Modernism and Its Discontents

Bruce E Fleming

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 26
• Literary theory of the twentieth century in the Anglo-American tradition forms a coherent whole, dividing into discrete clusters. This theory is riddl... Lees meer

The Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft

Timo Airaksinen

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 29
• H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a great horror writer, correspondent, and philosopher. This book focuses on his stories, texts, and ideas. It attempts... Lees meer

The Crisis of Judgment in Kant's Three «Critiques»

Irmgard B Scherer

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 16
• This study focuses on Kant's attempt to find the link between feeling and cognition on a priori grounds in the three Critiques to make philosophical j... Lees meer

A Relational Aesthetic

Harold W McSwain Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 18
• A Relational Aesthetic proposes a philosophy of aesthetics offering an alternative to «classical aesthetics» and the general course of aesthetics sinc... Lees meer

Visual Art as Theology

Barbara Dee Baumgarten

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 21
• Visual Art as Theology is a post-critical aesthetics for theology based on the epistemology of Michael Polanyi. This aesthetics is employed in examini... Lees meer

Peirce's Esthetics of Freedom

Roberta Kevelson

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 12
• According to Peirce, the value of the idea of freedom arises only to oppose the idea of necessity. Freedom emerges as a working value, a primary esthe... Lees meer

Radical Fragments

James L Marsh

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 9
• This book is a philosophical-literary reflection on the condition of the possibility of radical intellectual life, art, culture, politics, and religio... Lees meer

Diderot and Rousseau's Contributions to Aesthetics

Servanne Woodward

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 8
• This informative and thought-provocating book gives an intimate portrait of two major 18th-century French philosophers famous for their influence over... Lees meer

Structure and Chaos in Modernist Works

Bruce E Fleming

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 27
• The works of Modernism (ca. 1910-1930), in the last years of our century, tend to be treated as mere facts, mines for history and biography. In fact t... Lees meer

The Republic of Art and Other Essays

Diffey

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 6
• This book brings together a series of related essays by a philosopher principally addressing the controversial question, «What is art?», and consideri... Lees meer

Hegel's Theory of Aesthetic Judgment

Robert Wicks

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 15
• Wide-ranging in its philosophical scope, Hegel's Theory of Aesthetic Judgment , critically examines the historical and logical foundations of judgment... Lees meer

Kenneth Macgowan and the Aesthetic Paradigm for the New Stagecraft in America

Thomas A Bloom

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 20
• The American theatrical critic Kenneth Macgowan fashioned an aesthetic defense for a new visual style of scenic design that began to appear on the Ame... Lees meer

On Hume and Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics

Giancarlo Carabelli

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 22
• This study is an original approach to the notion of «golden mean» in eighteenth-century culture. It bravely combines intellectual history and material... Lees meer

Pina Bausch and the Wuppertal Dance Theater

Ciane Fernandes

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 34
• This book embarks on an interdisciplinary study of dance theater, one that provides a deeper insight into contemporary performing arts. Ciane Fernande... Lees meer

Caging the Lion

Bruce E Fleming

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 13
• One of the greatest challenges facing Western society today is that of coming to terms with societies other than our own. Caging the Lion summarizes t... Lees meer

Power and Imagination

Leonidas Donskis

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 39
• Classical and modern literature often reveal more about the organized world's forms of power and authority structures than do works of political philo... Lees meer

Making the Body Heard

David Appelbaum

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 2
• How do we perceive reality? What role does the body play in the act of perception? Making the Body Heard takes up a neglected aspect of perceiving our... Lees meer

Subjektive Aesthetik

Joachim Jung

• Hardcover | Duits | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 1
• Das vorliegende Werk enthält ein neues ästhetisches System, das auf der spezifischen Empfindung des Einzelnen beruht. Während die Subjektivität in der... Lees meer

The Aesthetics of Decay

Dylan Trigg

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 37
• In The Aesthetics of Decay , Dylan Trigg confronts the remnants from the fallout of post-industrialism and postmodernism. Through a considered analysi... Lees meer

Law and Aesthetics

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 11
• The pluralistic and interdisciplinary nature of semiotics has never been more pronounced than it is in our assembly of scholars approaching the idea o... Lees meer

Individuality and Expression

Dianne S Howe

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 24
• While much has been written about the visual artists and playwrights of early twentieth-century Germany - Nolde, Kandinsky, Kokoschka and others - the... Lees meer

Music and Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Bhesham R Sharma

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 31
• One of T. W. Adorno's greatest philosophical achievements, The Philosophy of Modern Music , continues to be one of his most misunderstood. Many schola... Lees meer

Mussolini's Fascist Philosopher

M E Moss

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 36
• Giovanni Gentile was one of the most important and controversial thinkers of twentieth-century Italy. His philosophy and fascist ideas reflect the def... Lees meer

Creativity, Culture and Values

Shirley Paolini

• Hardcover | Engels | New Studies in Aesthetics | nr. 5
• This book examines the relationship between creativity and cultural values, including Western and Eastern perspectives. Creativity, as process and pro... Lees meer