Easy Beauty
Chloé Cooper Jones
Published 2022
288 pages
The most popular aesthetics books
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.
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Lost in Math How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
Sabine Hossenfelder
2018 · 2020 edition
304 pages
Art and Visual Perception A Psychology of the Creative Eye
Rudolf Arnheim
1971 · 2003 edition
408 pages
Absolutely on Music Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
村上春樹, Seiji Ozawa
2017 · 2016 edition
352 pages
The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
Friedrich Nietzsche
2010 · 1967 edition
240 pages
Create Dangerously
Albert Camus
Published 2018
64 pages
How to Read Literature
Terry Eagleton
Published 2013
216 pages
Distinction A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Pierre Bourdieu
1984 · 2014 edition
640 pages
Ästhetische Theorie (Suhrkamp Taschenbücher Wissenschaft, Nr.2,)
Theodor W. Adorno
1974 · 2002 edition
569 pages
Sexual Personae
Camille Paglia
1990 · 2001 edition
736 pages
Drops Like Stars A Few Thoughts on Creativity and Suffering
Rob Bell
2009 · 2010 edition
135 pages
Rites of Spring The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Modris Eksteins
Published 1989
396 pages
Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love
Carl Wilson
Published 2007
176 pages
Listen to This
Alex Ross
Published 2010
384 pages
The Basic Works of Aristotle
Aristotle, Richard Peter McKeon
Published 2001
1520 pages
Liquid Modernity
Zygmunt Bauman
Published 2000
240 pages
The Rhetoric and Poetics of Aristotle
Aristotle, John Henry Freese, Ingram Bywater
1984 · 2018 edition
138 pages
Aesthetics and Politics
Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Georg Lukács
1979 · 2010 edition
246 pages
Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy
Robert Jourdain
Published 1997
377 pages
What Is Art?
Лев Толстой
1984 · 2021 edition
226 pages
This is Not a Pipe
Michel Foucault
1983 · 2008 edition
66 pages
Ocean of Sound Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
David Toop, Michel Faber
2000 · 2001 edition
306 pages
Cinema
Gilles Deleuze
Published 1986
250 pages
Philosophy
Edward Craig
Published 2002
132 pages