Philosophy: aesthetics books

"Tinguely argues that the significance of Kant’s aesthetics lies in its implicit account of intentionality. His...  Read More >>

This volume explores the place of the sublime in contemporary culture and the aesthetic, cultural, and political...  Read More >>

This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that...  Read More >>

This book aims to provide scholars active in television aesthetics with a critical overview of the relevant philosophical...  Read More >>

This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form which necessitates the...  Read More >>

This book offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. Acknowledging both movements’ passion for the...  Read More >>

Offering new and original readings of literature, poetry, and education as interpreted through the conceptual lens...  Read More >>

This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies, foregrounding the many...  Read More >>

This book explores the concept of the end of literature through the lens of Hegel's philosophy of art. In his version...  Read More >>

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This book explores the place of art in the modern world. Engaging with a broad range of theory, the author draws...  Read More >>

These essays reflect on national and transnational legacies of African American activism as an element of artistic...  Read More >>

These essays reflect on national and transnational legacies of African American activism as an element of artistic...  Read More >>

Short essays by Rubem Alves, touching on life, sex, nature, soup, childhood, crime, Brazil, bovine wisdom, magnolias,...  Read More >>

Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion...  Read More >>

This book explores the aesthetics of the novel from the perspective of Continental European philosophy, presenting...  Read More >>

This book explores how four contemporary artists—Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, and Damien Hirst—pursue...  Read More >>

Lacan and the Formulas of Sexuation provides the first critical reading of Lacan’s formulas of sexuation, examining...  Read More >>

Borage Blue is a collection of prose and verse meditations on nature and sensation. Exploring the foliar logic of...  Read More >>

An Adult Coloring Book Based on The Life of Michel Foucault.  Read More >>

RP is a journal of critical theory, philosophy and radical thought, est. 1972. This issue (Winter 2019, 2.06) includes...  Read More >>

"Riven: adjective, literary; alternate past participle of to rive. 1. torn apart 2. broken into pieces, split asunder....  Read More >>

In its four parts (Atmospheric turn?, Senses and Spaces, Subjects and Communities, Aesthetics and Art Theory), this...  Read More >>

This book examines the little understood end-of-art theses of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Danto. Hegel sees the overcoming...  Read More >>

Soccer has long been known as 'the beautiful game.' This multi-disciplinary volume explores the representation of...  Read More >>