In" The Source of the Tragic," 1 Carl Schmitt articulates a detailed critique of autonomy
aesthetics in which he rearticulates principles of his political theory—the critique of …

Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba (1956) is a peculiar text. For one, it stands out as the only
detailed interpretation of a literary work that Schmitt ever produced. This is not to deny …

The concept that art must have no instrumental function is a doctrine traditionally traced back
to Kant's Critique of Judgment. In Reconstituting the Body Politic, Jonathan Hess proposes …

At the end of the 20th century, after several years of the prominence of cultural discourses
which approach art as one of the many various sectors of cultural activity, it is becoming …

IN The Aesthetic Education of Man, Schiller tells the story of the'goddess of wisdom whose
very first action was a warlike one. Even at birth,'he reports,'she had to fight a hard battle with …

MR Ridley's" they" is troublesome. As scholars and teachers, we use his Arden edition of
Othello (1958, repr. 1977) and find ourselves implicated in his comfortable assumptions …

WALLACE STEVENS'twofold com-mitment to life is in some way reconciled, we feel, in his
preoccupation with the theory of poetry. His simultaneous dedication to poetry-the life of the …

Providing a gateway to a new history of modern aesthetics, this book challenges
conventional views of how art's significance developed in society. The 18th century is often …

WALLACE Words" of the slippery (1941) STEVENS'is, rhetorical among essay other power"
The things, Noble of abstractions, an Rider extensive and most the performance Sound …

HE 1930S mark the major transition in Wallace St etic career, from the exuberant variety of
Harmonium (1923) to the theoretical coherence and stylistic virtuosity of his later years. The …