Philosophy: aesthetics books

The Conversational Enlightenment' traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including...  Read More >>

Why black is more and more the new black? This issue of Viceversa investigates the gap between the huge mass of...  Read More >>

Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European - and, above all, German - Romanticism...  Read More >>

To be used in tandem with any reasonable translation or with the ancient Greek, this book is designed for students....  Read More >>

This manifesto is both a critique and a work of theory. It is a siren, alarm, klaxon to the current status quo within...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Thierry de Duve argues in the first volume of Aesthetics at Large, is as relevant...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Thierry de Duve argues in the first volume of Aesthetics at Large, is as relevant...  Read More >>

"Peirce (pronounced ""purse"") was a logician, and so many of his ideas are couched in terms of formal propositions...  Read More >>

Shifting the focus from human interiority toward the agency of cultural objects, social arrangements and aesthetic...  Read More >>

Hegel’s critique of Early German Romanticism and its theory of irony resonates to the core of his own philosophy...  Read More >>

The relevance of painting has been questioned many times over the last century, by the arrival of photography, installation...  Read More >>

Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like...  Read More >>

Applies the principles of process philosophy and Deleuzian film aesthetics to animation as a genre and medium.  Read More >>

Philosophers analyze the last of the great rock stars.  Read More >>

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While large bodies of scholarship exist on the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Heidegger, this book is...  Read More >>

Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like...  Read More >>

The interdisciplinary French-American thinker René Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the...  Read More >>

Heinrich Heine's role in the formation of Critical Theory has been systematically overlooked in the course of the...  Read More >>

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Being and Insurrection is an unapologetic work of existential philosophy, critical theory and Black liberation discourse...  Read More >>

This book assesses the pivotal role played by the concept of beauty in Italian literature and language in the construction...  Read More >>

This manifesto is both a critique and a work of theory. It is a siren, alarm, klaxon to the current status quo within...  Read More >>

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Claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted by performance, and brings performance theory into dialogue...  Read More >>