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