Philosophy: aesthetics books

The concept of the “work of art” is paradoxically both widely used and often unexamined. This book re-evaluates...  Read More >>

This book argues that philosophical pessimism can offer vital impulses for contemporary cultural studies. Pessimist...  Read More >>

"Artists engage with materiality and value, with subatomic particles and radiation, as well as with the objectification...  Read More >>

This collection contributes to the understanding of the idea of development from Africa-based perspectives. African(ist)...  Read More >>

"""... a timely and enticing excursion into the art of good conversation. Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation...  Read More >>

This book examines the conceptual, existential, and logical conditions under which the philosophical novel can be...  Read More >>

"The notion of harmonia occupies a central position for the early Greeks in their writings on cosmology, society,...  Read More >>

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This dissertation aims to contribute to, and expand upon, two emergent movements in philosophy and cognitive science....  Read More >>

Truth is in trouble. In response, this book presents a new conception of truth. It recognizes that prominent philosophers...  Read More >>

Taking a new approach to a relatively underexplored area, this book examines the concept of authenticity and its...  Read More >>

"In his 2006 monograph, A Voice and Nothing More, Mladen Dolar opens his study of the voice with an epigraph from...  Read More >>

The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions...  Read More >>

This book discusses the ethical dimension of the interpretation of texts and events. Its purpose is not to address...  Read More >>

This is an interesting book of conversations, which not only endorses the life and thoughts of Ashok Vajpeyi, but...  Read More >>

Building on recent developments in new modernist studies, the book demonstrates that Nietzsche is a modernist writer...  Read More >>

The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1988 Arthur Schopenhauer’s English Schooling examines the famous German philosopher Arthur...  Read More >>

Aesthetics: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought-Experiments is a teaching-focused resource, which highlights the...  Read More >>

Aesthetics: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought-Experiments is a teaching-focused resource, which highlights the...  Read More >>

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Uncurating Sound performs, across five chapters, a deliberation between art, politics, knowledge and normativity....  Read More >>

"""Explores an object that is both magical and medicinal, that nurtures ancient traditions, that is the object of...  Read More >>

‘Nobody knows how to write’. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the...  Read More >>

"""A discussion of the topics of curation, geography, and material production in the context of sound studies and...  Read More >>