Allen Dunn is at the English Department at the University of Tennessee.
Part II: Community, Culture, Politics:.
Francis Hutcheson: Introduction.
From Francis Hutcheson: An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design: Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Peter Kivy.
Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury: Introduction.
From Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury: Edited with Notes by John Robertson.
Karl Marx: Introduction.
From Karl Marx Frederick Engels: Collected Works.
From Karl Marx: Early Writings: Translated and Edited by T. B. Bottomore.
Georg Lukacs: Introduction.
From The Theory of the Novel, A Historic-Philosophical Novel on the Forms of Great Epic Literature: Translated by Anna Bostock.
Chapter 19: Gyorgy Lukacs: Art as Self-Consciousness in Man's Development, in Marxism and Art: Writings in Aesthetics and Criticism: Edited by Beryl Lang and Forrest Williams.
Walter Benjamin: Introduction.
'The Author as Producer' From Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings: Trans. Edmund Jephciott.
Herbert Marcuse: Introduction.
From The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics: Herbert Marcuse.
Theodor W. Adorno: Introduction.
From Aesthetic Theory: Edited by Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann, Newly Translated, Edited by Robert Hullot-Kentor.
Hans Georg Gadamer: Introduction.
From The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays: Edited by Robert Bernasconi, Trans. Nicholas Walker.
Louis Althusser: Introduction.
From Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays: Louis Althusser, Trans. Ben Brewster.
Fredric Jameson: Introduction.
From The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act: Fredric Jameson.
Part III: Beauty and Sublimity: .
Plotinus: Introduction.
From Ennead V (Eighth Tractate) 'On Intellectual Beauty.' Sections 1, 2, 3, 8, 13.
David Hume: Introduction.
From 'Of the Standard of Taste', in David Hume: Essays: Moral, Political and Literary: Edited by Eugene F. Miller.
Immanuel Kant: Introduction.
From Critique of Judgement: Trans. Werner S. Pluhar.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Introduction.
From Chapter 14, Definitions of a Poem and Poetry, in Biographia Literaria: Eds, James Engell and W. Jackson Bate.
Martin Heidegger: Introduction.
From 'The Origin of the Work of Art', in Poetry, Language, Thought: Martin Heidegger: Translations and Introductions by Albert Hofstadter.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Introduction.
From The Visible and the Invisible: Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Longinus: Introduction.
From Chapters 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9, in On the Sublime: Trans. T. S. Dorsch.
Jean-Francois Lyotard: Introduction.
From 'Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?': in The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge: Trans., Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi.
Edmund Burke: Introduction.
From Inquiry into the Origins of the Beautiful and the Sublime.
Walter Pater: Introduction.
From The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry.
Part IV: Truth, Value, Ethics: .
Giambattista Vico: Introduction.
From The New Science of Giambattista Vico: Trans. Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch.
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten: Introduction.
From Reflections on Poetry: Trans. Karl Aschrenbrenner and William Holther.
Johann Georg Hamann: Introduction.
From Aesthetica in Nuce, in J. G. Hamann 1730-1788: A Study in Christian Existence. .
Plato: Introduction.
From The Symposium.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Introduction.
From Section 4, 'From the Soul of Artists and Writers', in Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits: Trans. Marion Faber with Stephen Lehmann.
Jacques Derrida: Introduction.
From The Truth in Painting: Trans, Geoff Bennington and Ian McLeod.
Jacques Lacan: Introduction.
From The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: Edited by Jacques Alain Miller, Translated by Dennis Porter.
Rene Girard: Introduction.
From Introduction, 'To Double Business Bound' Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology.
Matthew Arnold: Introduction.
From 'On Poetry', in English Literature and Irish Politics: Edited by R. H. Super.
Johann Gottfried Herder: Introduction.
Ossian and the Songs of Ancient People.
Part V: Literary Formalism: .
Aristotle: Introduction.
'Poetics', from Aristotle's Politics and Poetics: Trans., Benjamin Jowett and Thomas Twining.
Monroe C. Beardsley: Introduction.
Aesthetics: Problems in the philosophy of criticism: Monroe C. Beardsley.
Benedetto Croce: Introduction.
'Aesthetics', article from fourteenth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: Benedetto Croce.
T. S. Eliot: Introduction.
'The Social Function of Poetry', in On Poetry and Poets: T. S. Eliot.
Roland Barthes: Introduction.
'What is Criticism?', in Critical Essays: Roland Barthes, Trans., Richard Howard.
Cleanth Brooks: Introduction.
'The Language of Paradox', in The Well Wrought Urn: Cleanth Brooks.
Gerard Genette: Introduction.
The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence: Gerard Genette, Trans., G. M. Goshgarian.
Victor Shklovsky: Introduction.
'Art as Technique', in Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays: Victor Shklovsky, Trans., Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis.
Part VI: Agency, Expression: .
Friedrich Schiller: Introduction.
'Letter XVI', in On the Aesthetic Education of Man: Friedrich Schiller.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Introduction.
'The Poet', in Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Ralph Waldo Emerson.
G. W. F. Hegel: Introduction.
'Division of the Subject', Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics: G. W. F. Hegel.
Friedrich Schlegel: Introduction.
Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms: Friedrich Schlegel, Trans., Ernst Behler and Roman.
Kenneth Burke: Introduction.
'Literary Form', The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action: Kenneth Burke.
Charles Altieri: Introduction.
Canons and Consequences: Reflections on the Ethical Force of Imaginative Ideals: Charles Altieri.
John Dewey: Introduction.
Art as Experience: John Dewey.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Introduction.
'Lectures on Aesthetics', Lectures & Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief: Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Part VII: Gender: .
George Eliot: Introduction.
'Silly Novels by Women Novelists', in Selected Critical Writings:George Eliot, Edited by Rosemary Ashton.
Virginia Woolf: Introduction.
Virginia Woolf, in Women and Writing: Edited by Michele Barrett.
Aphra Behn: Introduction.
'Preface', in The Dutch Lover: Aphra Behn.
Julia Kristeva: Introduction.
From Revolution in the Poetic Language: Julia Kristeva.
Part VIII: Aesthetic/Anti-Aesthetic: Contemporary Debates:.
Tony Bennett: Introduction.
'Really Useless Knowledge', Outside Literature: Tony Bennet.
Jean-Luc Nancy: Introduction.
The Sense of the World: Jean-Luc Nancy, Trans. Jeffrey S. Librett.
Arthur C. Danto: Introduction.
Arthur C. Danto, 'Aesthetics and the Work of Art', Transfiguation of the Commonplace: Jean-Luc Nancy.
Pierre Bourdieu: Introduction.
Pierre Bourdieu, 'The Author's Point of View', The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field: Jean-Luc Nancy.
Paul de Man: Introduction.
The Resistance to Theory: Paul de Man.