Philosophy: aesthetics

Standing at the intersection of criminology and philosophy, this book demonstrates the ways in which mythic movies and television series can provide an understanding of actual crimes and social harms.

This book presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse - roughly from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages - with the following animating questions:What is art?

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

A philosophical exploration of aesthetic experience during bereavement.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music's ineffability.

This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of key African thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Tsenay Serequeberhahn, and Henry Odera Oruka.

This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of key African thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Tsenay Serequeberhahn, and Henry Odera Oruka.

In ›Die Erfindung des Astralkörpers‹ begibt sich der Leser auf eine faszinierende Reise durch die schillernde Welt des metaphysischen Phänomens, das seit Jahrhunderten die menschliche Vorstellungskraft beflügelt – den Astralkörper.

Im Buch ›Die Erfindung des freien Willens‹ taucht der Leser in eine faszinierende Reise durch die Tiefen des menschlichen Bewusstseins ein.

This handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of philosophical thinking about the aesthetics of the natural and human-made environments, exploring the topic's foundations, key ideas, and current debates.

A philosophical exploration of aesthetic experience during bereavement.

Philosophers have discussed art - or artistic practices such as poetry - since ancient times.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of goods from Portuguese trading voyagesfruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people.

This book presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse - roughly from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages - with the following animating questions:What is art?

"In diesem sehr lesenswerten Buch schlägt Dorothea Winter den großen Bogen vom geschichtlichen Wandel des Kunstbegriffes bis hin zu konkreten Vorschlägen, wie die Möglichkeiten heutiger KI zu einer Demokratisierung von Kunst(schaffen) führen könnten.

An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music's ineffability.

This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment.

Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France is a two-volume work that documents the French reception of G.

Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France is a two-volume work that documents the French reception of G.

Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France is a two-volume work that documents the French reception of G.

Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France is a two-volume work that documents the French reception of G.

This book challenges the dominant expertise professionalism rationale for music education by responding to the call to develop 'ecological awareness' at a time when all professions have a moral obligation to place sustainable and interdependent life at the center.

This book challenges the dominant expertise professionalism rationale for music education by responding to the call to develop 'ecological awareness' at a time when all professions have a moral obligation to place sustainable and interdependent life at the center.

An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and the art of dance and explores what each practice can offer the other.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

This book grapples with what it means when education and democracy are at an end: when these two foundational aspects of our society seem to have reached a culminating point, no longer appearing to produce and make sense amid the crises of our time.

This book grapples with what it means when education and democracy are at an end: when these two foundational aspects of our society seem to have reached a culminating point, no longer appearing to produce and make sense amid the crises of our time.

El proyecto más ambicioso de Max Raphael consistió en refundar la historia del arte como "ciencia empírica", una fórmula con la que se refería a un acceso al arte basado en una concepción experiencial de la visión como acto productivo, que convierte al espectador en émulo del pintor y reconstructor del cuadro.

Our age - saturated with media images and ever-present political crises - traces back to the beginning of Christianity and its messianic vision of the world.

Negative Aesthetics and Political Collapse in Eastern European and Balkan Cinema examines the theme of political collapse in select contemporary Eastern European and Balkan art cinema and documentaries from the late eighties to the present.

Our age - saturated with media images and ever-present political crises - traces back to the beginning of Christianity and its messianic vision of the world.

The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology.

This book examines Clarice Lispector's body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophical questions, which are placed in conversation with a range of theoretical frameworks and approaches.

This book explores the profound and ancient relationship between music and astronomy.

This book explores the profound and ancient relationship between music and astronomy.

This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment.

Is it wrong for a man to buy sex from a woman?

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways.