Routledge Research in Aesthetics
Fictive Narrative Philosophy: How Fiction Can Act as Philosophy
1st Edition
By Michael Boylan
December 18, 2020
What is the philosophical voice within literature? Does literature have a voice of its own? Can this voice really be philosophical in its own right? In this book, Michael Boylan argues that some literary works indeed can make their own unique claims in different areas of philosophy. He calls this ...
The Pleasure of Pictures: Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation
1st Edition
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By Jérôme Pelletier, Alberto Voltolini
December 18, 2020
The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. In particular, it is concerned with the character and intimacy of this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between pictorial experience and aesthetic ...
A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment
1st Edition
By Rupert Read
September 30, 2020
Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of ‘arthouse’ and Hollywood films. Each ...
Michael Fried and Philosophy: Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality
1st Edition
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By Mathew Abbott
September 30, 2020
This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. It demonstrates that Fried’s work on modernism, artistic intention, the ontology of art, theatricality, ...
Thinking with Images: An Enactivist Aesthetics
1st Edition
By John M. Carvalho
September 30, 2020
This book advances an enactivist theory of aesthetics through the study of inscrutable artworks that challenge us to think because we do not know what to think about them. John M. Carvalho presents detailed analyses a four artworks that share this unique characteristic: Francis Bacon’s Study After ...
Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective
1st Edition
By Richard Gaskin
September 30, 2020
This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing ...
The Aesthetics of Videogames
1st Edition
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By Jon Robson, Grant Tavinor
August 14, 2020
This collection of essays is devoted to the philosophical examination of the aesthetics of videogames. Videogames represent one of the most significant developments in the modern popular arts, and it is a topic that is attracting much attention among philosophers of art and aestheticians. As a ...