Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts

This collection of essays examines the unique theory which Schopenhauer developed to explain the life and work of the artist, and the influence which his aesthetic philosophy has had on subsequent artistic traditions in such diverse areas as music, painting, poetry, literature and architecture.

The first volume in a new series, this book offers a range of responses by distinguished philosophers and art historians to some crucial issues generated by the relationship between the art object and language in art history.

Penetrating studies by a group of art historians, literary theorists, and philosophers consider 'explanation' of works of literature and painting.

Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts, now in a paperback edition, offers probing studies of the complex structure of aesthetic responses to nature. Each chapter refines and expands the terms of discussion, and together they enrich the debate with insights from art history, literary criticism, geography and history.

The essays in this book examine the historical transition in our perception of the arts and philosophy which occurred during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as the foundationalism of Descartes and Spinoza gave way to the idea that alternative styles of enquiry are possible.

Nietzsche's writings have shaped much contemporary reflection on the relation between philosophy and art. This book brings together a number of distinguished contributors to examine his aesthetic account of the origins and ends of philosophy. Their essays set out the ground for future debate about the inter-relation between art, philosophy, and value.

This major collection of new essays stands at the border of aesthetics and ethics and deals with charged issues of practical import: art and morality, the ethics of taste, and censorship.

This collection of essays examines the unique theory which Schopenhauer developed to explain the life and work of the artist, and the influence which his aesthetic philosophy has had on subsequent artistic traditions in such diverse areas as music, painting, poetry, literature and architecture.

In a wide-ranging critical and philosophical discussion, the essays in this 1996 volume offer a philosophical understanding of the roots and nature of contemporary literary and philosophical practice, and elaborate, powerful and influential, but rarely decisively articulated, conceptions of the human subject and of value.

This volume brings together essays from distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines - philosophy, history, literary studies, art history - to explore various ways in which aesthetics, politics and the arts interact with one another.

Penetrating studies by a group of art historians, literary theorists, and philosophers consider 'explanation' of works of literature and painting.

This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. Subjects discussed include the experiences of religious and aesthetic authenticity, the performance of music, and the dark side of performance - its constant susceptibility to inauthenticity.

The essays in this book examine the historical transition in our perception of the arts and philosophy which occurred during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as the foundationalism of Descartes and Spinoza gave way to the idea that alternative styles of enquiry are possible.

In a wide-ranging critical and philosophical discussion, the essays in this 1996 volume offer a philosophical understanding of the roots and nature of contemporary literary and philosophical practice, and elaborate, powerful and influential, but rarely decisively articulated, conceptions of the human subject and of value.

This volume brings together essays from distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines - philosophy, history, literary studies, art history - to explore various ways in which aesthetics, politics and the arts interact with one another.

This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. Subjects discussed include the experiences of religious and aesthetic authenticity, the performance of music, and the dark side of performance - its constant susceptibility to inauthenticity.