Forthcoming Philosophy of Art & Aesthetics Books

Forthcoming Books

1. For Creative Geographies

   Geography, Visual Arts and the Making of Worlds

   By Harriet Hawkins

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   This book provides the first sustained critical exploration, and celebration, of the relationship between Geography and the contemporary Visual Arts. With the growth of research in the Geohumanities and the Spatial Humanities, there is an imperative to extend and deepen considerations of the form...

   To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Art and Ethics in a Material World

   Kant’s Pragmatist Legacy

   By Jennifer McMahon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant’s body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a Kantian legacy) leads one to put community reception ahead of individual reception in the order of aesthetic relations. A core premise of the book is...

   To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. Beauty, Violence, Representation

   Edited by Lisa Dickson, Maryna Romanets

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual art, theatre, film, and music. Charting diversifying interests in the subject of violence and beauty, dealing with the multiple inflections...

   To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Life Forms and Meaning Structure

   By Alfred Schutz

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Phenomenology

   This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928. The publication of these four essays adds much to our knowledge and appreciation of the wide range of Schutz’s phenomenological and sociological interests....

   To Be Published August 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture

   Edited by Lewis Johnson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

   This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility—actual, social, virtual, and imaginary—as related to visual culture. Contributors address these questions in light of important contemporary issues such as migration; globalization; trans-nationality and...

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Film Theories and Philosophies of Colour

   The Residual Image

   By Elizabeth Watkins

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Drawing together theoretical and philosophical debates about the nature of colour, this book examines the significance of colour for film theories of subjectivity and sexual difference. While existing studies on colour and film have focussed on its histories, technologies and aesthetics, an...

   To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge