Aesthetics and The Work of Art: Adorno, Kafka, Richter [Hardcover]

Ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text (Theodor Adorno's draft introduction to Aesthetic Theory ), a piece of literary writing (Franz Kafka's A Report to an Academy ), and a major contemporary painting (Gerhard Richter's Betty , 1988).Acknowledgements and Note on AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction; P.de Bolla and S.H.UhligTheodor W. Adorno: Draft Introduction to Aesthetic TheoryWhat Does Art Know?; S.JarvisAesthetics and the Fully Emancipated Subject: Cultures, Histories and the Fictive Imagination; T.J. ReissBeyond the Pleasure Principle: Politics in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory ; J.RobertsFranz Kafka: 'A Report to an Academy'The Ape Speaks; M.TamenKafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism; H.CaygillKafka's 'A Report to an Academy' with Adorno; S.CorngoldThe Matter of Memory: On Semblance and History in Richter and Adorno; A.J.CascardoFaces, Traces: Adorno, Kafka, Richter; M.RedfieldEcce Pinctura: A Note on Betty 's Mastered Irony; S.MelvilleFacing Betty's Turn; P.de BollaIndex

'...this is an excellent, impassioned collection on a vital topic by a variety of authors who make powerful cases, from multiple perspectives, about how we might best practise aesthetics today.' - Michael Kelly, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

PETER DE BOLLA is Reader in Cultural History and Aesthetics at the University of Cambridge, UKANTHONY J. CASCARDI is Director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, USAHOWARD CAYGILL is Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UKSTANLEY CORNGOLD is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USASIMON JARVIS is Gorley Putt Reader in Poetry and Poetics at the University of Cambridge, UKSTEPHEN MELVILLE is Professor of the History of Art at Ohio State University, USAMARC REDFIELD teaches literature and literary theory at Claremont Graduate UniverslƒE