Continental Aesthetics Romanticism to

This comprehensive anthology provides a collection of classic and contemporary readings in continental aesthetics. Spanning Romanticism through Modernism to Postmodernism, the volume includes landmark texts that have sparked renewed interest in aesthetics, including works by Schiller, Kant, Nietzsche, Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, Luk?cs, Habermas, Foucault, Kristeva, and Derrida.

Richard Kearney is Professor of Philosophy at University College, Dublin and a visiting professor at Boston College. He has been a visiting lecturer at several universities across the US and Europe. His publications include: States of Mind (1995), Poetics of Modernity (1995), and The Wake of Imagination (1998).

David Rasmussen is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Philosophy and Social Criticism (1978–), the Philosophy and Social Criticism Book Series (1995–), and Cultural Hermeneutics (1973–7). He is the author of The Handbook of Critical Theory (Blackwell, 1996) and Reading Habermas (Blackwell, 1990).

Preface

viii

Acknowledgments

x

Part I Romanticism

1

(160)

Introduction

3

(2)

The Critique of Judgement

5

(38)

Immanuel Kant

Letter of an Aesthetic Education of Man

43

(3)

Friedrich Schiller

The World as Will and Representation

46

(53)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Lectures on Aesthetics

99

(28)

G. W. F. Hegel

The Philosophy of Art

127

(12)

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

Biographia Literaria

139

(4)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Birth of Tragedy

143

(18)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Part II Modernism

161

(198)

Introduction

163

(3)

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

166

(16)

Walter Benjamin

The Origin of the Work of Art

182

(30)

Martin Heidegger

Lectures on Aesthetics

212

(4)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Leonardo da Vinci

216

(6)

Sigmund Freud

The Ideology of Modernism

222

(13)

Gyorgy Lukacs

The Aesthetic Dimension

235

(7)

Herbert Marcuse

Aesthetic Theory

242

(12)

Theodor Adorno

Discourse in the Novel

254

(17)

Mikhail Bakhtin

Taste and the Reproduction of Art

271

(5)

Benedetto Croce

What is Literature?

276

(12)

Jean-Paul Sartre

Eye and Mind

288

(19)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

On Leveling the Genre Distinction between Philosophy and Literature

307

(14)

Jurgen Habermas

Truth and Method

321

(18)

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Metaphor and the Problem of Hermeneutics

339

(20)

Paul Ricoeur

Part III Postmodernism

359

(114)

Introduction

361

(2)

Note on the Meaning of the Word ``Post'' and Answering the Question ``What is Postmodernism?''

363

(8)

Jean-Francois Lyotard

The Death of the Author

371

(3)

Roland Barthes

This Is Not a Pipe

374

(14)

Michel Foucault

The Laugh of the Medusa

388

(12)

Helene Cixous

Travels in Hyperreality

400

(11)

Umberto Eco

Simulations

411

(20)

Jean Baudrillard

Economimesis

431

(20)

Jacques Derrida

Literature One More Time

451

(6)

Maurice Blanchot

The Malady of Grief: Duras

457

(16)

Julia Kristeva

Index

473

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