Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists – A Critical Reader

Christopher Kul-Want is director of the M.A. fine art course at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London. His books include Introducing Kant and Introducing Aesthetics.

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-François 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 Rancière
Notes
Bibliography
Index