Philosophy: aesthetics

A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass mediaThis fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media.

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the CaribbeanHow did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world?

An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in English.

From the celebrated cultural historian and bestselling author, a provocative history of the evolution of our ideas about art since the early nineteenth centuryIn this witty, provocative, and learned book, acclaimed cultural historian and writer Jacques Barzun traces our changing attitudes to the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that we are living in a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.

A classic book by one of the twentieth century's most innovative and adventurous thinkersFirst published in 1959, From Shakespeare to Existentialism offers Walter Kaufmann's critical interpretations of some of the greatest minds in Western philosophy, religion, and literature.

The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can't make sense of contemporary artA classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the End of Art continues to generate heated debate for its radical and famous assertion that art ended in the 1960s.

A classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist Jose Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his response to modernism, "e;The Dehumanization of Art.

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences?

Hacer una vida de consagración a la estética, a cierto tipo de estética, ha sido el empero fundamental del artista Pablo Solano.

Theology as Performance breaks new ground in the growing conversation between modern theology and philosophical aesthetics.

Beyond Reasonrelates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career:Der Ring des Nibelungen,Tristan und Isolde,Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, andParsifal.

What, exactly, is knowledge of music?

Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs.

Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully-"e;interpreting music"e; in both senses of the term.

An anthology of works commenting on the perception of beauty in art, structure and style in literature, and aesthetic judgement.

A translation of Schopenhauer''s major and influential work which contains his entire philosophical system.

An anthology of works commenting on the perception of beauty in art, structure and style in literature, and aesthetic judgement.

A translation of Schopenhauer''s major and influential work which contains his entire philosophical system.

This book shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant''s aesthetics and practical philosophy fit together and deepen our understanding of his thought.

Marion Thain recounts the development of this fascinating poetic persona, created by two female writers.

Andrew Bowie uses music to question many ideas about language, meaning and philosophy.

A wide-ranging and original interpretation of Kant''s Critique of Judgment.

This book discusses the context and content of aesthetics as they relate to philosophical history and imagination.

This book portrays artistic truth as a process of imaginative disclosure.

An accessible guide to T.

Taylor is beyond question one of the most distinctive figures in the landscape of contemporary philosophy.

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

This volume provides an extensive translation of the notes and fragments that survived Kant''s death in 1804.

An important study of Kant''s aesthetics, from a leading Kant scholar.

This book, first published in 2002, is a systematic overview of German aesthetics from 1750 to the present.

Esteve examines crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century.

This 2002 volume offers translations of major works of classic and romantic German aesthetics.

Claims authorial intention, art history, and morality play a role in our encounter with art works.

David Ellison''s book is an investigation into the historical origins and textual practice of European literary Modernism.

This book offers an interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno.

According to Greek mythology, Laocoon was a Trojan priest who, along with his two sons, offended the gods.

It is remarkably appropriate that this work on aesthetics should have been written by George Santayana, who is probably the most brilliant philosophic writer and the philosopher with the strongest sense of beauty since Plato.

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aesthetic merit and judgement, creativity and the possibility of machine art, and morality and the possibility of immoral art.

Interpretation and Construction examines the interpretation and products of intentional human behavior, focusing primarily on issues in art, law, and everyday speech.

The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available.

Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise.

Psychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation.

Why modern and contemporary artand art conservationcan't be understood without taking account of the revolutionary impact of plasticsModern and contemporary art wouldn't exist without the invention of plastics.

This Handbook of Visual Communication explores the key theoretical areas and research methods of visual communication.

This Handbook of Visual Communication explores the key theoretical areas and research methods of visual communication.

Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of 'arthouse' and Hollywood films.

Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of 'arthouse' and Hollywood films.

In this book, Michael J.

In this book, Michael J.