A psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of sublimation as a key term in Jacques
Lacan's theories of ethics and feminine sexuality. Jacques Lacan claimed that his theory of …

My sense of indebtedness to the work of Cavell in these matters comes from a confidence
that perhaps Manjit did not utter anything that we would recognize as philosophical in the …

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic
intelligibility—the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through …

Most philosophers have taken the importance of Kant's Critique of Judgement to lie primarily
in its contributions to aesthetics and to the philosophy of biology. Hannah Ginsborg …

This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a
musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; …

Against the assumption that aesthetic form relates to a harmonious arrangement of parts into
a beautiful whole, this book argues that reason is the real theme of the" Critique of …

The Continental Aesthetics Reader brings together classic and contemporary writings on art
and aesthetics from the major figures in continental thought. The second edition is clearly …

In An Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics, Christian Wenzel discusses and demystifies Kant's
Critique of the Power of Judgment, guiding the reader each step of the way and placing key …

This book addresses the philosophical reception of early German Romanticism and offers
the first in-depth study in English of the movement's most important philosopher, Friedrich …

Why has evil become such a hot topic these days? Although there could be many reasons, it
seems to me that the most important one—the most interesting—has to do with our growing …