num_pages: 640
description: The Continental Aesthetics Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of classic writings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in Continental thought. The reader is clearly divided into six Nineteenth Century German Aesthetics * Phenomenology and Hermeneutics * Marxism and Critical Theory * Modernism * Poststucturalism and Postmodernism * Psychoanalysis and Feminism. Each section is clearly placed in its historical and philosophical context by Clive Cazeaux.The readings featured are the most widely read and representative writings of each movement and are from the following major Kant Sartre Benjamin LyotardHegel Levinas Blanchot DeleuzeNietzsche Marx Bloch FreudHeidegger Lukacs Bataille LacanDufrenne Adorno Foucault KristevaBachelard Marcuse Barthes IrigarayMerleau-Ponty Habermas Derrida CixousGadamer Jameson de ManVattimo Simmel BaudrillardIdeal for introductory courses in aesthetics, continental philosophy, art and visual studies, The Continental Aesthetics Reader provides a thorough introduction to some of the most influential writings on art and aesthetics from Kant to Derrida.
language: English
title: The Continental Aesthetics Reader
titlecomplete: The Continental Aesthetics Reader
genres: Philosophy, Theory, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 56
publisher: Routledge