Philosophy: aesthetics

This book argues that Hip Hop's early history in the South Bronx charts a course remarkably similar to the conceptual history of artistic creation presented in Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics.

This book addresses the philosophy of Kant and the poetry of Shelley as historical starting points for a new way of thinking in the modern age.

Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may be called a "e;critical philosophy in the condition of modernism"e;.

This book reviews Iris Murdoch's thought as a whole.

The book is organized around 4 sections.

This unique study opens up a new dimension of Terrence Malick's cinema - its expressions of unseeing and hearing.

The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings.

The theme of this book is the documentarian-what the documentarian is and how we can understand it as a concept.

This book considers how Samuel Beckett's critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry.

This volume presents 25 essays on the philosophy of design.

This book defines theatricality and performativity through metaphors of texture and weaving, drawn mainly from anthropologist Tim Ingold and philosopher Stephen C.

This book offers an examination of the political dimensions of a number of Jean-Luc Godard's films from the 1960s to the present.

This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin's writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin's related writings.

This book discusses the philosophy of influential contemporary philosopher Peter van Inwagen.

In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements.

What if sounds everywhere lavish divine generosity?

This book marks the centenary of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain by critically re-examining the established interpretation of the work.

This Brief brings together empirical accounts that contribute to the investigation of the cultural phenomena of deep personal experiences.

A contribution to the field of theological aesthetics, this book explores the arts in and around the Pentecostal and charismatic renewal movements.

This book is an interdisciplinary project that brings together ideas from aesthetics, philosophy, psychology, and music sociology as an expansion of German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer's theory on the aesthetics of play.

This book explores the aesthetics of the novel from the perspective of Continental European philosophy, presenting a theory on the philosophical definition and importance of the novel as a literary genre.

This book analyzes Walt Disney's impact on entertainment, new media, and consumer culture in terms of a materialist, psychoanalytic approach to fantasy.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading writers and thinkers to provide a critique of a broad range of topics related to Hillsong Church.

This book reflects on the phenomenon of biotechnology and how it affects the body and discusses a number of related issues, including visualization, mediation, and epistemology.

This book provides a comprehensive view of the aesthetic realm, placing the various major artforms within the setting of nature and the built environment as they arise within the field of experience.

This book presents and discusses the varying and seminal role which colour plays in the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy.

The "e;active image"e; refers to the operative nature of images, thus capturing the vast array of "e;actions"e; that images perform.

This book uses an examination of the annual Turner Prize to defend the view that the evaluation of artworks is a reason-based activity, notwithstanding the lack of any agreed criteria for judging excellence in art.

This book examines post-war surrealist cinema in relation to surrealism's change in direction towards myth and magic following World War II.

This book offers a new approach to film studies by showing how our brains use our interpretations of various other films in order to understand Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

This book explores the relationships between how the body appears and feels in everyday life through aesthetics.

This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory.

This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world.

This book examines evangelical dieting and fitness programs and provides a systematic approach of this diverse field with its wide variety of programs.

This book theorizes the baroque as neither a time period nor an artistic style but as a collection of bodily practices developed from clashes between governmental discipline and artistic excess, moving between the dramaturgy of Jesuit spiritual exercises, the political theatre-making of Angelo Beolco (aka Ruzzante), and the civic governance of the Venetian Republic at a time of great tumult.

This book deals with philosophical aspects regarding the perception of spatial relationships in two and three-dimensional art.

This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts:  first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and second, Carthusian studies treating fragmentary wall paintings in the Carthusian monastery near Coventry; the devotional images in the Carthusian Miscellany; and meditation for "e;simple souls"e; in the Carthusian Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ.

In this book, Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-'n'-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value.

This edited monograph provides a compelling analysis of the interplay between neuroscience and aesthetics.

This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating.

This book investigates the significance of Wittgenstein's philosophy for aesthetic understanding.

This book explores the intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination, in light of the findings of recent neurocognitive and empirical research, with the aim to lay a groundwork for an empirically informed aesthetics of dreaming.

This is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examines the historical, political, and social significance of 9/11.

In this book, perspectives in psychology, aesthetics, history and philosophy are drawn upon to survey the value given to sad music by human societies throughout history and today.

This book presents a pioneering critical study of Complicite's work throughout the years.

This book is about the interaction between literary studies and the philosophy of literature.

This volume is devoted to exploring a subject which,on the surface, might appear to be just a trending topic.

The essays in this book respond to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's recent call to explore the relationship between the evolution of the universe and the process of self-individuation in the ontopoietic unfolding of life.

This book presents a solution to the problem known in philosophical aesthetics as the paradox of ugliness, namely, how an object that is displeasing can retain our attention and be greatly appreciated.