Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1. Historical Readings Introduction
Plato Selections from Republic Book X Selections from Symposium
Aristotle Selections from Poetics
David Hume Standard of Taste
Immanuel Kant Selections from Analytic of the Beautiful Selections from Analytic of the Sublime
Percy Bysshe Shelley A Defence of Poetry
Friedrich Nietzsche Selections from The Birth of Tragedy On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense
Part 2. Expression and the Aesthetic Object Introduction
R.G. Collingwood The Craft Theory of Art and Art as Expression
John Dewey Art as Experience
Susanne Langer Expressiveness
Stephen Pepper The Aesthetic Object and the Consummatory Field
Roman Ingarden On the Phenomenological Formulation of the Aesthetic Objection
Monroe C. Beardsley The Aesthetic Point of View
Mary Mothersill The Judgement of Taste
Christine Battersby Situating the Aesthetic: A Feminist Defence
Part 3. The Task of Definition Introduction
Ludwig Wittgenstein On Family Resemblance and On Seeing As
Stanley Cavell Excursus on Wittgenstein’s Vision of Language
Arthur C. Danto Artworks and Real Things
Barbara Savedoff The Art Object
George Dickie The New Institutional Theory of Art
Susan L. Feagin On Defining and Interpreting Art Intentionalistically
Jerrold Levinson Defining Art Historically
Jenefer M. Robinson Style and Personality in the Literary Work
Part 4. Psychology and Interpretation Introduction
Sigmund Freud The Relation of the Poet to Day-Dreaming
Carl Gustav Jung Psychology and Literature
Ursula K. LeGuin The Child and the Shadow Some Thoughts on Narrative
Part 5. Hermeneutics and Interpretation Introduction
Martin Heidegger Selections from Being and Time The Origin of the Work of Art
Hans-Georg Gadamer The University of the Hermeneutical Problem
Paul Ricoeur The Hermeneutical Function of Distanciation
E.D. Hirsch, Jr. In Defense of the Author
Roland Barthes The Death of the Author
Rosalind Krauss Poststructuralism and the Paraliterary
Joseph Margolis Reinterpreting Interpretation
Part 6. Marxist Theory Introduction
Karl Marx Alienated Labour
Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Peter Bürger The Theory of the Avant-Garde and Critical Literary Science
Herbert Marcuse The Aesthetic Dimension
Part 7. (Post)modernism Introduction
Clement Greenberg Modernist Painting
Jürgen Habermas Modernity—An Incomplete Project
Jean-Françis Lyotard Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?
Linda Hutcheon Representing the Postmodern
Ihab Hassan The Culture of Postmodernism
Part 8. Culture, Gender and Difference Introduction
Andrea Huyssen Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism’s Other
Janet Wolff Women’s Knowledge and Women’s Art
Christine Battersby The Margins Within Post-modernism and the Female Author
Naomi Scheman The Body Politic/The Impolitic Body/Bodily Politics
James Clifford On Ethnographic Allegory On Collecting Art and Culture
Frances E. Mascia-Lees, Patricia Sharpe and Ballerino Cohen The Postmodernist Turn In Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective
Jean-Françis Lyotard Universal History and Cultural Differences
Richard Rorty Cosmopolitanism Without Emancipation: A Response to Lyotard