Aesthetics and The Work of Art

Ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text (Theodor Adorno’s draft introduction to Aesthetic Theory ), a piece of literary writing (Franz Kafka’s A Report to an Academy ), and a major contemporary painting (Gerhard Richter’s Betty , 1988).

Author Biography

PETER DE BOLLA is Reader in Cultural History and Aesthetics at the University of Cambridge, UK
ANTHONY J. CASCARDI is Director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, USA
HOWARD CAYGILL is Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
STANLEY CORNGOLD is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA
SIMON JARVIS is Gorley Putt Reader in Poetry and Poetics at the University of Cambridge, UK
STEPHEN MELVILLE is Professor of the History of Art at Ohio State University, USA
MARC REDFIELD teaches literature and literary theory at Claremont Graduate University, USA
TIMOTHY J. REISS is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University, USA
JULIAN ROBERTS is Professor of Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich, Germany
MIGUEL TAMEN is professor of Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a regular visiting professor at the University of Chicago, USA
STEFAN H. UHLIG is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK