Contextualizing Aesthetics From Plato to

This book brings philosophical aesthetics into a broader cultural interest in the fine arts and draws together the classics of the history of aesthetics, the mid-twentieth century or "Analytic" aesthetics, and late-twentieth century or "Continental" post-structuralist "theory."

Preface

vii

(4)

Introduction

xi

Part I History

1

(106)

A. The Ancient (Greek and Roman) Period

2

(47)

Plato

The Republic

11

(11)

Plato

Cratylus

22

(11)

Aristotle

The Poetics

33

(13)

Longinus

On the Sublime

46

(3)

B. The Modern (18th- and 19th- Century) Period

49

(58)

Edmund Burke

"The Sublime and Beautiful"

66

(9)

David Hume

"Of the Standard of Taste"

75

(9)

Immanuel Kant

The Critique of Judgment

84

(6)

George W. F. Hegel

Aesthetics

90

(7)

Arthur Schopenhauer

The World as Will and Idea

97

(5)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art and the Will to Power

102

(5)

Part II The Analytic Critique of the Aesthetic

107

(84)

Anita Silvers

"Letting the Sunshine In: Has Analysis Made Aesthetics Clear?"

110

(8)

A. The Analytic Critique of Aesthetic Experience

118

(22)

Monroe C. Beardsley

"The Aesthetic Point of View"

120

(10)

George Dickie

"The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude"

130

(10)

B. The Problem of Defining Art

140

(21)

Arthur Danto

"The Artistic Enfranchisement of Real Objects: The Artworld"

145

(8)

George Dickie

The Art Circle

153

(8)

C. The Status of the Work of Art

161

(17)

Richard Wollheim

Art and Its Objects

165

(6)

Jerrold Levinson

"What a Musical Work Is"

171

(7)

D. The Analytic Critique of the Expression Theory of Art

178

(13)

Jenefer Robinson

"The Expression and Arousal of Emotion in Music"

180

(11)

Part III Continental and Contemporary Theory

191

(147)

A. Myths of Modernism

192

(26)

Rosalind E. Krauss

Introduction to The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths

195

(4)

Paul de Man

"The Resistance to Theory"

199

(8)

Roland Barthes

"From Work to Text"

207

(5)

Robert Venturi

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

212

(6)

B. Art and Postmodernity

218

(33)

Michel Foucault

This Is Not a Pipe

223

(7)

Gilles Deleuze

"Nomadic Philosophy of Art"

230

(9)

Paul Crowther

"Postmodernism in the Visual Arts"

239

(12)

C. The Critique of Truth

251

(27)

Martin Heidegger

"The Origin of the Work of Art"

257

(7)

Meyer Shapiro

"The Still Life as a Personal Object--A Note on Heidegger and van Gogh"

264

(4)

Jacques Derrida

The Truth in Painting

268

(10)

D. Cultural Materialism

278

(31)

Walter Benjamin

"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

282

(8)

Theodor Adorno

Aesthetic Theory

290

(4)

Tony Bennett

"Really Useless `Knowledge': A Political Critique of Aesthetics"

294

(7)

Griselda Pollock

"Feminist Art Histories and Marxism"

301

(8)

E. The Postmodern Sublime

309

(29)

Jean-Francois Lyotard

"The Sublime and the Avant-Garde"

312

(9)

Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism

321

(10)

Jean-Francois Lyotard

"Presenting the Unpresentable: The Sublime"

331

(7)

Bibliography

338

(5)

Index

343

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