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    Living metaphor
    Studi Filosofici 34 (1): 291-308. 2011.
    The concept of ‘living metaphor’ receives a number of articulations within metaphor theory. A review of four key theories – Nietzsche, Ricoeur, Lakoff and Johnson, and Derrida – reveals a distinction between theories which identify a prior, speculative nature working on or with metaphor, and theories wherein metaphor is shown to be performatively always, already active in thought. The two cannot be left as alternatives because they exhibit opposing theses with regard to the ontology of metaphor,…Read more
  •  550
    Sensation as participation in visual art
    Aesthetic Pathways 2 (2): 2-30. 2012.
    Can an understanding be formed of how sensory experience might be presented or manipulated in visual art in order to promote a relational concept of the senses, in opposition to the customary, capitalist notion of sensation as a private possession, as a sensory impression that is mine? I ask the question in the light of recent visual art theory and practice which pursue relational, ecological ambitions. As Arnold Berleant, Nicolas Bourriaud, and Grant Kester see it, ecological ambition and artis…Read more
  •  90
    Phenomenology and radio drama
    British Journal of Aesthetics 45 (2): 157-174. 2005.
    Radio drama is often considered an incomplete or ‘blind’ artform because it creates worlds through sound alone. The charge of incompleteness, I suggest, rests upon the orthodox empiricist conception of sensation as the receipt of separate modalities of sensory impression. However, alternative theories of sensation are offered by phenomenology and—of particular importance to this study—the restructuring of cognition that takes place in these theories plays a central role in phenomenology's accoun…Read more
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    Kant and metaphor in contemporary aesthetics
    Kantian Review 8 1-37. 2004.
    Trying to assess Kant's impact on contemporary aesthetics is by no means a straightforward task, for the simple reason that the subject is saturated with his influence. In all aspects of the theory and practice of art, it is possible to observe concepts and attitudes at work which are either a reflection of, or a response to, Kant's thinking. This might seem a rather overblown claim and a difficult one to substantiate but, without going into too much detail at this point, one has only to conside…Read more
  •  50
    Over the last few decades there has been a phenomenal growth of interest in metaphor as a device which extends or revises our perception of the world. Clive Cazeaux examines the relationship between metaphor, art and science, against the backdrop of modern European philosophy and, in particular, the work of Kant, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. He contextualizes recent theories of the cognitive potential of metaphor within modern European philosophy and explores the impact which the notion of cogni…Read more
  •  49
    Art, Philosophy and the Connectivity of Concepts: Ricoeur and Deleuze and Guattari
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 6 (1): 21-40. 2019.
    Concepts are traditionally pictured as discrete containers that bring together objects or qualities based on the possession of shared, uniform properties. This paper focuses on a contrasting notion of the concept which holds that concepts are defined by their capacity to reach out and connect with other concepts. Two theories in recent continental philosophy maintain this view: one from Ricoeur, the other from Deleuze and Guattari. Both are offered as attempts to bring art and philosophy into re…Read more
  •  49
    The Continental Aesthetics Reader (edited book)
    Routledge. 2000.
    _The Continental Aesthetics Reader_ brings together classic and contemporary writings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in continental thought. The second edition is clearly divided into seven sections: Nineteenth-Century German Aesthetics Phenomenology and Hermeneutics Marxism and Critical Theory Excess and Affect Embodiment and Technology Poststructuralism and Postmodernism Aesthetic Ontologies. Each section is clearly placed in its historical and philosophical context, and each phi…Read more
  •  40
    Metaphor and Heidegger's Kant
    Review of Metaphysics 49 (2): 341-364. 1995.
    The appeal to ontology is made by Hausman and Ricoeur in order to overcome a paradox. The paradox is that, on their interactionist understanding of the trope, a strong metaphor creates a meaning which is in some way objective or truthful, yet this meaning is new, which is to say that, prior to the metaphor, the independent subject terms could neither suggest the new meaning nor signify the concepts which would support it. If the meaning is new, what is it that supplies the feeling of appropriate…Read more
  •  32
    Judging Contemporary Art with Kant
    Kantian Review 26 (4): 635-652. 2021.
