Philosophy: aesthetics books

What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled...  Read More >>

The essays in this book respond to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s recent call to explore the relationship between the...  Read More >>

TheUncanny is a Journal that aims to publish texts (in blind and peer reviews) essentially essayistic around various...  Read More >>

In this engaging and original book Abel explains the rise to prominence in Western Music of a new rhythm: Groove....  Read More >>

Ann W. Astell explores the ambiguity of the phrase ""eating beauty."" The phrase evokes the destruction of beauty,...  Read More >>

"Wissenschaftler und Künstler befinden sich gleichermaßen auf der unentwegten Suche nach ""Neuem"". Der Band versammelt...  Read More >>

"Interest in wine has steadily increased in recent years, with people far more sophisticated about wine than they...  Read More >>

In this capstone work of his career, Bruce W. Wilshire builds on William James’s concept of the much-at-once to...  Read More >>

In this capstone work of his career, Bruce W. Wilshire builds on William James’s concept of the much-at-once to...  Read More >>

Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which explore the idea of selfhood as a matter...  Read More >>

After the Avant-Gardes is a rallying call for all those who challenge artistic modernism. This is a collection of...  Read More >>

In his most recent work, the contemporary philosopher Roger Scruton has turned his attention to religion. Although...  Read More >>

Phenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, and the contribution of Merleau-Ponty...  Read More >>

Published in 1896, The Sense of Beauty secured Santayana's reputation as a philosopher and continued to outsell...  Read More >>

In this book Yoram Lubling and Eric Evans offer a Deweyan reconstruction of our philosophical understanding of well-being....  Read More >>

For more than 30 years and until his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida remained one of the most influential contemporary...  Read More >>

For more than 30 years and until his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida remained one of the most influential contemporary...  Read More >>

Discussing the contemporary relevance of the famous Indian epic Mahabharata, this volume imaginatively re-interprets...  Read More >>

"Deutsche Intellektuelle begründeten die historischen Geisteswissenschaften und eine genuin philosophische Anthropologie...  Read More >>

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Der Band untersucht anhand dreier Romane (Henry James: The Ambassadors, Ernst Weiß Die Feuerprobe, Albert Camus:...  Read More >>

The 2nd edition of the Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology updates the original landmark text, providing a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Dwight Furrow examines the contemporary fascination with food and culinary arts not only as global spectacle, but...  Read More >>

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