Philosophy: aesthetics books

The Concept of the Interesting portrays the artistic theories and life-view of Søren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous...  Read More >>

A Primer on Theatre and Aesthetics explores the philosophy of arts from the Ancient Greeks to our contemporary world....  Read More >>

In Between the Lines: A Philosophy of Theatre, theatre theorist, Michael Y. Bennett offers a systematic account...  Read More >>

The world contains many books. The best books contain many worlds. It is up to the reader to decide whether Bacchus...  Read More >>

This volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series. Iris Murdoch and...  Read More >>

Tracing embodied transformation in the context of Gaga, the Israeli dance improvisation practice, this book demystifies...  Read More >>

In his influential essay “Provisional Painting,” Raphael Rubinstein applied the term “provisional” to contemporary...  Read More >>

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. X-rays...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a series of cutting-edge studies on significant controversies and prize essay contests...  Read More >>

This book examines Chinese traditional poetry with an emphasis on the sources of pleasure in creating and enjoying...  Read More >>

The extensive oeuvre of Carl Christian Erhard Schmid (1761-1812) has been largely overlooked in research on the...  Read More >>

A practical account of Hegel's theory of the sublime as a critique of Kant's dualism, by revisiting his early philosophy...  Read More >>

Examining the interplay between being and doing, the text delves into beauty in nature, mathematics, and art via...  Read More >>

Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual aspires to contribute responses to old research questions and to pose new...  Read More >>

Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide is the first interdisciplinary reference resource which authoritatively...  Read More >>

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Conjunctive Theory: Mental Imagery in the Arts and Sciences delves deeply into the enduring philosophical questions...  Read More >>

""A collection of essays by theologians of color demonstrating the methods and possibilities of theopoetics""--...  Read More >>

Unter Zuhilfenahme des Schwarzlichts lässt dieses Buch Dich Wahrheiten erkennen, welche ansonsten verborgen sind!...  Read More >>

Drawing on twenty-first-century French-language literature, this study shows how literature can not only serve as...  Read More >>

This book orchestrates a convergence of two discourses from the 1960s—Nelson Goodman’s aesthetic theory on one side,...  Read More >>

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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s lifework has been studied through the lens of queer studies, film studies, poetry, and many...  Read More >>

This book challenges the common understanding of landscape and aesthetics as disengaged and demonstrates how uniting...  Read More >>

This book offers a theory of ekphrasis—the literary description of an artwork—from the perspective of Visual Culture...  Read More >>