Philosophy: aesthetics

The Possibility of Culture: Pleasure and Moral Development in Kant s Aesthetics presents an in-depth exploration and deconstruction of Kant s depiction of the ways in which aesthetic pursuits can promote personal moral development.

The Possibility of Culture: Pleasure and Moral Development in Kant s Aesthetics presents an in-depth exploration and deconstruction of Kant s depiction of the ways in which aesthetic pursuits can promote personal moral development.

Black is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended philosophical treatment of this crucial subject.

Black is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended philosophical treatment of this crucial subject.

Updated and revised, the Second Edition of Danto and His Critics presents a series of essays by leading Danto scholars who offer their critical assessment of the influential works and ideas of Arthur C.

Updated and revised, the Second Edition of Danto and His Critics presents a series of essays by leading Danto scholars who offer their critical assessment of the influential works and ideas of Arthur C.

The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence.

The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence.

Presents the final instalment of Kant''s transcendental undertaking, tying together his elusive discussions of natural beauty and teleology.

Presents the final instalment of Kant''s transcendental undertaking, tying together his elusive discussions of natural beauty and teleology.

Argues that the fundamental goals of architecture remain valid despite constant changes in human activities, technologies, and styles.

Argues that the fundamental goals of architecture remain valid despite constant changes in human activities, technologies, and styles.

Scholarly new translation of this preeminent ancient history of Greek philosophy, recounting the lives, thought, and writings of leading figures.

A new Companion offering student-friendly essays on this major figure in the Platonic tradition and in Greek philosophy.

A new Companion offering student-friendly essays on this major figure in the Platonic tradition and in Greek philosophy.

This rich collection of essays addresses all the key aspects of Cassirer''s multi-faceted philosophical thought.

This rich collection of essays addresses all the key aspects of Cassirer''s multi-faceted philosophical thought.

A collection of newly-translated essays representing the finest post-war German scholarship on Nietzsche.

A rich and wide-ranging Companion to Plato''s philosophy that is accessible to students while of equal interest to scholars.

This book explores Kant''s compelling vision of our aesthetic and cognitive lives as anchored in experiences of attunement and animation.

Aesthetic philosophy and the arts offer an innovative and attractive approach to enhancing international law in support of peace.

This Element argues that Kantian anthropology is an empirical, popular, and, above all, pragmatic enterprise - ''the eye of true philosophy''.

Provides an overview of Johann Gottfried Herder''s aesthetics, interpreted as a naturalist theory with transformative historical significance for European philosophy.

Explores the connections between art and play in ancient Greek thought, especially that of Plato and Aristotle.

James Joyce must be understood as drawing on French nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary innovations to grapple with the challenges of Paris.

Examines the link between Bonaventure''s aesthetics and anthropology in light of contemporary anxieties surrounding bodily diminishment.

James Joyce must be understood as drawing on French nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary innovations to grapple with the challenges of Paris.

Examines the link between Bonaventure''s aesthetics and anthropology in light of contemporary anxieties surrounding bodily diminishment.

Leading historians introduce the most influential trends in thought which originated or developed in the nineteenth century.

Leading historians introduce the most influential trends in thought which originated or developed in the nineteenth century.

This pragmatist interpretation of habits provides a unifying concept for 4E cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and social theory.

A rich and wide-ranging Companion to Plato''s philosophy that is accessible to students while of equal interest to scholars.

This book gives unprecedented insight into the fullest articulation of Hegel''s philosophical system: his Encyclopedia.

Provides an overview of Johann Gottfried Herder''s aesthetics, interpreted as a naturalist theory with transformative historical significance for European philosophy.

Explores the connections between art and play in ancient Greek thought, especially that of Plato and Aristotle.

This Element argues that Kantian anthropology is an empirical, popular, and, above all, pragmatic enterprise - ''the eye of true philosophy''.

This pragmatist interpretation of habits provides a unifying concept for 4E cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and social theory.

This monumental work presents Schopenhauer''s metaphysics of the will, and wide-ranging philosophical reflections on psychology, desire, sex, death, and salvation.

Challenges traditional evolutionary, psychological and neurobiological theories by using the ecology of art to explore art behaviors.

This book gives unprecedented insight into the fullest articulation of Hegel''s philosophical system: his Encyclopedia.

This book shows how an emphasis on design can help us usefully apply ethics to a world built on institutions and technology.

Comprehensive and incisive, with three new chapters, this updated edition sees world-renowned scholars explore a rich and complex philosophical movement.

Comprehensive and incisive, with three new chapters, this updated edition sees world-renowned scholars explore a rich and complex philosophical movement.

This new study of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory situates it in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose.

This new study of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory situates it in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose.

This book is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson''s philosophy.

Systematically explores the affinity and the rivalry between art and religion, focusing at length on music, visual art, literature, and architecture in turn.

Systematically explores the affinity and the rivalry between art and religion, focusing at length on music, visual art, literature, and architecture in turn.

Demonstrates how ancient Roman mural paintings stood at the intersection of contemporary social, ethical, and aesthetic concerns.