Between ethics and aesthetics : crossing the boundaries

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BETWEEN ETHICS AND AESTHETICS: Crossing the Boundaries

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

PART I: Rethinking Ethics and Aesthetics: Between Philosophy and Art

1. Rethinking the Aesthetic: Kant, Schiller, and Hegel

2. Looking at Hegel's Antigone through Irigaray's Speculum

3. Linking Onto Disinterestedness, or the Moral Law in Kant's Critique of Judgment

4. Gesture and Commentary

PART II: Aesthetics and the Question of the Other

5. Levinas and the Ethics of Imagining. 6. Disappearing Traces: Emmanuel Levinas, Ida Fink's Literary Testimony, and Holocaust Art

7. Poetry, Theology, and Ethics: A Study in Paul Célan

8. Between Ethics and Anguish: Feminist Ethics, Feminist Aesthetics, and Representations of Infanticide in "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" and Beloved

PART III: AESTHETICS AND POLITICS

9. Feminine Writing, Metaphor, and Myth

10. Aesthetics and Politics

11. An Ethics of the Name: Rethinking Globalization

12. The Social Figure of Art: Heidegger and Adorno on the Paradoxical Autonomy of Artworks. 13. Politics, Aesthetics, and Ethicsin Joseph Brodsky's Poem On the Death of Zhukov

PART IV: Toward an Ethical Art Practice?

14. Beauty and the Beast

15. The Banal Profound and the Profoundly Banal: Andy Warhol

16. Short Circuit: The Story of an Exhibition That Provoked Unforeseen Consequences

17. Other Tongues: Language and Hybridity in Recent Canadian Video Art

CONTRIBUTORS

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