Books by Paul Crowther

This is the first book dedicated to Husserl¿s aesthetics. Crowther pieces together Husserl¿s ideas of phantasy and image and presents them as a unified and innovative account of aesthetic consciousness. He also shows how Husserl¿s ideas can be developed to solve problems related to visual art, literature, theatre, and nature.

Reinterprets key phases and figures in 20th-century art, focusing on the way artists and critics negotiate philosophically significant ideas. The text aims to illuminate a language of 20th century art that cuts across boundaries set out by such conventional notions as avant-garde and postmodernism.

The book shows how pictorial art conveys aesthetic transcendence-a felt, though symbolic experience of going beyond our finite limitations that sometimes involves a sense of communing with God

The book is a comprehensive phenomenological study of meanings that are unique to the major visual art forms.

Formulating an approach to philosophy which, instead of simply rejecting postmodern thought, tries to assimilate some of its main features, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization understood as a process of cumulative advance.