The Philosophy and Politics of Aesthetic Experience: German Romanticism and Critical Theory
In: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
Michael J. Thompson, Series Editor, Foreword to Nathan Ross' -- The Philosophy and Politics of Aesthetic Experience: German Romanticism and Critical Theory -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1 Benjamin's Discovery -- 2 Aesthetic Experience as a Philosophical Problem -- 3 Truth Content -- 4 Experience -- 5 Capitalism and the Loss of Experience -- 6 Features of Aesthetic Experience -- 6.1 Mediality (Schiller and Benjamin) -- 6.2 Fragmentariness (Schlegel, Benjamin, Adorno) -- 6.3 Dialectic of Semblance and Play (Schiller, Benjamin, Adorno) -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Aesthetic Semblance and Play as Responses to the Disfigurement of Human Social Existence in Schiller's Aesthetic Education -- 1 Schiller's Critique of Modern Society -- 2 On the 'Medial' Nature of Play in Schiller's Thought -- 3 On Aesthetic Semblance in Schiller -- 4 The Dynamic of Schiller's Thought -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Aesthetic Experience at the Limits of Thought in Hölderlin's New Letters on Aesthetic Education -- 1 Aesthetic Experience as the Grounding of a Higher Idea of Freedom -- 2 Mythology as 'Higher Enlightenment' -- 3 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: The Endless Pursuit of Universal Sense in Friedrich Schlegel's Political and Aesthetic Thought -- 1 The Notion of Critique in Schlegel -- 2 Romantic Critique as the Education of Sense to Self-Awareness -- 3 On the Role of Fiction in Schlegel's Political Thought -- 3.1 Schlegel's Grounding of the Normative Core of Republicanism -- 3.2 Schlegel's Critique of the Division of Powers -- 3.3 Schlegel's Method of Political Critique -- 4 Fragmentary Thought and Fragmentary Politics -- 4.1 Fragment as Form of Thought -- 4.2 Literary Form, Political Imperative -- 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References