    This article demonstrates the relevance of Kant to the interpretation of contemporary art. The defining properties of contemporary art are the impossibility of definition in material, formal or stylistic terms, and the central role that concepts play in the interpretation of a work. Danto and Osborne suggest how concepts might be applied but they do not develop their proposals. Kant’s theory of judgement can provide a fuller account on the basis of the notions of purposiveness and play. The way …Read more
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    Aesthetics After Metaphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor
    British Journal of Aesthetics 54 (4): 499-504. 2014.
  •  25
    A Philosophy of the Art School
    British Journal of Aesthetics 60 (4): 489-492. 2020.
    A Philosophy of the Art School NewallMichael Routledge. 2019. pp. 192. £115.00
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    The Aesthetics of the Scientific Image
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 2 (2): 187-209. 2015.
    Images in science are often beautiful but their beauty cannot be explained using traditional aesthetic theories. Available theories either rely upon concepts antithetical to science, e.g. regularity as an index of God’s design, or they omit concepts intrinsic to scientific imaging, e.g. the image is taken as a representation of “beautiful nature.” I argue that the scientific image is not a representation but a construction: a series of mutually defining intra-actions, where “intra-action” signif…Read more
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    Book reviews (review)
    British Journal of Aesthetics 39 (1): 72-75. 1999.
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    Metaphor and the Categorization of the Senses
    Metaphor and Symbol 17 (1): 3-26. 2002.
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    Sensation is recognized by epistemology as one of the sources of knowledge, alongside memory, testimony, reason, induction and introspection, but this has not always been the case. It is a defining feature of modern epistemology that the senses provide valuable information about the world that cannot be reached through reason alone. However, because the senses can have an intensity and uniqueness that is difficult to describe, it is sometimes not entirely clear what they offer as knowledge, or e…Read more
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    Kant's Critique of judgement (edited book)
    with Ruth F. Chadwick
    Routledge. 1992.
    This collection brings together many of the most influential criticisms of Kantian philosophy, from his own time to the present day. Volume I is historical, including Kant criticism from Schiller to Buchdahl. It contains some previously untranslated material. Volumes II, III and IV include recent essays on Kant, covering the major aspects of his work. Volume II looks at the Critique of Pure Reason, Volume III at Kant's moral and political philosophy, and Volume IV at the Critique of Judgement an…Read more
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    Introduction
    Kantian Review 26 (4): 505-509. 2021.
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    Art, research, philosophy
    Routledge. 2017.
    Art, Research, Philosophy explores the emergent field of artistic research: art produced as a contribution to knowledge. As a new subject, it raises several questions: What is art-as-research? Don't the requirements of research amount to an imposition on the artistic process that dilutes the power of art? How can something subjective become objective? What is the relationship between art and writing? Doesn't description always miss the particularity of the artwork? This is the first book-length …Read more
  •  9
    Kant's Critique of pure reason (edited book)
    with Ruth F. Chadwick
    Routledge. 1992.
    This collection brings together many of the most influential criticisms of Kantian philosophy, from his own time to the present day. Volume I is historical, including Kant criticism from Schiller to Buchdahl. It contains some previously untranslated material. Volumes II, III and IV include recent essays on Kant, covering the major aspects of his work. Volume II looks at the Critique of Pure Reason, Volume III at Kant's moral and political philosophy, and Volume IV at the Critique of Judgement an…Read more
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    Book reviews (review)
    British Journal of Aesthetics 38 (3): 345-348. 1998.
  • Is There Truth in Art? (review)
    Radical Philosophy 90. 1998.
  • Herman Rapaport, Is There Truth in Art?
    Radical Philosophy. forthcoming.
  • The Continental aesthetics reader (edited book)
    Routledge. 2011.