Table of Contents
ContributorsIntroduction: Cultural Diversity and the Problem of Aesthetics, Emory ElliottPART I. CHALLENGES TO AN AESTHETICS OF DIVERSITYCan Our Values Be Objective? On Ethics, Aesthetics, and Progressive Politics, Satya P. MohantyThe Pragmatics of the Aesthetic, Giles GunnAesthetics and Cultural Studies, Winfried FluckThe Resistance to Cultural Studies, John Carlos RowePART II. REDEFINING CATEGORIES OF VALUE AND DIFFERENCEDesegregating American Literary Studies, Shelley Fisher FishkinDifference and Disciplinarity, Robyn WiegmanDoing Justice to C.L.R. James's Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways, Donald E. PeaseMumbo Jumbo, Theory, and the Aesthetics of Wholeness, Johnella E. ButlerPART III. AESTHETIC JUDGMENT AND THE PUBLIC SPHEREAesthetics Again? The Pleasures and the Dangers, Paul Lauter"Every man knows where and how beauty gives him pleasure": Beauty Discourse and the Logic of Aesthetics, Amelia JonesThe Aesthetics of Wounding: Trauma, Self-Representation, and the Critical Voice, Kathleen McHughBeautiful Identities: When History Turns State's Evidence, Chon A. NoriegaToward a Pluralist Aesthetics, Heinz IckstadtAfterword, Louis Freitas CatonIndex