Aesthetics after Photography - News
New Publication: 'Perceptual Ephemera', edited by Thomas Crowther (Warwick) and Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham)
'Perceptual Ephemera' published by Oxford University Press (June 2018) is the first collective philosophical study of the perception of non-substantial objects, such as shadows, rainbows and reflections. It sets out to explore these unusual, marginal and neglected aspects of the perceived world in fifteen new essays. As well as research on the 'visibillia' already mentioned, the volume includes essays on sounds, smells, transparency, absences, camoufage, solidity and ambient vision.
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society/Oxford Academic: 'Moral Value and Objectivity - A Virtual Issue' edited by Guy Longworth
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society and Oxford Academic have launched 'Moral Value and Objectivity - A Virtual Issue', edited by Guy Longworth. The papers in this collection have been chosen from previous volumes of Proceedings as potentially illuminating the nature of moral values and directives. More specifically, each of the papers engages with questions about the extent to which our moral attitudes purport to reflect objective features of the world we share.
Further information, see here:
https://academic.oup.com/aristotelian/pages/moral_value_objectivity
New Publication: 'The Government of Desire: A Geneology of the Liberal Subject' by Professor Miguel de Beistegui
This new title by Professor Miguel de Beistegui, published by the University of Chicago Press (May 2018) is a thought-provoking and original commentary exploring the concept of freedom and unfreedom, and what makes the human animal both governed and ungovernable. Professor de Beistegui draws on his extensive research in the fields of philosophy, political theory and psychoanalysis to argue persuasively for a sovereign and anarchic form of desire.