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These essays explore Hans-Georg Gadamer's writings on art and literature in English.

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Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we ... More

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Esteemed critic, painter, and writer Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe offers a provocative critique of beauty in relation to the contemporary notion of the ... More

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This distinguished series presents selections from the greatest national collection of American art, offering popularly priced, high-quality ... More

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All human societies throughout history have given a special place to the arts. Even nomadic peoples who own scarcely any material possessions ... More

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What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by ... More

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Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect ... More

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An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of ... More

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"Transfigurements" develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the ... More

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Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, Bolt's striking argument engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C ... More

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Carnal Knowledge is an outcome of the renewed energy and interest in moving beyond the discursive construction of reality to understand the ... More

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Reality TV has emerged as a significant category of television production, fueled by new technologies that offer unprecedented intimacy, immediacy, ... More

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In this original work on aesthetics, philosopher John Dilworth offers an unusual theory of the nature of artworks. The Double Content (DC) view is ... More

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A strikingly original work, "Friends of Interpretable Objects" re-anchors aesthetics in the object of attention even as it redefines the practice, ... More

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This volume addresses the impact of human movement on the aesthetic practices that make up the fabric of culture. The essays explore the ways in ... More

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Volume II of Lyotard's Miscellaneous d104s, "Contemporary Artists," gathers thirty-nine essays by Lyotard that deal with twenty-seven influential and ... More

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Aesthetic judgment is extended beyond art and nature into the everyday in The Extraordinary in the Ordinary.

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The first volume of Jean-Francois Lyotard's Miscellaneous Texts contains nine essays on general aesthetics and the theory of art. The second gathers ... More

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"The Ends of Art and Design" proposes a new way to think about the relationship between design and culture as well as new roles for design education ... More

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