Philosophy: aesthetics books

Das grundlegende Ziel dieser Abhandlung ist es, die widersprüchliche Begriffsbildung der Ironie in Søren Kierkegaards...  Read More >>

In Death-Devoted Heart Roger Scruton argues that Tristan und Isolde has profound religious meaning. Blending philosophy,...  Read More >>

"This six-volume set examines the relationship between aesthetics and religion in 19th-century Britain. The material,...  Read More >>

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Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the...  Read More >>

Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the...  Read More >>

Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including...  Read More >>

"Karl Popper behandelt und kritisiert in diesem Buch zwar vordergründig den Historizismus, das heißt die Lehre,...  Read More >>

"Karl Popper behandelt und kritisiert in diesem Buch zwar vordergründig den Historizismus, das heißt die Lehre,...  Read More >>

Iyer argues for the transformative potential for philosophy and political practice of the thought of Maurice Blanchot....  Read More >>

Essential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology.  Read More >>

Essential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology.  Read More >>

Drawing on historical and critical text studies, the author analyzes decisive factors of the relationship between...  Read More >>

The aesthetic has come to be judged inadequate to literary criticism. It has been attacked for promoting class-based...  Read More >>

The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is one of the most authoritative surveys of the central issues in contemporary...  Read More >>

This brilliant, penetrating, and ambitious book by a well-known literary theorist studies the complex relationship...  Read More >>

A survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. It features eighteen freshly commissioned papers...  Read More >>

This work studies the complex relationship between the emotions on the one side and literary works and paintings...  Read More >>

* Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts. * Offers a provocative view...  Read More >>

Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities...  Read More >>

Um den Charakter des Sammelbandes als programmatischem Auftakt zur Schriftenreihe herauszustellen, ersetzt im Folgenden...  Read More >>

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's also in the language we use and everywhere in the world around...  Read More >>

Art and its Shadow is an extraordinary analysis of the state and meaning of contemporary art and film. Ranging across...  Read More >>

This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of...  Read More >>

In this study, Alan Paskow first asks why fictional characters, such as Hamlet and Anna Karenina, matter to us and...  Read More >>