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Could the fate of humanity be in the hands of one single person? So many different things could erase humans from the surface of this planet. In this novel, the threat that Homo sapiens face would a……続きを見る

Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including art theory, cultural and visual studies, and philosophy. Gender and Aesthetics is a……続きを見る

Santayana at 150: International Interpretations is a collection of essays by seventeen authors celebrating the life and thought of Spanish–American philosopher George Santayana. This book appears on……続きを見る

Μια σειρά συλλογισμών σαν φωνή λαού εν ώρα βομβαρδισμών στη Βαγδάτη με τα πλέον μοντέρνα υπερόπλα εναντίων ενός λαού με άσπρους χιτώνες, επί το πλείστον μικροί ή μέσοι βιοπαλαιστές . Αιμάτινο ποτάμι……続きを見る

Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visible physical world at the expense of the invisible ……続きを見る

Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone e……続きを見る

This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that make the aesthetic and artistic worthy of philosophical study. Aesthetic cognition ha……続きを見る

The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice investigates the widely debated, deeply flawed yet influential concept of the uncanny through the lens of feminist theory and contemporary art practic……続きを見る

This important book addresses critical themes in the development of archaeology as a reflexive, self-critical discipline in the modern world. It explores the ethical, political and cultural tensions……続きを見る

Konstantin Pollok offers the first book-length analysis of Kant's theory of normativity that covers foundational issues in theoretical and practical philosophy as well as aesthetics. Interpreting Ka……続きを見る

The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media. Defined as a pleasurable mental state that emerges during the reception of texts and artefacts, it amounts to the reader'……続きを見る

Les contribucions recollides en aquest volum mostren el rebuig a una consideració de l?art i de l?estètica com a camps de treball tancats en si mateixos, i es centren, particularment, en interrogant……続きを見る

What do present generations owe the future? In Future Freedoms, Elizabeth Markovits asks readers to consider the fact that while democracy holds out the promise of freedom and autonomy, citizens are……続きを見る

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a c……続きを見る

This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring ……続きを見る

Heranças de Derrida é uma obra publicada em 3 volumes, que reúne os textos apresentados no I Colóquio Internacional Desconstrução, Linguagem e Alteridade, ocorrido no Instituto de Filosofia e Ciênci……続きを見る

Abe Kobo (1924–1993) was one of Japan's greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative science fiction and plays of the absurd. However, he also wrote theoretical criticism for whic……続きを見る

Speed is an obvious facet of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and antimodern. Challenging a long tradition of thought, Lutz Koepnick instead proposes w……続きを見る

The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy presents a range of chapters written by a highly international group of scholars from disciplines such as literary studies, arts, t……続きを見る

Op mod 1950 indledte F.J. Billeskov Jansen et ikke-litteraturvidenskabeligt forfatterskab, idet han i essays og kronikker ikke blot drøftede sit fag, men også emner af psykologisk og almen livsfilos……続きを見る

After Taste is an inquiry into a field of study dedicated to the reconsideration, reconstruction and rehabilitation of the concept of Taste. Taste is the category, whose systematic, historical and a……続きを見る

After Taste is an inquiry into a field of study dedicated to the reconsideration, reconstruction and rehabilitation of the concept of Taste. Taste is the category, whose systematic, historical and a……続きを見る

After Taste is an inquiry into a field of study dedicated to the reconsideration, reconstruction and rehabilitation of the concept of Taste. Taste is the category, whose systematic, historical and a……続きを見る

The main themes and aims of this book are understanding aesthetics, contemporary art and the end of the avant-garde not from the traditional viewpoint of the metaphysics of the beautiful and the sub……続きを見る

Bilder zeigen – dies scheint die Prämisse alles Bildhaften zu sein. Dabei wird meist stillschweigend akzeptiert, dass sie mithin verbergen müssen, um das Gezeigte ins Licht des Sichtbaren zu überfüh……続きを見る

This book offers a variety of interesting topics such as the beauty of mankind. That the distance of the earth from the center of our galaxy is a contributing factor in our beauty. How is it that a ……続きを見る

Addressing objective and subjective views of the self and the world in philosophy and poetry, this collection brings together a chronology of John Koethe's thoughts on the connections between the tw……続きを見る

In recent years, the terms "ethics," "politics," "performativity," and "experience" have proliferated throughout the discourse of the humanities. However, it is rarely noted that their contemporary ……続きを見る

The monograph outlines the dual role of mathematics in relation to beauty. On one hand mathematics refers to an objective, through mathematical formulas expressible side of beauty. On the other hand……続きを見る

This book aims to present trompe-l’œil painting, which epitomizes the myth of the illusionistic image – an early modern way of thinking about pictures, according to which it is possible to create an……続きを見る