Aesthetics
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Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of CareDeclarations of Dependence rethinks the historical relationship between money and aesthetics in an effort to make critical theory newly answerable to politics. Scott Ferguson regrounds critical theory in the alternative conception of money articulated by the contemporary heterodox school of political economy known as...
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Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and PhilosophyFictioning in art is an open-ended, experimental practice that involves performing, diagramming or assembling to create or anticipate that which does not exist. In this extensively illustrated book containing over 80 diagrams and images of artworks, David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan explore the technics...
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Untimely Affects: Gilles Deleuze and an Ethics of CinemaHow do the practices of philosophy and film converge in ethical and political theory? Untimely Affects is an ethical and aesthetic interweaving of Deleuzian philosophy and close film analysis to discern how thought persists productively after the horrors of World War II. In the...
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Eric Rohmer: Filmmaker and PhilosopherRohmer is one of the most popular French directors of the second half of the 20th century, one of the members of the famous Nouvelle Vague that reconstituted French cinema based on the theoretical principles articulated in the Cahiers du Cinéma - from whose...
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Feminist Theory After DeleuzeFeminist Theory After Deleuze addresses the encounter between one of the 20th century's most important philosophers, Gilles Deleuze, and one of its most significant political and intellectual movements, feminism. Feminist theory is a broad, contradictory, and still evolving school of thought. This book introduces...
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The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and CognitionThis book presents new research on the crucial role that imagination plays in contemporary philosophy of fiction. The first part of the book challenges the main paradigm set by Kendall Walton and Gregory Currie, according to which there is a necessary connection between fiction...
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The Phenomenology of Modern Art: Exploding Deleuze, Illuminating StyleAs a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned with structure in how phenomena are experienced. The Phenomenology of Modern Art uses phenomenological insights to explain the significance of style in modern art, most notably in Impressionism, Expressionism, Cezanne and Cubism, Duchampian conceptualism and abstract art....
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Groove: A Phenomenology of Rhythmic NuanceWritten by an experienced drummer and philosopher, Groove is a vivid and exciting study of one of music's most central and relatively unexplored aspects. Tiger C. Roholt explains why grooves, which are forged in music's rhythmic nuances, remain hidden to some listeners. He argues...
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Introductory Lectures on AestheticsGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a late 18th and early 19th century German philosopher, was one of the foremost thinkers of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism. He created...
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A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and BeautifulFirst written in 1757, this treatise on aesthetics provides a distinct transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. This is apparent in Burke's ultimate preference for the Sublime over the Beautiful, for he defined the latter as that which is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing and the...
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The Philosophy of Film: Introductory Text and ReadingsOrganized around a series of philosophic questions about film, The Philosophy of Film: Introductory Text and Readings offers an accessible and engaging overview of the discipline. Provides thorough selection of readings drawn from philosophy, film studies, and film criticism Multiple points of view highlighted...
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The Philosophy of Literature: Classic and Contemporary Readings: An AnthologyEssential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology. Contains forty-five substantial and carefully chosen essays and extracts Provides a balanced and coherent overview of developments in the field during the past thirty years, including influential...
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Georg Lukács and Critical Theory: Aesthetics, History, UtopiaThis book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation. Interweaving discussion of art and literature, utopian thought, and the dialectics of high art and...
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Ideen und ImpressionenDiese Ausgabe stellt eine Neuausgabe der "Ideen und Impressionen" (Idées et sensations, 1866) der Brüder Jules und Edmond de Goncourt dar. Die autorisierte Übersetzung erschien im Jahr 1904 im Julius Zeitler Verlag in Leipzig. Für die Neuausgabe wurde die Rechtschreibung behutsam modernisiert und ein...
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Sensing Justice Through Contemporary Spanish Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics, LawExplores the aesthetic frames that mediate the sense(s) and experiences of justice Close analysis of films such as Pan's Labyrinth, High Heels, Common Wealth, The Method, No Rest for the Wicked, Unit 7 Engages with legal theory, film studies, aesthetics, and politics Approaches law...
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Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the UnsayableIt is commonplace to regard many great works of literature--poems, dramas, works of fiction--as in some sense philosophical. Yet ever since Plato, there has been a tension between the kind of abstract theorizing that goes on in philosophy and the focus on concrete particulars...
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Speculative Geographies: Ethics, Technologies, AestheticsThis book explores how speculative thinking is shaping how we relate to our entangled social, mental, and environmental ecologies. It examines how speculative philosophies and concepts are changing geographical research methods and techniques, whilst also developing how speculative thinking transforms the way human, non-human,...
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Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday LifeThis book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aesthetics of imperfection with issues in areas including philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art theory, and cultural studies. The contributors to this volume argue...
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The Question of the AestheticThis book establishes an argument for deeper attention to the aesthetic qualities of literature, to the question of the relation between the aesthetic and more immediate, practical, and urgent social and political matters. It attempts to establish the intrinsic value of the aesthetic at...
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Pseudo-Longinus: On the SublimeThis is the first new edition in English for more than half a century of one of the most influential works in the entire history of aesthetics, the treatise On the Sublime, whose author is unknown but usually called Longinus. It was On the...
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