Philosophy: aesthetics books

Making Sense utilises art practice as a pro-active way of thinking that helps us to make sense of the world. It...  Read More >>

Das Buch bietet in einführenden Reflexionen eine Auswahl an klassischen und modernen Themen der Ästhetik: Dialektik...  Read More >>

"En este texto de 1764, titulado originalmente ""Observaciones sobre el sentimiento de lo bello y lo sublime"",...  Read More >>

Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a...  Read More >>

It's a platitude - which only a philosopher would dream of denying - that whereas words are connected to what they...  Read More >>

"Was sind Begriff und Wesen der Kunst? Die Frage wird in einander ergänzenden Perspektiven aufgenommen, so dass...  Read More >>

It's a platitude - which only a philosopher would dream of denying - that whereas words are connected to what they...  Read More >>

Welche Wirkung hat Friedrich Schillers Ãsthetik des Schönen und Erhabenen auf das Werk Uwe Johnsons? Die Spannung...  Read More >>

This book argues that the theory of force in Kantian aesthetics and further developed by Walter Benjamin is of decisive...  Read More >>

Literary scholars and poets are like intimate strangers. They owe their closeness to literature and their alienation...  Read More >>

This study examines philosophical questions regarding the limitations of formalism and how they might be overcome....  Read More >>

In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French philospher of science, Gaston Bachelard by...  Read More >>

Summers of Discontent goes to the heart of the arts. It's an examination of why artists create them in the first...  Read More >>

As a new trend in aesthetics appearing concurrently in the West and the East in the last ten years, the aesthetics...  Read More >>

ENCYCLOPEDIA WALKING is the musical meditation of an artist who has spent 30 years on the front lines of rock 'n'...  Read More >>

Julian Young presents Richard Wagner as an important philosopher of art and life, first as a utopian anarchist-communist...  Read More >>

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The first study to unpack American cinema’s long history of representing death  Read More >>

The first study to unpack American cinema’s long history of representing death  Read More >>

Our image of the Roman world is shaped by the writings of Roman statesmen and upper class intellectuals. Yet most...  Read More >>

This beautifully compact book - the combined discourse of a moral philosopher and an architect - provides us with...  Read More >>

On the Art of Poetry By Aristotle Translated By Ingram Bywater Student Edition In the tenth book of the Republic,...  Read More >>

Re-Enchantment of the World advances a critique of consumer capitalism that draws on Freud and Marx to construct...  Read More >>

This book is an original exploration of Deleuze's dynamic philosophies of space, time and language, bringing Deleuze...  Read More >>