Philosophy: aesthetics books

The contemporary media landscape might be described in simple terms as a digital terrain where real and virtual...  Read More >>

Building on the growing recognition and critical acclaim of volumes 1 and 2 of Violence, Desire, and the Sacred,...  Read More >>

Media pervade and saturate the world around us. From the proliferation of social media, to crowdsourcing, big data,...  Read More >>

""About how the manipulation of human hair holds fascinating symbolic meanings and provokes profound visceral impacts...  Read More >>

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Media pervade and saturate the world around us. From the proliferation of social media, to crowdsourcing, big data,...  Read More >>

Rohmer is one of the most popular French directors of the second half of the 20th century, one of the members of...  Read More >>

Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines—including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies—have...  Read More >>

The Crafting of Grief focuses on conversations that help people chart their own path through grief.  Read More >>

The Crafting of Grief focuses on conversations that help people chart their own path through grief.  Read More >>

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With a full introduction and textual commentary, this volume introduces William H. Ferris’s The African Abroad,...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories...  Read More >>

This book presents Rousseau’s normative account of truthseeking, his account of what human beings must do if they...  Read More >>

The Psychology of Beauty is a classic aesthetics essay by Ethel D. Puffer. The human being who thrills to the experience...  Read More >>

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

With a full introduction and textual commentary, this volume introduces William H. Ferris’s The African Abroad,...  Read More >>

Provides a much needed philosophical analysis of the ethical implications of the need to eat and the role that food...  Read More >>

This volume contains sixteen original essays on the aesthetics of the body and bodily experience. Contributors in...  Read More >>

Der Band versammelt Vorträge, die auf der 4. Jahrestagung der Carl-Stumpf-Gesellschaft gehalten wurden. Er enthält...  Read More >>

Schweppenhäuser (1928-2015) gehörte zum engsten Kreis um Adorno und Horkheimer, führte die kritische Theorie als...  Read More >>

The writings of German philosopher ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860) were a profound influence on art and aesthetics,...  Read More >>

"The International Yearbook for Hermeneutics represents one of the prominent currents in contemporary philosophy...  Read More >>

Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within...  Read More >>

Die Autorin untersucht kritisch die als konventionell geltende Ästhetik Friedrich Theodor Vischers und seine epigonale...  Read More >>