Philosophy: aesthetics

At a time when technological advances are transforming cultures and supporting new automated military operations, action films engage the senses and, in doing so, allow viewers to embody combat roles.

Valery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of his generation.

Artistic Research: Charting a Field in Expansion provides a multidisciplinary overview of different discourses and practices, exploring cutting-edge questions from the burgeoning field of artistic research.

Within philosophy, a new interest in aesthetics beyond the arts has encouraged the rapid growth of environmental aesthetics.

This book engages with the question of making sense of seeing in today's technologically dominated world.

For over fifty years the concept of memory has played a crucial role in a large number of academic and societal debates.

A Western Marxist, Avant-garde reading of contemporary art.

In this unprecedented ‘fictive’ construction of the work of five imaginary artists from the 1980s, John Roberts produces an exhilarating theoretical encounter between futures past and futures present.

Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects.

"Tradicionalmente descrito como italiano, comunista, homosexual, católico y poeta, Pier Paolo Pasolini, a los cuarenta años, decide dedicarse casi en exclusiva al cine, convencido de que solo así podría habitar esa realidad que decía amar con desesperación.

In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition.

Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida's book The Post Card.

Early Modern Aesthetics is a concise and accessible guide to the history of aesthetics in the early modern period.

We are used to seeing the everyday as an ordinary aspect of life, something that we need to overcome; whereas it actually plays a crucial role in any event of our lives.

The writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari offer the most enduring and controversial contributions to the theory and practice of art in post-war Continental thought.

The Aesthetics of Food sets out the continuing philosophical debate about the aesthetic nature of food.

Examines the manners in which modern artists use boredom as a form of aesthetic resistance that, at its most positive, is the will to boredom.

Can capital be seen?

A bold experiment in film theory for the digital era.

Levinas Unhinged presents philosopher Emmanuel Levinas as a metaphysician racked by the sensuous, and often terrifying, materiality of existence.

The five physical senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching have been held to underpin the complexity of human experience ever since Aristotle first theorised about how they worked.

The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive.

Shortlisted for the Architectural Book of the Year Award 2025Is architecture an art, like literature or music?

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive.

In this fascinating work of cultural theory and philosophy, Robert Pfaller explores the hidden cost of our contemporary approach to pleasure, belief and illusion.

For Alain Badiou, theatre-unlike cinema-creates a space in which philosophy can be lived.

The definitive statement on aesthetics and the history of modernism from one of France's most renowned philosophers.

A classic collection of essay by Jacques Ranciere, that focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for.

The book is a largely unprecedented inter-disciplinary collaboration between archaeology, anthropology, and literary studies, although it touches on philosophy and religious studies, too.

There is no absolute truth but there is absolutely everything
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From William Blake through to Iain Sinclair, literature has sought to engage with and transform urban space.

Against those who considerarchitecture to be a wholly optimistic activity, this book shows how the history of modern architecture is inextricably tied to ideas of failure and ruin.

Is nothing everything?

A complete and original theory of aesthetics based on Marx and Althusser in the modernist Marxist anti-humanist tradition (Brecht, Althusser, Benjamin, Adorno).

Lambert Wiesing's The Philosophy of Perception challenges current theories of perception.

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "e;aesthetics"e; from the narrow confines it is often reduced to.

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "e;aesthetics"e; from the narrow confines it is often reduced to.

What makes me, me and you, you?

Explaining what art is and what's not art.

The only book to cover the evolution of one of the most important areas of philosophyThe birth of the Enlightenment heralded a new reverence for the power of reason.

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What becomes of the sublime today, in a philosophy that discards the old oppositions between body and mind and embeds human reason in the creative evolution of life?

What is it that makes something beautiful?

Aristotle and Plotinus set the horizon of inquiry--thinking is thinking on thinking.

The Latinx Philosophy Reader showcases a wide range of significant philosophical works about Latinx people and their experiences, displaying the breadth, distinctiveness, originality, and diversity of Latinx philosophy.

This collection draws on cutting-edge work that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new perspectives on the importance of visuality and the imagination in the work of Luigi Pirandello, the great Italian modernist.

A group of mostly Jewish German-speakingwriters, the Prague Circle included some of the most significant figures inmodern Western literature.

This volume brings together decades of research in philosophical theology on the concepts of justice, art, and liturgy.

Apart from the work of God in creation, it's notoriously difficult to explain the presence of beauty in the world and man's appreciation for it.