The new aestheticism
List of Contributors The new aestheticism: An introduction - John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas PART ONE: Positions 1. Aesthetic education and the demise of experience - Thomas Docherty 2. Towards a contemporary aesthetic - Jonathan Dollimore 3. Mimesis in black and white: Feminist aesthetics, negativity and semblance - Ewa Plonowska Ziarek 4. What comes after art - Andrew Bowie 5. Touching art: Aesthetics, fragmentation and community - Simon Malpas PART TWO: READINGS 6. The Alexandrian aesthetic - Howard Caygill 7. Defending poetry, or is there an early modern aesthetic? - Mark Robson 8. Shakespeare's genius: 'Hamlet', adaptation and the work of following - John J. Joughin 9. Critical knowledge, scientific knowledge and the truth of literature - Robert Eaglestone 10. Melancholy as form: Towards an archaeology of modernism - Jay Bernstein 11. Kant and the ends of criticism - Gary Banham 12. Including transformation: Notes on the art of the contemporary - Andrew Benjamin 13. Aesthetics and politics: Between Adorno and Heidegger - Joanna Hodge