Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Introduction 11
4. 1. Literary Criticism and the Public Sphere 44
5. 2. Art Evaluation and Reportage: The Aesthetic Theory of the Later H Eine 83
6. 3. The End of an Institution ? The Debate Over the Function of Literary Criticism in the I960s 126
7. 4. The Task of Contemporary Literary Criticism 159
8. 5. Promoters, Consumers, and Critics: On the Reception of the Best-Seller 181
9. 6. Prolegomena to a History of Literary Criticism 224
10. 7. Critical Theory, Public Sphere, and Culture: Jürgen Habermas and His Critics 242
11. Index 281