Philosophers on art from  Kant to the postmodernists
Subtitle: a critical reader
By: edited by Christopher Kul-Want.
Contributors: Want, Christopher.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231140942; 9780231140959
Subjects: Aesthetics; Art -- Philosophy; Philosophy, Modern
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Art and philosophy; title: Critique of judgment / Immanuel Kant; title: Introductory lectures on aesthetics / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; title: How the "true world" finally became a fable : the history of an error : the will to power as art / Friedrich Nietzsche; title: Beyond the pleasure principle : Leonardo da Vinci and a memory of his childhood / Sigmund Freud; title: The lugubrious game / Georges Bataille; title: A small history of photography / Walter Benjamin; title: Nietzsche's overturning of platonism : the origin of the work of art / Martin Heidegger; title: The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I : of the gaze as object petit / Jacques Lacan; title: Las meninas / Michel Foucault; title: Society / Theodor Adorno; title: The work of art and fantasy / Sarah Kofman; title: Camera Lucida : reflections on photography / Roland Barthes; title: Giotto's joy : Holbein's dead Christ / Julia Kristeva; title: Spurs : Nietzsche's styles / Jacques Derrida; title: Hysteria / Gilles Deleuze; title: Answering the question : what is postmodernism? / Jean-François Lyotard; title: Privation is like a face / Giorgio Agamben; title: The vestige of art / Jean-Luc Nancy; title: Art and philosophy / Alain Badiou; title: The janus-face of politicized art / Jacques Rancière.