Philosophy: aesthetics books

Originally published in 1984, this study deals with a number of influential figures in the European tradition of...  Read More >>

Twentieth-century French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain is arguably one of the most significant contemporary...  Read More >>

"Upward Crashes: Fracture's Topoi: Musil, Kiefer, Darger explores the perception of altitude as a locus of fraction,...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Architecture contains a diverse set of essays in philosophy of architecture. This illustrated...  Read More >>

Disgust is a strong aversion, yet paradoxically it can constitute an appreciative aesthetic response to works of...  Read More >>

From Botticelli to birdsong, Mozart, and the Turner Prize, Roger Scruton explores what it means for something to...  Read More >>

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Disgust is a strong aversion, yet paradoxically it can constitute an appreciative aesthetic response to works of...  Read More >>

Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on in-depth explorations of two intriguing experimental films on Wittgenstein:...  Read More >>

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This book will be important reading for those with an interest in Deleuze, but also in performance arts, film, and...  Read More >>

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What is the nature of aesthetic experience? This title suggests that a genuine aesthetic experience is a perceptual...  Read More >>

A successor to the acclaimed 'Music and Emotion', The Handbook of Music and Emotion provides comprehensive coverage...  Read More >>

"Towards a Genealogy of Spectacle is an exploration of contemporary experience of spectacle in its multiple layers,...  Read More >>

Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts, now in a paperback edition, offers probing studies of the complex structure...  Read More >>

"Tragic writing emerges as a representation of a sacrificial crisis that calls into question the human relation...  Read More >>

John D. Barrow looks at the relationship between the way our understanding of the universe reflects the ways in...  Read More >>

"Seit dreißig Jahren preisen Modelltheoretiker wie Robert Axelrod und David Gauthier das so genannte Gefangenendilemma...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, first published in 1785, is an essential contribution...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, first published in 1785, is an essential contribution...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, first published in 1785, is an essential contribution...  Read More >>

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Antonio Negri is an internationally famous political thinker. The book consists of nine letters on art written...  Read More >>