Philosophy: aesthetics

This volume offers an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldun (d.

This volume offers an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldun (d.

What does a place sound like - and how does the sound of place affect our perceptions, experiences, and memories?

What does a place sound like - and how does the sound of place affect our perceptions, experiences, and memories?

Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader's close analysis of a literary text.

Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader's close analysis of a literary text.

What is philosophy, why does it matter, and how would it be different if women wrote more of it?

What is philosophy, why does it matter, and how would it be different if women wrote more of it?

This book explores the prophetic characteristics of literature, particularly poetry, that seek to reimagine the world in which it is written.

This book explores the prophetic characteristics of literature, particularly poetry, that seek to reimagine the world in which it is written.

This book radically rethinks the philosophical basis of copyright in the arts.

This book radically rethinks the philosophical basis of copyright in the arts.

Amanda Glauert revisits Beethoven's songs and studies his profound engagement with the aesthetics of the poets he was setting, particularly those of Herder and Goethe.

Amanda Glauert revisits Beethoven's songs and studies his profound engagement with the aesthetics of the poets he was setting, particularly those of Herder and Goethe.

Phenomenology was one of the twentieth century's major philosophical movements, and it continues to be a vibrant and widely studied subject today with relevance beyond philosophy in areas such as medicine and cognitive sciences.

Phenomenology was one of the twentieth century's major philosophical movements, and it continues to be a vibrant and widely studied subject today with relevance beyond philosophy in areas such as medicine and cognitive sciences.

This book of expert essays explores the concept of the whole as it operates within the psychology of Jung, the philosophy of Deleuze, and selected areas of wider twentieth-century Western culture, which provided the context within which these two seminal thinkers worked.

This book of expert essays explores the concept of the whole as it operates within the psychology of Jung, the philosophy of Deleuze, and selected areas of wider twentieth-century Western culture, which provided the context within which these two seminal thinkers worked.

This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read.

This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights.

This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read.

This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights.

This book develops a theory of picture perception and aesthetic response, arguing that images can generate in us a complex pattern of mental changes, or transformations.

This book expounds Kant's Critique of Judgement by interpreting all the details in the light of what Kant himself declares to be his fundamental problem.

This book provides an introduction into the subject of aesthetics and the problems associated with it.

Featuring contributions from Matthew Kieran, Aaron Ridley, Roger Scruton and Mary Mothersill to name but a few, this collection of groundbreaking new papers on aesthetics and ethics, highlights the link between the two subjects.

This book develops a theory of picture perception and aesthetic response, arguing that images can generate in us a complex pattern of mental changes, or transformations.

This book expounds Kant's Critique of Judgement by interpreting all the details in the light of what Kant himself declares to be his fundamental problem.

This book provides an introduction into the subject of aesthetics and the problems associated with it.

Featuring contributions from Matthew Kieran, Aaron Ridley, Roger Scruton and Mary Mothersill to name but a few, this collection of groundbreaking new papers on aesthetics and ethics, highlights the link between the two subjects.

This book provides a framework by which a global audience might think theologically about contemporary films produced in mainland China by Chinese directors.

This book provides a framework by which a global audience might think theologically about contemporary films produced in mainland China by Chinese directors.

Why do painters paint?

Why do painters paint?

Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny takes the philosophy of the body into the field of dance, through the lens of subjectivity and via its critique.

Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny takes the philosophy of the body into the field of dance, through the lens of subjectivity and via its critique.

This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany.

This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany.

At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small communities of play, affect and respect for nature.

At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small communities of play, affect and respect for nature.

"e;In his Phenomenology of Cognition, Cassirer provides a comprehensive and systematic account of the dynamic process involved in the whole of human culture as it progresses from the world of myth and its feeling of social belonging to the highest abstractions of mathematics, logic and theoretical physics.

"e;The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy.

"e;The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a milestone in twentieth century philosophy.

"e;In his Phenomenology of Cognition, Cassirer provides a comprehensive and systematic account of the dynamic process involved in the whole of human culture as it progresses from the world of myth and its feeling of social belonging to the highest abstractions of mathematics, logic and theoretical physics.

"e;The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy.

"e;The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a milestone in twentieth century philosophy.

A rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as to discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological, and aesthetic conditions.

Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics.

A filmmaker draws on the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary biology to focus on cinema's visual nature.