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The Animal That Therefore I Am

by Jacques Derrida

The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of...


Listening

by Jean-Luc Nancy

In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How is listening different from hearing? What does listening entail? How does what is heard differ from what...


Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

by Matthew B. Crawford

A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands

Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft...


Aesthetics in Present Future: The Arts and the Technological Horizon

by Adam Berg, Brunella Antomarini & Alain Cohen

The theme of Aesthetics in Present Future concerns the new chances the arts have and the deep changes they are undergoing, due to the new media, and the digital world in which we are growingly immersed. That...


Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art

by Jacques Rancière & Zakir Paul

Rancière's magnum opus on the aestheticAisthesis is Jacques Rancière's long-awaited, definitive statement on aesthetics, art and modernity. The book comprises a string of dramatic and evocative locales, each...


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...


Heaven and Earth Are Flowers: Reflections on Ikebana and Buddhism

by Joan Stamm

In this lovely, meditative exploration of Ikebana — the Japanese art of flower arranging — Joan Stamm shows us how her twin paths of Buddhist practice and artistic endeavor converge and indeed become thoroughly...


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...


Sufism and Surrealism

by Adonis

At first glance Sufism and Surrealism appear to be as far removed from one another as is possible. Adonis, however, draws convincing parallels between the two, contesting that God, in the traditional sense does...


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...