Philosophy: aesthetics

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.

Explores the failure of Romantic critiques of political economy, and the diminishing importance of aesthetic consciousness across the nineteenth century.

This book is a comprehensive and in-depth study of a mysterious state of China''s Warring States Period (476–221 BCE): the Zhongshan.

This book is a comprehensive and in-depth study of a mysterious state of China''s Warring States Period (476–221 BCE): the Zhongshan.

This book offers new perspectives on the historical origins and contemporary challenges of modern hermeneutics through a detailed exploration of Herder''s Enlightenment philosophy.

This book offers new perspectives on the historical origins and contemporary challenges of modern hermeneutics through a detailed exploration of Herder''s Enlightenment philosophy.

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

A milestone in Kant scholarship, this interpretation of his critical philosophy makes sense of his notorious ''synthetic judgments a priori''.

A milestone in Kant scholarship, this interpretation of his critical philosophy makes sense of his notorious ''synthetic judgments a priori''.

An exciting look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and how it can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience.

A comprehensive study of material objects associated with the Jacobites, produced, acquired and treasured in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

This collection challenges conventional ideas of beauty by exploring unconventional approaches to the topic in the arts, sciences and mathematics.

This collection challenges conventional ideas of beauty by exploring unconventional approaches to the topic in the arts, sciences and mathematics.

This book examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history.

This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on ''the sublime''.

Argues that Lucan''s Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime.

Stefanie Buchenau explores the philosophical and conceptual origins of aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

Stefanie Buchenau explores the philosophical and conceptual origins of aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

Argues that Lucan''s Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime.