Crispin Sartwell is Associate Professor of Art, Political Science, and Philosophy at Dickinson College. He is the author of several books, including Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory, Extreme Virtue: Truth and Leadership in Five Great American Lives, and End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History, all published by SUNY Press.

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1. How to Escape, 2006

2. Divas, Dudes, Queens, and Studs: Gender and Sexuality as Aesthetic Expressions, 2013

3. Beatles vs. Stones: An Aesthetics of Rock Music, 2011

4. Reactionary Progressivism: Bluegrass and Political Philosophy, 2009

5. Philosophy of Punk, 2002

6. Technology and the Future of Beauty, 1998

7. I Speak for My People: A Racial Manifesto, 2013

8. I Was a Teenage Terrorist, 2005

9. Detritus, 2008

10. Tangled: What If Aesthetic Properties Were Real? 2009

11. Holding on for Dear Life: The Value of Realism in Art, 2012

12. Presence and Resistance: Process in Graffiti Art and Crime, 2002

13. Beauty, Sex, and the Banality of Pleasure, 2000

14. Guns, Dub, Technique, 2008

15. Cynicism: The Characteristically American Philosophy, 2013

16. "Don't Mean Sheeit": On the Necessity and Impossibility of Meaning for Life, 2010

Appendix: Art History Lexicon

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