Pensive contours

While interest in the emotion of awe has surged in psychology, philosophers have yet to devote a single self-standing article to awe’s conceptual contours and moral standing. Chapt...

This chapter demonstrates how Bellour’s work on video art (or what was later termed moving-image installation art), while a product of his own preoccupations, is situated firmly wi...

This chapter focuses on the role of shame in Emma Woodhouse’s moral development in Jane Austen’s Emma. It shows similarities between Austen’s theory of moral virtue and Aristotle’s...

Stories about abortion provide a rich ground for looking at the relationship between narrative, experience, and meaning because in many ways abortion has come to be a defining issu...

This chapter explores the relationship between Wilde and his Trinity College Classics tutor, John Pentland Mahaffy. This complex relationship played a vital part in the formation o...

This chapter argues that information is a species of meaning that has been radically enclosed, such that the values in question seem to have become radically portable. They are not...

The final chapter encapsulates the usefulness of the inside-out approach developed in the book for future research. It outlines how the book fills a gap in existing scholarship by ...