Why Design Matters

‘The artwork is no longer the integral part of the exhibition; to curate an exhibition is to curate an experience.’ Bridging the gap between curatorial practices ...

R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was an English philosopher, historian and practicing archaeologist. His work, particularly in the philosophy of action and history, has been profoundly...

AbstractMost people have wondered whether anything really matters, some have temporarily thought that nothing really matters, and some philosophers have defended the view that noth...

Abstract This book is about the work of judging, what judges actually do. Its concern is the reality of everyday judging in civil law matters, occurring from seni...

Design Objects and the Museum brings together leading design historians, curators, educators and archivists drawing on a wide range of 20th century and contemporary examples from i...

Following the core principle of phenomenology as a return "to the things themselves," Body Matters attends to the phenomena of bodily afflictions and examines them from three diffe...

Manuscript Matters illuminates responses to some of John Donne’s most elusive texts by his contemporary audiences. Since examples of seventeenth-century literary criticism prove so...

Oliver Keenan brings the medieval philosophy of Thomas Aquinas to life. Thomas Aquinas is more than a medieval curiosity. He was a reluctant revolutionary, a scholar, poe...