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Book SynopsisA collection of classic and contemporary readings in Continental aesthetics. Spanning Romanticism through modernism to post-modernism, it includes landmark texts that have sparked renewed interest in aesthetics, including work from Schiller, Kant, Nietzsche, Hegel and Heidegger.
Trade Review"Richard Kearney and David Rasmussen must be congratulated on their judicious selection of the main texts in continental aesthetics. Indeed, the result is so successful that the volume could as readily serve as a textbook for a course in continental philosophy as for a course in aesthetics. This volume surpasses all previous collections in the area."
Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis "Collecting key selections from influential texts, this Anthology displays a wide range of important European theorists, past and present, and should prove very useful for courses in aesthetics and literary theory." Richard Shusterman, Temple University, author of Pragmatist Aesthetics
Table of ContentsPreface viii
Acknowledgments x
Part I Romanticism 1
Introduction 3
1 The Critique of Judgement
Immanuel Kant 5
2 Letter of an Aesthetic Education of Man
Friedrich Schiller 43
3 The World as Will and Representation
Arthur Schopenhauer 46
4 Lectures on Aesthetics
G. W. F. Hegel 99
5 The Philosophy of Art
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling 127
6 Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 139
7 The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche 143
Part II Modernism 161
Introduction 163
8 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin 166
9 The Origin of the Work of Art
Martin Heidegger 182
10 Lectures on Aesthetics
Ludwig Wittgenstein 212
11 Leonardo da Vinci
Sigmund Freud 216
12 The Ideology of Modernism
GyoÈrgy Luka cs 222
13 The Aesthetic Dimension
Herbert Marcuse 235
14 Aesthetic Theory
Theodor Adorno 242
15 Discourse in the Novel
Mikhail Bakhtin 254
16 Taste and the Reproduction of Art
Benedetto Croce 271
17 What is Literature?
Jean-Paul Sartre 276
18 Eye and Mind
Maurice Merleau-Ponty 288
19 On Leveling the Genre Distinction between Philosophy and Literature
JuÈrgen Habermas 307
20 Truth and Method
Hans-Georg Gadamer 321
21 Metaphor and the Problem of Hermeneutics
Paul Ricoeur 339
Part III Postmodernism 359
Introduction 361
22 Note on the Meaning of the Word ``Post'' and Answering the Question ``What is Postmodernism?''
Jean-FrancËois Lyotard 363
23 The Death of the Author
Roland Barthes 371
24 This Is Not a Pipe
Michel Foucault 374
25 The Laugh of the Medusa
He leÁne Cixous 388
26 Travels in Hyperreality
Umberto Eco 400
27 Simulations
Jean Baudrillard 411
28 Economimesis
Jacques Derrida 431
29 Literature One More Time
Maurice Blanchot 451
30 The Malady of Grief: Duras
Julia Kristeva 457
Index 473
