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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
What is Aesthetics?
The Nature of Experience
Socrates and Plato
The Power of Poetry
Painting as Imitation
The Simulacrum
Deception is Truth, Truth Deception
Aristotle’s Poetics
Art and the Audience
Art and Reality
Catharsis
Medieval Aesthetics
The Theological Time-bomb
The Beauty of Order
Thomas Aquinas
Beauty and Cognition
Art as Religious Instruction
Art and Melancholy
The School of Night
Renaissance Aesthetics
Painting as Philosophy
The Rise of the Bourgeoisie
The Lives of the Artists
The Classical Episteme
The Subject
The Sovereign Eye
Et in Arcadia Ego
The Imperialist Subject
Capitalism and the Other
The Enlightenment
Kant’s Critical Philosophy
The Critique of Judgement
The Sublime
Universal Reason
The Unknowable
Hegel and the Universal Consciousness
Symbolic, Classical, Romantic
The Origins of Modern Aesthetics: Nietzsche, Freud and Marx
Nietzsche and the Revaluation of All Values
Apollonian and Dionysian Energy
The Intoxication of Change
Freud and Psychoanalysis
Sublimation
Marx and the Alienation of Capitalism
Art and the Bourgeoisie
Aestheticism
Modernist Aesthetics
Synaesthesia
Romanticism
Marxist Aesthetics in the 1920s and 30s
Lukács and Critical Realism
Brechtian Realism
Communist Aesthetics
Socialist Realism
Aesthetics in the Modern Era
The Aura
The Radical Power of Early Photographs
The Fragments of History
Theodor Adorno
Art After the Holocaust?
The Hollowed Subject
Nietzschean Aesthetics
The Happening of Truth
Georges Bataille
The Philosophy of Expenditure
The Pursuit of the Extreme
Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics after the Second World War
Language and the Autonomous “I”
The Gaze
The Fantasy of Control
Jouissance
Marxist Theories of the Image in the 1960s and 70s
Debord and the Society of the Spectacle
Lack
The Situationist International
Détournement
Ways of Seeing
Modernist Aesthetics: 1940-70
Winckelmann and Lessing
Minimalist Art
Aesthetics, Contemporary Experience and Postmodernism
Fredric Jameson
The Rise of the Multinationals
Modernist vs Postmodernist
Parody or Pastiche?
Schizophrenic Culture
Antonio Negri and T.J. Clark
Postmodernism and Continental Aesthetics
The Medium is the Message
The Aesthetics of Simulation
The Ironies of Postmodern Capitalism
Roland Barthes
Messages Without a Code
The Punctum
Julia Kristeva
The Chora and the Semiotic
Kristeva and Jouissance
Feminist Aesthetics and Postmodernism
Jacques Derrida
Deconstruction
Undecidable Art
Jean-François Lyotard
Newman and Duchamp
Gilles Deleuze
The Body without Organs
Conclusion
Further Reading
Author’s Acknowledgements
Index
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