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Who cares about details? As Naomi Schor explains in her highly influential book, we do-but it has not always been so. The interest in detail--in art, in literature, and as an aesthetic category--is the product of the decline of classicism and the rise of realism. But the story of the detail is as political as it is aesthetic. Secularization, the disciplining of society, the rise of consumerism, the invention of the quotidian, have all brought detail to the fore. In this classic work of aesthetic and feminist theory, now available in a new paperback edition, Schor provides ways of thinki.

NAOMI SCHOR, Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French, Yale University, is a founding coeditor of differences. Her most recent book is Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular (Duke University Press, 1995). At present, she is working on a study of French universalism.