Philosophy : Aesthetics

Barry Lord and Gail Dexter Lord focus their two lifetimes of international experience working in the cultural sector on the challenging questions of why and ......

A new way of thinking about God and religious experience Author: Manoussakis, John Panteleimon Publisher: Indiana University Press Illustration: N Language:......

The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophyÂechoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called Klangfiguren, or "sound figures"Âresona......

The most fundamental debate in the philosophy of music involves the question of whether there is an artistically important connection between music and the e......

This is the ideal up-to-date textbook for students of philosophy, art or literature, coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time. Auth......

Presenting some of Nietzsche's most significant thoughts on art and literature, this enthralling account traces the development of his thinking throughout hi......

For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, questions, and ......

What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject? In Consequences of Enlightenment, Anth......

This ambitious study argues that our modern conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from conflicts betwee......

This is the only available systematic critical overview of German aesthetics from 1750 to the present. The book begins with the work of Baumgarten and covers......

Beyond Aesthetics brings together philosophical essays addressing art and related issues by one of the foremost philosophers of art at work today. Countering......

This book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Kant, Henry Allison, ......

In this book Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art. Drawing on materials from ......

This volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial period of a......

In this book Jane Kneller focuses on the role of imagination as a creative power in Kant¿Äôs aesthetics and in his overall philosophical enterprise. She anal......

Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents generate......

This volume explores the relationship between Kant's aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology as articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Cri......

Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center ......

Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible....

Praised in its original edition for its up-to-date, rigorous presentation of current debates and for the clarity of its presentation, Robert Stecker's new ed......