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Philosophers on art from Kant to the postmodernists, a critical reader, edited by Christopher Kul-Want

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Philosophers on art from Kant to the postmodernists

bibliography

edited by Christopher Kul-Want

a critical reader

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 Ranciere