Aesthetics Products

Edited by Sharon Meagher

Hardback – 2019-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

By Amyas Merivale

This book offers the first comprehensive critical study of David Hume’s Four Dissertations of 1757, containing the Natural History of Religion, the Dissertation on the Passions, and the two essays Of Tragedy and Of the Standard of Taste. The author defends two important claims. The first is that…

Hardback – 2019-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Edited by Johannes Riis, Aaron Taylor

The contributors to Screening Characters draw on archival material, interviews, philosophical enquiry, and conceptual analysis in order to give a robust and multifaceted account of characterization in moving image fictions. Areas of investigation include the importance of performer and stars, the…

Hardback – 2019-02-01 
Routledge
AFI Film Readers

By Mark Silcox

This book defends an account of the positive psychological, ethical, and political value of simulated human experience. Philosophers from Plato and Augustine to Heidegger, Nozick, and Baudrillard have warned us of the dangers of living on too heavy a diet of illusion and make-believe. But…

Hardback – 2019-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

Edited by Adrienne M. Martin

The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy collects 39 original chapters from prominent philosophers on the nature, meaning, value, and predicaments of love, presented in a unique framework that highlights the rich variety of methods and traditions used to engage with these subjects. This volume…

Hardback – 2019-01-18 
Routledge
Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

By Richard Coyne

Paperback – 2019-01-15 
Routledge
Thinkers for Architects

By Patricia Marino

Writing for non-specialists and students as well as for fellow philosophers, this book explores some basic issues surrounding sex and love in today's world, among them consent, objectification, non-monogamy, racial stereotyping, and the need to reconcile contemporary expectations about gender…

Paperback – 2019-01-15 
Routledge

By Marek Wojtaszek

Hardback – 2019-01-01 
Routledge
Interdisciplinary Research in Gender

By Christopher Falzon

Movies hold a mirror up to us, portraying　the complexities of human reality through their characters and stories. And they　vividly illustrate　moral theories　that　address questions about　how we are to live and what sort of people we ought to be.　 In this book, Christopher Falzon uses movies to…

Paperback – 2018-12-21 
Routledge

Edited by Colin Tyler, James Connelly

Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, and other analytic philosophers of the early 20th century claimed to depart from the British idealists who dominated philosophical debate from the 1870s onwards. The nature and extent of this departure is now widely questioned as philosophers return to the writings of…

Hardback – 2018-12-20 
Routledge

By Mark Foster Gage

Political polarization, the unequal distribution of rights and massive economic inequality continues to dramatically divide today’s societies. As such, there is a pressing need for those who design the physical fabric in which we co-exist to challenge these divisive trends by imagining more than…

Paperback – 2018-12-04 
Routledge

By Dabney Townsend

In "Eighteenth Century British Aesthetics", editor Dabney Townsend has brought together the work of such well-known writers as John Dryden, Joshua Reynolds, David Hume, and Samuel Johnson with the more obscure works of aestheticians such as Uvedale Price, Daniel Webb, John Baillie, and James Harris…

Paperback – 2018-11-30 
Routledge
Foundations and Frontiers in Aesthetics Series