Routledge Research in Aesthetics
Critique of Practical Music: Music and Moral Development
1st Edition
By James O. Young
July 16, 2025
This book offers a systematic survey of ethos theory: the theory according to which the right sort of music can have a positive or negative effect on moral development. It also evaluates the extant empirical literature on music and moral development. The belief that the right sort of music promotes...
The Revival of Beauty: Aesthetics, Experience, and Philosophy
1st Edition
By Catherine Wesselinoff
December 18, 2024
This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century “Anti-Aesthetic” movement and the 21st-century “Beauty Revival” movement. It also includes a positive defence of beauty as a lived experience extrapolated from Beauty-Revival ...
The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Lee Rothfarb, Alexander Wilfing, Christoph Landerer
November 20, 2024
This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslick’s influential aesthetic treatise, On the Musically Beautiful (1854). The contributions reveal the philosophical foundations and subtleties of his aesthetic approach. The collection features ...
The Expression of Emotion in the Visual Arts
1st Edition
Edited
By Derek Matravers, Vanessa Brassey
November 08, 2024
The visual arts have long been held to have an intimate link with emotions. Despite this, the topic remains underexplored; when the expression of emotion is discussed, it is usually in relation to music. This volume corrects this lacuna and presents a variety of perspectives on the expression of ...
A Somaesthetics of Performative Beauty: Tangoing Desire and Nostalgia
1st Edition
By Falk Heinrich
October 08, 2024
This book develops an original theory of performative beauty. Philosophical aesthetics has largely neglected one’s own actions as a potential experience of the beautiful. Throughout the book, the author uses his own experiences of Argentine tango as a case study; one important incentive for social ...
Abstraction in Science and Art: Philosophical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Chiara Ambrosio, Julia Sánchez-Dorado
September 30, 2024
This volume explores the roles and uses of abstraction in scientific and artistic practice. Conceived as an interdisciplinary dialogue between experts across histories and philosophies of art and science, this collection of essays draws on the shared premise that abstraction is a rich and ...
Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Aesthetics: Art as a Performative, Dynamic, Communal Event
1st Edition
By Cynthia R. Nielsen
August 26, 2024
This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer’s reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines fundamental themes in Gadamer’s hermeneutical aesthetics such as play, festival, symbol, contemporaneity, enactment, art’s performative ontology, and hermeneutical identity. The ...
Objects of Authority: A Postformalist Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Jakub Stejskal
August 26, 2024
Is the celebrated elegance of Cycladic marble figurines an effect their Early Bronze Age producers intended? Can one adequately appreciate an Assyrian regal statue described by a cuneiform inscription as beautiful? What to make of the apparent aesthetic richness of the traditional cultures of ...
Othello and the Problem of Knowledge: Reading Shakespeare through Wittgenstein
1st Edition
By Richard Gaskin
August 26, 2024
This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello. In particular, it uses the methods of analytic philosophy, especially the work of the later Wittgenstein, to characterize these problems and the play. Shakespeare’s Othello is often thought to connect with ...
The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition
1st Edition
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By Patrik Engisch, Julia Langkau
August 26, 2024
This book presents new research on the crucial role that imagination plays in contemporary philosophy of fiction. The first part of the book challenges the main paradigm set by Kendall Walton and Gregory Currie, according to which there is a necessary connection between fiction and a prescription ...
The Share of Perspective
1st Edition
By Emmanuel Alloa
August 02, 2024
This book is a defense of perspectivism in the age of post-truth. At the crossroads of science, art, and philosophy, it unearths a tradition that we must rediscover: the point of view is not only what divides, it is also what is shared. Today, perspective is associated with individualism and ...
Hitchcock as Philosopher of the Erotic
1st Edition
By Richard Gilmore
June 07, 2024
This book reads Alfred Hitchcock as a philosopher of what constitutes the erotic. The author argues that Hitchcock is doing a post-Nietzschean, postmodern kind of philosophy in which he is exploring and creating possibilities of what the erotic can feel like and how the erotic can be expressed. The...