Domain - Nonfiction

'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are exper...

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste. It doesn't just consider traditional artistic experience...

Every year, millions of people throw away countless items because they don’t know how to fix them. Some products are manufactured in a way that m...

From Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to provocative dung-splattered madonnas, in today's art world many strange, even shocking, things are put on disp...

This 1790 polemic by one of philosophy's most important and influential figures attempts to establish the principles that support the faculty of ...

Extraordinarily influential treatise on fine art contains seminal ideas on nature of drama, tragedy, poetry, music and more. Catharsis, tragic fl...

The great 19th-century philosopher refines his previously expressed ideal of the superman in one of his most important works, a fascinating exami...

In this seminal work of Western philosophy, Aristotle focuses on the use of language in persuasive argument. He identifies practical and aestheti...

The great Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948) believed that the dawn of the twentieth century would bring an end to the old atheisti...

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited va...

Diogenes the Cynic is famed for walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. His biting wit and eccentric behavior wer...

2014 Reprint of 1953 New York Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this text, Wo...

Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumeris...

Grounded in his famous notion that "God is dead," Nietzsche's most personal book—and one of his bestA Penguin ClassicThe Joyous Science—also know...

An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an overloaded, superficial, tec...

Grootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and interpretive thought.   While the phil...

In these pages, beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the Space Age. He posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually ...

The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil.   The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the autho...