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nelle mills
Published 2026
160 pages
The most popular aesthetics books of 2026
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 2026.
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Baudelaire's Objects
Joseph Acquisto
Published 2026
224 pages
Thinking Without Borders Essays in Honor of Arindam Chakrabarti
Matthew MacKenzie, Anand Vaidya, Amy Donahue
Published 2026
432 pages
Light Thoughts
Murray Pomerance
Published 2026
328 pages
Stock Photo
Simona Supekar, Assistant Professor of English Simona Supekar
Published 2026
176 pages
Addressing Contemporary Sustainability Challenges Through Eco-Imagination Knowledge, Literature, Arts and the Sciences
Daniela Verducci, Renato Boccali
Published 2026
176 pages
Ontology of the Musical Work
Laurent Cugny
Published 2026
336 pages
1650-1850
Published 2026
314 pages
Judith Butler and Film The Good Egalitarian, the Bad Feminist and the Ugly Others
Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz
Published 2026
240 pages
The Art of Gesture Classical and Renaissance Expressions
Andrew Benjamin, Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought Andrew Benjamin
Published 2026
256 pages
Turning Away The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture
Benjamin A. Saltzman
Published 2026
304 pages
Music of Absence
Published 2026
288 pages
Death and the Aesthetic Sublime
Jung Kwon
Published 2026
112 pages
Warpaint Male Make-Up and Identity Through Time
Joshua Sims
Published 2026
256 pages
Poison and the Popular Imagination Representations, Iconographies, and Meanings in Media and Culture
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Published 2026
272 pages
On the Aesthetics of Architecture
Ralf Weber
Published 2026
292 pages
Ballot
Anjali Enjeti
Published 2026
160 pages
Phenomenology of Tea A Dialogue on Japanese Aesthetics
Adam Loughnane
Published 2026
336 pages
Writings on Art and Politics
Boris Groys
Published 2026
240 pages
Understanding Displacement Aesthetics History, Art and Museums
Charles Green, Ana Carden-Coyne, Chrisoula Lionis, Angeliki Roussou
Published 2026
280 pages
Xenoaesthetics A Posthumanist Approach to Architectural Encounter
Gonzalo Vaillo
Published 2026
304 pages
Anticipations of Freedom
Richard Eldridge
Published 2026
256 pages
Causality, Counterfactuals, and Belief
Franz Huber
Published 2026
216 pages
Aesthetics and Glamour
Carol S. Gould, Derek Matravers
Published 2026
208 pages