One of Dennis Cooper's favourite contemporary books.

Philosophy of the Sky gathers texts that use the sky as more than a backdrop — it treats the sky as a philosophical object, a site of experience, thought, and speculation. Across diverse voices and modes, the book explores how clouds, air, horizon, and atmosphere shape human perception, ethics, subjectivity, and our relation to the world.

Contributors examine topics such as embodiment in the open air, the sky’s role in art and literature, climate and political experience, and the visceral, often unsettling sense of being suspended between earth and abyss.

For readers interested in phenomenology, ecology, and philosophy beyond disciplinary boundaries, Philosophy of the Sky offers a way of thinking with and through what surrounds us most of all — the vast, shifting atmosphere we inhabit but rarely interrogate.