Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Preface vi
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Note on Editions and Abbreviations x
6. Chapter 1 Introduction: Individualism and the ‘aesthetic philosopher’ 1
7. Chapter 2 Empiricism and the Imperilled Self 24
8. Chapter 3 Subjectivity and Imagination: From Hume to Kant via Berkeley 44
9. Chapter 4 Metaphysics: Pater’s Failed Attempt at Atheism 64
10. Chapter 5 Sense and Sensuality: Caught between Venus and Dionysus 85
11. Chapter 6 Pater’s Copernican Revolution: The Desiring, Dying Body 109
12. Chapter 7 Evolution and the ‘Species’: The Individual in Deep Time 130
13. Chapter 8 The Moment and the Aesthetic Imagination 146
14. Chapter 9 Ethics, Society and the Aesthetic Individual 165
15. Chapter 10 Conclusion: ‘the elusive inscrutable mistakable self’ 183
16. Bibliography 190
17. Index 208