Preface Introduction: Art and Philosophy 1. Critique of Judgment, by Immanuel Kant 2. Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 3. How the "True World" Finally Became a Fable: The History of an Error | The Will to Power as Art, by Friedrich Nietzsche 4. Beyond the Pleasure Principle | Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood, by Sigmund Freud 5. The Lugubrious Game, by Georges Bataille 6. A Small History of Photography, by Walter Benjamin 7. Nietzsche's Overturning of Platonism | The Origin of the Work of Art, by Martin Heidegger 8. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I | Of the Gaze as Object Petit a, by Jacques Lacan 9. Las Meninas, by Michel Foucault 10. Society, by Theodor Adorno 11. The Work of Art and Fantasy, by Sarah Kofman 12. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, by Roland Barthes 13. Giotto's Joy | Holbein's Dead Christ, by Julia Kristeva 14. Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles, by Jacques Derrida 15. Hysteria, by Gilles Deleuze 16. Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?, by Jean-Francois Lyotard 17. Privation Is Like a Face, by Giorgio Agamben 18. The Vestige of Art, by Jean-Luc Nancy 19. Art and Philosophy, by Alain Badiou 20. The Janus-Face of Politicized Art, by Jacques Ranciere Notes Bibliography Index

Growing interest in the relation between Continental aesthetics and visual studies makes this book essential reading, presenting texts which have not yet been available in such a comprehensive form. It is therefore indispensable for both introductory courses on aesthetics and advanced seminars on art theory. -- Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, State University of New York, Buffalo The selection of texts in Christopher Kul-Want's anthology is excellent. It covers all the necessary ground, while including some very nice, unexpected additions, such as selections from Georges Bataille and Jean-Luc Nancy. -- Michael Newman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago