Philosophers on art from Kant to the postmodernists : a critical reader /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Want, Christopher
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Art and philosophy
  • Critique of judgment / Immanuel Kant
  • Introductory lectures on aesthetics / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • How the "true world" finally became a fable : the history of an error : the will to power as art / Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Beyond the pleasure principle : Leonardo da Vinci and a memory of his childhood / Sigmund Freud
  • The lugubrious game / Georges Bataille
  • A small history of photography / Walter Benjamin
  • Nietzsche's overturning of platonism : the origin of the work of art / Martin Heidegger
  • The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I : of the gaze as object petit a / Jacques Lacan
  • Las meninas / Michel Foucault
  • Society / Theodor Adorno
  • The work of art and fantasy / Sarah Kofman
  • Camera Lucida : reflections on photography / Roland Barthes
  • Giotto's joy : Holbein's dead Christ / Julia Kristeva
  • Spurs : Nietzsche's styles / Jacques Derrida
  • Hysteria / Gilles Deleuze
  • Answering the question : what is postmodernism? / Jean-François Lyotard
  • Privation is like a face / Giorgio Agamben
  • The vestige of art / Jean-Luc Nancy
  • Art and philosophy / Alain Badiou
  • The janus-face of politicized art / Jacques Rancière.