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Author:   A. Regier ,  A. Regier ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.455kg
ISBN:  

9780230549197

ISBN 10:   0230549195
Pages:   247
Publication Date:   14 November 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements and Note on Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction; P.de Bolla and S.H.Uhlig Theodor W. Adorno: Draft Introduction to Aesthetic Theory What Does Art Know?; S.Jarvis Aesthetics and the Fully Emancipated Subject: Cultures, Histories and the Fictive Imagination; T.J. Reiss Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Politics in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory ; J.Roberts Franz Kafka: 'A Report to an Academy' The Ape Speaks; M.Tamen Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism; H.Caygill Kafka's 'A Report to an Academy' with Adorno; S.Corngold The Matter of Memory: On Semblance and History in Richter and Adorno; A.J.Cascardo Faces, Traces: Adorno, Kafka, Richter; M.Redfield Ecce Pinctura: A Note on Betty 's Mastered Irony; S.Melville Facing Betty's Turn; P.de Bolla Index

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'...this is an excellent, impassioned collection on a vital topic by a variety of authors who make powerful cases, from multiple perspectives, about how we might best practise aesthetics today.' - Michael Kelly, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Author Information

PETER DE BOLLA is Reader in Cultural History and Aesthetics at the University of Cambridge, UK ANTHONY J. CASCARDI is Director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, USA HOWARD CAYGILL is Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK STANLEY CORNGOLD is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA SIMON JARVIS is Gorley Putt Reader in Poetry and Poetics at the University of Cambridge, UK STEPHEN MELVILLE is Professor of the History of Art at Ohio State University, USA MARC REDFIELD teaches literature and literary theory at Claremont Graduate University, USA TIMOTHY J. REISS is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University, USA JULIAN ROBERTS is Professor of Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich, Germany MIGUEL TAMEN is professor of Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a regular visiting professor at the University of Chicago, USA STEFAN H. UHLIG is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK

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