"The Theater of Truth" is a book for those interested and engaged in the debates around baroque and neobaroque aesthetics, and offers a unified theory for the relation between these terms and a new vocabulary for distinguishing between their ideological values.

William Egginton is Professor and Chair of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (Stanford, 2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), and The Philosopher's Desire (Stanford, 200