Routledge Research in Aesthetics

By Ivan Gaskell

This book is an exploration of how art—specifically paintings in the European manner—can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings. Ivan Gaskell argues that the search for…

Hardback – 2019-05-27 
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Routledge Research in Aesthetics

By Paul Crowther

This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become empowered—by adapting ourselves to what creation in the different art forms makes possible. Paul Crowther argues that the great political task in aesthetics is no longer…

Hardback – 2019-03-21
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Routledge Research in Aesthetics

By Michael Newall

Until now, research on art schools has been largely occupied with the facts of particular schools and teachers. This book presents a philosophical account of the underlying practices and ideas that have come to shape contemporary art school teaching in the UK, US and Europe. It analyses two models…

Hardback – 2018-11-08
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Routledge Research in Aesthetics

By Rupert Read

Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of ‘arthouse’ and Hollywood films. Each…

Hardback – 2018-10-22
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Routledge Research in Aesthetics

By Michael Boylan

What is the philosophical voice within literature? Does literature have a voice of its own? Can this voice really be philosophical in its own right? In this book, Michael Boylan argues that some literary works indeed can make their own unique claims in different areas of philosophy. He calls this…

Hardback – 2018-10-22
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Routledge Research in Aesthetics

By John M. Carvalho

This book advances an enactivist theory of aesthetics through the study of inscrutable artworks that challenge us to think because we do not know what to think about them. John M. Carvalho presents detailed analyses a four artworks that share this unique characteristic: Francis Bacon’s Study After…

Hardback – 2018-07-27
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Routledge Research in Aesthetics

Edited by Jérôme Pelletier, Alberto Voltolini

The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. In particular, it is concerned with the character and intimacy of this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between pictorial experience and aesthetic…

Hardback – 2018-07-11
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Routledge Research in Aesthetics

By Richard Gaskin

This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing…

Hardback – 2018-04-30
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Routledge Research in Aesthetics

Edited by Jon Robson, Grant Tavinor

This collection of essays is devoted to the philosophical examination of the aesthetics of videogames. Videogames represent one of the most significant developments in the modern popular arts, and it is a topic that is attracting much attention among philosophers of art and aestheticians. As a…

Hardback – 2018-03-26
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Routledge Research in Aesthetics

Edited by Mathew Abbott

This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. It demonstrates that Fried’s work on modernism, artistic intention, the ontology of art, theatricality,…

Hardback – 2018-02-07
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Routledge Research in Aesthetics