Forthcoming Philosophy of Art & Aesthetics Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Rethinking Aesthetics

   The Role of Body in Design

   Edited by Ritu Bhatt

   Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between body and design. These essays argue that aesthetic experiences can be nurtured at any moment in...

   To Be Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Creative Geographies

   Geography, Visual Art and the Making of Worlds

   By Harriet Hawkins

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   Since the publication of Iconography of the Landscape and Fields of Vision, wherein the valuable contribution of the analysis of representational landscape painting, among other creative practices, to debates on landscape, space, politics and power was realized, geography’s engagements with the...

   To Be Published March 30th 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 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. 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 31st 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. Japanese Gardens

   By Seiko Goto

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge