H. Peter Steeves is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday and the editor of Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life, both also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSection 1. Painting, Seeing, Concepts 1. Gone, Missing2. Arshile’s Heel, Gorky’s Line3. "You Are Here" and Not Here: The Concept of Conceptual ArtSection 2. Moving Pictures and Memory 4. The Doubling of Death in the Films of Michael Haneke5. Yep, Gaston’s Gay: Disney and the Beauty of a Beastly Love6. And Say the Zombie Responded? or, How I Learned to Stop Living and Unlove the Undead Section 3. Other Animal Others 7. The Man Who Mistook His Meal for a Hot Dog8. Rachel Rosenthal Was an AnimalSection 4. Laughing Beyond Modernity 9. "It’s Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened": The Simpsons and the Possibility of Postmodern Comedy10. Quantum AndyNotesIndex

"…[Steeves] provides rich, coherent, and thought provoking analyses of the deep continuity between art and life. He explores complex ideas and experiences in a highly readable way, examining them from multiple perspectives and engaging the reader's imaginative and critical capacities. Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding will certainly merit multiple readings and provoke discussion." — Phenomenology & Practice"…Steeves guides us through an enlightening, entertaining, accessible, and intelligent study of the life of art that never leaves behind the human element that each of us brings to the banquet … [he] has produced an objectively beautiful and fascinating book, every bit as artistic as the objects we see through its bright and illuminating lens." — Popular Culture Review"This is a brilliant new contribution by our preeminent phenomenologist of culture. It's extremely accessible, illuminating, original, and sophisticated while being philosophically probing." — David Wood, author of The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction

H. Peter Steeves is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday and the editor of Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life, both also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSection 1. Painting, Seeing, Concepts 1. Gone, Missing2. Arshile’s Heel, Gorky’s Line3. "You Are Here" and Not Here: The Concept of Conceptual ArtSection 2. Moving Pictures and Memory 4. The Doubling of Death in the Films of Michael Haneke5. Yep, Gaston’s Gay: Disney and the Beauty of a Beastly Love6. And Say the Zombie Responded? or, How I Learned to Stop Living and Unlove the Undead Section 3. Other Animal Others 7. The Man Who Mistook His Meal for a Hot Dog8. Rachel Rosenthal Was an AnimalSection 4. Laughing Beyond Modernity 9. "It’s Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened": The Simpsons and the Possibility of Postmodern Comedy10. Quantum AndyNotesIndex

"…[Steeves] provides rich, coherent, and thought provoking analyses of the deep continuity between art and life. He explores complex ideas and experiences in a highly readable way, examining them from multiple perspectives and engaging the reader's imaginative and critical capacities. Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding will certainly merit multiple readings and provoke discussion." — Phenomenology & Practice"…Steeves guides us through an enlightening, entertaining, accessible, and intelligent study of the life of art that never leaves behind the human element that each of us brings to the banquet … [he] has produced an objectively beautiful and fascinating book, every bit as artistic as the objects we see through its bright and illuminating lens." — Popular Culture Review"This is a brilliant new contribution by our preeminent phenomenologist of culture. It's extremely accessible, illuminating, original, and sophisticated while being philosophically probing." — David Wood, author of The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction

H. Peter Steeves is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday and the editor of Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life, both also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSection 1. Painting, Seeing, Concepts 1. Gone, Missing2. Arshile’s Heel, Gorky’s Line3. "You Are Here" and Not Here: The Concept of Conceptual ArtSection 2. Moving Pictures and Memory 4. The Doubling of Death in the Films of Michael Haneke5. Yep, Gaston’s Gay: Disney and the Beauty of a Beastly Love6. And Say the Zombie Responded? or, How I Learned to Stop Living and Unlove the Undead Section 3. Other Animal Others 7. The Man Who Mistook His Meal for a Hot Dog8. Rachel Rosenthal Was an AnimalSection 4. Laughing Beyond Modernity 9. "It’s Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened": The Simpsons and the Possibility of Postmodern Comedy10. Quantum AndyNotesIndex

"…[Steeves] provides rich, coherent, and thought provoking analyses of the deep continuity between art and life. He explores complex ideas and experiences in a highly readable way, examining them from multiple perspectives and engaging the reader's imaginative and critical capacities. Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding will certainly merit multiple readings and provoke discussion." — Phenomenology & Practice"…Steeves guides us through an enlightening, entertaining, accessible, and intelligent study of the life of art that never leaves behind the human element that each of us brings to the banquet … [he] has produced an objectively beautiful and fascinating book, every bit as artistic as the objects we see through its bright and illuminating lens." — Popular Culture Review"This is a brilliant new contribution by our preeminent phenomenologist of culture. It's extremely accessible, illuminating, original, and sophisticated while being philosophically probing." — David Wood, author of The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction