Aesthetics Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Wittgenstein's Novels

   By Martin Klebes

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists. Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Animality in British Romanticism

   The Aesthetics of Species

   By Peter Heymans

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book’s novel approach focuses on the role of...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science

   Edited by Bruce Clarke, Manuela Rossini

   Series: Routledge Companions

   With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three main sections, this volume: links...

   Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

   By John Lechte

   Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

   With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies that a faith in the principle of an "...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Fifty Key Texts in Art History

   Edited by Diana Newall, Grant Pooke

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern. It explores some of the central and emerging themes, issues and debates within Art History as an increasingly expansive and globalised discipline. It features an...

   Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts

   Edited by Matthew Kieran, Dominic McIver Lopes

   Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
8. Heidegger and the Romantics

   The Literary Invention of Meaning

   By Pol Vandevelde

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

   While there are many books on the romantics, and many books on Heidegger, there has been no book exploring the connection between the two. Pol Vandevelde’s new study forges this important link. Vandevelde begins by analyzing two models that have addressed the interaction between literature and...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Charlotte Yonge

   Rereading Domestic Religious Fiction

   Edited by Tamara Wagner

   Charlotte Yonge, a dedicated religious, didactic, and domestic novelist, has become one of the most effectively rediscovered Victorian women writers of the last decades. Her prolific output of fiction does not merely give a fascinatingly different insight into nineteenth-century popular culture; it...

   Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
10. On Manners

    By Karen Stohr

    Series: Thinking in Action

    Many otherwise enlightened people often dismiss etiquette as a trivial subject or—worse yet—as nothing but a disguise for moral hypocrisy or unjust social hierarchies. Such sentiments either mistakenly assume that most manners merely frame the “real issues” of any interpersonal exchange or...

    Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge