Horowitz (philosophy, Vanderbilt U.) takes the subject of death in art in the work of Kant, Hegel, and Freud. He then examines the progress of the theme of memorialization in the art of Gerhard Richt
From Gary Larson's The Far Side to George Herriman's Krazy Kat, comic strips have two obvious defining features. They are visual narratives, using both words and pictures to tell stories, and they use
Experiences of the singular, astonishing, and unexpected captivated the early modern imagination, writes Witmore (English, Carnegie Mellon U.), engaging as they did both a poetic appetite for the "str
Things are particulars and their qualities are universals, but do universals have an existence that is distinct from that of particular things? And what is their nature if they do? In Universals J.P.
"Art and Knowledge" argues that the experience of art is so rewarding because it can be an important source of knowledge about ourselves and our relation to each other and to the world. He argues that
Contrary to Plato, Zangwill (philosophy, U. of Glasgow) sees beauty as always tied to things of this world: "Beauty cannot be solitary and we cannot appreciate it as such." And Zangwill takes for gran
This comprehensive anthology provides a collection of classic and contemporary readings in continental aesthetics. Spanning Romanticism through Modernism to Postmodernism, the volume includes landmark
Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends ev
Primitive Renaissance argues that the radicality of early-twentieth-century movements such as expressionism was not their modernism but rather their primitivism. At the heart of the work of Friedrich
Odin (Japanese and comparative philosophy, U. of Hawai'i) takes the notion of artistic detachment as an intercultural motif for east-west comparative aesthetics. After overviewing aesthetic attitude t
Laycock (philosophy, University of Toledo) seeks to resolve the incoherence implicit in the Sartean conception of nothingness by opening it to a Buddhist vision of emptiness. Rooted in the Madhyamika
Dreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct us in the art of mental compos
In a companion to her Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader , Marra (Japanese literature, U. of California-Los Angeles) compiles 21 articles from scholarly journals and book chapters to provide a cros
Are gardens works of art? What is involved in creating a garden? How are gardens experienced by those who stroll through them?In What Gardens Mean, Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy as well as the hi
A comprehensive commentary on both Divisions of Heidegger's Being and Time , for newcomers and specialists alike. Beginning with a non- technical exposition of Heidegger's question, "What does it mea
This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all
