{"product_id":"love-in-a-time-of-allegory-nicholas-muellner","title":"Love in a Time of Allegory, Nicholas Muellner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eLove in a Time of Allegory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e is an illustrated essay by Nicholas Muellner that asks how we can still feel, desire and imagine in an age of relentless realism. Moving between images and text, the essay turns to allegory as a way of thinking through politics, love and meaning when private life is inseparable from public crisis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"335551550\":6,\"335551620\":6}'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eHaunted by political and ecological anxiety and by the erosion of shared truths, Muellner argues that realism jeopardises our capacity to imagine the world as anything other than it already is, asking how fiction and metaphor might open other ways of seeing. The book unfolds as a meditation on desire and belief, on how intimacy persists within disillusionment, and how emotion becomes a form of resistance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"335551550\":6,\"335551620\":6}'\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eDrawing on histories of art, literature, and philosophy, Muellner proposes that allegory, like love, keeps open the possibility of connection in a fractured world. Love and allegory resist the flattening of experience, insisting that imagination remains a radical, collaborative act capable of transforming even the most precarious realities into tenderness and hope.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"335551550\":6,\"335551620\":6}'\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"335551550\":6,\"335551620\":6}'\u003eSPBH, 168pp, 11cm x 15cm, illustrated paperback, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mack","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57051410202997,"sku":"M-LO-7506-S","price":13.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0079\/5974\/0505\/files\/LoveintheTime.jpg?v=1775664948","url":"https:\/\/store.magalleria.co.uk\/products\/love-in-a-time-of-allegory-nicholas-muellner","provider":"Magalleria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}