Overview :Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimit... Read More
Overview :Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: th... Read More
Overview :An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of ... Read More
Overview :An updated version of the classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Every book about wabi-sabi is based... Read More
Overview :On Being Blue is a book about everything blue--sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things--and about everything else. It brings us the w... Read More
Overview :"Gary Rogowski leads us gently but surely upon the path to a type of success we may not have previously considered. (Hint: it involves blist... Read More
Overview :Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last centur... Read More
Overview :What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of thea... Read More
Overview :An updated version of the classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Every book about wabi-sabi is based... Read More
Overview :Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics brings together some of Jacques Ranci re's most recent writings on art and politics to show the critic... Read More
Overview :The Meaning of the Creative Act is a seminal work for Nikolai Berdyaev. It adumbrates a number of crucially important themes that he develop... Read More
Overview :Winner of the 2017 New York City Big Book AwardIn The Map of Good Memories, a young girl takes time to remember her home before her and her ... Read More
Overview :In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas sci... Read More
Overview :Jacques Ranci re has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic "distributions of the sens... Read More
Overview :No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German cultur... Read More
Overview :No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German cultur... Read More
Overview :Paul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke's 'Enquiry', focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its innovation... Read More