Philosophy: aesthetics books

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility -...  Read More >>

Auch der vormoderne Mittel- und Nordeuropäer ist als „homo ludens“ vorzustellen. So begegnen uns verschiedenste...  Read More >>

Santayana at 150: International Interpretations is an anthology gathering seventeen scholar’s essays on the thought...  Read More >>

Wolfgang Krause was one of the founders of German-language runology. The study of runes can uncover clues about...  Read More >>

First published in 1927, Science and Philosophy: And Other Essays is a collection of individual papers written by...  Read More >>

Cothey gives a concise and systematic account of the leading philosophical ideas about art and aesthetics from ancient...  Read More >>

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Bringing some of the insights of modern critical theory to bear on Pound's activities as a literary critics, K.K....  Read More >>

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"No detailed description available for ""The Transformation of Nature in Art""."  Read More >>

Johann Christoph Gottsched is one of the key figures in the early German enlightenment. This volume covers the entire...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant's great work on aesthetics, Critique of Judgement, argues that there is an objective quality to beauty...  Read More >>

The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking...  Read More >>

Arthur Danto is the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and the most influential...  Read More >>

Looks at gender and queer theories through lenses that are simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, ""American""...  Read More >>

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Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques...  Read More >>

Above the dogmatic ideologies and utopias that have proved illusory, there is a resurgence of ideals of/for humanity...  Read More >>

This book describes the centrality of trauma to Freud’s thought, the moments of its apparent abandonment and later...  Read More >>

Looks at gender and queer theories through lenses that are simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, ""American""...  Read More >>

This book presents an extended dialogue in essay form between specialists in the work of Moses Mendelssohn, and...  Read More >>

Hans-Georg Gadamer's poetics completely overturns the European aesthetic tradition. This full-length study in English...  Read More >>

Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the...  Read More >>

The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics...  Read More >>