Few contemporary artists have opened up the dialogue between the conceptual and the visual more insistently than Maria Bussmann. Carrier takes the reader boldly into the challenging world of her philosophically-inspired, genre-defying drawings as he probes her engagement with philosophers from Spinoza, Kant and Hegel to Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty and Arendt.

Allen Speight, Professor of Philosophy, Boston University, USA

David Carrier’s singular and fascinating book provides its readers with a philosopher-art historian-art critic’s stimulating reflections on aesthetics and also detailed interpretations of numerous works of a visual artist, also a philosopher, whose visual representations engage in dialogue with philosophic theories. This makes for a rich brew of ideas, philosophical and interpretative, all presented with clarity and reasoned argument. It provides both pleasure and illumination from its beginning to its end.

Herbert Morris, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Professor of Law and Emeritus Dean of Humanities, UCLA, USA