Art makes its mark upon our flesh. It ravishes our eyes, invades our ears, and stirs our viscera; it commandeers our powers of attention and unsettles our body

This book elucidates the work of 21st-century European thinkers to describe the event of art as an intuited correspondence between (a) a sensuous object grasped

Argues that the importance of Kant's aesthetic theory must be understood in the context of a radical critique of subjectivity.

The Continental Aesthetics Reader brings together classic and contemporary writings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in continental thought. The sec

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