Philosophy Books

Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to “embody” their histories. Such genuine or “real” things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience-an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is not a perceptually detectable property. Although it often...

Disgust is among the strongest of aversions, characterized by involuntary physical recoil and even nausea. Yet paradoxically, disgusting objects can sometimes exert a grisly allure, and this emotion can constitute a positive, appreciative aesthetic response when exploited by works of art -- a phenomenon labelled here “aesthetic disgust.” While...

Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet, in addition to providing physical pleasure, eating and drinking bear symbolic and aesthetic value in human experience, and they continually inspire writers and...

Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including art theory, cultural and visual studies, and philosophy. Gender and Aesthetics is an introduction to the major theories and thinkers within art and aesthetics from a philosophical perspective, carefully examining the role that...

By Ellen Carol DuBois, Gail Paradise Kelly, Elizabeth Lopovsky Kennedy, Carolyn Korsmeyer, and Lillian S. Robinson.

In this collaborative work, five scholars assess the nature and extent of the emergence of feminist perspectives in history, literature, education, anthropology and philosophy.

Edited by Jeanette Bicknell, Jennifer Judkins, and Carolyn Korsmeyer

This collection of essays examines our relationship to physical objects that invoke, commemorate, and honor the past. The recent destruction of cultural heritage in war and controversies over Civil War monuments in the US have foregrounded the importance of artifacts that embody...

Edited by Carolyn Korsmeyer and Barry Smith

Hungarian phenomenologist Aurel Kolnai published his long essay On Disgust in 1929. This English translation is printed with the essay he wrote in 1998 that was published in Mind, "The Standard Modes of Aversion: Fear, Disgust, and Hatred."

A collection of readings, both new and reprinted, concerning food and the sense of taste. Writers from many disciplines, including history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology examine the role of taste in cultural identity, the assessment of authenticity, and the transmission of memory. The subtleties and meanings of flavors and...

Edited by Jorge J.E. Gracia, Carolyn Korsmeyer, and Rodolphe Gasche.

Eleven authors explore the complex relation between literature and philosophy, considered through the work of three literary figures, Jorge Lui8s Borges, Italo Calvino, and Umberto Eco.

Edited by Carolyn Korsmeyer and Peggy Zeglin Brand.

Twenty essays examining the relationship between philosophical traditions and feminist perspectives in art and aesthetics.

Edited by Carolyn Korsmeyer and Hilde Hein.

This book was one of the first collections of essays on feminism and aesthetics. It contains 17 essays by scholars from philosophy, literary studies, music, African-American studies, and psychology.

This teaching text contains 27 entries concerning the nature of art and the experience of art; the sublime; tragedy and horror; and the role of the artist in society.