Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Beauty and the End of Art
Wittgenstein, Plurality and Perception
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Beauty and the End of Art shows how a resurgence of interest in beauty and a sense of ending in Western art are challenging us to rethink art, beauty and their relationship. By arguing that Wittgenstein's later work and contemporary theory of perception offer just what we need for a unified approach...
Peace in Motion
John Dewey and the Aesthetics of Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
In this book Yoram Lubling and Eric Evans offer a Deweyan reconstruction of our philosophical understanding of well-being. They begin with Dewey’s critique of the «philosophical fallacy» to examine the legitimacy and value of theories of well-being offered by traditional philosophy. However, such...
The Philosophical Imagination
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The Philosophical Imagination brings together several of Richard Moran's essays, ranging over a remarkable variety of topics in philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics, and moral psychology. A theme connecting several of the essays is the different ways our capacity for imagination is drawn on in...
Crowds and Democracy
The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Between 1918 and 1933, the masses became a decisive preoccupation of European culture, fueling modernist movements in art, literature, architecture, theater, and cinema, as well as the rise of communism and fascism and experiments in radical democracy.
Spanning aesthetics, cultural studies,...
Neglected or Misunderstood
Introducing Theodor Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
While Theodor Adorno has continued to be influential since his death in 1969, his very centrality has led to the left simplifying his ideas while the right placed him at the center of a myriad of wild conspiracy theories, all of them filed under the category of Cultural Marxism. Adorno has wrongly...
Essay on Exoticism
An Aesthetics of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2002
The “Other”—source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the contemporary academic landscape. Victor Segalen’s early attempt to theorize the exotic is a crucial reference point for all discussions of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting is the ideal collection for students and scholars of aesthetics, theatre studies and the philosophy of art. Ever since the Greeks, philosophy and theatre have always enjoyed a close and often antagonistic relationship. Yet until recently relatively little...
by Ted Nannicelli
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines—including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies—have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of the screenplay. To this end, this volume addresses the fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of...
Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters
The Relevance of Ancient Wisdom for the Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Traditional Chinese philosophy, if engaged at all, is often regarded as an object of antiquated curiosity and dismissed as unimportant in the current age of globalization.
Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this book, however, challenges this judgement and offers an in-depth...
by John Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
In The Artful Universe (OUP, 1995) John D. Barrow explored the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and the basic nature of the Universe, challenging the commonly held view that our sense of beauty is entirely free and unfettered. It looked at some of the unexpected ways in which the structure...
Subjects and Simulations
Between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the work of Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and JeanLuc Nancy, sixteen authors study how the real...
De-signing Design
Cartographies of Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice throws new light on the terrain between theory and practice in transdisciplinary discourses of design and art. The editors, Elizabeth Grierson, Harriet Edquist, and Hélène Frichot, bring together diverse approaches to design theory, practice,...
Art In Its Time
Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Art In Its Time takes a close look at the way in which art has become integral to the everyday 'ordinary' life of modern society. It explores the prevalent notion of art as transcending its historical moment, and argues that art cannot be separated from the everyday as it often provides material to...
The Invention of the Visible
The Image in Light of the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
We live in a mediatized society, a society one could call a society of images. Working at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of this society and its disposition towards images. This challenge does not advocate repudiating images altogether,...