In his new book, eminent critic and researcher Dr Iqbal Afaqi discusses ideas about aesthetics that are commonly out of bounds for an Urdu reader When Dr Qasim Bhugio was the chairman of the Academy ...

Arthur C. Danto’s The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (1981), a classic of American philosophy, widely read by contemporary artists, opens with a marvelous example. Søren ...

For Americans of my generation doing philosophical aesthetics, Arthur Danto (1924-2013) was the key figure. He became famous because he offered a system defining art and linking it to other activities ...

The essays in Aesthetics Equals Politics make the case for a reignited understanding of aesthetics—one that casts aesthetics not as illusory, subjective, or superficial, but as a more encompassing ...

It is now about twenty years since the whole race of Germans began to “transcend.” Should they ever wake up to this fact, they will look very odd to themselves. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1826 It is ...

Laura D'Olimpio is a committee member of the Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Associations (FAPSA). One of the interesting questions we face as philosophers who are attempting to make ...

Office: James Blair 123 Email: [[tmcost]] Dept. Office phone: 757-221-2716 Timothy Costelloe holds Doctoral Degrees in Philosophy (Emory University, 2001) and Sociology (Boston University, 1996). His ...

This article originally appeared on Imprint. It's part of Print magazine's annual New Visual Artist series that profiles 20 of the most promising rising talents around the world in the fields of ...