Philosophy: aesthetics

Arguing that Brecht's aesthetic theories are still highly relevant today, and that an appreciation of his theory and theatre is essential to an understanding of modern critical theory, this book examines the influence of Brecht's aesthetic on the pre-eminent materialist critics of the twentieth century: Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Frederic Jameson, Theodor W.

Featuring contributions from Matthew Kieran, Aaron Ridley, Roger Scruton and Mary Mothersill to name but a few, this collection of groundbreaking new papers on aesthetics and ethics, highlights the link between the two subjects.

This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.

This book develops a theory of picture perception and aesthetic response, arguing that images can generate in us a complex pattern of mental changes, or transformations.

This book expounds Kant's Critique of Judgement by interpreting all the details in the light of what Kant himself declares to be his fundamental problem.

This book provides an introduction into the subject of aesthetics and the problems associated with it.

'In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes.

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's also in the language we use and everywhere in the world around us.

This book analyzes the development of Walter Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience of colour.

Arguing that Brecht's aesthetic theories are still highly relevant today, and that an appreciation of his theory and theatre is essential to an understanding of modern critical theory, this book examines the influence of Brecht's aesthetic on the pre-eminent materialist critics of the twentieth century: Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Frederic Jameson, Theodor W.

Featuring contributions from Matthew Kieran, Aaron Ridley, Roger Scruton and Mary Mothersill to name but a few, this collection of groundbreaking new papers on aesthetics and ethics, highlights the link between the two subjects.

Why do painters paint?

Why do painters paint?

This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany.

This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany.

Exploring the rhetorical and phenomenological links between shame and reticence, this book examines the psychology of Shelley's anguished poet-Subject.

Exploring the rhetorical and phenomenological links between shame and reticence, this book examines the psychology of Shelley's anguished poet-Subject.

This study explores the concept of Stimmung in literary and philosophical texts of the modern age.

This study explores the concept of Stimmung in literary and philosophical texts of the modern age.

The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this developing field.

The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this developing field.

This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy.

This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy.

Originally published in 1926, this book develops the Socratic thesis that morality is intelligence, that morality is not a matter of standards, laws and principles but in knowing what we do - in living self-consciously.

The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and distresses, and how contemporary video games can evoke intense emotional reactions.

The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and distresses, and how contemporary video games can evoke intense emotional reactions.

This book outlines a new conception of political aesthetics based on the notion of order as an aesthetic category pertaining to human perception.

This book outlines a new conception of political aesthetics based on the notion of order as an aesthetic category pertaining to human perception.

The third Earl of Shaftesbury had generally been known as the forerunner of the Moral Sense school of philosophers in the eighteenth century.

The third Earl of Shaftesbury had generally been known as the forerunner of the Moral Sense school of philosophers in the eighteenth century.

Trevor Ponech has written a serious and pathbreaking study of how to define non-fiction cinema.

"e;The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy.

Trevor Ponech has written a serious and pathbreaking study of how to define non-fiction cinema.

"e;The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy.

A rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as to discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological, and aesthetic conditions.

Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics.

A filmmaker draws on the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary biology to focus on cinema's visual nature.

In this lovely meditation on ikebana - the Japanese art of flower arranging - Joan Stamm shows us how her twin paths of Buddhist practice and artistic endeavor converge and indeed become thoroughly intertwined.

From a major mind of Buddhism today comes this unique philosophical work, which hearkens back to the classical verse-form, but in a modern voice that speaks directly to the twenty-first century reader and practitioner.

In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human.

In what ways do the artistic avant-garde's representations of the human body reflect the catastrophe of World War I?

Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - is as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping.

Colour, Art and Empire explores the entanglements of visual culture, enchanted technologies, waste, revolution, resistance and otherness.

Guattari Reframed presents a timely and urgent rehabilitation of one of the twentieth century's most engaged and engaging cultural philosophers.

From the 'Monster of Ravenna' to the 'Elephant Man', Myra Hindley and Ted Bundy, the visualisation of 'real', human monsters has always played a part in how society sees itself.

Our world is saturated with images.

Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a celebrity in his own day.

Elizabeth Wilson is one of our most radical cultural critics.

Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, this book engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.

What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists?