To talk, as I am here, about the aesthetic pleasures of scholarly writing is surely a fool’s game. After all, we know that much academic writing is at best intelligible and at worst unreadable. To ...

And now comes another chapter from the ongoing saga “What Movies Can Teach Us.” Today’s series of lessons comes thanks to an area video store that sells a wide array of DVDs and videotapes – new and ...

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 ...

In The Sense of Early Modern Writing, MarkRobson pursues the relation between the concept of the ‘early modern’and modernity, tracing the complex interactions of post-Romantic,philosophical aesthetics ...

It’s a culmination of years of restless 2 a.m. thoughts,” Riley Murdock saidof his new poetry book. “It’s full of love, ...