The aesthetic contract : statutes of art and intellectual work in modernity
This book offers an overview and critique of the conventions surrounding artistic creativity and intellectual endeavor which began with the decline of feudalism in the church.
Print Book, English, 1997
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1997
Inscriptions (Provenance)
viii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780804728423, 9780804728430, 0804728429, 0804728437
36589965
Introduction: criticism and cartography; Part I. The Emergence of the Artist as Priest in a Secular Art Religion: 1. Portraits of modernity; 2. Framing modernity: Protestant and critical reformations; 3. The knowledge of modernity: tragedy and empiricism; 4. Melancholic borders: from Trauerspiel to 'Michael Kohlhaas'; 5. Kant and the anointment of the modern artist; Part II. Untimely Propositions on the Contracting of Art in Modernity: 6. Corollaries to the aesthetic contract; 7. Maxima moralia: millennial fragments on the public and private dimensions of language; Part III. The World at Large: Systematic Expansionism on the Threshold of Modernity's Realization: 8. From social to aesthetic contract; 9. Between sublimities: Melville, Whaling, and the melodrama of incest; Conclusion: parting shots: final portraits; Notes; Index.