Aesthetics

The history of education can easily be described as theme and variation on one motif: reform. From Plato’s critique of the Sophists in Protagoras to John ...

The great 19th-century philosopher refines his previously expressed ideal of the superman in one of his most important works, a fascinating examination of...

The creation sings to us with the visual beauty of God’s handiwork. But what of man-made art? Much of it is devoid of sacred beauty and is often rejected ...

Stop curating! And think what curating is all about. This book starts from this simple premise: thinking the activity of curating. To do that, it distinguis...

A theoretically informed investigation that relates the philosophies of aesthetics and imagination to understanding design practice. In The Aesthetics of I...

“An instructive trip through the mind of one of America’s great designers.” —Communication Arts (1996) Hailed upon its publication as “discrimina...

Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education ...

Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary moder...

Drones Are In The Newspaper, On The Tv Screen, Swarming Through The Networks, And Soon, We're Told, They'll Be Delivering Our Shopping. But What Are Drones?...

For the past few decades Hal Foster’s critical gaze has encompassed the increasingly complex machinery of the culture industry. His observations push the...