Philosophy: aesthetics books

​This book examines Leo Tolstoy’s struggle to understand the relationship of God and man, in connection with his...  Read More >>

"""An analysis of the development and range of Adorno's aesthetics, incorporating the influence of other thinkers...  Read More >>

Probing reassessment of the relation between Celan's poetry and Heidegger's thought.  Read More >>

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An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophy At the turn of the eighteenth century,...  Read More >>

This book presents a counter-history to the relentless critique of the humanist subject and authorial agency that...  Read More >>

This book is the first book-length attempt to flesh out and critically assess Jefferson’s views on taste and the...  Read More >>

This stimulating volume brings together an international team of emerging, mid-career, and senior scholars to investigate...  Read More >>

This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals,...  Read More >>

An acclaimed philosopher and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living  Read More >>

An acclaimed philosopher and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism offers 44 cutting-edge chapters—written specifically for this volume by an...  Read More >>

Nietzsche and Irish Modernism deftly traces the circulation of the German philosopher's ideas in Irish culture during...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the relation between the flow time and poetic speech in drama and rhetoric. It uses examples...  Read More >>

The definitive exploration of aesthetic philosophy and practice on the German Left.  Read More >>

This book explores post-communist thresholds as materializations of a specific crisis of modern European identity...  Read More >>

Being at home or not is typically a matter of being at a place or not, where such a place is carved out of space...  Read More >>

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Challenging existing methodological conceptions of the analytic approach to aesthetics, Jukka Mikkonen brings together...  Read More >>

​This book, itself a study of two books on the Baroque, proposes a pair of related theses: one interpretive, the...  Read More >>

"""A fast-paced tour through the history of the skateboard, from a surfer fad to a public nuisance to an Olympic...  Read More >>

Paul Thom argues that opera is a set of practices framed by the concepts of work, interpretation, performance, and...  Read More >>

This bookoffers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer’s reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines...  Read More >>

This book presents new research on the crucial role that imagination plays in contemporary philosophy of fiction....  Read More >>

Genealogy of one of the most ancient and influential concepts in Western thought: Mimesis  Read More >>