An acclaimed sociologist’s exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics In The Performer......more

"Explores the vehicles and robotic extensions of ourselves that we cast out into the solar system to photograph, probe, ......more

What is it like to experience rapture? For philosopher Christopher Hamilton, it is a loss of self that is also a return ......more

Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig’s unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of......more

Chantal Mouffe has transformed the contemporary understanding of politics through her re-reading of political theory ins......more

What is the "tragic imagination"? And what role does it play in the works of William Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson......more

Although philosophers have examined and commented on music for centuries, Martin Heidegger, one of the greatest philosop......more

A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging fro......more

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

Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the previous century’s most provocative thinkers. Can his work help us addr......more

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Mimesis, Expression, Construction brings Fredric Jameson’s famous Duke University seminar on Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory i......more

Bringing together Bataille with Lacan and Nietzsche, Tim Themi examines the role of aesthetics, implicit in each, and ho......more

An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions ......more

An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions ......more

Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary: Rites Of Disimagination brings together scholar......more

What is music?Modern society has come to view music largely as entertainment and commodity. In response, We Are Music: A......more

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This book is a collection of 15 essays on important themes in Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as linguistic normativity,......more

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at......more

Why do liberals and conservatives differ so consistently on such varied issues? Why do people fight so bitterly over pol......more

A philosophical exploration of aesthetic experience during bereavement. In Aesthetics of Grief and Mourning, philosopher......more

Welcome to "Ikigai Mastery: Embracing the Japanese Art of Finding Joy in Purpose - A Practical Guide to Living a Life of......more

’The Aestheticization of History and the Butterfly Effect: Visual Arts Series’ introduces the audience to philosophical ......more

Drawing on an extensive yet concise review of the history of cross-cultural aesthetics, the volume presents the scientis......more

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist ac......more

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of "carefree wandering," deconstruct the puritanism a......more

Enea Bianchi provides the first in-depth introduction to the pioneering thought of 20th-century Italian philosopher, Mar......more

Connecting poetry and philosophy of language, Philip Mills bridges the continental and analytical divide by bringing tog......more

The title of this book, Derivative Lives, alludes to the challenge of finding one’s way within the contemporary market o......more

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read at Oxford Academ......more

The Nabokov Effect attends to the ’lettrocalamity’ that occurs when literature and cinema collide in Vladimir Nabokov’s ......more

Konrad Wojnowski argues that the probabilistic revolution, while recognized and investigated by historians of science, h......more

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

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. As a former w......more

In 2008 an Iraqi artist was waterboarded as performance art. In 2010 artists upturned police cars in Russia. But what ex......more

Tempus studies tense uses, ancient and modern, in great literature and everyday life and in all the major languages of w......more

Tempus studies tense uses, ancient and modern, in great literature and everyday life and in all the major languages of w......more

This book differentiates between and analyzes the Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist spirit in traditional Chinese aesthetic......more

Using Iran as an example of an ancient civilization with a sustained course of continuity all the way to the present tim......more

ASHÉ Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international schola......more

Through a close re-examination of Eugene O’Neill’s oeuvre, from minor plays to his Pulitzer-winning works, this study pr......more

This volume stages a series of encounters between the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and leading scholars of his work......more

This volume focuses upon one of Peter Sloterdijk’s central ideas, anthropotechnics. The essays included in this volume e......more

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a c......more

Winner, ASA (American Society for Aesthetics) 2023 Outstanding Monograph Prize For Theodore Gracyk meaning in popular mu......more

Laughter is communication. It is melody without words; it is a song as old as humanity itself. But what does laughter "s......more

The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and e......more

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a force of nature. At 90 years old he is still making films and is a cultural phenomenon who has......more

This book explores the political-aesthetic practices of transgender women in Lima, Peru, and how they use these to survi......more

This book explores several critical connections between Black African objects and white Western aesthetics and artwork i......more

This exhaustively-researched, carefully-focused book asks whether imagination, emotion and art can enlighten our sense o......more

In this new book, Florian Klinger gives readers a basic action-theoretical account of the aesthetic. While normal action......more

A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno’s work as a critique animated by happiness. Theodor Adorno is often port......more

New Critical Nostalgia weighs the future of literary study by reassessing its past. It tracks today’s impassioned debate......more

This book challenges the dominant expertise professionalism rationale for music education by responding to the call to d......more

Reconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and l......more

"The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics" by Vernon Lee is a groundbreaking exploration into the worl......more

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In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger’s philosophy of art to include his ontological account of poet......more

What is the future of conceptualism? What expressions can it take in the 21st century? Is there a new role for aesthetic......more

Taste and Experience in Eighteenth Century Aesthetics acknowledges theories of taste, beauty, the fine arts, genius, exp......more

How do words and images function hermeneutically? How does hermeneutic practice work? Answering these questions and more......more

Turkish science fiction dates back to the early years of the twentieth century and serious development has been seen eve......more

Chart Your Course For Ascension... Then Let Your Spirit Fly! Unlock your ultimate spiritual potential by removing barrie......more

This book examines these sublime linkages in a comparative and interdisciplinary way. Engaging and intersectional, this ......more

This book is an exploration of original, critical, and creative thinking through the lens of my creative philosophy. It ......more

This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an a......more

This collection delves into the conceptual and semantic dissection of aesthetic and moral emotions. It grapples with the......more

This book covers the field of and points to the intersections between politics, art and philosophy. Its hero, the late S......more

Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination For Ple......more

In Beyond the Sovereign Self Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, s......more

In Beyond the Sovereign Self Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, s......more

This book develops a theory of aesthetics that criticizes scientific and philosophical reductionism that denies the impo......more