What is the effect of light as it measures the seasons? How does light leave different traces on the terrain - on a Pacific Island, in the Aegean Sea, high in the Alps, or in the forest? John Sallis considers the expansiveness of nature and the range of human vision in essays about the effect of lig[...]
"Transfigurements" develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. Sallis exposes new layers in their texts and theories while also marking their limits. By doing so, his aim is [...]
Logic of Imagination forges a sweeping vision of the character of thinking and the expanse of the imagination. Continuing the philosophical project of his book Force of Imagination, John Sallis extends his consideration of the powers of the imagination beyond the horizons of his earlier work. Sallis[...]
Since Hegel, philosophers have declared repeatedly that metaphysics is at an end, a pronouncement that has sparked much contemporary philosophical debate. What exactly does the end, or closure, of metaphysics mean, and what are the implications of this view? John Sallis characterizes the end of meta[...]
'This fascinating book by one of the more original voices writing philosophy in English poses questions about the nature of the visible and invisible, sensible and intelligible...What makes Sallis' work so unique and important is the manner in which the problematic relation of language and plastic a[...]
Peter Sallis is known to millions as Norman Clegg in the classic BBC series Last of the Summer Wine, and to millions more - whether they realise it or not - as the voice of Wallace in the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit. Peter was to raise the curtain on richly diverse in the most unlikely of circu[...]