Nicholas Muellner
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Nicholas Muellner’s Love in a Time of Allegory asks how feeling, desire and imagination might persist within a culture increasingly shaped by political anxiety, ecological crisis and the erosion of shared truths. Moving between text and image, the book takes the form of an illustrated essay that considers allegory as a way of thinking beyond the limits of realism.
Muellner’s inquiry is both intimate and philosophical, reflecting on the relationship between private emotion and public crisis. The book argues for fiction, metaphor and symbolic thinking as necessary forms of resistance, particularly when realism risks presenting the world as fixed or inevitable. Drawing on art, literature and philosophy, Love in a Time of Allegory positions love and allegory as practices of connection, capable of sustaining meaning in conditions of uncertainty and disillusionment.
