Philosophy of Art & Aesthetics Books

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1. Law and Art: Ethics, Aesthetics, Justice

   Edited by Oren Ben-Dor

   The contributions to Law and Art address the interaction between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic. The exercise of the legal role and the scholarly understanding of legal texts were classically defined as ars iuris - an art of law - which drew on the panoply of humanist disciplines, from...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-56021-4 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

2. Derrida for Architects

   By Richard Coyne

   Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida’s thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida‘s treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as "deconstruction," a term that resonates with architecture. Although his main focus is...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-59179-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Benjamin for Architects

   By Brian Elliott

   Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy. Examining Benjamin’s contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-55815-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Bourdieu for Architects

   By Helena Webster

   Pierre Bourdieu is arguably one of the twentieth century’s greatest socio-philosophical thinkers and his writings have much to offer anyone interested in the ways that people value, consume and produce architecture. Bourdieu spent much of his life attempting to understand cultural consumption and...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-49615-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class

   Edited by Daria Berg, Chloe Starr

   The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and cultural practices in China from 1550 to 1999, showing how the notion of gentility has evolved and retained its relevance in China from late...

   May 2009 | 978-0-415-54541-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   On Criticism

   By Noel Carroll

   In a recent poll of practicing art critics, 75 percent reported that rendering judgments on artworks was the least significant aspect of their job. This is a troubling statistic for philosopher and critic Noel Carroll, who argues that that the proper task of the critic is not simply to...

   2008 | 978-0-415-39621-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   On Landscapes

   By Susan Herrington

   There is no escaping landscape: it's everywhere and part of everyone's life. Landscapes have received much less attention in aesthetics than those arts we can choose to ignore, such as painting or music - but they can tell us a lot about the ethical and aesthetic values of the societies that...

   2008 | 978-0-415-99125-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful

   By Edmund Burke

   Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton. 'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'– The Guardian Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many...

   2008 | 978-0-415-45326-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Aesthetics and Material Beauty: Aesthetics Naturalized

   By Jennifer A. McMahon

   In Aesthetics and Material Beauty, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking Kantian aesthetics as a starting point and drawing upon contemporary theories of mind from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. The creative process does...

   2007 | 978-0-415-37830-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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    The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference

    By Christine Battersby

    Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work, she undertakes an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the most important topics in contemporary debates about modernity, politics and art....

    2007 | 978-0-415-14811-5 | Paperback (Routledge)