This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire ......more

Essays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time. In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikin......more

When we think of Iris Murdoch’s relationship with art forms, the visual arts come most readily to mind. However, music a......more

Twenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into qu......more

Twenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into qu......more

"Your artistry involves you intimately with the world around and beyond you. So your artistry involves profound but simp......more

The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discoun......more

This book is about the human mental capacities that are mostly veiled in the use of language yet can be revealed through......more

"A leading figure in neuroaesthetics makes the case that aesthetic experience can be meaningfully measured by the tools ......more

It has long been accepted that participating in music, either as a performer, listener, or composer, can contribute to h......more

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

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While wine dr......more

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Philosophical questions surrounding skill and expertise can be traced back as far as Ancient Greece, China, and India. I......more

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions connect......more

Higuchi provides insight into how this philosophy has developed in Japan, and the affinity it has developed with a non-W......more

This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, ......more

This title provides a systematic examination of the philosophy of Chinese art, exploring the peculiarity of artistic for......more

S ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) remains one of the most enigmatic, captivating, and elusive thinkers in the history of Eur......more

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the fir......more

This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following diffe......more

In this study I argue that paradox or paradoxicality in Seneca’s works and the Epistulae Morales in particular provides ......more

This book presents a skeptical eliminativist philosophy of race and the theory of racelessness, a methodological and ped......more

This thesis is concerned with the themes of individuality and relational connections between one and other. It starts by......more

I argue for the basic continuity of Plato’s account of causation, from the Forms-asaitiai hypothesis of his middle perio......more

Only in his Statesman does Plato present a philosopher of the caliber of the Eleatic Stranger giving a non-Socratic teac......more

Many commentators on the work of Martin Heidegger think that Heidegger neglects ethics. The standard criticism is that, ......more

Imagine a world where there are not enough resources to meet basic human needs. Imagine a world without enough food to f......more

People have always looked to the sky for inspiration, imagining a world that is above our own. Looking at the stars remi......more

In spite of its title, Hegel’s Science of Logic does not seem to be a work in logic at all. Clearly, its ambitions go we......more

Antonia Pont shows us how to identify when practising is happening and explains, using the early philosophy of Gilles De......more

The search for truth defines detective fiction. In classical detective stories this search begins with a question and en......more

The passage in Acts (17:16-34) depicting the apostle Paul debating with Epicurean and Stoic philosophers and delivering ......more

The fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that is, they are valuable in themselves. But this poses a......more

The fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that is, they are valuable in themselves. But this poses a......more

Pop art has traditionally been the most visible visual art within popular culture because its main transgression is easy......more

John Dewey, Albert Barnes, and the Continuity of Art and Life is a carefully-researched book offering a dynamic and expa......more

John Dewey, Albert Barnes, and the Continuity of Art and Life is a carefully-researched book offering a dynamic and expa......more

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Montage, découpage, mise en scène: these three French terms are central to debates around film history and aesthetics in......more

This book presents essays that address fundamental issues in social and cultural theory by viewing them through the lens......more

This book, The Kyoto Post-COVID Manifesto for Global Economics (KM-PC), is a sequel to our 2018 book, The Kyoto Manifest......more

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The German philosopher and poet Friedrich Schiller published a book of essays titled "Aesthetical and Philosophical Essa......more

Scottish photographic artist Alexander Hamilton presents his early formative years, sharing the way his engagement with ......more

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This book is an account of the theory and practice of practitioners of the so-called "second" or "younger" Viennese scho......more

How do comics produce such a striking range of vibrant stories, representations, and expressions of the sensibilities of......more

This book inaugurates a new phase in kitsch studies. Kitsch, an aesthetic slur of the 19th and the 20th century, is incr......more

Marking the 50th anniversary of one among this philosopher’s most distinguished pieces, Blumenberg’s Rhetoric proffers a......more

Giorgio Manganelli (1922-1990), one of Italy’s most radical and original writers, went further than most in exploring th......more

This book is a philosophical experiment in thinking, feeling, and willing beyond the transcendental threshold of Immanue......more

John Dewey was the foremost philosophical figure and public intellectual in early to mid-twentieth century America. He i......more

Comparing is one of the most essential practices, in our everyday life as well as in science and humanities. In this in-......more

This book puts into writing how alterity not only can be treated theoretically but also can be made accessible through w......more

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

Originally published in 1935, the aim of this title is first to give a clear outline of Florentine Neoplatonism, and the......more

Much of the interest in African philosophy, as a philosophical tradition, has been exhausted in the debate on the nature......more

This dissertation will seek to present the foundations and principles of the philosophy of Philip Melanchthon, the sixte......more

A set of basic principles that guide a coach’s behavior in practical situations" (pp. 12.3-12.4) is known as a coaching ......more

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Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to foc......more

Since the early 2000s there has been an increase in artists who are walking as an essential part of their artistic pract......more

How aesthetics--understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity--might become the primary discourse for p......more

The well-known Russian author Leo Tolstoy wrote a book titled "What Is Art?" in which he explores the importance and aim......more

This book is a collection of insightful writings on aesthetics and Chinese and Western art by ZONG Baihua, one of the mo......more

Dreams and fantasies of immorality date back to the first human being who was expelled from the Garden of Eden and fell ......more

Design permeates every dimension of our lifeworld, from the products we consume and the built environments in which we l......more

This book illuminates the aesthetically underrated meaningfulness of particular elements in works of art and aesthetic e......more

Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler frames the intertwined relationship between artistic endeavours and sci......more

This collection contributes to the understanding of the idea of development from Africa-based perspectives. African(ist)......more

In mammals feeding is regulated by homeostatic and hedonic mechanisms (1). A homeostatic mechanism is stimulated with en......more

This book concerns the experience of enchantment in art. Considering the essential characteristics, dynamics and conditi......more