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THE CONTINENTAL AESTHETICS READER ‘... an extremely impressive selection’. Malcom Barnard, University of Derby ‘I fully endorse The Continental Aesthetics Reader and believe that for the foreseeable future it will be required reading for all those who “think” about art.’ Gary Peters, University of West of England ‘The Continental Aesthetics Reader is a rich and intellectually uncompromising anthology. It fills an important gap in the literature.’ Timothy R. Quigley, New School for Social Research, New York ‘Cazeaux’s brief introductions to the selections are insightful and cogent. This volume will serve as a much-needed source for considering the range and depth of modern aesthetic theory.’ Tom Huhn, Wesleyan University ‘This much-needed reader will provide a very valuable resource for teaching, and is an excellent introduction for the general reader interested in the field.’ Michael Newman, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design The Continental Aesthetics Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of classic writ- ings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in Continental thought. The reader is clearly divided into six sections: Nineteenth-Century German Aesthetics • Phenomen- ology and Hermeneutics • Marxism and Critical Theory • Modernism • Poststructural- ism and Postmodernism • Psychoanalysis and Feminism. Each section is clearly placed in its historical and philosophical context by Clive Cazeaux. Ideal for introductory courses in aesthetics, Continental philosophy, art, and visual studies, The Continental Aesthetics Reader provides a thorough introduction to some of the most influential writings on art and aesthetics from Kant to Derrida. Clive Cazeaux is Senior Lecturer in Aesthetics at the University of Wales Insti- tute, Cardiff. THE CONTINENTAL AESTHETICS READER Edited by Clive Cazeaux London and New York First published 2000 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001. © 2000 Selection and editorial matter, Clive Cazeaux All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The continental aesthetics reader / edited by Clive Cazeaux. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Aesthetics, Modern – 20th century. 2. Aesthetics, Modern – 19th century. 3. Philosophy, European. I. Cazeaux, Clive. BH201 .C59 2000 111′.85′094 – dc21 00– 032177 ISBN 0–415–20053–9 (hbk) ISBN 0–415–20054–7 (pbk) ISBN 0-203-18766-0 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-18889-6 (Glassbook Format) CONTENTS Acknowledgements ix Introduction xiii PART 1 Nineteenth-Century German Aesthetics 1 Introduction 3 1 Extracts from ‘Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment’ and ‘Dialectic of Aesthetic Judgment’, Critique of Judgment 16 IMMANUEL KANT 2 Extracts from Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art 35 G.W.F. HEGEL 3 On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense 53 FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE PART 2 Phenomenology and Hermeneutics 63 Introduction 65 4 The Origin of the Work of Art 80 MARTIN HEIDEGGER 5 What is Writing? 102 JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 6 Reality and its Shadow 117 EMMANUEL LEVINAS v CONTENTS 7 The World of the Aesthetic Object 129 MIKEL DUFRENNE 8 The Dialectics of Outside and Inside 151 GASTON BACHELARD 9 The Intertwining – The Chiasm 164 MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY 10 Aesthetics and Hermeneutics 181 HANS-GEORG GADAMER 11 The Death or Decline of Art 187 GIANNI VATTIMO PART 3 Marxism and Critical Theory 195 Introduction 197 12 Private Property and Communism 210 KARL MARX 13 Specific Particularity as the Central Category of Aesthetics 220 GEORG LUKÁCS 14 Extracts from Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life 234 THEODOR W. ADORNO 15 Nature and Revolution 257 HERBERT MARCUSE 16 Modernity versus Postmodernity 268 JÜRGEN HABERMAS 17 Extract from ‘Questions and Counterquestions’ 278 JÜRGEN HABERMAS 18 Postmodernism and Consumer Society 282 FREDRIC JAMESON vi CONTENTS PART 4 Modernism 295 Introduction 297 19 Value and Money 305 GEORG SIMMEL 20 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 322 WALTER BENJAMIN 21 The Original Experience 344 MAURICE BLANCHOT 22 Artistic Illusion as Visible Anticipatory Illumination 355 ERNST BLOCH PART 5 Poststructuralism and Postmodernism 365 Introduction 367 23 Sanctity, Eroticism and Solitude 384 GEORGES BATAILLE 24 The Plates of the Encyclopedia 392 ROLAND BARTHES 25 Las Meninas 401 MICHEL FOUCAULT 26 The Parergon 412 JACQUES DERRIDA 27 The Resistance to Theory 429 PAUL DE MAN 28 The Evil Demon of Images 444 JEAN BAUDRILLARD 29 The Sublime and the Avant-Garde 453 JEAN-FRANÇOIS LYOTARD vii CONTENTS 30 Percept, Affect, and Concept 465 GILLES DELEUZE AND FÉLIX GUATTARI PART 6 Psychoanalysis and Feminism 489 Introduction 491 31 The Unconscious 506 SIGMUND FREUD 32 Of the Gaze as Objet Petit a 519 JACQUES LACAN 33 Approaching Abjection 542 JULIA KRISTEVA 34 The Invisible of the Flesh: A Reading of Merleau-Ponty, ‘The Intertwining – The Chiasm’ 563 LUCE IRIGARAY 35 The Last Painting or the Portrait of God 583 HÉLÈNE CIXOUS Select bibliography of major works in English 598 Index 611 viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to the following copyright holders for granting permission to reproduce material in this book: Immanuel Kant, extracts from ‘Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment’ and ‘Dialectic of Aesthetic Judgment’, Critique of Judgment, trans. Werner S. Pluhar, Indianapolis, Hackett, 1987, §§ 32–38, 44–46, 49, 56–57; pp. 145–56, 172–76, 181–86, 210–17. © Hackett Publishing Company. G.W.F. Hegel, ‘Concept of the Beauty of Art’ and ‘Division of the Subject’, Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, trans. T.M. Knox, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1975, pp. 1–3, 22–25, 69–90. © Oxford University Press. Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense’, Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche’s Notebooks of the Early 1870s, ed. Daniel Breazeale, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, Humanities Press, 1994, pp. 79–91. © Prometheus Publishers. Martin Heidegger, ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’, Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter, New York, Harper and Row, 1971, pp. 17–22, 26–37, 41–57, 69–70, 72–78. © Harper and Row. Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘What is Writing?’, What is Literature?, London, Routledge, 1997, pp. 1–25. © Routledge. Emmanuel Levinas, ‘Reality and its Shadow’, Collected Philosophical Papers, trans. Alphonso Lingis, The Levinas Reader, ed. Séan Hand, Oxford, Blackwell, 1996, pp. 130–43. © Martinus Nijhoff. Mikel Dufrenne, ‘The World of the Aesthetic Object’, The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience, trans. E.S. Casey, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1966, pp. 166–98. © Northwestern University Press. Gaston Bachelard, ‘The Dialectics of Outside and Inside’, The Poetics of Space, trans. Maria Jolas, Boston, Beacon Press, 1994, pp. 211–31. © Penguin Putnam. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ‘The Intertwining – The Chiasm’, The Visible and the Invisible, ed. Claude Lefort, trans. Alphonso Lingis, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1968, pp. 130–55. © Northwestern University Press. ix

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