General Introduction
Acknowledgements
I. Introduction to Ancient Aesthetics
1. Plato, Republic
2. Aristotle, Poetics
3. Plotinus, Enneads
4. Longinus, On the Sublime
II. Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Aesthetics
5. Augustine, The Confessions
6. Pseudo-Dionysius, The Divine Names
7. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
8. Petrarch, On the Nature of Poetry
9. Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
III. Introduction to Early Modern Aesthetics
10. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, The Art of Poetry
11. Jean-Baptiste DuBos, Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting
12. Francis Hutcheson, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
13. Johann Christoph Gottsched, Critical Poetics
14. Charles Batteux, The Fine Arts
15. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Aesthetics
16. Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
17. David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste
18. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Laocooen
19. Moses Mendelssohn, On the main principle of the fine arts and sciences
IV. Introduction to Modern Aesthetics
20. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment
21. Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man
22. Schelling, Hegel, Hoelderlin, Oldest Programme For a System of German Idealism
23. F. W. J. Schelling, System of Transcendental Idealism
24. Novalis, Miscellaneous Observations and Logical Fragments
25. G. W. F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Art
26. Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
27. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
28. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power as Art
29. Charles Baudelaire, The Dandy, from The Painter of Modern Life
30. Martin Heidegger, The Origin of the Work of Art
31. Meyer Schapiro, The Still Life as Personal Object
32. Paul Valery, The Idea of Art
33. Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility
34. Clement Greenberg, Avant-Garde and Kitsch
35. Herbert Marcuse, The Aesthetic Dimension
36. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Eye and Mind
V. Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics
37. Michel Foucault, This is not a Pipe
38. Jacques Derrida, Restitutions
39. Jean-Luc Nancy, The Image-the Distinct
40. Cornel West, The New Politics of Cultural Difference
41. Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Sublime and the Avant-Garde
42. Arthur Danto, Three Decades After the End of Art
43. Alexander Nehamas, An Essay on Beauty and Judgment
44. Christine Battersby, The Male Gift
45. Rita Felski, Why Feminsim Doesn't Need an Aesthetic (And Why It Can't Ignore Aesthetics)
46. Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
47. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Percept, Affect, and Concept
48. Alain Badiou, Art and Philosophy
49. Jacques Ranciere, The Aesthetic Revolution and Its Outcomes