Interest in sensory atmospheres and architectural and urban ambiances has been growing for over 30 years. A key figure in this field is acclaimed German philosopher Gernot Böhme whose influential conception of what atmospheres are and how they function has been only partially available to the English-speaking public. This translation of key essays along with an original introdu...(展开全部)

Originally published in Italian in 2010, this book is the first to address the theory of atmospheres in a thorough and systematic way. It examines the role of atmospheres in daily life, and defines their main characteristics. Outlining the typical phenomenological situations in which we experience atmospheres, it assesses their impact on contemporary aesthetics. It puts forward...(展开全部)

Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception -- a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the "vision machine." If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural -- and still consummate -- theorist of "dromology" (the theory of speed and ...(展开全部)

本书作者保罗•维利里奥作为艺术批评家、城市规划者、和平策略家，可以说是当代最激进坦率的“后现代解密者”。维利里奥的哲学核心是科技、速度、城市、虚拟、事件、意外、失序等概念群。

Is it body or spirit that makes us appreciate beauty and create art? The distinguished Canadian critic Ekbert Faas argues that, with occasional exceptions like Montaigne and Mandeville, the mainstream of western thinking about beauty from Plato onwards has overemphasised the spirit, or even execrated the body and sexuality as inimical to the aesthetic disposition. The Genealogy...(展开全部)

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possibl...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural expression, Alan Tansman reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility - present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings - helped create an 'aesthetic of fascism' in the years leading up to World War II. Evoking beautiful moments of violence, both real and imagined, these works did...(展开全部)

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students...(展开全部)

史蒂芬·贝利（Stephen Bayley），英国著名文化评论家、畅销书作者、艺术策展人与节目主持人。20世纪80年代早期，他与特伦斯·康伦爵士在维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆合作创办了英国第一个永久性设计展览“锅炉房项目”，后来又担任伦敦设计博物馆首席主管。他同时是多家设计师和建筑师事务所的顾问，为包括可口可乐、福特汽车、大众汽车、宝马汽车、绝对伏特加和哈维·尼克斯百货在内的诸多品牌提供咨询服务。作为一名意见鲜明、直言不讳的评论界权威人士，他经常在电视节目中出镜，还是众多报刊的固定撰稿人。他曾应邀在全球各地的大学举办讲座，获得“法兰西文学艺术骑士勋章”，还是英国皇家建筑师协会荣誉会员、威尔士大学和利物浦表演艺术学院荣誉研究员。