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Marginal Modernity traces the emergence and dissemination of a new aesthetic paradigm from the periphery to the core of European...

In this book Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of...

Philosophy of art is traditionally concerned with the definition, appreciation and value of art. Through a close examination of art...

Following the publication of his magnum opus L'être et l'événement (Being and Event) in 1988, Alain Badiou has been acclaimed...

Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) is one of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century philosophical thought. Art and Answerability contains three of his...

First published in 1933. The purpose of this work was to bridge a gap in English philosophical literature by completing...

This collection fills a gap in the current literature in philosophy and film by focusing on the question: How would...

In Mainland China, in the recent decades, once discarded Western Marxism studies have reached a peak. To study humanism, alienation,...

This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and provides the first systematic treatment...

"Kant, Kantianism and Idealism" presents an overview of German Idealism, the major movement in philosophy from the late 18th to...

This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in...

Weiss, Propen, and Reid gather a diverse group of scholars to analyze the growing obsolescence of the human-object dichotomy in...

First published in 1988, the aim of this book can be stated in Nietzsche's words: 'To look at science from...

In The Arts and the Definition of the Human, Margolis introduces a novel theory of the human person or self...

A collection of new essays addressing Foucault’s thought and its impact on thinking about the visual arts, literature and aesthetic...

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) was one of the foremost philosophers and social theorists of the post-war period. Crucial to the...

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The fourteen original essays in this volume...

This eagerly awaited study brings to completion Louis Dupré's planned trilogy on European culture during the modern epoch. Demonstrating remarkable...

In an exploration of the many ways that musical bodies have been trained and imagined but also concrete analyses of...

The Invention of Taste provides a detailed overview of the development of taste, from ancient times to the present. ...