Our research

Making Sense of Akrasia by Matthew Burch.

On Mountains and Molehills: Problems, Non-problems, and the Ideology of Ideology by Lorna Finlayson.

Adorno’s Politics: Theory and Praxis in Germany’s 1960s by Fabian Freyenhagen.

The Impossible Demand of Forgiveness by Steven Gormley.

I Me Mine: on a Confusion Concerning the Subjective Character of Experience by Marie Guillot.

'The Doing is Everything': A Middle-Voiced Reading of Agency in Nietzsche by Béatrice Han-Pile.

Reversibility and chiasm: false equivalents? An alternative approach to understanding difference in Merleau-Ponty’s late philosophy by Fiona Hughes.

Sexual Objectification by Timo Jütten.

"The Common Root of Meaning and Nonmeaning": Derrida, Foucault and the Transformation of the Transcendental Question by Thomas Khurana.

Manic Temporality co-authored by Wayne Martin, Tania Gergel, and Gareth Owen.

Fichte's Creuzer Review and the Transformation of the of Free Will Problem by Wayne Martin.

Embodied Expression: The Role of the Lived Body in Husserl's Notion of Intention Fulfilment by Irene McMullin.

Aesthetic Freedom and Democratic Ethical Life: A Hegelian Account of the Relationship between Aesthetics and Democratic Politics by Joerg Schaub.

'Kierkegaard on Truth: One or Many?'  by Daniel Watts.

The Political is Political: Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy by Lorna Finlayson

Deconstruction and Deliberative Democracy: A Democratic Venture by Steven Gormley.

The Life of Freedom: Form and Reality of Autonomy by Thomas Khurana.

Existential Flourishing: A Phenomenology of the Virtues by Irene McMullin.

Professor Béatrice Han-Pile discusses hope on BBC’s ‘In Our Time’.

The Ethics of Powerlessness: An Interview with Béatrice Han-Pile.

Professor Wayne Martin’s Guardian article on disability, state power and the capacity to decide.

Lorna Finlayson writes for the London Review of Books.

• El Helicoide and La Torre de David as Phantom Pavilions: Rethinking Spectacles of Progress in Venezuela by Lisa Blackmore.
• Ksar Said: Building Tunisian Young People’s Critical Engagement with Their Heritage by Paola di Giuseppantonio di Franco.
• Poetry Written in Gasoline: Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker by Gavin Grindon.
• ‘Things of the Sea’: Iconographic Continuities between Tattooing and Handicrafts in Georgian-era Maritime Culture by Matt Lodder.
• The Return of the Giants: Leon Battista Alberti’s Letter to Filippo Brunelleschi by Caspar Pearson.
• Miracles in Monochrome: Grisaille in Visual Hagiography by Diana Presciutti.
• Shaking the Tyranny of the Cadaver: Doctor Paul Richer and the ‘Living Écorché’ by Natasha Ruiz-Gómez.
• Floor Mosaics, Romanità, and Spectatorship: The Foro Mussolini’s Piazzale dell’Impero by Michael Tymkiw.

• Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948–1958 by Lisa Blackmore.
• Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy by Diana Presciutti.
• Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics & Cultural Labour after the Avant-Gardeby Stevphen Shukaitis (affiliated staff member from Essex Business School).
• Nazi Exhibition Design and Modernism by Michael Tymkiw.

• See Lisa Blackmore being interviewed on the BBC News for El Helicoide: The Shopping Mall that Became a Torture Prison.
• Read about the exhibition ‘Disobedient Objects’, co-curated by Gavin Grindon, in the BBC News.
• Read about Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel, where Gavin Grindon co-curated a Museum of Colonialism.
• Read the article in the Conversation by Michael Tymkiw on What Nazi Exhibitions Tell Us about How the Far Right Engages Audiences Today

• British Tattoo Art Revealed curated by Matt Lodder.
• Disobedient Objects, co-curated by Gavin Grindon.
• The Museum of Cruel Designs, curated by Gavin Grindon at Banksy’s Dismaland.
• The Museum of Colonialism, co-curated by Gavin Grindon at Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel.
• Gee Vaucher: Introspective, co-curated by Stevphen Shukaitis.