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Praise for Anywhere or Not At All Osborne's most important contribution to the philosophy of modern art undoubtedly lies in his determination to redress philosophy's dehistoricising tendencies and his rigorous delineation of the history of misconstructions of Kantian aesthetics right down to the present day. --Lisa Trahair, Critical Inquiry The first book in English that brings contemporary art as a whole to philosophical consideration. --John Rapko, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews It is an ambitious attempt to restore intellectual relevance to the art that is made today, beyond all cynical descriptions, and to create a historical framework that allows us toread our own present as full of possibilities, provided that we do not surrender to objective cynicism. The book is rich in ideas and sidetracks. Compared with most of what is written on 'contemporary art', it is on a completely other level of sophistication. --Kunstkritikk A conceptually challenging and forward-thinking text. --NYArts Magazine

In praise of The Politics of Time Osborne has constructed a new horizon of possibility for the revitalization of cultural studies and cultural analysis generally. -- Rod Jones * Time & Society * In praise of Anywhere or Not At All: Osborne’s Anywhere or Not At All is more than just an excellent book. It presents us with the lineaments of a critical philosophy of art that proves the conceptual dimension to be essential to contemporary art. -- Antonia Birnbaum * Radical Philosophy * In praise of Anywhere or Not At All: Osborne’s most important contribution to the philosophy of modern art undoubtedly lies in his determination to redress philosophy’s dehistoricising tendencies and his rigorous delineation of the history of misconstructions of Kantian aesthetics right down to the present day. -- Lisa Trahair * Critical Inquiry * In praise of Anywhere or Not at All: The first book in English that brings contemporary art as a whole to philosophical consideration. -- John Rapko * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * In praise of Anywhere or Not At All: It is an ambitious attempt to restore intellectual relevance to the art that is made today, beyond all cynical descriptions, and to create a historical framework that allows us toread our own present as full of possibilities, provided that we do not surrender to objective cynicism. The book is rich in ideas and sidetracks. Compared with most of what is written on “contemporary art”, it is on a completely other level of sophistication. * Kunstkritikk * In praise of Anywhere or Not At All: This long overdue philosophy of contemporary art provides us with the conceptual tools to rethink both the history of contemporary art and the philosophy of art criticism. Impassioned yet analytical, Osborne delivers a politically astute discourse in a prose highly pleasurable for its clarity. It is essential reading for anyone serious about contemporary art – or its philosophy. -- Ruth Noack, curator of documenta 12 In praise of Anywhere or Not At All: Osborne insists that what we need is a new and properly philosophical art criticism. * ArtInfo * In praise of Anywhere or Not At All: A conceptually challenging and forward-thinking text * NYArts Magazine *

Very little philosophical writing is inspiring enough to catalyse art and bring it into being. Peter Osborne's writing is consistently in this category. - Hito Steyerl, visual artist and author of Duty Free Art Peter Osborne's new book - The Postconceptual Condition - philosophically maps a chasm of truly mythic proportions, namely that between art and politics. While this chasm is quintessentially modern, the meaning of modern keeps changing and with it the structure of historical experience. Global or transnational modernity forces us to revise notions of autonomy or activism , and conditions the work of art in ways that mark a clear break with its modern past, i.e. Conceptualism. In confronting the fate of art institutions (the biennale form) and analyzing the conditions of the artwork proper, Osborne gets a critical grip on that beast that calls the chasm between art and politics home - a creature better known as the cultural logic of high capitalism . - Roger Buergel, Founding Director of the Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich

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Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London. He is a long-serving member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy. His books include The Politics of Time, Anywhere or Not At All, Philosophy in Cultural Theory, Conceptual Art and Marx.

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