Philosophy: aesthetics books

This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslick’s influential...  Read More >>

Romantic music aesthetics has often been reduced to tired clichés of ineffable feeling and art for art's sake. This...  Read More >>

Now that cinema is offline and online, the capacity of cinema to relate to philosophy and science has increased....  Read More >>

This book considers the cognitive, behavioural and socio-emotional aspects of autism in relation to music perception,...  Read More >>

This book explores how law can be understood through film by engaging creatively with the intellectual and aesthetic...  Read More >>

This book looks at three different kinds of writing practice - theory-fiction, autofiction/autotheory and art writing...  Read More >>

This edited collection presents the complex theory of kitsch from aesthetic and artistic points of view, transposed...  Read More >>

Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture: An Introduction to Music Criticism offers a clear, hands-on guide for emerging...  Read More >>

Based on the revelation and analysis of the social self-consciousness contained in the individual self-consciousness...  Read More >>

An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines...  Read More >>

Bringing together the latest research and perspectives in the fields of analytic philosophy and theatre studies,...  Read More >>

We tend to think of ourselves using language. What if we thought instead about language working on us, or about...  Read More >>

Analysis of the Traditional Chinese Garden is a seminal resource for the spatial principles and techniques that...  Read More >>

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An outstanding and engaging introduction to a central figure in twentieth-century radical thought, Marcuse is essential...  Read More >>

This outstanding handbook examines the philosophy of disagreement and how it extends to debates in public policy...  Read More >>

Organized around three main schools of thought - critical sociology, symbolic interactionism and social systems...  Read More >>

This book is a study of the performing arts, the body and language. Inspired by contemporary artistic research and...  Read More >>

This book offers a theory of those formal properties of art that are apt to afford strong aesthetic experience –...  Read More >>

This edited volume explores the notion of “artifice” in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century...  Read More >>

The book aims to provide a contemporary individual with an extensive but focused set of examples of kitsch in non-artistic...  Read More >>

This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize winning Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza from...  Read More >>

Humor’s access to truth is privileged both in its depth, even with respect to metaphysics, and also because it establishes...  Read More >>

In this seminal work of Western philosophy, Aristotle focuses on the use of language in persuasive argument. He...  Read More >>

Kant's attempt to establish the principles behind the faculty of judgment remains one of the most important works...  Read More >>