This collection brings together a diverse range of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives to answer the key qu......more

Intervening eloquently into our relationship with planet Earth, Howard Caygill examines the two diverging conceptions of......more

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This crucial history explores the role of philosophical thought in transforming the way that artwork emerging from menta......more

What happens when a flatbed scanner is used for the photographic reproduction of three-dimensional objects? At first thi......more

Exploring Nietzsche’s conception of divinity and human deification, this book asks what it might mean to heed his calls ......more

Does a work of art have to be morally admirable in order to be aesthetically valuable? In this updated introduction, Eli......more

Developing the concept of the hysterical sublime, first theorised by Fredric Jameson, to challenge posthumanist perspect......more

Modern literature is often described in terms of its impersonality. What is the significance of this fact? In Skepticism......more

Aestheticizing Society makes a significant and original contribution to understanding the contemporary aesthetic turn. B......more

This collection of essays expands upon an emerging topic within and beyond the field of communication studies that chall......more

Does art rely on trickery and deception rather than honest argumentation to get us to upend our lives? How Art Transform......more

Does art rely on trickery and deception rather than honest argumentation to get us to upend our lives? How Art Transform......more

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A reimagining of the ancient Greek mystical movement Orphism. What does it mean to step outside the civic order through ......more

A reimagining of the ancient Greek mystical movement Orphism. What does it mean to step outside the civic order through ......more

With articles written only by living authors, this anthology serves as an introduction to the central issues in art occu......more

Combining perspectives from both continental and analytic philosophy, this timely volume explores how imagination today ......more

This collection expands the kinds of concepts and practices that are usually considered in Japanese aesthetics, as well ......more

A critical study applying Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories to the study of visual art. This work is the first to propose a coh......more

Against the mainstream view, Gatens and Uhlmann argue that Spinoza’s philosophy can significantly contribute to understa......more

Whilst much previous writing on Hegel has focused on his social and political philosophy, this volume makes it clear tha......more

Art’s Assemblies presents a new political aesthetics for the present. Claudia Breger makes a case for art’s power to act......more

Art’s Assemblies presents a new political aesthetics for the present. Claudia Breger makes a case for art’s power to act......more

Tone Roald creates a new foundation for aesthetics by taking seriously real-life experiences with works of art. Relying ......more

A fascinating inquiry into why beauty matters and how it has played an evolutionary role in our understanding of the wor......more

For as long as people have made images, they have argued about which ones matter most. Why are some works of art celebra......more

Holes command attention. They make us giggle, squirm, and wonder. But what do they really mean to us and why are they so......more

Uncovering how and why eighteenth-century definitions of beauty established cultural beliefs that continue to persist, K......more

Providing an innovative approach to conceptualising imagination or creativity, this book offers an alternative concept o......more

This book argues that metafiction should not be understood as a self-contained textual technique but as an active practi......more

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Concrete has ......more

Hans-Georg Gadamer’s poetics completely overturns the European aesthetic tradition. By concentrating on the experience o......more

In our era of rapid, breathless change, we need concepts of human education that promise sustainability, along with a co......more

This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of philosophical psychology utilising insights from the study of literat......more

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Our ability t......more

Is there a connection between the environmental, climate, and political crises facing us today and Western dualism? By c......more

A rich, interdisciplinary exploration of music through Japanese aesthetics that calls for a new way to think about natur......more

Can Maurice Blanchot, so often occupied with thoughts of death, dying, affliction, and impossibility, tell us anything a......more

The thinking that feels is tension - an openness without object, an act of listening and an awaiting of sense. It is a m......more

Classical Indian poetics prized the skillful use of alaṅkāras, or "ornaments"--literary figures of speech. Across more t......more

The Affective and Hermeneutic Functions of the Mindful Picture examines paintings, drawings, and prints that use various......more

The first book to offer extended critical engagement of the work of the major contemporary Italian philosopher Maurizio ......more

A diverse compendium of writing and visual art that addresses pertinent issues found in the work of Hiwa K. What is high......more

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The dialogue between contemporary art and philosophy from its beginnings in the 1950s to the present. How can we examine......more

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What if we listened to each other and the world around us with the same care and attention we bring to music? What if th......more

In this major new contribution to Heidegger studies, Christopher Fynsk provides an original account of Heidegger’s refle......more

Aesthetics and Music is a fresh and often provocative exploration of the key concepts and arguments in musical aesthetic......more

Empathy is widely acknowledged as a central, if not necessary, mechanism for understanding works of art, and even as the......more

This book explores the inner facial feeling as a defining phenomenon for the poetics and theory of Russian painting. Fro......more

This book posits ’orientophilia’ as a committed tendency among European Enlightenment philosophers to admire and appropr......more

In this innovative open-access study, Jörg Schaub demonstrates that the aesthetic is essential to democratic societies’ ......more

In this collection of eighteen essays, two-thirds of them appearing here for the first time, Aaron Ridley addresses the ......more

Innovatively combining philosophical inquiry and aphoristic writing, this study presents a bold new interpretation of ph......more

Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: ......more

How can we uncover the multiple layers and intricate strata that shape cultural, literary, and artistic productions over......more

The Challenge of Tradition emphasizes the tension between Theodor Adorno’s critique of tradition as being incompatible w......more

The Challenge of Tradition emphasizes the tension between Theodor Adorno’s critique of tradition as being incompatible w......more

This book examines how the sense of touch complements the senses of sight and hearing, expanding notions of "art" and "a......more

In 1955, Georges Bataille’s Prehistoric Painting: Lascaux; or, The Birth of Art was published. It was the first comprehe......more

This edited collection explores the concept of metamorphosis across art history, image theory, literary studies, and phi......more

Mere Materialism challenges us to recognize a neglected, transhistorical aesthetics of loss. Against the affirmative mat......more

A defence of Modernism against its defenders. This book is a defence of Modernism against its defenders. In readings of ......more

Art practices reveal the entwinement of perception and understanding, opening possibilities for new ways of enacting the......more

Art practices reveal the entwinement of perception and understanding, opening possibilities for new ways of enacting the......more

This collection of essays studies how music of the twenty-first century resonates with sentiments of despondency and los......more

In an era of cancel culture, digital identities and thriving conversation surrounding parasocial relationships, we quest......more

What do Persian robes of honour, 20th-century still-life painting, fur garments, and 18th-century porcelain all have in ......more

How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there such a......more

How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there such a......more

The book offers the first comprehensive account of how atmospheric feelings--those pervasive quasi-things that shape our......more