Continental Aesthetics: Romanticism to Postmodernism: An Anthology / Edition 1

by Richard Kearney, David M. Rasmussen

Overview

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, Lukács, Habermas, Foucault, Kristeva, and Derrida.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631216117
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/29/2001
Series:	Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies , #12
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Preface 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 LukaÂcs 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 &‘grave;Post'' and Answering the Question &‘grave;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

HeÂleÁne 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

Editorial Reviews

"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

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