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Marginal Modernity traces the emergence and dissemination of a new aesthetic paradigm from the periphery to the core of European...

In this book Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of...

Often labelled as "indescribable," the sublime is a term that has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and...

The Roger Scruton Reader is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton's writings, spanning a period of thirty years. It gathers...

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art provides an extensive research resource to the burgeoning...

This innovative book examines the aesthetic event of education.    Extending beyond the pedagogy of art or art appreciation, Tyson E....

Ancient thought, particularly that of Plato and Aristotle, has played an important role in the development of the field of...

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

"Kant, Kantianism and Idealism" presents an overview of German Idealism, the major movement in philosophy from the late 18th to...

This book is a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary examination of the music and figure of Lady Gaga, combining approaches from scholars in...

By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished...

Collection of essays that focuses on the influence of aesthetic theories and concepts on political theorizing. Editor: Kompridis, Nikolas Publisher: Bloomsb......

Against Ambience diagnoses - in order to cure - the art world's recent turn toward ambience. Over the course of...

Immanuel Kant is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. His transcendental idealism claims to overcome the...

Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts afford us of things (not merely,...

This book examines the affinity between the notions of "theory" and "deconstruction" that developed in the American academy in the...

Militant Modernism is a defence against Modernism's many detractors. It looks at design, film and architecture - especially architecture -...

A unique thematic history of Manchester United from the club's creation as humble Newton Heath in 1878 to its status...

The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous...

This book describes the centrality of trauma to Freud's thought, the moments of its apparent abandonment and later recurrences, from...