Philosophy: aesthetics books

Explores the theme of aesthetic agency and its potential for social and political progress.  Read More >>

This book assembles lectures and essays on literature (William Wordsworth, Walter Benjamin, Chinese mountain poetry,...  Read More >>

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Written as a response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper,...  Read More >>

Explores the relation between politics and tradition. This book includes fourteen essays that develop a conception...  Read More >>

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The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues concerning the arts....  Read More >>

The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and...  Read More >>

"What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need ""theater"" in some fundamental...  Read More >>

Examining multiple modes of spatio-temporal and geometric figurations of life, the author explores how relationships...  Read More >>

"The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues concerning the arts....  Read More >>

Das Zeitalter der Ideologien ist vorbei. Günter Grass und Martin Walser als Repräsentanten der Nachkriegsliteratur...  Read More >>

Recovers the lost intellectual, social, and literary history of the belief that the beauty - or ugliness - of the...  Read More >>

Following Martin Heidegger's interpretation of the history of philosophy, this book outlines the ontological conditions...  Read More >>

Unfinished Music explores with subtle insight the uneasy relationship between the finished work and the elusive,...  Read More >>

Interkulturelle Gärten ermöglichen mehr als die Ernte von frischem Gemüse. Sie sind Orte des aktiven Naturzugangs,...  Read More >>

During the 1970s and 1980s the discourse surrounding aesthetics largely disappeared from the study of art history,...  Read More >>

"Discusses the four ""Alien"" movies. The author argues that the sexual significance of the aliens themselves, and...  Read More >>

Eloquent and influential , this 1757 treatise defines the concept of the sublime and explores how interaction with...  Read More >>

From the middle of the 1940s onwards, Sartre became the personification of the committed intellectual, courageously...  Read More >>

The voluminous writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein contain some of the most profound reflections of recent times on...  Read More >>

Revised thesis (doctoral)--Universit'at Rostock, 2006.  Read More >>

During the 1970s and 1980s the discourse surrounding aesthetics largely disappeared from the study of art history,...  Read More >>

Kontingenz ist die Figur des Dritten, zwischen Beliebigkeit und Notwendigkeit, und von eigener asthetischer Relevanz....  Read More >>

Typisch Frau, typisch Mann - was heisst das eigentlich? Weiblichkeit und Mannlichkeit werden nicht allein durch...  Read More >>