Aesthetics Books

New and Published Books

1. A Philosophy of the Screenplay

   By Ted Nannicelli

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines—including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies—have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of the screenplay. To this end, this volume addresses the fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of the...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Imagination

   Edited by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand

   Series: Birkbeck Law Press

   The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Birkbeck Law Press
3. The World of Perception

   By Maurice Merleau-Ponty

   'Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own.'In 1948, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote and delivered on French radio a series of seven lectures on the theme of perception. Translated here into English for the first time, they offer a lucid and concise insight into one of the great...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Nefer

   The Aesthetic Ideal in Classical Egypt

   By Willie Cannon-Brown

   Series: African Studies

   This book provides an original treatment of the concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks to examine the dimensions of nefer, the term used to describe the good and the beautiful, within the context of ordinary life. Because the book is based upon original research on ancient Egypt...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Vertigo

   Edited by Katalin Makkai

   Series: Philosophers on Film

   Released in 1958, Vertigo is widely regarded as Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece and one of the greatest films of all time. This is the first book devoted to exploring the philosophical aspects of Vertigo. Following an introduction by the editor that places the film in context, each chapter reflects...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. Performance and the Politics of Space

   Theatre and Topology

   Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Benjamin Wihstutz

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. Proust as Philosopher

   The Art of Metaphor

   By Miguel de Beistegui

   Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time has long fascinated philosophers for its complex accounts of time, personal identity and narrative, amongst many other themes. Proust as Philosopher: The Art of Metaphor is the first book to try and connect Proust’s implicit ontology of experience with the...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
8. Science and Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

   And Other Essays

   By Bernard Bosanquet

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1927, Science and Philosophy: And Other Essays is a collection of individual papers written by Bernard Bosanquet during his highly industrious philosophical life. The collection was put together by Bosanquet’s wife after the death of the writer and remains mostly unaltered with...

   Published July 15th 2012 by Routledge
9. Aesthetics After Metaphysics

   From Mimesis to Metaphor

   By Miguel Beistegui

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has consistently overlooked, such was its commitment – explicit or implicit – to mimesis and the metaphysics of truth it presupposes. De Beistegui refers to this dimension, which unfolds...

   Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature

    By Ulrich Plass

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    Plass argues that Adorno’s essays on literature are of prime importance for an understanding of his aesthetics because they challenge the conceptual limitations of philosophical discourse....

    Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge