Filosofi: estetik

Wassily Kandinskys Om det andliga i konsten tillhör 1900-talets viktigaste teoretiska texter om konst. Den skapade ett stort intresse för abstraktion och anknyter trots sin …

Theodor W. Adornos musikfilosofi löper parallellt med den moderna musikens utveckling från andra Wienskolan och framåt. Som elev till Alban Berg var han nära förtrogen med …

Den nya musikens filosofi skrevs mellan 1940 och 1947 under Adornos amerikanska exil. Den undersöker hur samtidens motsägelser tar form i en särskild konstart. För Adorno var boken …

Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in lifeThis landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's …

Reading it, you will be led by Junichiro Tanizaki's light touch into a mysterious and tranquil world of darkness and shadows, where gold flashes in the gloom and a deep stillness …

The Moral Philosophers adopts a historical approach to moral philosophy, taking in chronological sequence some of the major ethical philosophers of the past. Richard Norman …

No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In …

First released in 1901, Thought-Forms was an in-depth exploration on the visual manifestations of thoughts and the notion that they exist as objects. Conceived by renowned …

Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of …

"Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de WaalThe daily lives of ordinary people are …