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Originally published: London: MacMillan and Co., 1914.

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Small, beautiful, classic of philosophy, with new cover.

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"Reality Hunger" is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are ... More

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A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film.

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The Continental Aesthetics Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of classic writings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in ... More

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In this classic work, Adorno revolutionized music theory through an analysis of two composers he saw as polar opposites, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor ... More

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This is the first of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory ... More

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With astounding range and scholarly command, "The First Moderns" provides "a comprehensive, insightful study of that elusive monster of an ... More

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Francis Hutcheson's first book, "An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, " was published in 1725, when its author was only ... More

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One of the major cultural philosophers of our time addresses, in his powerful and allusive critical voice, Malraux's reflections on art and ... More

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Ginzburg, "the preeminent Italian historian of his generation [who] helped create the genre of microhistory" ("New York Times"), ruminates on how ... More

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Originally published in 1962, when Lefebvre was beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Strasbourg, it established his ... More

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In the past two decades various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is ... More

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These reflections on Wagner's "Ring" offer an illuminating look at this great opera, focusing on the work's far-reaching and subtle exploration of ... More

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This book traces the challenge posed to the academic canon by the emergent avant-garde of the early and mid-nineteenth century, the significant shies ... More

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In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life ... More

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Reclaiming the humanistic role of architecture in theage of technology: an examination of architecture's indispensablerole as a cultural force ... More

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Christopher Janaway presents a full commentary on Nietzsche's most studied work, On the Genealogy of Morality, and combines close reading of key ... More

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He was famously hostile to biography as a literary form. And yet this life of Adorno by one of his last students is far more than literary in its ... More

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The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. The theories developed in this relatively short text have had a ... More

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The first comprehensive introduction to one of the most influential French thinkers writing today, exploring Ranciere's ideas on philosophy, ... More

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