Presents a new and unique method for developing principles to be applied in creating and increasing value.

Assesses the importance of Merleau-Ponty to current and ongoing concerns in contemporary philosophy.

Draws from twentieth-century French thought on film and aesthetics to address the philosophical significance of the pervasiveness of screens in contemporary technological life as well as the mutation of philosophy that such a pervasiveness seems to require.

Essays address the major themes of Pareyson’s hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.

Shows the relevance of Schiller’s thought for contemporary philosophy, particularly aesthetics, ethics, and politics.

Develops the sustained, relational, dynamic, and reflective attention demanded by Gertrude Stein’s novel into a theory of reading and critical analysis.

A critical study of the concept of form in Adorno’s writings on art and literature.

Phenomenological analysis of beauty and art across various aspects of lived experience and culture.

Using Li Zehou’s theories of aesthetics, argues for the importance of the arts to philosophy.

Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content.

Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century.

Explores the science and creative process behind Poe’s cosmological treatise.

An aesthetic and phenomenological account of feelings.

Explores the influence of Bertolt Brecht’s ideas on the practice and study of cinema.

Assesses Merleau-Ponty’s contribution to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay between perception and imagination, and between silence and solidarity, that reveals our place in the world, and our obligations to ourselves and others.

Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy.

Philosophers and artists consider the relevance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy for understanding art and aesthetic experience.

A wide-ranging and accessible approach to Godard’s later work, and a major intervention in the study of film and ethics.

Highlights Merleau-Ponty’s interest in film and connects it to his aesthetic theory.

Synthesizes the most important recent work on wonder and brings a number of disciplines into conversation.

Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.

Passionate and rollicking personal and intellectual essays by philosopher Crispin Sartwell.

Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language.

A major new interpretation of the philosophical significance of the oeuvre of Denis Diderot.