Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-338)
Introduction : historicity and ideologization / Steve Martinot -- Figura preserves : history (in) ajar / William Thomas McBride -- Gadamer's aesthetics in practice in Wer bin Ich und wer bist Du? / Bruce Krajewski -- Structure, flow, and balance in Montaigne's essay "Of idleness" / John O'Neill -- Engendering aesthetics : sublimity, sublimation, and misogyny in Burke and Kant / Timothy Gould -- The hermeneutical relevance of Kant's Critique of judgment / Rudolf A. Makkreel -- The mirror and the dagger : Nietzsche and the danger of art / Stephen Barker -- Heidegger's leap / Steve Martinot -- Awakening negativity : the genesis of aesthetics in the Critique of judgment / Charles Shepherdson -- Lyotard's politics of the sentence / Meili Steele -- The problem of truth-content (Wahrheitsgehalt) in Adorno's Aesthetic theory / Bernard Picard -- The unknown masterpiece / Agnes Heller -- "Prediction and perspective" : textuality and counterhegemonic culture in Antonio Gramsci and Julia Kristeva / Thomas Foster -- Paul de Man and the rhetorical tradition / Don Bialostosky -- "Death is the mother of beauty" : aesthetics, politics, and history in gadamer / Donald Marshall --From the lighthouse : the promise of redemption and the possibility of legal interpretation / Drucilla Cornell -- Aesthetic truth : production or "letting be" / R. Radhakrishnan