Philosophy: aesthetics

This volume collects seventeen new essays by well-established and junior scholars on the philosophical relevance of metaxological philosophy and its main proponent, William Desmond.

Was ist Wahnsinn und was ist Kunst?

This monograph presents new ideas in nomic truth approximation.

This monograph presents new ideas in nomic truth approximation.

This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley Cavell's lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic understanding.

This book explores the possibility of philosophical praxis by weaving an ontological thread through four principal thinkers: Heidegger, Schelling, Goethe, and Heraclitus.

This book interrogates the relation between film spectatorship and film theory in order to criticise some of the disciplinary and authoritarian assumptions of 1970s apparatus theory, without dismissing its core political concerns.

This is the first volume devoted to the topic of dance and quality of life.

This book focuses on a central notion in Theodor.

This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy.

This book examines the little understood end-of-art theses of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Danto.

This book discusses the elusive centrality of silence in modern literature and philosophy, focusing on the writing and theory of Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes, the prose of Samuel Beckett, and the poetry of Wallace Stevens.

This book provides a critical introduction to Francois Laruelle's writings on photography, with a particular focus on his two most important books on photography: The Concept of Non-Photography and Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics.

This book explores the relationship between cultural psychology and aesthetics, by integrating the historical, theoretical and phenomenological perspectives.

This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us.

This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century.

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 comprehensive Handbook offers a leading-edge yet accessible guide to the most important facets of Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophical system, the last true system of German philosophy.

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.