores both social scientific and humanities approaches...  Read More >>

""A unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history."" - Publisher’s Weekly ""A...  Read More >>

Explores tensions in aesthetics and art theory between antique figural sculpture experienced in the round and its...  Read More >>

Addressing Jean Rhys’s composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the...  Read More >>

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What ties western art together? This extended essay attempts to distill some of the basic ideas with which artists...  Read More >>

This book is a unique attempt to systematize the latest research on all that music connotes. Musicological reflections...  Read More >>