It has often been claimed that music derives some or all of its artistic value from the relation in which it stands to the emotions. This book presents and subjects to critical examination the chief theories about the relationship between the art of music and the emotions.
This is an exciting exploration of the role art plays in our lives. Mattick takes the question "What is art?" as a basis for a discussion of the natur..
Art and Knowledge argues that the experience of art is so rewarding because it can be an important source of knowledge about ourselves and our relatio..
This book, ideal for anyone coming to Kant's Critique of Judgment for the first time, introduces this philosophical classic and places it in its histo..
This acclaimed anthology is ideal for newcomers to aesthetics or philosophy of art and includes new sections on pornography and erotica and societies ..
In A Philosophy of Computer Art Dominic Lopes argues that computer art challenges some of the basic tenets of traditional ways of thinking about and m..
The problem of images – how one thing can represent another – has been a central issue in philosophy since Plato and preoccupied recent philosophers s..
Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories a..
First published in 1927, Science and Philosophy: And Other Essays is a collection of individual papers written by Bernard Bosanquet during his highly ..
In On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry Diarmuid Costello examines the fascinating questions about the very nature of photography. Written in a cle..
Art and Phenomenology is one of the first books to explore visual art as a mode of experiencing the world itself, showing how in the words of Merleau-..
Opinionated and example-filled, this extremely concise and accessible book provides a survey of some fundamental and longstanding debates about the na..
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Mulholland Drive in the Routledge Philosophers on Film series is the first full philosophical appraisal of Lynch's film. Essential reading for..