Subject: Aesthetics (Keywords)

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 aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this book Charles Taliaferro guides us through different theories of art and beauty.

Rooted in the idea that architecture and interior design have the power to influence how we feel and that we are, for better and for worse, different people in different buildings, this book suggests how we might learn to build better, more attractive dwellings in which we would stand a higher ch...

Rooted in the idea that architecture and interior design have the power to influence how we feel and that we are, for better and for worse, different people in different buildings, this book suggests how we might learn to build better, more attractive dwellings in which we would stand a higher ch...

In this, his first book, celebrated New York Times critic A.O. Scott shows that we are, in fact, all critics. Indeed, that critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action and interpersonal life. Using his own film criticism as a starting point - everything from...

Decades of Beauty offers a unique treatment of female beauty and how it has been perceived since the end of the Victorian era. Each chapter covers one decade, outlining the 'look' current at that time.

What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? Body hair. 'Fat' thighs. Something's always 'too big' or 'too small'. We spend a lot of time hiding our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. Ideals that are often tyrannical, commercially entangled, homogenizing and imposed ...

A masterpiece of duality, Soren Kierkegaard's work explores the conflict between aesthetic and the ethical. Using two characters, he explores the virtues of a morally upstanding life, as well as contemplating the more seductive Epicurean pleasures.

Robert Wicks provides a sweeping survey of European aesthetics over the last 200 years. Presenting the theories of 16 important continental thinkers including Kant, Nietzsche, Freud and Derrida, this is a study of the evolution of continental thought in this key area of philosophy.