Attends to the much-neglected sense of smell in and around modern poetry to suggest the possibility of a revolution of the senses.

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.

Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.

Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema.

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.

Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.

Reconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and literature.

The definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick.

Explores the importance of the body and the senses in educational encounters, drawing out the aesthetic and political dimensions of educational practices.

Explores the potential for a novel philosophy of history to be uncovered by tracing the connections between Giorgio Agamben's work (theoretical practice) and contemporary art (artistic practice).

Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.

The first book-length examination of the prominent contemporary philosopher William Desmond's approach to aesthetics, art, and literature.

Explores the aesthetic theory of one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers.

Probing reassessment of the relation between Celan's poetry and Heidegger's thought.

A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.

Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.

Offers a compelling intercultural perspective on body, art, self, and society.

Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence.

Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience.

Traces a conceptual history of critique in German philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present.

Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.

A study of the significance of the visual arts in Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics in relation to the work of five artists not known or discussed by him.

Proposes a distinctly American approach to aesthetic judgment and practice.

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