Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant lite......more
This collection engages the work of Michael Oakeshott predominantly on the themes of his skepticism, politics, and aesth......more
The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that tak......more
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Aesthetics has long been the preserve of philosophy, art history, and the creative arts but, more recently, the fields o......more
This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, ......more
This volume gathers a collection of fourteen original articles discussing the concept of drive in classical German philo......more
This book proposes, following Antonin Artaud, an investigation exploring the virtual body, neurology and the brain as fi......more
Informed by Gloria Anzaldúa’s and José Carlos Mariátegui’s work, as well as by Andean cosmology, Omar Rivera turns to In......more
Exploring the rupture between Wittgenstein’s early and late phases, Michael Smith provides an original re-assessment of ......more
Elements of Criticism (1762) is a philosophical work by Henry Home, Lord Kames. Published at the height of his career as......more
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St. Matthew Passion is Hans Blumenberg’s sustained and devastating meditation on Jesus’s anguished cry on the cross, "My......more
This book, taking its point of departure from Stanley Cavell’s claim that philosophy and autobiography are dimensions of......more
This book presents a critical discussion of the turn to memory, a key evolution in the humanities in the last 50 years. ......more
Television series seem to be made of images and sounds just like films, but Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone suggest an......more
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A critical appraisal of Chiara Bottici’s influential work on imaginal politics, this collection uses this rich theoretic......more
In God, Morality, and Beauty, Randall B. Bush argues that a Trinitarian vision of reality, combined with the disciplines......more
Pop art has traditionally been the most visible visual art within popular culture because its main transgression is easy......more
Synthesizes the work of three titans of mid-century art and critical theory, proposing an aesthetics of the political an......more
This book utilizes philosophical tools to build up a framework for the classification, analysis and assessment of politi......more
René Daumal (b. 1908) is best known for his novel Mt. Analogue, unfinished at his death, in 1944 (other works in English......more
The examination of the transcendentals of truth, beauty and the good in this work stems from the perspective of Christia......more
This book examines animal welfare themes in fiction, and considers how authors of the last two centuries undermine domin......more
The volume shows in which sense the study of culture, literature and the arts contributes to the understanding of human ......more
This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays,......more
This book situates Ralph Waldo Emerson in the tradition of philosophy as "spiritual exercise", arguing that the defining......more
The collection comprises contributions from leading artist-theorists in the fields of necropolitics and tactical media, ......more
Drawing on insights from S ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Art and Selfhood: A Kierkegaardian Account defends the idea that......more
Using new and cutting-edge perspectives, this book explores literary criticism and the reception of Aristotle’s Poetics ......more
What is the role of art in modern society? To what extent are the beautiful and the morally good intertwined? Hegel’s Po......more
Céline Sciamma is the most visible and important feminist, and lesbian, director in contemporary international filmmakin......more
This book, itself a study of two books on the Baroque, proposes a pair of related theses: one interpretive, the other a......more
In The Ascetic Ideal, Stephen Mulhall shows how areas of cultural life that seem to be either essentially unconnected to......more
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Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from t......more
Drawing on a range of philosophical texts, Andrej Radman brings together a collection of 11 of his essays, published ove......more
This handbook brings together the most current and hotly debated topics in studies about images today. In the first part......more
From The World Viewed to Cities of Words, writing about movies was strand over strand with Stanley Cavell’s philosophica......more
The Reformation was one of the defining cultural turning points in Western history, even if there is a longstanding ster......more
Sport aesthetics is an important but often marginalized field in the philosophy of sport. Kinetic Beauty offers a compre......more
This is the first book to present an aesthetics of virtual reality media. It situates virtual reality media in terms of ......more
This book analyzes the nature and functions of horror films from the vantage of a theoretical reconstruction of George S......more
This collection brings together an internationally known and interdisciplinary group of scholars, including a major new ......more
This book tries to modify well-worn view by altering the dualist position to incorporate the very object within the sens......more
Antonia Pont shows us how to identify when practising is happening and explains, using the early philosophy of Gilles De......more
Combining New Materialist and cognitive methodologies, Amy Lather shows the different ways in which matter interacted wi......more
This book examines the works of major artists between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as important barometers ......more
Lysaker examines the relationship between philosophical thought and the act of writing to explore how this dynamic shape......more
Art as Capital addresses the role of art and creative practices in contemporary society....more
In this volume the philosophy of perception and observation is discussed by leading philosophers with implications in th......more
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A Rhetoric of Ruins combines conceptual and theoretical frameworks to explore ghost towns, disaster sites, and environme......more
Cinema articulates the economic anxieties of each generation of filmmakers and audiences. It has an influence on people’......more
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Offers a philosophical perspective on the nature and value of writing a memoir. Artful Truths offers a concise guide to ......more
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