This volume presents a selection of aesthetic and art theoretical writings by the internationally renowned philosopher A......more

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

In this thought-provoking book, Jane Rendell explores how architectural space registers in psychoanalysis. She investiga......more

What is it like to experience rapture? For philosopher Christopher Hamilton, it is a loss of self that is also a return ......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Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig’s unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of......more

In The Fold, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cos......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

Current neuroscience discloses that all emotional feeling originates as movement. Kinesthesia, our sixth sense, begins w......more

This is the second volume in a three-volume work dedicated to exploring the influence of G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophical th......more

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

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

Numinous Fields has its roots in a phenomenological understanding of perception. It seeks to understand what, beyond the......more

In Aesthetics in Arabic Thought from Pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus José Miguel Puerta Vílchez analyzes the disco......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 presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse - roughly from the Bronze Age to the early M......more

This book presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse - roughly from the Bronze Age to the early M......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

A brief study of select Western art from Italy’s foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small ......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

How our sense of smell engages with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political economy--and how it can help enrich our un......more

The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friends......more

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

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

First published in 1953, Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall argues that our response to tragedy is made up of......more

Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language collects together Gadamer’s most important untranslated writ......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

Honouring the memory of the late Bernard Stiegler, this edited collection presents a broad spectrum of contributions tha......more

This is the first of a three-volume work dedicated to exploring the influence of G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophical thinking i......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

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

How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment? Our world, incr......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

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

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

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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

Beyond Words argues that some works of fiction and poetry are especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding our awa......more

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

This is the first English translation of Gombrich: una teoría del arte, by Joaquín Lorda, originally published in 1991. ......more

This rich, in-depth exploration of Dada’s roots in East-Central Europe is a vital addition to existing research on Dada ......more

First published in 1938, An Essay on Critical Appreciation aims to provide a language suited for the explication on beau......more

This is the first book to gather together R. K. Elliott s important essays on aesthetics. These essays put forward a num......more

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

Aesthetic Collectives works to name, describe, and analyse the notion of collectivity in performance....more

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

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

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

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. These days th......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

​This open access neuroaesthetics textbook, the first in the world, is designed for teaching a semester module (14 meeti......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

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

The title of this book, The European Avant-Garde - A Hundred Years Later, implies the European avant-garde took place a ......more

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

This collection of original essays by both artists and academics explores the significance of Wittgenstein’s writings ac......more

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

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

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