Philosophy: aesthetics

First published in 1933.

First published in 1953.

First published in 1953.

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of taste.

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of taste.

The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture.

The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture.

This set reissues 6 books on aesthetics originally published between 1933 and 1991.

Music, Time, and Its Other explores the relation between the enigmatic character of our temporal experiences and music's affective power.

Music, Time, and Its Other explores the relation between the enigmatic character of our temporal experiences and music's affective power.

This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried's art history and criticism.

This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried's art history and criticism.

This book brings to light central topics that are neglected in current histories and theories of architecture and urbanism.

This book brings to light central topics that are neglected in current histories and theories of architecture and urbanism.

Originally published in Italian in 2010, this book is the first to address the theory of atmospheres in a thorough and systematic way.

Originally published in Italian in 2010, this book is the first to address the theory of atmospheres in a thorough and systematic way.

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling.

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling.

This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical and creative issues in Western art music at the end of the twentieth- and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries.

This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical and creative issues in Western art music at the end of the twentieth- and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries.

Addressing the essential question of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Deleuze's philosophy this book provides clear indications of the practical implications of Deleuze's approach to the arts through detailed analyses of the ethical dimension of artistic activity in literature, music, and film.

Addressing the essential question of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Deleuze's philosophy this book provides clear indications of the practical implications of Deleuze's approach to the arts through detailed analyses of the ethical dimension of artistic activity in literature, music, and film.

This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages and cultures of visual studies.

This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages and cultures of visual studies.

It has been claimed that the natural sciences have abstracted for themselves a 'material world' set apart from human concerns, and social sciences, in their turn, constructed 'a world of actors devoid of things'.

It has been claimed that the natural sciences have abstracted for themselves a 'material world' set apart from human concerns, and social sciences, in their turn, constructed 'a world of actors devoid of things'.

This book argues that an attentive encounter with nature is of key importance for the development of an environmentally appropriate culture.

This book argues that an attentive encounter with nature is of key importance for the development of an environmentally appropriate culture.

The aesthetics of urban life offer a curious quality, one that is both highly visible and hidden, both openly influencing and subtly imprinting.

The aesthetics of urban life offer a curious quality, one that is both highly visible and hidden, both openly influencing and subtly imprinting.

Katya Mandoki advances in this book the thesis that it is not only possible but crucial to open up the field of aesthetics (traditionally confined to the study of art and beauty) toward the richness and complexity of everyday life.

Katya Mandoki advances in this book the thesis that it is not only possible but crucial to open up the field of aesthetics (traditionally confined to the study of art and beauty) toward the richness and complexity of everyday life.

Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis.

Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis.

Proposing a new approach to Jamesian aesthetics, Daniel Hannah examines the complicated relationship between Henry James's impressionism and his handling of 'the public.

Proposing a new approach to Jamesian aesthetics, Daniel Hannah examines the complicated relationship between Henry James's impressionism and his handling of 'the public.

One of the most significant occurrences in the history of design was the creation of the English Landscape Garden.

One of the most significant occurrences in the history of design was the creation of the English Landscape Garden.

Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visible physical world at the expense of the invisible intangible ideas and concepts, including that of the designer's imagination.

Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visible physical world at the expense of the invisible intangible ideas and concepts, including that of the designer's imagination.

In this original and far-reaching contribution to the philosophy of religion, Brian R.

In this original and far-reaching contribution to the philosophy of religion, Brian R.

Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of the twentieth century.

Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of the twentieth century.

What does it mean to think of Western Art music - and the Austro-German contribution to that repertory - as a tradition?

What does it mean to think of Western Art music - and the Austro-German contribution to that repertory - as a tradition?

Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945) is the most important Japanese philosopher of the last century.

Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945) is the most important Japanese philosopher of the last century.

Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts of both nature and architecture.

Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts of both nature and architecture.