Philosophy: aesthetics books

The great philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist masterfully offers his fascinating outline of Aesthetics Theory....  Read More >>

"This work collects and groups, from four volumes of Genet's ""Oeuvres completes"", his writings on art and aesthetic...  Read More >>

The interest in aesthetics in Philosophy, Literary and Cultural Studies is growing rapidly. 'The new aestheticism'...  Read More >>

With each section beginning with a short introductory essay summarizing Brecht's thought in the relevant year, this...  Read More >>

Expression Beyond Representation: On Aisthesis And Esthetics in Merleau-Ponty  Read More >>

This new, completely revised and re-written edition of Aesthetics and subjectivity brings up to date the original...  Read More >>

"When the ""Mona Lisa"" was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 countless people flocked to see the empty space where...  Read More >>

Explores the prevalent notion of art as transcending its historical moment and argues that art cannot be separated...  Read More >>

Explores the prevalent notion of art as transcending its historical moment and argues that art cannot be separated...  Read More >>

This book analyzes a range of texts that seek, in different ways, to represent ""the people."" Ranciere approaches...  Read More >>

This book analyzes a range of texts that seek, in different ways, to represent ""the people."" Ranciere approaches...  Read More >>

Reissued with substantial new material, this is a study of the aesthetic theory of the great 18th-century philosopher...  Read More >>

"How ""beauty"" in nature is understood and appreciated"  Read More >>

Offering an account of the German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self, this text looks at...  Read More >>

Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts is the first comprehensive collection of papers by philosophers examining the...  Read More >>

"How ""beauty"" in nature is understood and appreciated"  Read More >>

Seit geraumer Zeit versteht die Wissenschaftssoziologie die Erzeugung und Verbreitung von Wissen als ein Kontinuum,...  Read More >>

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Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy, art...  Read More >>

This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic...  Read More >>

This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics...  Read More >>

Amajor shift in critical attitudes toward the arts took place in the eighteenth century  Read More >>

A serious look at the meaning of laughter through the ages  Read More >>

This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics...  Read More >>

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Humboldt-Universiteat zu Berlin, 1999.  Read More >>