Ｙ．Ａ - Aesthetics 1

Art Beyond the Edge is not just a title: it's a designation, a call to action, and a means to achieve enduring impact. Reflecting over a quarter century of collaborative artistic production, researc……続きを見る

How Not to Finish: A Book of February is a lyrical and philosophical meditation on the most irregular month of the year. Rather than treating February as a minor interval between winter and spring, ……続きを見る

January Ikigai: A New Poetic Genre of Presence is a contemplative work that resists definition while inviting attention. Situated between poetry, philosophy, and lived experience, the book unfolds t……続きを見る

Endless December is a quiet meditation on time, memory, and interior life, unfolding through poems and haiku shaped by the stillness of winter. Moving from observation to introspection, the collecti……続きを見る

At a time when the representational expansion of women and LGBTQIA+ people in media coincides with the rise of global “anti-gender” ideologies, Judith Butler's writings on gender, precarity, and liv……続きを見る

The externals of their lives could not have been more different. One was a celebrated wit and dramatist, the other a reclusive philosopher who, throughout his conscious life, lived and wrote in rela……続きを見る

In this masterful new work, film critic and philosopher Eyal Peretz forges a new connection between the concept of "America" and the medium of film. Through exemplary close readings of six fundament……続きを見る

Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers. It examines theoretical ideas, including Maori an……続きを見る

In "The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory," George Santayana presents a profound exploration of aesthetics, delving into the intricate relationship between beauty, human experi……続きを見る

We tend to think of ourselves using language. What if we thought instead about language working on us, or about language as something we experience rather than make use of? This book explores the ge……続きを見る

This book offers philosophical and psychoanalytical reflections on the selfhood shaped in autobiographical graphic narratives, or autographics. These reflections revolve around the ‘autographic gest……続きを見る

Violence is one of the most persistently repeated subjects in various discourses from the beginning of the twentieth century, and it has led to serious ontological disquisitions. When it comes to th……続きを見る

The purpose of this book is to systematize traditional Chinese aesthetic thought, reveal its internal logic, and carry out a dialogue with modern Western aesthetics, so as to rebuild the Chinese aes……続きを見る

Critical conversations and reflections about lessons learned at the intersection of social movements and artist production. Diversity of Aesthetics collects powerful and timely conversations among l……続きを見る

This book examines the question of aesthetic experience in the novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Tom McCarthy and Rachel Cusk in order to propose a reconsideration of aesthetic experienc……続きを見る

This book interrogates the concept of the subject in the poem, against the broader background of literary-theoretical issues related to the lyric subject. Specifically, what kind of subject is the s……続きを見る

Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays o……続きを見る

Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary device. Synesthetes’ descriptions of colors seen in conn……続きを見る

The Sense Of Beauty Being The Outlines Of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana is a philosophical exploration of the concept of beauty and its role in human experience. The work examines beauty not ……続きを見る

This book provides the first recent philosophical account of how ruins acquire aesthetic value. It draws on a variety of sources to explore modern ruins, the ruin tradition, and the phenomenon of “r……続きを見る

In 'The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory,' George Santayana delves into the philosophical underpinnings of beauty and aesthetic experience. This seminal work, characterized by……続きを見る

TheIndispensable Excess of the Aesthetic: Evolution of Sensibility in Nature traces the evolution of sensibility from the most primal indications detectable at the level of cellular receptors and pl……続きを見る

The first philosophical engagement with the pictorial work of Leonardo, seen as a systematic whole. Presented here is the first philosophical engagement with the pictorial work of Leonardo, seen as ……続きを見る

The insightful and informative book "Embracing Wabi-Sabi: Finding Beauty in Imperfection and Simplicity" delves into the age-old Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi. This book explores the core ideas of a……続きを見る

What is the “tragic imagination”? And what role does it play in the works of William Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson? Explaining the tragic imagination as a creative faculty employed to answer t……続きを見る

Traditional fine arts are often regarded as rarefied, something accessed by the uniquely talented and displayed in impressive museums or on lavish stages. Art thusly conceived is something that most……続きを見る

We derive a great deal of cognitive pleasure from asking what artworks mean. And yet, despite the seriousness with which we approach these questions, they all too often rely on theories of art that ……続きを見る

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qua……続きを見る

This open access book is the first comprehensive and systematic study of Chinese Marxist literary criticism as an independent theoretical form. It discusses and describes the theoretical features of……続きを見る

A passionate and moving tribute to the captivating power of dance, not just as an art form but as a language that transcends barriers Mindy Aloff, a journalist, an essayist, and a dance critic, anal……続きを見る