Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader

Edited by Christopher Kul-Want

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May, 2010
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Preface

Introduction: Art and Philosophy

1. Critique of Judgment, by Immanuel Kant

2. Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

3. How the “True World” Finally Became a Fable: The History of an Error | The Will to Power as Art, by Friedrich Nietzsche

4. Beyond the Pleasure Principle | Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood, by Sigmund Freud

5. The Lugubrious Game, by Georges Bataille

6. A Small History of Photography, by Walter Benjamin

7. Nietzsche’s Overturning of Platonism | The Origin of the Work of Art, by Martin Heidegger

8. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I | Of the Gaze as Object Petit a, by Jacques Lacan

9. Las Meninas, by Michel Foucault

10. Society, by Theodor Adorno

11. The Work of Art and Fantasy, by Sarah Kofman

12. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, by Roland Barthes

13. Giotto’s Joy | Holbein’s Dead Christ, by Julia Kristeva

14. Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles, by Jacques Derrida

15. Hysteria, by Gilles Deleuze

16. Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?, by Jean-François Lyotard

17. Privation Is Like a Face, by Giorgio Agamben

18. The Vestige of Art, by Jean-Luc Nancy

19. Art and Philosophy, by Alain Badiou

20. The Janus-Face of Politicized Art, by Jacques Rancière

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Aesthetics
• Art History

About the Author

Christopher Kul-Want is director of the M.A. fine art course at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London. His books include Introducing Kant and Introducing Aesthetics.

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