Philosophy: aesthetics

AI for Arts is a book for anyone fascinated by the man-machine connection, an unstoppable evolution that is intertwining us with technology in an ever-greater degree, and where there is an increasing concern that it will be technology that comes out on top.

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 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.

Winner of the AEDEAN "e;Enrique Garcia Diez"e; Literature Research Award 2023Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity.

Winner of the AEDEAN "e;Enrique Garcia Diez"e; Literature Research Award 2023Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity.

Winner of the AEDEAN "e;Enrique Garcia Diez"e; Literature Research Award 2023Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity.

Winner of the AEDEAN "e;Enrique Garcia Diez"e; Literature Research Award 2023Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity.

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.

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?

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.

Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal fictions and juristic phantasms.

Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal fictions and juristic phantasms.

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.

The book Theory and Practice of Contrast completes, corrects and integrates the foundations of science and humanities, which include: theory of art, philosophy (aesthetics, epistemology, ontology, axiology), cognitive science, theory of information, theory of complexity and physics.

The book Theory and Practice of Contrast completes, corrects and integrates the foundations of science and humanities, which include: theory of art, philosophy (aesthetics, epistemology, ontology, axiology), cognitive science, theory of information, theory of complexity and physics.

Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture.

Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture.

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.

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the first, which concentrated on related matters, including geography and language.

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the first, which concentrated on related matters, including geography and language.

Interpreting Susan Sontag's Essays: Radical Contemplative offers its readers a scholarly examination of her essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetic theory.

Interpreting Susan Sontag's Essays: Radical Contemplative offers its readers a scholarly examination of her essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetic theory.

"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 explores editorial and advertising discourses related to cosmetic procedures and beauty products and services in UK lifestyle magazines, offering a holistic perspective on the normalisation of cosmetic procedures and the societal context in which particular perceptions have flourished.

This book explores editorial and advertising discourses related to cosmetic procedures and beauty products and services in UK lifestyle magazines, offering a holistic perspective on the normalisation of cosmetic procedures and the societal context in which particular perceptions have flourished.

Lingering and its decried equivalents, such as dawdling, idling, loafing, or lolling about, are both shunned and coveted in our culture where time is money and where there is never quite enough of either.

Lingering and its decried equivalents, such as dawdling, idling, loafing, or lolling about, are both shunned and coveted in our culture where time is money and where there is never quite enough of either.

First published in 1973, On Realism is a comprehensive introduction to the complex problem of literary realism.

This is volume one in a four-volume edition of primary source materials that document the histories of design across the long nineteenth century.

First published in 1973, On Realism is a comprehensive introduction to the complex problem of literary realism.

This is volume one in a four-volume edition of primary source materials that document the histories of design across the long nineteenth century.

Play, Philosophy and Performance is a cutting-edge collection of essays exploring the philosophy of play.

Play, Philosophy and Performance is a cutting-edge collection of essays exploring the philosophy of play.

This book explores how contemporary art can alter the ways in which we visualise and conceptualise the world and the social relations that shape it.

This book explores how contemporary art can alter the ways in which we visualise and conceptualise the world and the social relations that shape it.

The #metoo movement has forced many fans to consider what they should do when they learn that a beloved artist has acted immorally.

The #metoo movement has forced many fans to consider what they should do when they learn that a beloved artist has acted immorally.

Architecture's role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, complicit part of its mechanism.

Architecture's role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, complicit part of its mechanism.