David Rodowick is a specialist in philosophical aesthetics and the criticism and theory of contemporary art and cinema. His most recent books make the case for a philosophy of humanities whose modes of knowledge differ from that of the sciences. Rodowick is the author of nine books, including What Philosophy Wants from Images (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Philosophy’s Artful Conversation (Harvard University Press, 2014), and Elegy for Theory (Harvard University Press, 2014). His most recent book is An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the Humanities (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Rodowick is the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College at the University of Chicago.