Introducing aesthetics: a graphic guide 9781848311671, 1848311672, 9781848318885, 184831888X

Table of contents :
Cover --
Title Page --
Copyright --
Contents --
What is Aesthetics? --
The Nature of Experience --
Socrates and Plato --
The Power of Poetry --
Painting as Imitation --
The Simulacrum --
Deception is Truth, Truth Deception --
Art and the Audience --
Art and Reality --
Catharsis --
Medieval Aesthetics --
The Theological Time-bomb --
The Beauty of Order --
Thomas Aquinas --
Beauty and Cognition --
Art as Religious Instruction --
Art and Melancholy --
The School of Night --
Renaissance Aesthetics --
Painting as Philosophy --
The Rise of the Bourgeoisie --
The Lives of the Artists --
The Classical Episteme --
The Subject --
The Sovereign Eye --
Et in Arcadia Ego --
The Imperialist Subject --
Capitalism and the Other --
The Enlightenment --
Kant's Critical Philosophy --
The Critique of Judgement --
The Sublime --
Universal Reason --
The Unknowable --
Hegel and the Universal Consciousness --
Symbolic, Classical, Romantic --
The Origins of Modern Aesthetics: Nietzsche, Freud and Marx --
Nietzsche and the Revaluation of All Values --
Apollonian and Dionysian Energy --
The Intoxication of Change --
Freud and Psychoanalysis --
Sublimation --
Marx and the Alienation of Capitalism --
Art and the Bourgeoisie --
Aestheticism --
Modernist Aesthetics --
Synaesthesia --
Romanticism --
Marxist Aesthetics in the 1920s and 30s --
Lukács and Critical Realism --
Brechtian Realism --
Communist Aesthetics --
Socialist Realism --
Aesthetics in the Modern Era --
The Aura --
The Radical Power of Early Photographs --
The Fragments of History --
Theodor Adorno --
Art After the Holocaust? --
The Hollowed Subject --
Nietzschean Aesthetics --
The Happening of Truth --
Georges Bataille --
The Philosophy of Expenditure --
The Pursuit of the Extreme --
Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics after the Second World War --
Language and the Autonomous "I" --
The Gaze --
The Fantasy of Control. Marxist Theories of the Image in the 1960s and 70s --
Debord and the Society of the Spectacle --
Lack --
The Situationist International --
Ways of Seeing --
Modernist Aesthetics: 1940-70 --
Winckelmann and Lessing --
Minimalist Art --
Aesthetics, Contemporary Experience and Postmodernism --
Fredric Jameson --
The Rise of the Multinationals --
Modernist vs Postmodernist --
Parody or Pastiche? --
Schizophrenic Culture --
Antonio Negri and T.J. Clark --
Postmodernism and Continental Aesthetics --
The Medium is the Message --
The Aesthetics of Simulation --
The Ironies of Postmodern Capitalism --
Roland Barthes --
Messages Without a Code --
The Punctum --
Julia Kristeva --
The Chora and the Semiotic --
Feminist Aesthetics and Postmodernism --
Jacques Derrida --
Deconstruction --
Undecidable Art --
Jean-François Lyotard --
Newman and Duchamp --
Gilles Deleuze --
The Body without Organs --
Conclusion --
Further Reading --
Kristeva and Jouissance --
Détournement --
Jouissance --
Aristotle's Poetics --
Author's Acknowledgements --
Index.