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 …

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 …

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 …

That aesthetics and ideology collaborate with each other is now a common assumption in
many intellectual and academic circles. Art is ideological, it is widely declared, and, of …

Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written
by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw …

In the first sentence of his thematically innovative book, Mark A. Cheetham informs us that
Kant, Art, and Art History" examines the far-reaching and varied reception of Immanuel …

A collection of ten previously published or delivered essays by Taminiaux (philosophy,
Boston College and the Universite de Louvain). Among the topics are the attitudes of …

Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life is a dynamic history of literary aestheticism from the
eighteenth century to academic deconstruction in our own time. Gene H. Bell-Villada …

This book is a major new study of the doctrines of productivity and interest in Romanticism
and classical political economy. The author argues that the widespread contemporary …

This is a collection of four essays on aesthetic, ethical, and political issues by Dieter Henrich,
the preeminent Kant scholar in Germany today. Although his interests have ranged widely …