This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy and architecture. Presenting thei......more

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

An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fic......more

A unique, critical, and creative encyclopedia from scholars, artists, and writers on the world and words of finance capi......more

This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clar......more

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century......more

100 years after Proust’s death, In Search of Lost Time remains one of the greatest works in World Literature. At 3,000 p......more

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

Responding to the increasing need for new and peaceful forms of emancipation, Stuart Blaney offers a unique solution in ......more

A provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today--the canine thinker from Kafka’s ......more

This book establishes a dialogue between Yorgos Lanthimos and Giorgio Agamben as a way of interpreting the "weird" roles......more

A psychological explanation of goosebumps and tears, of the epiphanic experience of seeing something ordinary in a profo......more

The Didi-Huberman Dictionary is a specialized introduction to the thought of contemporary French philosopher Georges Did......more

These essays, half of them appearing here for the first time, address issues concerning the two key singularities that K......more

Women on Philosophy of Art is the first study of women’s philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. It look......more

This book looks at three different kinds of writing practice - theory-fiction, autofiction/autotheory and art writing - ......more

The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, ......more

What does it mean to think with images? There is a well-established tradition of studying thought processes through the ......more

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This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslick’s influenti......more

An alternative occult and esoteric history of England told through one of its most popular cultural forms: the comedy si......more

How can the dichotomy between body and language be overcome by means of the performing arts? What does the art of perfor......more

Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies ......more

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

Originally published in 1995, this title is a result of an interdisciplinary study in architectural theory, psychology a......more

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on th......more

This forward-thinking, non-traditional reference work uniquely maps out how new developments in 21st century philosophy ......more

Beyond Reason relates Wagner’s works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dr......more

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WORKOUT PROGRAM AND GUIDE INCLUDED What if the body and mind were not in opposition but rather negotiation? Both aid eac......more

In this first ever book-length study of aesthetic expertise, Ole Martin Skilleås outlines the nature and purpose of aest......more

Discover the Future of Creativity Through the Eyes of AI Embark on a journey where technology meets imagination, explori......more

This book builds a new understanding of the body and its relationship to images and technology, using a framework where ......more

This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion - be it pity, l......more

This book develops an original theory of performative beauty. Philosophical aesthetics has largely neglected one’s own a......more

Focusing on the aesthetic representation of trauma, George Smith outlines the nexus points between poetics and hermeneut......more

Drawing from the work of Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger, this book aims to relate a series of philosophic insights to......more

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films ......more

Is art a form of communication? If so, what does art express or represent? How should we interpret the meaning of works ......more

Attends to the much-neglected sense of smell in and around modern poetry to suggest the possibility of a revolution of t......more

This volume explores the roles and uses of abstraction in scientific and artistic practice. The essays draw on the share......more

This study reveals the socially binding importance of the integrated enterprise of theatre: performance and text in the ......more

Samantha Matherne defends a systematic interpretation of the philosopher Immanuel Kantâs theory of imagination. In contr......more

This book explores Collingwood’s philosophical beliefs on art, taste, history, and others central ideas of his time....more

The Ultimate in Beauty - Philosophical Poems - Authored by Toshiyuki Namai --- Introduction --- Right now, I would like ......more

This book presents the creative processes in art throughout history and cultures. A specific cognitive function, the hom......more

Decolonial aesthetics of Blackness in contemporary art challenge and redefine traditional narratives, offering a profoun......more

Decolonial aesthetics of Blackness in contemporary art challenge and redefine traditional narratives, offering a profoun......more

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In Living in Language, David Bosworth makes a compelling case for the power and relevance of the literary imagination th......more

In Living in Language, David Bosworth makes a compelling case for the power and relevance of the literary imagination th......more

Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and Nymphs will engage not only......more

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What is jazz? How does it differ from other kinds of music? To what extent is it an important subject for thinking about......more

This volume examines the ontology of music groups. It connects two fascinating areas of philosophical research: the onto......more

This book offers a sustained, interdisciplinary examination of taste. It addresses a range of topics that have been at t......more

This book develops a postformalist aesthetic theory that makes room for an aesthetic analysis independent of the model o......more

This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer’s reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines f......more

This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello. In particular, it uses the methods......more

Against the idea that comedy offers us a relief from the horrors of the real world, the German-Jewish-American filmmaker......more

Metaphor, which allows us to talk about things by comparing them to other things, is one of the most ubiquitous and adap......more

Bringing together Michel Foucault’s aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics, this volume provides......more

Inspired by the philosopher Graham Parkes, this collection provides a distinctive study of aesthetics and the climate cr......more

Modernism’s Inhuman Worlds explores the centrality of ecological precarity, species indeterminacy, planetary change, and......more

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, me......more

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, me......more

Daniel’s first collection of poems range from the satirical to the surreal. A ’language collage’ incorporating social co......more

This book is a defence of perspectivism in the age of post-truth. At the crossroads of science, art and philosophy, it u......more

The Rhythm of Life by Alice Meynell is a collection of essays and poetry that delves into themes of nature, spirituality......more

Kant and the Feeling of Life positions Kant’s concept of life as a guiding thread for understanding not only Kant’s appr......more

Volume one of S ren Kierkegaard’s Either/Or explores the crisis of the modern secular void--with its attendant doubt, en......more

In his influential essay "Provisional Painting," Raphael Rubinstein applied the term "provisional" to contemporary paint......more

What I Believe by Bertrand Russell is a thought-provoking essay that delves into the personal beliefs and philosophical ......more

What I Believe by Bertrand Russell is a thought-provoking essay that delves into the personal beliefs and philosophical ......more

This book interrogates the discontinuous ripples of postmodernism within post-Cold War American literature and culture. ......more