Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking (Routledge Research in Aesthetics) - Hardcover

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Michaela Fi?erová is an associate professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of J. E. Purkyn¿ in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, and a researcher at Metropolitan University Prague. She works in the fields of contemporary philosophy and aesthetics, with specialisation in the problematics of media, arts, politics, and animality. She is the author of Sharing the Visible: Rethinking Foucault (2013), Image and Power: Interviews with French Thinkers (2015), Deconstructing Signature (2016), Fragmentary Vision: Rancière, Derrida, Nancy (2019), and Event of Signature: Jacques Derrida and Repeating of the Unrepeatable (SUNY, 2022).

Jakub Mácha is a researcher at the Metropolitan University Prague and a professor at the Department of Aesthetics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He has published on the philosophy of language and classical German philosophy. He is the author of Wittgenstein on Internal and External Relations: Tracing All the Connections (2015). His co-edited volumes include Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language (2016), Wallace Stevens: Poetry, Philosophy, and Figurative Language (2018), Wittgenstein and Hegel: Reevaluation of Difference (2019), Engaging Kripke with Wittgenstein (2024), and Platonism (2024). His most recent book is The Philosophy of Exemplarity: Singularity, Particularity, and Self-Reference (Routledge, 2023).

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This volume offers a fresh and timely contribution to current discussions of ornamentation, repetition, and affect in aesthetics. It provides new insights into how ornamentation shapes artistic, philosophical, and social practices, positioning it as a dynamic force in contemporary thought.