We live in a world where the one-time opposition between things and humans has been transformed, where the centre of the contemporary sensibility is the encounter between philosophy and sexuality, where sex extends well beyond both the act and the body. We live in a world where to be sexy is to igno[...]
Offers a fresh account of Continental aesthetic thought in the 20th Century. Surveying 100 years of writing on art, this book explores five major themes that have been central to European aesthteic theory: Life, Form, Consciousness, Action and Feeling.[...]
Surveys the key themes in Continental aesthetics. This title explores five major themes that, in the author's view, have been central to European aesthetic theory: Life, Form, Consciousness, Action and Feeling.[...]
'What do we fear most? Repetition or difference? The return of a barbarism that is remote and prehistoric or the advent of a barbarism that is technological as post-human?' In this succinct and innovative book, Mario Perniola, one of Italy's most influential philosophers and critics, argues that our[...]