Continental Aesthetics Romanticism to Postmodernism An Anthology [Paperback]

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.Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Romanticism:.

Introduction.

1. The Critique of Judgement: Immanuel Kant.

2. Letter of an Aesthetic Education of Man: Friedrich Schiller.

3. The World as Will and Representation: Arthur Schoepenhauer.

4. Lectures on Aesthetics: G. W. F. Hegel.

5. The Philosophy of Art: Friedrich Wilhelm Jospeh von Schelling.

6. Biographia Literaria: Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

7. The Birth of Tragedy: Friedrich Nietzsche.

Part II: Modernism:.

Introduction.

8. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Walter Benjamin.

9. The Origin of the Work of Art: Martin Heidegger.

10. Lectures on Aesthetics: Ludwig Wittgenstein.

11. Leonardo da Vinci: Sigmund Freud.

12. The Ideology of Modernism: György Lukács.

13. The Aesthetic Dimension: Herbert Marcuse.

14. Aesthetic Theory: Theodor Adorno.

15. Discourse in the Novel: Mikhail Bakhtin.

16. Taste and the Reproduction of Art: Benedetto Croce.

17. What is Literature?: Jean-Paul Sartre.

18. Eye and Mind: Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

19. On Leveling the Genre Distinction between Philosophy and Literature: Jürgen Habermas.