Philosophy of the Arts - An Introduction to Aesthetics
Philosophy of the Arts presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to those coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time. The third edition is greatly enhanced by new sections on art and beauty, modern art, Aristotle and katharsis, and Hegel. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised with fresh material and extended discussions.
The second volume in the definitive collection of Foucault's shorter writings. Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, the second volume of Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, surveys Foucault's diverse but sustained address of the historical forms and interplay of passion, experience, and truth. Now in paperback, this volume includes commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Roussel, and Boulez.
The Dynamics of Delight - Architecture and Aesthetics
This book rounds off decades of exploration into the various ways that buildings and urban sequences make an impact on the mind. The emphasis is on the qualitative aspects of form and space and provides designers with an analytical framework in which to evaluate projects especially on the aesthetic level. In laying the foundations for an appreciation of the aesthetic component in architecture the book considers the psychological mechanisms, which are involved in the aesthetic response. It goes on to consider how human perception may be influenced by natural phenomena and draws on chaos theory and biomathematics to illustrate the argument.
Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western LiesLiteracy
This pathbreaking study integrates the histories of rhetoric, literacy, and literary aesthetics up to the time of Augustine, focusing on Western concepts of rhetoric as dissembling and of language as deceptive that Swearingen argues have received curiously prominent emphasis in Western aesthetics and language theory.
Scruton takes his readers on a journey through aesthetic theory and tries in every sense to apply them directly to architecture. By using theories from Kant, Marx, Freud, Hume, Alberti, Ruskin and many others on topics such as constructivism, and literary theory, Scruton tries to find the essence of architecture. Has architecture an essence? The book seemed to have many topics that were mentioned but not neccessarily completed which led to (at times) difficult reading and lost thought.
