Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Rethinking Ethics and Aesthetics: Between Philosophy and Art
7. Rethinking the Aesthetic: Kant, Schiller, and Hegel 15
8. Looking at Hegel’s Antigone through Irigaray’s Speculum 29
9. Linking Onto Disinterestedness, or the Moral Law in Kant’s Critique of Judgment 49
10. Gesture and Commentary 73
11. Aesthetics and the Question of the Other
12. Levinas and the Ethics of Imagining 85
13. Disappearing Traces: Emmanuel Levinas, Ida Fink’s Literary Testimony, and Holocaust Art 97
14. Poetry, Theology, and Ethics: A Study in Paul Célan 117
15. Between Ethics and Anguish: Feminist Ethics, Feminist Aesthetics, and Representations of Infanticide in “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” and Beloved 131
16. Aesthetics and Politics
17. Feminine Writing, Metaphor, and Myth 161
18. Aesthetics and Politics 187
19. An Ethics of the Name: Rethinking Globalization 195
20. The Social Figure of Art: Heidegger and Adorno on the Paradoxical Autonomy of Artworks 219
21. Politics, Aesthetics, and Ethics in Joseph Brodsky’s Poem On the Death of Zhukov 239
22. Toward an Ethical Art Practice?
23. Beauty and the Beast 251
24. The Banal Profound and the Profoundly Banal: Andy Warhol 255
25. Short Circuit: The Story of an Exhibition That Provoked Unforeseen Consequences 275
26. Other Tongues: Language and Hybridity in Recent Canadian Video Art 293
27. Contributors 301
28. Index 305