Philosophy / Aesthetics

The Problem of Naturalism: Analytic Perspectives, Continental Virtues

by Brian Lightbody

The Problem of Naturalism: Analytic and Continental Perspectives, investigates how the term naturalism is defined and applied in the philosophic secondary literature from two often competing perspectives: analytic...

Gadamer's Poetics: A Critique of Modern Aesthetics

by John Arthos

Gadamer's writing on art is typically seen as supporting his philosophical theory of truth. Drawing together a coherent theory of the work of art from the corpus of Gadamer's writings, this is the first full-length...

The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy

by Scott Campbell

Lebensphilosophie, central to nineteenth-century philosophical thought, is concerned with the meaning, value and purpose of life. In this much-needed study, historical lebensphilosophie is returned to the core...

The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics Third Edition

by Berys Gaut & Dominic Lopes

The third edition of the acclaimed Routledge Companion to Aesthetics contains over sixty chapters written by leading international scholars covering all aspects of aesthetics.

This companion opens with an historical...

The Art Question

by Nigel Warburton

If an artist sends a live peacock to an exhibition, is it art?

'What is art?' is a question many of us want answered but are too afraid to ask. It is the very question that Nigel Warburton demystifies in this...

Race, Philosophy, and Film

by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo & Dan Flory

This collection fills a gap in the current literature in philosophy and film by focusing on the question: How would thinking in philosophy and film be transformed if race were formally incorporated moved from...

A Genealogy of Cyborgothic: Aesthetics and Ethics in the Age of Posthumanism

by Dongshin Yi

A Genealogy of the Cyborgothic imagines a new literary genre emerging from gothic literature and science fiction that will help to envision a cyborg-friendly, non-anthropocentric posthuman society. Dongshin...

The Philosophy of Art: The Question of Definition: From Hegel to Post-Dantian Theories

by Tiziana Andina & Natalia Iacobelli

Drawing on the philosophies of art developed by the continental authors and studies of Anglo-American philosophers, this book presents a panorama of the philosophy of art. It discusses definitions offered from...

The A to Z of Aesthetics

by Dabney Townsend

The A to Z of Aesthetics covers its history from Classical Greece to the present, including entries on non-western aesthetics. The book contains a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds...

Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals): A Philosophical Inquiry into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Methaphor in Language

by Israel Scheffler

Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. Yet they have frequently been considered mere deviations from ideal language or obstacles...

Hume's Aesthetic Theory: Sentiment and Taste in the History of Aesthetics

by Dabney Townsend

Hume's Aesthetic Theory examines the neglected area of the development of aesthetics in empiricist thinking, exploring the link between the empiricist background of aesthetics in the eighteenth century and the...

Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts

by Matthew Kieran & Dominic Lopes

Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts is the first comprehensive collection of papers by philosophers examining the nature of imagination and its role in understanding and making art.

Imagination is a central...

Rethinking Aesthetics: The Role of Body in Design

by Ritu Bhatt

Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between body and...

Phenomenologies of Art and Vision: A Post-Analytic Turn

by Paul Crowther

Contemporary

discussions of the image like to emphasize art's societal functions. Few

studies come close to answering why pictures and sculptures fascinate and

intrigue regardless of any practical functions they...

The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency: Revaluating German Aesthetics from Kant to Adorno

by Ayon Maharaj

This study examines how key figures in the German aesthetic tradition - Kant, Schelling, Friedrich Schlegel, Hegel, and Adorno - attempted to think through the powers and limits of art in post-Enlightenment...

Life as Art: Aesthetics and the Creation of Self

by Zachary Simpson

Life as Art synthesizes a number of aesthetic theories in philosophy after 1850 and shows the ways in which they contribute to a unified field of analysis and potential implementation. The book is framed both...

Contemporary Music: Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives

by Paddison & Deliège

This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical and creative issues in Western art music at the end of the twentieth- and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries....

Music and the Modern Condition: Investigating the Boundaries

by Ilic

Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Dr Ljubica Ilic provides...

Sounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Theory and Philosophy of Music

by Hulse & Nesbitt

It is the contention of the editors and contributors of this volume that the work carried out by Gilles Deleuze, where rigorously applied, has the potential to cut through much of the intellectual sedimentation...

The Architecture of Happiness

by Alain De Botton

The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of...