Aesthetics

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

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The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists by Peter Murray

The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

Books Relating To Art

35 books — 1 voter

Kursbuch Medienkultur. Die maßgeblichen Theorien von Brecht b... by Bertolt Brecht

Zeitgenössische Utopieentwürfe in Literatur und Gesellschaft.... by Rolf Jucker

Von der Stimme zum Internet. by Detlev Schöttker

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

Dialektik der Aufklärung. Philosophische Fragmente by Max Horkheimer

Medienutopien

9 books — 1 voter

The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail Bakhtin

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin

The State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilich Lenin

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100 books — 13 voters

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin

Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and S... by Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Foundations of Art History

38 books — 6 voters

Alasdair MacIntyre's Engagement with Marxism by Paul Blackledge

Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism by Jacques Bidet

Historical Materialism Book Series Titles

64 books — 8 voters

Over de esthetiek by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller

Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art

190 books — 76 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Aesthetics”

“ All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. ”
― Walter Benjamin

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“ Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent. ”
― Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

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