Philosophy: aesthetics

Skepticism Films: Knowing and Doubting the World in Contemporary Cinema introduces skepticism films as updated configurations of skepticist thought experiments which exemplify the pervasiveness of philosophical ideas in popular culture.

Skepticism Films: Knowing and Doubting the World in Contemporary Cinema introduces skepticism films as updated configurations of skepticist thought experiments which exemplify the pervasiveness of philosophical ideas in popular culture.

Against Ambience diagnoses - in order to cure - the art world's recent turn toward ambience.

Against Ambience diagnoses - in order to cure - the art world's recent turn toward ambience.

Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth.

Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Critique of Judgment, also translated as the Critique of the Power of Judgment and more commonly referred to as the third Critique, is a philosophical work by Immanuel Kant.

How do humans explore beauty, virtue, love, justice, and goodness?

The Operation of Grace collects a decade's worth of essays by Gregory Wolfe taken from the pages of Image, the literary journal he founded more than a quarter century ago.

This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being.

Truth, beauty, and goodness are more than traditional ideas--they are living realities bearing dynamic potentials for a future we can help create.

The Beatles and the Beatlesque address a paradox emanating from The Beatles' music through a cross-disciplinary hybrid of reflections, drawing from both, musical practice itself and academic research.

Can a person be morally beautiful?

"Every good giving and every perfect gift is from on high, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning" (James 1:17).

The moralistic tendencies that culminated in the Republic of Virtue can be traced in literature back to the late seventeenth century.

This book is the first full-scale account of the growth of Wordsworth's thinking about the theory of poetry.

Imitation approaches identity with the thing imitated; design attenuates to a void.

Aesthetics is variously identified with the philosophy of art, the philosophy of criticism, and the philosophy of beauty.

Widely heard and read throughout the middle ages, romance literature has persisted for centuries and has lately re-emerged in the form of speculative fiction, inviting readers to step out of the actual world and experience the intriguing pleasure of possibility.

Widely heard and read throughout the middle ages, romance literature has persisted for centuries and has lately re-emerged in the form of speculative fiction, inviting readers to step out of the actual world and experience the intriguing pleasure of possibility.

Roger Fry - Maler, Kurator, Kunstkritiker und -theoretiker in Personalunion - hat in der ersten Halfte des 20.

Renowned scholar George Steiner explores the power and presence of the unseen in art.

In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change.

In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity.

In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls "e;illiberal humanism"e; instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the humanities in their received form.

The concept of empire contains features that are both irreducibly spectral and terrifyingly real.

Does God exist?

Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution.

Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution.

A different set of purposes define culture today than those that preoccupied the world in the immediate decades of decolonization.

A different set of purposes define culture today than those that preoccupied the world in the immediate decades of decolonization.

The first translation of the volumes in Michel Serres' classic 'Humanism' tetralogy, this ambitious philosophical narrative explores what it means to be human.

The first translation of the volumes in Michel Serres' classic 'Humanism' tetralogy, this ambitious philosophical narrative explores what it means to be human.

Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep.

Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep.

In Against Transmission Barker rethinks the history of audio-visual media as a history of analytical instruments.

In Against Transmission Barker rethinks the history of audio-visual media as a history of analytical instruments.

In this third installment of his classic 'Foundations' trilogy, Michel Serres takes on the history of geometry and mathematics.

In this third installment of his classic 'Foundations' trilogy, Michel Serres takes on the history of geometry and mathematics.

With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music.