Philosophy: aesthetics books

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 >>

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

This book argues for the relevance, appropriateness, and usefulness of classical historical materialism to the musicological...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the philosophical dimensions of fairy tales from cultures all around the world.  Read More >>

Biological and evolutionary perspectives on voice, genre horror film and literature, music videos, close readings...  Read More >>

What becomes of the sublime today, in a philosophy that discards the old oppositions between body and mind and embeds...  Read More >>

This book considers how art actually works, how the various art forms connect with the world of ordinary human experience....  Read More >>

"The insightful and informative book ""Embracing Wabi-Sabi: Finding Beauty in Imperfection and Simplicity"" delves...  Read More >>

This book is an exploration of original, critical, and creative thinking through the lens of my creative philosophy....  Read More >>