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Luca Di Gregorio

Lacan in Italy

This book provides the first analysis of the reception and development of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Italy, offering a comprehensive account of the relevance and contributions of Italian Lacanians. It exa…

Sandra Ruiz

Tears for Tears

"Interested in the entanglement of the dead, the living, and their spectral things, this book suggests that via the deliberate labor of shared sorrow in performance of grief-work, we collectively tra…

The Legacy of Neoplatonic Philosophy

Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: what are the key concepts in Neoplatonic aesthetics? And what impact has Neoplatonic…

Steven Goldsmith

Mere Materialism

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Dan Wang

Lyric Personhood

"What does it mean to be a person? In the West, we might identify traits like possessing a "voice," having the capacity for love, and being self-determined. But if words like "person,&…

Steven Goldsmith

Mere Materialism

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Denison Witmer

Ones Who Wait

Lauren Herold,

Local TV

Local TVoffers critical analyses of an expansive range of practices, policies, and debates in local television histories from the United States. Television is typically perceived as a commercial and/or na…

The Art of Anti-Racism

Leading scholars grounded in a range of disciplines examine the intersection of anti-racist activism, aesthetics, and contemporary political theory.The Art of Anti-Racism offers a sustained theoretical ex…

Xing Fan,

Jingju - Beijing/Peking Opera

An introduction to the cultural history of jingju, from its origin to the present, with case studies demonstrating its practice and aesthetics.

Stefano Odorico

The Interactive Documentary Form

While the concept of the documentary film is well established, interactive documentary is a newly emerging form of non-linear, non-fiction narrative that animates viewers to control their own path through…

Frederick Reece

Forgery in Musical Composition

We all know about art forgeries, but why write fake classical music? In Forgery in Musical Composition , Frederick Reece investigates the methods and motives of mysterious musicians who sign famous histor…

Disinterested Pleasure and Beauty

The conception of disinterested pleasure is not only central to Kant's theory of beauty but also highly influential in contemporary philosophical discourse about beauty. However, it remains unclear, what …

Marta Fossati

The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010

Marta Fossati traces the development of the South African short story in English from the late 1920s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, examining its narratological characteristics, its dial…

John E. Thiel

Now and Forever

Building on the insights of the ressourcement theology of grace, this sophisticated theological aesthetics offers a fresh vision of the doctrine of creation through a consideration of the beauty of time.C…

Laura Petersen

Practices of Restitution

Since the end of the Second World War, restitution in Germany - Wiedergutmachung - has been mainly understood as part of state or private law. This book offers a different approach, arguing that authors a…

Music Video and Transcultural Imaginaries

From their inception, music videos have served as an important instrument for depicting collective emotional states, cultural affiliations and processes of social change. At the beginning of the 21st cent…

Steven Henry Madoff

Unseparate

"For more than a century, European modernist art has been written about as a profound expression of fragmentation-of an alienated world in pieces. In this book, critic and curator Steven Henry Madoff…

Helen Kapstein

Petroforms

Petroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petrocriticism, itself an offshoot of developments in postcolonial ecocriticism. Studies of resource fiction and …