Philosophy: aesthetics books

This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals,...  Read More >>

This volume brings together contributions that discuss conceptions of utopia that have emerged over the course of...  Read More >>

A theoretical-systematic statement of the problematic of aesthetics in the aftermath of Hegel and his most influential...  Read More >>

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This book situates Ralph Waldo Emerson in the tradition of philosophy as “spiritual exercise”, arguing that the...  Read More >>

René Daumal (b. 1908) is best known for his novel Mt. Analogue, unfinished at his death, in 1944 (other works in...  Read More >>

This book opens with a provocation by Slavoj Zizek to cut ourselves off from the decaying corpse of the old Europe...  Read More >>

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This book explores post-communist thresholds as materializations of a specific crisis of modern European identity...  Read More >>

What is the role of art in modern society? To what extent are the beautiful and the morally good intertwined? Hegel's...  Read More >>

Being at home or not is typically a matter of being at a place or not, where such a place is carved out of space...  Read More >>

​This book, itself a study of two books on the Baroque, proposes a pair of related theses: one interpretive, the...  Read More >>

Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way...  Read More >>

Wer PRO DOMO redet, spricht >für das eigene Haus Aus dem direkten Umfeld von Künstler: innen versuchen sich immer...  Read More >>

The Analysis of Beauty; Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste, is many of the old classic...  Read More >>

Human beings have always made images, and to do so they have developed and refined an enormous range of artistic...  Read More >>

A masterful demonstration of the common orientation of justice, art and liturgy towards worship of the divine.  Read More >>

A masterful demonstration of the common orientation of justice, art and liturgy towards worship of the divine.  Read More >>

Comparing is one of the most essential practices, in our everyday life as well as in science and humanities. In...  Read More >>

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James Goodwin is a poet doing a PhD in English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London with a thesis on...  Read More >>

In Aesthetic Theory, Theodor W. Adorno laid out the final aesthetics of modernity, which, at the same time, is a...  Read More >>