christopher kul-want
Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide
What is beauty, and what is truth? And what does aesthetics have to do with either?
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the whole nature of experience itself, explored through our perceptions, feelings and emotions. The study of aesthetics, along with its widespread application in philosophical, artistic and literary circles, gained currency in the eighteenth century at the dawn of the Romantic period. What was recognised then – that to act upon our true feelings means taking a step into the unknown – is what aesthetics is centrally concerned with now.
Aesthetics today is not only a scholarly...
Continental Philosophy: A Graphic Guide
A compact INTRODUCING guide to this commonly overlooked body of thought.
What makes philosophy on the continent of Europe so different and exciting? And why does it have such a reputation for being ‘difficult’?
Covering the great philosophers of the modern and postmodern eras – Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, right to up Agamben and Zizek – and philosophical movements from German idealism to Feminism.
Christopher Kul-want and Piero brilliantly elucidate some of the most thrilling ideas ever to have been discussed.