Aesthetics

Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both geographically and aesthetically. Peg Zeglin Brand and an international group of contributors interrogate the body and the meaning of...

How can we understand another person's feelings, thoughts, words or behaviour? Through empathy, it is hoped, we might use our imaginations to shift our perspective into another person's, thereby grasping their thoughts and emotions. In this insightful...

Specifically engaging with contemporary art examples, this is a comprehensive introduction designed to help students studying aesthetics for the first time to master the subject. Guiding readers through major problems, issues and debates in aesthetics,...

Focusing on the works of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Ranciere, Space, Politics and Aesthetics reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie their political thinking, and demonstrates how their conceptualisations of politics depend on the...

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions connect the theoretical dimensions of improvisation with different viewpoints on its practice in the arts and the classroom. The chapters...

What can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe the competing approaches to philosophizing on film? New Philosophies of Film answers these questions by offering a lucid introduction to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820471112Author Liana De Girolami CheneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Can games be art? When film critic Roger Ebert claimed in 2010 that videogames could never be art it was seen as a snub by many gamers. But from the perspective of philosophy of art this question was topsy turvey, since according to one of the most...

THE ART OF COMICS The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Introduction is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical questions raised by the art of comics. The volume, which includes a preface by the renowned comics...

We encounter in our lives things and situations that elicit from us special forms of attention. They affect and inform us in various ways, drawing us in and holding us in their grasp or turning us away. Works of art of all sorts, and nature in its myriad...

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Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience.In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816618002Author Theodor W. Adorno AdornoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota...

Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century.The American abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman famously declared in 1948 that the impulse of modern art is to destroy beauty. Not long after that,...

Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles...

This book reads Alfred Hitchcock as a philosopher of what constitutes the erotic. The author argues that Hitchcock is doing a post-Nietzschean, postmodern kind of philosophy in which he is exploring and creating possibilities of what the erotic can feel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783035808469Author Kevin B LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint DiaphanesPublisher Diaphanes

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300285581Author Richard SennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews"Brummett's exciting volume challenges us to acknowledge the necessarily subversive elements implicated in the study of popular culture.... His book is much more than a...

Boldly original and boundary defining, The Topological Imagination clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining two commonly opposed domains, literature and mathematics, Angus Fletcher maps the imagination's...

Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers' meditations on artistic expression.Winner for the 2023 European Network of Japanese Philosophy Award for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783770567454Author Lucilla GuidiFormat HardbackPage Count 333Imprint Brill U FinkPublisher Brill U FinkWeight(grams) 680g

Focuses on Deleuze's style, his conception of the self, and his understanding of philosophy's relationship to the arts.Ronald Bogue, author of the first book in English on French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, brings together eight of his essays written...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997012910Author Gregory ScaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Succubus MediaPublisher Succubus MediaWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042007864Author Michael H. MitiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher BrillWeight(grams) 399g

The aim of this essay is to analyse TV series from the point of view of philosophical aesthetics. Aiming to show how philosophy may contribute to "seriality studies", Andrzejewski and Salwa focus on seriality as a factor which defines the structure of TV...

In Roman Ingarden's Philosophy of Literature Wojciech Chojna discusses Ingarden's theory of literary works and develops a phenomenological account of identity which accommodates differences in interpretations and value judgments without succumbing to...

Cities are defined by their complex network of busy streets and the multitudes of people that animate them through physical presence and bodily actions that often differ dramatically: elegant window-shoppers and homeless beggars, protesting crowds and...

This book shows how and why debates in the philosophy of film can be advanced through the study of the role of images in Plato’s dialogues, and, conversely, why Plato studies stands to benefit from a consideration of recent debates in the philosophy of...

This book addresses the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the framework of pragmatist aesthetics, offering a comprehensive panorama of the ways and fields in which pragmatist aesthetics ties in with vital social and ethical...

The book presents five philosophical and axiological studies devoted to the relationship between aesthetics and politics. It shows this relationship throughout the works of some avant-gardists, pragmatists, and postmodernists. It is also a voice in the...

Memento mori is a broad and understudied cultural phenomenon and experience. The term "memento mori" is a Latin injunction that means "remember mortality," or more directly, "remember that you must die." In art and cultural history, memento mori appears...

When does eating become art? The Aesthetics of Taste answers this question by exploring the position of taste in contemporary culture and the manner in which taste meanders its way into the realm of art. The argument identifies aesthetic values not only...

This volume discusses the role of embodiment in the reevaluation of aesthetics as a process of bodily mediated meaning-making. It focuses on the bodily basis of aesthetic appreciation from an evolutionary point of view, on the bodily physical structures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789062037100Author Michael H. MitiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher BrillWeight(grams) 334g

This is the first collection in English devoted exclusively to pragmatist aesthetics. Its main aim is to employ the resources of that rich and exciting tradition in studying artistic phenomena such as film, sculpture, bio-art, poetry, the novel, cuisine,...

This book proposes a new approach to the problem of aesthetic experience in Western culture. Noting how art world phenomena evoke conventional psychoanalytic speculations about narcissism, the authors turn the tables and "apply" aesthetic...

The present volume encapsulates the contemporary scholarship on John Dewey and shows the place of Dewey's thought on the philosophical arena. The authors are among the leading specialists in the philosophy of John Dewey from universities across the US...

Who isn't seduced by the idea of an affinity between aging and aesthetics? Yet, when does aging truly begin? What attributes does the aesthetic embrace? Looking into startling photographic art of the past three decades, this book is prompted by such...

Critical Models combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works - Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969). Written after his return to Germany in 1949, the articles, essays, and...