The Continental Aesthetics Reader

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Nineteenth-Century German Aesthetics......Page 20
Introduction......Page 22
Extracts from 'Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment' and 'Dialectic of Aesthetic Judgment', Critique of Judgment IMMANUEL KANT......Page 35
Extracts from Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art G.W.F. HEGEL......Page 54
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE......Page 72
Phenomenology and Hermeneutics......Page 82
Introduction......Page 84
The Origin of the Work of Art MARTIN HEIDEGGER......Page 99
What is Writing? JEAN-PAUL SARTRE......Page 121
Reality and its Shadow EMMANUEL LEVINAS......Page 136
The World of the Aesthetic Object MIKEL DUFRENNE......Page 148
The Dialectics of Outside and Inside GASTON BACHELARD......Page 170
The Intertwining    The Chiasm MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY......Page 183
Aesthetics and Hermeneutics HANS-GEORG GADAMER......Page 200
The Death or Decline of Art GIANNI VATTIMO......Page 206
Marxism and Critical Theory......Page 214
Introduction......Page 216
Private Property and Communism KARL MARX......Page 229
Specific Particularity as the Central Category of Aesthetics GEORG LUKCS......Page 239
Extracts from Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life THEODOR W. ADORNO......Page 253
Nature and Revolution HERBERT MARCUSE......Page 276
Modernity versus Postmodernity JRGEN HABERMAS......Page 287
Extract from 'Questions and Counterquestions' JRGEN HABERMAS......Page 297
Postmodernism and Consumer Society FREDRIC JAMESON......Page 301
Modernism......Page 314
Introduction......Page 316
Value and Money GEORG SIMMEL......Page 324
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction WALTER BENJAMIN......Page 341
The Original Experience MAURICE BLANCHOT......Page 363
Artistic Illusion as Visible Anticipatory Illumination ERNST BLOCH......Page 374
Poststructuralism and Postmodernism......Page 384
Introduction......Page 386
Sanctity, Eroticism and Solitude GEORGES BATAILLE......Page 403
The Plates of the Encyclopedia ROLAND BARTHES......Page 411
Las Meninas MICHEL FOUCAULT......Page 420
The Parergon JACQUES DERRIDA......Page 431
The Resistance to Theory PAUL DE MAN......Page 448
The Evil Demon of Images JEAN BAUDRILLARD......Page 463
The Sublime and the Avant-Garde JEAN-FRANOIS LYOTARD......Page 472
Percept, Affect, and Concept GILLES DELEUZE AND FLIX GUATTARI......Page 484
Psychoanalysis and Feminism......Page 508
Introduction......Page 510
The Unconscious SIGMUND FREUD......Page 525
Of the Gaze as Objet Petit a JACQUES LACAN......Page 538
Approaching Abjection JULIA KRISTEVA......Page 561
The Invisible of the Flesh: A Reading of Merleau-Ponty, 'The Intertwining    The Chiasm' LUCE IRIGARAY......Page 582
The Last Painting or the Portrait of God HLNE CIXOUS......Page 602
Select bibliography of major works in English......Page 617
Index......Page 630