Philosophy: aesthetics

This book presents an up-to-date introduction to the subject that captures the excitement and passion of art itself.

Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant?

Invalid Modernism contributes to an intersectional moment in disability studies by looking at modernist aesthetics through a 'defamiliar body'.

Written from the perspective of a practising artist, this book proposes that, against a groundswell of historians, museums and commentators claiming to speak on behalf of art, it is artists alone who may define what art really is.

From its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of games design, Salome Voegelin expands 'possible world theory' to think the worlding of sound in music, in art and in the everyday.

Sport aesthetics is an important but often marginalized field in the philosophy of sport.

As a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned with structure in how phenomena are experienced.

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

Metaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality.

Why does Mark's Jesus speak in parables?

Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its painful truths, and by instrumentalizing its ambivalence.

James Elkins's How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at--and maybe to see for the first time--the world around us, with breathtaking results.

With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image.

In 1972, the French theorists Deleuze and Guattari unleashed their collaborative project-which they termed schizoanalysis-upon the world.

This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various political regimes in our species' history.

This book presents a new interpretation of the principle of utility in moral and political theory based on the writings of the classical utilitarians from Hume to J.

Why ought we concern ourselves with understanding a concept of evil?

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

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

The interdisciplinary French-American thinker Rene Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the humanities in the last half-century.

The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation.

In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French Philosopher of Science, Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) by situating it within French cultural life of the first half of the century.

This is the first English-language book on the philosophy of Ji Kang.

In this study, Alan Paskow situates the phenomenological approach to the experience of painting.

From Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Poetics to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, the theme of tragedy has been subject to radically conflicting philosophical interpretations.

Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition.

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us.

What is this thing called Philosophy?

This book places Benjamin's writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge.

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography.

This book interprets axial cultural symbols, specific cultural symbolic organizations, and symbolic constellations in the context of Critical Theory and its negative dialectic.

Winner, ASA (American Society for Aesthetics) 2023 Outstanding Monograph Prize

For Theodore Gracyk meaning in popular music depends as much on the context of reception and performer's intentions as on established musical and semantic practices.

Connecting poetry and philosophy of language, Philip Mills bridges the continental and analytical divide by bringing together the writings of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein.

In the first science fiction and philosophy anthology to focus on identity, a set of exemplary stories raise deep questions about who and what we are.

The newly expanded and revised edition of Cooper s popular anthology featuring classic writings on aesthetics, both historical and contemporary The second edition of this bestselling anthology collects essays of canonical significance in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, featuring a wide range of topics from the nature of beauty and the criteria for aesthetic judgement to the value of art and the appreciation of nature.

The Ethics of Hooking Up: Casual Sex and Moral Philosophy on Campus provides a systematic moral analysis of hooking up, or sexual activity between people who barely know each other, frequently while intoxicated, and with little or no verbal interaction.

This book adopts a cognitive theoretical framework in order to address the mental processes that are elicited and triggered by found footage horror films.

This book focuses on piano teachers and the many pains they encounter in their careers.

This book explores the notion of affective space in relation to architecture.

The book is a study of Adorno''s aesthetics, its philosophical background, and its account of aesthetic modernism.

Eine Poetik der Phänomenologie interessiert sich für die sprachlichen, rhetorischen und darstellerischen Verfahren, mittels derer die Phänomenologie sich ihrem Gegenstands­ und Aufgabenfeld nähert.

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

This book explores the meaning of love and intimacy from a variety of perspectives, specifically philosophical, psychological and cultural.

Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures.

This book reframes the Lacanian object a voice as a horrific register of alterity.

Restrictive border protection policies directed toward managing the flow of refugees coming into neoliberal democracies (and out of failing nation-states) are a defining feature of contemporary politics.

Scrutinizing the practice of legislators and politicians from an ethical perspective, this work looks closely at various methods to facilitate ethical conduct.