Philosophy: aesthetics books

"In the summer of 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley pulled himself away from a flurry of other projects to devote himself...  Read More >>

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"In the summer of 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley pulled himself away from a flurry of other projects to devote himself...  Read More >>

Aristotle's much-translated On Poetics is the earliest and arguably the best treatment that we possess of tragedy...  Read More >>

The concern in this essay is for our age as one suffering an intellectual severance between our response to existential...  Read More >>

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Wilhelm Voßkamp: Einleitung Wissenschaftsbegriff und Wissenschaftskonzeption Lorraine Daston: Neuigkeit, Neugierde,...  Read More >>

Uses the figure of the mad poet to explore the connections between madness and creativity.  Read More >>

Gemeinwohl und Gemeinsinn haben eine normative Dimension, die konkrete Kooperationserwartungen und Solidaritätszumutungen...  Read More >>

Schelling versucht die Allgemeinheit und Notwendigkeit der Erkenntnisse nicht aus der Natur der Dinge, sondern aus...  Read More >>

Allying himself with those who believe that there is room for attention to moral considerations in literary criticism,...  Read More >>

Considering the value of classical music in contemporary society, this text argues that it is distinctive because...  Read More >>

Ästhetik ist längst nicht mehr die sterile Lehre vom Ideal-Schönen. Seit altersher hat in praxi neben ihr sowieso...  Read More >>

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Conventionally, the Philistine is assumed to have no value for art and culture, but in this re-evaluation, the authors...  Read More >>

Music is said to be the most autonomous and least representative of all the arts. However, it reflects in many ways...  Read More >>

Musical signs can be studied throughout their history as well as musical semiotics with its own background. Composers...  Read More >>

A paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aesthetics. How can art's surface meanings and qualities be...  Read More >>

A paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aesthetics. How can art's surface meanings and qualities be...  Read More >>

Egoismus wie Genuß scheinen heutzutage zunächst ichbezogen und daher asozial; Erfahren und Erkennen, Genießen und...  Read More >>

In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high...  Read More >>

In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high...  Read More >>

Uses the figure of the mad poet to explore the connections between madness and creativity.  Read More >>

Stories of the Academy looks at relationships between women entering the ranks of faculty in higher education and...  Read More >>

Japanese gardens are fascinating expressions of landscape art. This volume delves into questions of beauty and ideas...  Read More >>