Philosophy: aesthetics books

This book challenges the dominant expertise professionalism rationale for music education by responding to the call...  Read More >>

"""The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics"" by Vernon Lee is a groundbreaking exploration into...  Read More >>

"Le Sentiment du Beau et le Sentiment Po�tique"" est un ouvrage qui explore les concepts du sentiment de la beaut�...  Read More >>

A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno’s work as a critique animated by happiness.   Theodor Adorno is...  Read More >>

New Critical Nostalgia explores literary study’s nostalgic attachments to its past by recasting an essential episode...  Read More >>

This volume delves into the semantics and resistances of material and uses mediality to draw out the central aesthetic...  Read More >>

This book provides a thorough analysis focused on the sound expression produced by human-crafted musical instrument...  Read More >>

Are you yearning for deep joy and the gift of serenity and contentment? Look no further than STOICISM, a philosophy...  Read More >>

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Imagination will remain a mystery--we will not be able to explain imagination--until we can break it into parts...  Read More >>

Taste and Experience in Eighteenth Century Aesthetics acknowledges theories of taste, beauty, the fine arts, genius,...  Read More >>

What is the future of conceptualism? What expressions can it take in the 21st century? Is there a new role for aesthetic...  Read More >>

This book offers a new definition of metaphor—as an ontological and visual construction, whose roots are external...  Read More >>

Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun...  Read More >>

In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger’s philosophy of art to include his ontological account...  Read More >>

How do words and images function hermeneutically? How does hermeneutic practice work? Answering these questions...  Read More >>

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Wabi-Sabi ist eine Perspektive, die auf der Akzeptanz von Unvollkommenheit und Vergänglichkeit basiert. Es hat seinen...  Read More >>

This Element explores examples of translation as both a norm-breaking and world-making activity in the works of...  Read More >>

This Element explores examples of translation as both a norm-breaking and world-making activity in the works of...  Read More >>

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This book gathers an interdisciplinary group of thinkers to ask if intersubjective acts of relating can be transferred...  Read More >>

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This book examines these sublime linkages in a comparative and interdisciplinary way. Engaging and intersectional,...  Read More >>

This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate...  Read More >>