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Martine Béland

Nietzsche as Stylist

Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in seventeen years. Nietzsche as Stylist traces the emergence of his idiosyncratic writing style as he experimented with various rheto…

Animal Dreams in Aesthetic Media

Der Sammelband untersucht aus intermedialer und komparatistischer Perspektive die Funktion von Tierfiguren in Traumdarstellungen in Literatur, bildender Kunst und Film. Dabei soll das ästhetische Potentia…

Beckett Ongoing

You must go on. I can t go on. I ll go on. These are some of the most quoted lines written by Samuel Beckett, which speak to the impulse of persevering in times of crisis and impossibility. Yet few reade…

Wonder in South Asia

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

Machine Head

The Blackening

Melvin Chen

Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aesthetic merit and the role of perception. What each chapter offers …

John Macarthur

Is Architecture Art?

Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and sculptures, or does their fundamentally functional nature…

Sandra Ruiz

Tears for Tears

How minoritarian artists grapple with both personal and collective grief Tears for Tears documents moments of tension, negotiation, transformation, and incommensurability between singular loss and mass d…

Maja Figge

Black (Post-)Cinemas

Contemporary Afro-diasporic post-cinematic practices should be considered to be genealogically linked with those established in militant African cinemas, but also with their quest of decolonizing (not onl…

Drones in Society

This book explores the evolving world of drones through a multifaceted lens, revealing their profound impact on society and visual culture. The comprehensive collection bridges the gap between technology …

Alfred Kubin

The ALBERTINA modern exhibition presents Alfred Kubin's view of the world of evil, the predominant theme of his life and work. The aesthetics of evil prove to be the antithesis of a tranquil idyll for him…

John Macarthur

Is Architecture Art?

Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and sculptures, or does their fundamentally functional nature…

Federico Vercellone,

The Illegitimate Age

Through an analysis of the katechon myth - a withholding power that contains the very evil it restrains - The Illegitimate Age reveals an aesthetic lens through which to interpret the legitimacy of politi…

Video Conferencing

The COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange, turning comparatively marginal technologies into the new normal. Multipoint videoconferencing in particular has become a favored means f…

Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz

Before Beauty

A critical revision of philosophical aesthetics from the vantage point of ongoing anticolonial struggles. While the poets and thinkers of the Enlightenment claimed that before beauty, all humans would be…

Joseph Masheck,

Faith in Art

Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting. By connecting ideas about faith with the initiators of abstract painting, Joseph Masheck reve…

Liturgy

Aesthetica

Liturgy is eine Geheimtipp-Band, die jüngst sogar schon in eher Metal-unaffinen Jahresbestenlisten auftauchte. Black Metal goes Feuilleton. Indie Black Metal. Wenn eine Band die Quadratur des Kr…

The Legacy of Neoplatonic Philosophy

Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: what are the key concepts in Neoplatonic aesthetics? And what impact has Neoplatonic…

Swedish Children¿s Cinema

Swedish children s cinema has a long and rich history. It encompasses the rascal films of the 1920s, the realism of the 1940s, the ambitious artistic renewal of the 1970s, the child empowering films of th…