title: Aesthetics as Phenomenology: The Appearance of Things (Studies in Continental Thought)
author:  G&uuml;nter Figal 
description: Aesthetics as Phenomenology is an important and potentially major contribution to the philosophy of art. (<i>Phenomenological Reviews</i>)
zlib_text: l Visions in an Age of Empire is wonderfully informative and methodologically in-
  ~· The deep but ambiguous connections between travel, knowledge, art, and ge-
  lY are revealed with a remarkable combination of focused scholarship and broad 
  ptual sweep. This book is a vindication of the cross-disciplinary imagination." 
  Nicholas 11IOnrits, Goldsmiths College, University <if London 
  f evidenced and subtly argued, Tropical Visions in an Age <if Empire consists of 
  gly original case studies powerfully framed with an introduction and afterword 
  navigate broader questions of the multiple connotations of the tropical in the 
  rn imperial imagination. This collection amply sustains its claim to take the full 
  of visual evide.nce seriously. Maps, paintings, engravings, botanical illustrations, 
  1otographs: each category receives close and imaginative readings, in which poli-
  d poetics are held in a fruitful balance." 
  Tim Barringer, Yale University 
  lid Europeans come to conceive of the tropics 