The Critical Shusterman
Richard Shusterman
Published 2025
428 pages
The most popular aesthetics books of 2025
Aesthetics is the philosophy of art and beauty. Why do some things move us, is taste only personal, and what makes something a work of art? These books think carefully about painting, music, literature and nature, and will sharpen the way you look and listen. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.
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Trance and Transfiguration in Rock Art and Literature
Richard Alan Northover
Published 2025
104 pages
Theories of Ugliness
Mark William Roche
Published 2025
288 pages
A Psychoanalysis for a Reemergent Humanity The Metapsychology of Willy Apollon
Tracy McNulty, Jeffrey S. Librett, Lucie Cantin, Psychologist Psychoanalyst Lucie Cantin, Professor of French and Comparative Literature Tracy McNulty
Published 2025
368 pages
The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience Self, Relationship and Culture
George Hagman
Published 2025
214 pages
Thinking in Transit Explorations of Life in Motion
Edward S. Casey, Megan Craig
Published 2025
240 pages
Closer Reading Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction
Garrett Stewart, David LaRocca
Published 2025
304 pages
Lacan in Italy Clinic, Politics, Aesthetics
Luca Di Gregorio
Published 2025
292 pages
Nature As Resource, Aesthetic Experience, and Ecological Challenge
Herta Nagl-Docekal, Maria Löschnigg
Published 2025
300 pages
Iris Murdoch and the Western Theological Imagination
Frances White, Miles Leeson
Published 2025
283 pages
Taking Fiction Film Seriously A Philosophical Approach to Cinema Studies
Mario Slugan
Published 2025
272 pages
Terrae Incognitae
Nabil Ziane
Published 2025
230 pages
The Aesthetic of Elizabeth Bowen’s Novels
Diana Hirst
Published 2025
280 pages
Nietzsche for Architects
Lucy Huskinson
Published 2025
132 pages
Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History
William S. Allen
Published 2025
264 pages
On the Colors of Vowels
Liesl Yamaguchi
Published 2025
240 pages
Kant, Race, and Racism Understanding and Reckoning
Gabriele Gava, Huaping Lu-Adler, Achim Vesper
Published 2025
262 pages
The Imperative of Genius
Kenneth Walden
Published 2025
288 pages
Somewhere Between Art History and Phenomenology At the Still Point of the Painted World
Michael Ann Holly, Starr Director Emerita of the Research and Academic Program Michael Ann Holly
Published 2025
224 pages
The Future of Survival
Kevin B Lee
Published 2025
110 pages
Gothic Capitalism
Adam Turl
Published 2025
148 pages
The Weight of Reasons A Framework for Ethics
Chris Tucker
Published 2025
368 pages
A Critical Phenomenology of Music Disclosing/Transposing the Habitual Body Schema
Rachel Elliott
Published 2025
248 pages
Poul Martin Møller Poet, Philosopher and Philologist
Published 2025
390 pages