Aesthetics

70 books

The Path of Beauty cover
Rating 4.6
The Path of Beauty Li Zehou SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2009 The Path of Beauty is the representative work of the philosopher and aesthetician Li Zehou, first published in 1981 and hailed as a milestone in the h…
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Art as Experience John Dewey The Commercial Press · 2010 Art as Experience
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Rating 4.1
Thinking at the Boundaries of Machines 许煜 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025 In the age of AI, what is the task of philosophy? What is the task of art? This book gathers the major research findings of techno-philosophy scholar …
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The Philosophy of Color (Revised and Expanded Edition) 克劳德·罗马诺 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025 What exactly is color? Does it belong to things, or to the person who sees them? This book is a monograph on the problem of color by the French philos…
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Rating 3.5
Body Consciousness and Somaesthetics Richard Shusterman The Commercial Press · 2011 This book is one of the representative works of Richard Shusterman, the American philosopher who introduced the discipline and concept of somaesthetic…
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Rating 4.2
The Essence of Comedy Henri Bergson Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 The Essence of Comedy is the classic treatise on laughter and the comic by the French philosopher Henri Bergson, winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Lit…
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Rating 4.4
Aesthetics (Volume III, Part One) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The Commercial Press · 1979 This volume is the first half of the third volume of the Chinese translation of Hegel’s Aesthetics (Lectures on Aesthetics), translated by Zhu Guangqi…
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Rating 3.8
New Discoveries in Love 威廉·施密德 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2014 New Discoveries in Love is a philosophical prose work on love by a German philosopher and spiritual counselor, regarded by many reviewers as a popular…
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Axiological Aesthetics Shu Ye Guangming Daily Press · 2020 Axiological Aesthetics is a theoretical monograph on aesthetics by Shu Ye, professor in the Department of Philosophy at Nanjing University. Published …
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History of Western Aesthetics, Volume 7: Twentieth-Century Aesthetics (Part 2) Jiang Kongyang / Zhu Liyuan / Zhang Dexing Beijing Normal University Press · 2013 This is the seventh and final volume of the seven-volume History of Western Aesthetics, devoted to the mid-to-late development of twentieth-century We…
The Path of Beauty cover
Rating 4.6
The Path of Beauty Li Zehou SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2009 The Path of Beauty is Li Zehou's most widely influential work on aesthetics, first published in 1981 and regarded as a milestone in the writing of Chi…
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Rating 4.2
The Aesthetics of Evil Peter-André Alt Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2015 We are accustomed to treating literature as a classroom of morality, yet the most fascinating parts of literary history are often precisely the things…
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Rating 4.8
Aesthetics, Volume II Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The Commercial Press · 1979 The second volume of Aesthetics is a pivotal installment in Hegel's aesthetic system, titled "The Development of the Ideal into the Particular Forms o…
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 埃德蒙·柏克 Elephant Press · 2010 This book is an early aesthetic work by the British thinker Edmund Burke (1729–1797), originally published in 1756 and reissued in a revised edition i…
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Rating 3.9
The Aesthetics of Evil: A Romantic Reading Peter-André Alt Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2014 The Aesthetics of Evil: A Romantic Reading (original German title Ästhetik des Bösen) is a study of literary and intellectual history by the Germanist…
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Letters on Beauty Zhu Guangqian Zhonghua Book Company · 2012 Letters on Beauty is a systematic work on aesthetics written by Zhu Guangqian in his later years in the form of thirteen letters. In the prefatory not…
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Rating 4.3
A History of Western Aesthetics (Seven Volumes) Jiang Kongyang / Zhu Liyuan / Fan Mingsheng / Cao Junfeng / Zhang Yuneng / 陆扬 / Zhang Dexing Beijing Normal University Press · 2013 The seven-volume History of Western Aesthetics is edited by Professors Jiang Kongyang and Zhu Liyuan of Fudan University. It is a revised and expanded…
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Rating 4.0
Letters on Beauty Zhu Guangqian People's Literature Publishing House · 2001 Letters on Beauty is a work of the aesthetician Zhu Guangqian's "late-life efforts," written at the age of eighty-two. In the late 1970s, after a long…
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Rating 4.0
The Analysis of Beauty William Hogarth Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 2.8
Beauty and the Beast: An Essay in Evolutionary Aesthetic McDowall, Stewart Andrew, 1882-1935 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …