Philosophy: aesthetics

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary reference work essential for students and researchers interested in the field of love, romance and popular romance fiction.

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary reference work essential for students and researchers interested in the field of love, romance and popular romance fiction.

This unique introduction fully engages and clearly explains pragmatism, an approach to knowledge and philosophy that rejects outmoded conceptions of objectivity while avoiding relativism and subjectivism.

This unique introduction fully engages and clearly explains pragmatism, an approach to knowledge and philosophy that rejects outmoded conceptions of objectivity while avoiding relativism and subjectivism.

This book offers a bold and dynamic examination of Lars von Trier's cinema by interweaving philosophy and theology with close attention to aesthetics through style and narrative.

This book offers a bold and dynamic examination of Lars von Trier's cinema by interweaving philosophy and theology with close attention to aesthetics through style and narrative.

This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa's creative heritage.

This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa's creative heritage.

This book explores the complexity of Iberian identity and multicultural/multi-religious interactions in the Peninsula through the lens of spells, talismans, and imaginative fiction in medieval and early modern Iberia.

This book explores the complexity of Iberian identity and multicultural/multi-religious interactions in the Peninsula through the lens of spells, talismans, and imaginative fiction in medieval and early modern Iberia.

This book presents a comprehensive and systematic picture of Charles Peirce's ethics and aesthetics, arguing that Peirce established a normative framework for the study of right conduct and good ends.

This book presents a comprehensive and systematic picture of Charles Peirce's ethics and aesthetics, arguing that Peirce established a normative framework for the study of right conduct and good ends.

This book addresses a prominent group of virtues and vices as portrayed in popular films to further our understanding of these moral character traits.

This book addresses a prominent group of virtues and vices as portrayed in popular films to further our understanding of these moral character traits.

This volume brings together the finest research on aesthetics and the philosophy of art by stalwart critics and leading scholars in the field.

This volume brings together the finest research on aesthetics and the philosophy of art by stalwart critics and leading scholars in the field.

This book looks at social representations of romantic love as portrayed in films and interpreted by their audiences, using cinema as a means for analysing the state of romantic love today, and the touchpoints and disconnects between its representation on screen and the lived experiences of film audiences.

This book looks at social representations of romantic love as portrayed in films and interpreted by their audiences, using cinema as a means for analysing the state of romantic love today, and the touchpoints and disconnects between its representation on screen and the lived experiences of film audiences.

This book explores the transformation of ideas of the material in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century musical composition.

This book explores the transformation of ideas of the material in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century musical composition.

This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while highlighting that even these apparently environmentally friendly films can still facilitate problematic real-world changes in how people treat the environment.

This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while highlighting that even these apparently environmentally friendly films can still facilitate problematic real-world changes in how people treat the environment.

Death and Love brings together notable psychoanalytic and philosophical theorists to explore the connection between death and love.

This book delves into the long-standing human aspiration to combine art and science.

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation.

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation.

This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use?

This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use?

Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in twentieth-century philosophy.

Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art.

Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art.

This is the first collection of essays focused on the many-faceted work of Kendall L.

This is the first collection of essays focused on the many-faceted work of Kendall L.

Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry.

Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry.

This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how modern and contemporary artists and artworks have actively engaged in conversation with Christianity.

This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how modern and contemporary artists and artworks have actively engaged in conversation with Christianity.

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal episteme of selfie practice.

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal episteme of selfie practice.

The second volume in the Studying Lacan's Seminars series, this book is the first comprehensive study of Lacan's Seminar VI: Desire and its Interpretation.

The second volume in the Studying Lacan's Seminars series, this book is the first comprehensive study of Lacan's Seminar VI: Desire and its Interpretation.

This collection features essays from top experts in ethics and philosophy of love that offer varying perspectives on the value of a contemporary secular virtue of chastity.

This collection features essays from top experts in ethics and philosophy of love that offer varying perspectives on the value of a contemporary secular virtue of chastity.

"e;I regard Higuchi's book as particularly valuable because it highlights dimensions of somaesthetics that have not been sufficiently explored.

"e;I regard Higuchi's book as particularly valuable because it highlights dimensions of somaesthetics that have not been sufficiently explored.

This book investigates the role and significance that examples play in shaping arguments and thought, both in philosophy and in everyday life.

This book investigates the role and significance that examples play in shaping arguments and thought, both in philosophy and in everyday life.

This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet.

This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet.

Kenosis Creativity Architecture locates and explores creativity's grounding in the ancient concept of kenosis, the "e;emptying"e; that allows creativity to happen; that makes appearance possible.