Philosophy: aesthetics

This book seeks to establish the relevance of Albert Camus' philosophy and literature to contemporary ethics.

In this volume, Baz offers a wide-ranging discussion of Wittgenstein's remarks on aspect-perception, with special focus on Wittgenstein's method.

Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s rewrites the story of early modernist literature and culture by drawing out the tensions underlying its simultaneous engagement with Decadence and Symbolism, the unsustainable combination of this world and the other.

This book presents an original worldview, Homo risibilis, wherein self-referential humor is proposed as the path leading from a tragic view of life to a liberating embrace of human ridicule.

This book explores the concept of the end of literature through the lens of Hegel's philosophy of art.

This volume examines the great varieties of artistic experience from first hand phenomenological descriptions.

This book is one of the first to apply the theoretical tools proposed by French philosopher Bruno Latour to film studies.

This book extends a theory of art that addresses the present era's shift towards global pluralism.

This book deals with the complexity of art by focusing on the singularity of the work of art.

This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between narrative and self-understanding.

Rom Harre's career spans more than 40 years of original contributions to the development of both psychology and other human and social sciences.

This book provides a presentation of the concept of "e;atmosphere"e; in the realm of aesthetics.

Offering an original contribution to the field of luxury and fashion studies, this edited collection takes a philosophical perspective, addressing the idea that humans need luxury.

This compelling book defends realism concerning the aesthetic-in particular, concerning the aesthetic properties of works of art (including works of literature).

This handbook brings together essays in the philosophy of film and motion pictures from authorities across the spectrum.

 This book explores the ways in which popular music can criticise political, social and economic structures, through the lens of alternate rock band Manic Street Preachers.

We face a crisis of public reason.

On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks.

This book deals with the complexity of art by focusing on the singularity of the work of art.

Care Ethics and Poetry is the first book to address the relationship between poetry and feminist care ethics.

This book examines four main areas of music in early childhood: the traditions of music for young children, their capacities for music, the way they make music with others, and constructed and mediated musical childhoods.

This book brings together the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Lacan around their treatments of 'astonishment,' an experience of being struck by something that appears to be extraordinarily significant.

The essays in Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture contribute pioneering and revelatory insights into the phenomenon of invisibility, forging new and multi-disciplinary approaches at the intersection of aesthetics, technology, representation and politics.

This impressive edited collection investigates the relationship between British Pop Art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

This book studies the principles of urban spatial organization of historic cities.

Arguing that we ought to look to psychedelic aesthetics of the 1960s in relation to current crises in liberal democracy, this book emphasizes the intersection of European thought and the psychedelic.

This study provides an overview of philosophical questions relating to sight and vision.

This book builds on the works of Artaud and Deleuze, setting forth a different way of thinking on the body through the use of a whole new set of conceptual tools.

Humour is a funny thing - everyone knows it but no-one knows what it is.

This book discusses affective practices in performance through the study of four contemporary performers - Keith Hennessy, Ilya Noe, Caro Novella, and duskin drum - to suggest a tentative rhetoric of performativity generating political affect and permeating attempts at social justice that are often alterior to discourse.

This book is a significant novelty in the scientific and editorial landscape.

This groundbreaking book uses observations made by Marshall McLuhan to analyze the aesthetics of science fiction films, treating them as visual metaphors or probes into the new reality dominated by electronic media: -          it considers the relations between the senses and sensuality in Blade Runner, the visually-tactile character of the film, and the status of replicants as humanity s new clothes; -          it analyzes the mixture of Eastern and Western aesthetics in Star Wars, analyzing Darth Vader as a combination of the literate and the tribal mindset; -          it discusses the failure of visual society presented in the Terminator and Alien franchises, the rekindling of horror vacui, tribalism, and the desire to obliterate the past as a result of the simultaneity of the acoustic space; -          finally, the book discusses the Matrix trilogy and Avatar as being deeply related in terms of the growing importance of tactility, easternization, tribalization, as well as connectivity and the implosion of human civilization.

This book provides the first recent philosophical account of how ruins acquire aesthetic value.

This monograph presents a synthesis and reconstruction of Rudolf Arnheim's theory of media.

This book examines the contribution of mass-produced original painting to the psychology of art, psychological aesthetics, and art criticism.

This book presents a detailed analysis of what it means to be absorbed in playing music.

After Taste is an inquiry into a field of study dedicated to the reconsideration, reconstruction and rehabilitation of the concept of Taste.

Dans cette troisième livraison des « Économies », Alain Deneault suit le mouvement spéculaire entre des œuvres esthétiques qui traitent d’économie marchande et d’argent, et des critiques d’arts qui recourent au vocabulaire économique pour commenter les œuvres.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE THREE CRITIQUES: The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason & The Critique of Judgment" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

"e;I wrote this book out of my experiences during thirty years of teaching at the College de France.

Les femmes ont-elles une âme ?

Extrait : "Il importe avant tout de préciser avec soin ce qui constitue un acte voulu.

"Le Portrait de Dorian Gray est un roman écrit par l'écrivain irlandais Oscar Wilde, publié pour la première fois en 1890.

Bezeichnet man im deutschsprachigen Raum eine kulturelle Veranstaltung als ›Spektakel‹, geht damit oft eine negative Wertung einher.

Lassen sich für die Kunst noch begriffliche Grenzen ziehen?

Spiritual Messages from Oscar Wilde: Love, Beauty, and LGBT is the record of spiritual messages from Oscar Wilde's soul.

This study of the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing maps out a “sonorous archipelago”—a heterogeneous set of shifting sonic territories shaped by the vicissitudes of desire and discourse.