With this volume, we enter the third decade of Contemporary Aesthetics. Last year, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of our journal with the Special Volume, Twenty Years of Contemporary Aesthetics. Looking Back. Looking Forward. We invited authors to share their thoughts about where aesthetics discourse has been and where it is going. It is clear […]
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Hearing a New World
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Crossing the Picture: Theories and Genealogies of Environmental Images
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Reflections on Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters
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Eco-relational Aesthetics: Wandering Around Dualistic Ruins
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Symposium on Thomas Wartenberg’s Thoughtful Images
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Reading Texts and Pictures
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Illustrating Philosophy: Comments on Tom Wartenberg’s Thoughtful Images
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A Typology of Illustration
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Further Reflections on Visual Illustrations of Philosophy: A Response to Freeland, Schellekens, and Strayer
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Wisdom Regarding Beauty. Self-effacement and One’s Right Relationship to Beauty
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Experiential Time in Some Modern Poetry
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Symposium on Taste: A Philosophy of Food by Sarah Worth
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Taste, Knowledge, and Discernment: On Sarah Worth’s Taste
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The Pleasure of Knowing: Comments on
Sarah Worth’s Taste
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Eat, Taste, Know – Reflections on Sarah Worth’s
Taste: A Philosophy of Food
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Taste: A Philosophy of Food
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Aesthetics of/and the Universe
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Duck Tape Down
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Aesthetic Melancholy
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What in the World
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Constructing a Good Life – Aesthetic Practices in Tiny Living
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Overcoming Climate Breakdown Denial and Neglect through the Aesthetics of Nature
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Equipment as Art, Art as Equipment: Notes on Film, Architecture, and Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy of Culture
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Gardens and Plasticity
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