26 reflections on nude images from the history of Western art including Rembrandt, Goya, David Hockney and Nan Golden. The authors, both philosophers, develop an approach to the nude that…

This book is a close reading of Jacques Lacan’s seminal essay, The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud,
selected for the particular light it casts…

Suspended between likeness and strangeness, portraiture can identify an individual only at the moment of its advancement and withdrawal. Examining 36 portraits across two millennia, Nancy shows how, despite photograph’s…

Die Suche nach der einen Wahrheit scheint im plural gepragten Horizont der Gegenwart ebenso uberflussig oder aber problematisch geworden zu sein, wie die Rede von dem einen Gott als Grund…

Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how does one interpret the word? In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of…

As an alternative to universalism and particularism, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics proposes intermedialities as a new model of social relations and intercultural dialogue. The concept of intermedialities stresses the necessity…