1. Introductory essay: The border of the aesthetic / Robert Gero -- 2. Starting points. Exorcising the dreariness of aesthetics / Joseph Margolis -- Why don't art historians attend aesthetics conferences? / James Elkins -- 3. The art Seminar. Participants: Arthur Danto, Thierry de Duve, Diarmuid Costello -- Martin Donougho, David Raskin, Anna Dezeuze, Richard Woodfield -- Dominic Willsdon, Francis Halsall, Nicholas Davey -- John Hyman, David Raskin -- 4. Assessments -- Diarmuid Costello -- Anna Dezeuze -- Dominic Willsdon -- David Raskin -- John Hyman -- Francis Halsall -- Richard Woodfield -- Ladislav Kesner -- Joseph Margolis -- Crispin Sartwell -- Paul Crowther -- Mary Rawlinson -- Jan Bakos -- Alexander Nehamas -- Ciaran Benson -- Wendy Steiner -- Mathew Rampley -- Keith Moxey -- Christine Wertheim -- Eva Schurmann -- Harry Cooper -- Adrian Rifkin -- David Getsy -- Michael Kelly -- Margaret Iversen -- Michael Golec -- Michael Newman -- Gregg Horowitz -- Stephen Melville -- 5. Afterwords -- Modernism as aesthetics and art history / Jay Bernstein -- Island mysteries / Marc Redfield