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

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

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

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

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The artistic strategies explored in this book are essential tools in fostering emancipatory consciousness in marginalize......more

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

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

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

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

What can Maurice Blanchot-renowned for his reflections on death and literature-teach us about creativity? According to A......more

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

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

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Postmodernism has come and gone, but the belief that artists and works of art are exceptional is alive and well. Post-Ex......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

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

In this innovative open access study of modern aesthetics and political philosophy, Jörg Schaub demonstrates why democra......more

This volume collects written and visual works that engage with opportunities of ancient practice from within the contine......more

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

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

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

This book explores temporal orders, how reality is organised in time, and the coordination of events and experiences. Re......more

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

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

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

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

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

This book is the first to explore Argentine tango as both a philosophical practice and a metaphor for human existence. W......more

"In Praise of Shadows belongs to that special order of slim, enormously powerful books that enchant the lay reader with ......more

Art Beyond the Edge is not just a title: it’s a designation, a call to action, and a means to achieve enduring impact. R......more

Current debates in the environmental humanities, animal studies, and related fields increasingly revolve around this que......more

Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650-1850 covers the full expanse of long eighteenth-century t......more

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This edited collection investigates how Deleuze’s interventions into cosmological thinking have transformed, challenged,......more

From the mid-nineteenth century until the end of WWI, the Sutherland Estate was the largest landed estate in western Eur......more

In an age of rife consumption and increasing need for consideration of sustainable social practices, an exploration of t......more

Chekhov’s short stories offer a subtle yet powerful message: that there is potential for change in our lives. Contrary t......more

Chekhov’s short stories offer a subtle yet powerful message: that there is potential for change in our lives. Contrary t......more

Why literary works and corpuses, such as ancient Greek-Roman novels, Renaissance chivalric literature, early modern extr......more

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look away fr......more

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look away fr......more

An ideal introduction for students new to Japanese philosophy and aesthetics, Phenomenology of Tea invites readers into ......more

How can the arts enrich philosophical practice and help us better investigate the complexities of human existence? This ......more

Philosophy has long paid minimal attention to creativity, and even with the rise of research on imagination, the creativ......more

This book presents fifty-three essays examining contemporary Indian discourse across political, social, and cultural dim......more

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Stanley Cavell’s critical-aesthetic way of doing philosophy charts a unique path between dogmatic doctrinalism and dull ......more

Stanley Cavell’s critical-aesthetic way of doing philosophy charts a unique path between dogmatic doctrinalism and dull ......more

James Hyde, a practicing painter, presents a radical and historically detailed investigation into how the concept of pic......more

Offers a fresh interpretation of French Symbolist poetics, showing how Mallarmé, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud used visionary,......more

Aesthetic Ethics: Towards A Moral Imagination seeks to challenge and expand the boundaries of how we conceive ethics and......more

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This book uses the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer to paint a picture of a creative, communal and hopeful modernity once prom......more

As the symbiotic relationship between human and machine unfolds, robotic vision facilitates a reshaping and reconstituti......more

The pursuit of knowledge has always been seen as the key to a better life, whether from an individual or collective pers......more

A profound, playful, and kaleidoscopic collection from one of our most evocative contemporary philosopher-poets. A posth......more

This Palgrave Companion brings together original essays by leading scholars to explore the multifaceted work of one of t......more

In Assemblage Theory and Affect, Ian Buchanan continues the project he began in Assemblage Theory and Method, of demysti......more

In Assemblage Theory and Affect, Ian Buchanan continues the project he began in Assemblage Theory and Method, of demysti......more

At a time when the representational expansion of women and LGBTQIA+ people in media coincides with the rise of global "a......more