A comprehensive account of the role of the imagination in Hegel's philosophy.

Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies.

Explores how we might think and live in the enchantment of the secular, modern world.

Excavates the experiential structure of Habermas’s communicative action.

Explores the conceptualization of the Freudian uncanny in various late-twentieth-century theoretical and critical discourses (literary studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, art history, trauma studies, architecture, etc.).

A fascinating comparison of the work of Heinrich von Kleist and Herman Melville.

Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics.

Explores the contemporary pedagogical significance of modernism.

Examines images of horror in Victorian fiction, criticism, and philosophy.

Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva’s oeuvre.

Places anxiety at the heart of the aesthetic experience.

Takes Heidegger’s later thought as a point of departure for exploring the boundaries of post-conceptual thinking.

A study of the first half of Kant’s Critique of Judgment.

Explores the continuities and discontinuities in the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze.

Uses new critical approaches to demonstrate deep affinities in these vastly different filmmakers’ philosophies on film, fantasy, and reality.

Explores the theme of aesthetic agency and its potential for social and political progress.

Explores how spiritual values are learned and mind and body developed through the practice of the Japanese arts.

A philosophical exploration of the power that poetry, music, and the erotic have on us.

Examines the German poet Hölderlin’s philosophical insights into tragedy.

Addresses ethical and aesthetic issues in three major works by Henry James.

Explores the role of a significant yet elusive feature of the French landscape in literature, philosophy, and art.

Argues that the concept of the ethical is central to Hegel’s philosophy of art.

A wide-ranging attempt to develop a theory of ethical life from a hermeneutic understanding of language.

Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema, collected together for the first time in one volume.

Explores philosophical ideas through an examination of popular film.