Fregean Realism: Frodo Lives! and Other Fictions argues that literary fictions, pictures, and other artworks are modes o......more

A unique, critical, and creative encyclopedia from scholars, artists, and writers on the world and words of finance capi......more

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A Heretical History of Architecture challenges the conventional understanding of significant developments in Western arc......more

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Highlights ways of thinking and doing that connect philosophical generality to socio-material idiosyncrasy, encouraging ......more

This book is an engaging and comprehensive exploration that delves into the possibility of artificial intelligence devel......more

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In On the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts, Quatremère de Quincy offers one of the most detailed treatments of mimesis since ......more

This exploration of the crucially important role played by remorse in Iris Murdoch’s philosophical, theological, and pol......more

A rediscovery of Thoreau’s interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought. Though we may associate H......more

This book presents a theory of motives that has evolved over decades in dialogue with academics and with practitioners. ......more

A strategic reconstruction of modern German thought from the standpoint of aesthetic theory, The Narrowest Path reveals ......more

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Our identities are shaped by narratives, and cinema contributes to that process. While there is substantial scholarship ......more

It is tempting to affirm that on and about November 2022 (post)human character changed. The revolution in A.I. simulatio......more

In this book, Richard Dien Winfield builds upon Hegel’s Aesthetics to provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of......more

Was wäre, wenn wir das multistabile, ambivalente und anpassungsfähige Verhalten aktiver Materie als offenen Gestaltungss......more

This book shows that screens don’t just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body’s re......more

Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation provides a new account of......more

In the 21st century, blockbuster fantasy films have dominated film viewership in the United States. The increased popula......more

This book argues that when visual jokes are harmful, they harm in a specific way: a subject’s personhood is revoked in a......more

Aline Guillermet uncovers Gerhard Richter’s appropriation of science and technology from 1960 to the present and shows h......more

The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from a......more

​This open access neuroaesthetics textbook, the first in the world, is designed for teaching a semester module (14 meeti......more

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated a......more

On how art can be understood as a space within which the project of reason is pursued. Modern and contemporary art have ......more

This volume is the third volume in Palgrave’ Macmillan’s new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series. Iris Murdoch and the L......more

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. X-rays are po......more

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s lifework has been studied through the lens of queer studies, film studies, poetry, and many other ......more

This book reframes the Lacanian object a voice as a horrific register of alterity. The object gaze has received, as it d......more

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