Filosofi: estetik

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 …

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 …

A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological and cultural …

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 …

Berg: Den minsta övergångens mästare, publicerad 1968, är Adornos sista bok. Den återspeglar en mer än tre decennier lång utveckling som utmynnar i den nya analys av den moderna …

Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important …

Ellen Key (1849-1926) var en svensk författare, pedagog och kvinnosaksideolog. Under tidigt 1900-tal var Key en av Sveriges mest omtalade samhälls- och kulturdebattörer. Hon skrev …

Vad är ett konstverk? Finns det någon begränsning på vad som kan kallas konst? Vad skiljer konstverk från andra hantverksprodukter? Kan vi rättfärdiga omdömet att ett konstverk är …

Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. Hermann Weyl explores the concept …