EKBERT FAAS is Professor of Humanities and Graduate English at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has published very widely as both critic (e.g. Shakespeare's Poetics, Cambridge, 1986), biographer (Robert Creeley: a biography) and novelist (The Revolutionist and Mengele's Friend).
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Plato's transvaluations of aesthetic values
2. Proto-Nietzschean opponents to Plato
3. Late Antiquity, Plotinus, and Augustine
4. Augustine's Platonopolis
5. The Middle Ages
6. The Renaissance
7. The Renaissance Academy, Ficino, Montaigne, and Shakespeare
8. Hobbes and Shaftesbury
9. Mandeville, Burke, Hume, and E. Darwin
10. Kant's ethicoteleological aesthetics
11. Kant's midlife conversion
12. Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx
13. Marx's Nietzschean moment
14. Heidegger's 'destruction' of traditional aesthetics
15. Heidegger contra Nietzsche
16. Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Derrida
17. Différance, Freud, Nietzsche, and Artaud
18. Derrida's mega-transcendentalist Mimesis
19. Postmodern or Pre-Nietszschean? Derrida, Lyotard, and de Man
20. The Postmodern revival of the aesthetic ideal
Afterword.
