PETER DE BOLLA is Reader in Cultural History and Aesthetics at the University of Cambridge, UKANTHONY J. CASCARDI is Director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, USAHOWARD CAYGILL is Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UKSTANLEY CORNGOLD is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USASIMON JARVIS is Gorley Putt Reader in Poetry and Poetics at the University of Cambridge, UKSTEPHEN MELVILLE is Professor of the History of Art at Ohio State University, USAMARC REDFIELD teaches literature and literary theory at Claremont Graduate University, USATIMOTHY J. REISS is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University, USAJULIAN ROBERTS is Professor of Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich, GermanyMIGUEL TAMEN is professor of Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a regular visiting professor at the University of Chicago, USASTEFAN H. UHLIG is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK

'...this is an excellent, impassioned collection on a vital topic by a variety of authors who make powerful cases, from multiple perspectives, about how we might best practise aesthetics today.' - Michael Kelly, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

• Acknowledgements and Note on Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction; P.de Bolla and S.H.Uhlig Theodor W. Adorno: Draft Introduction to Aesthetic Theory What Does Art Know?; S.Jarvis Aesthetics and the Fully Emancipated Subject: Cultures, Histories and the Fictive Imagination; T.J. Reiss Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Politics in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory ; J.Roberts Franz Kafka: 'A Report to an Academy' The Ape Speaks; M.Tamen Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism; H.Caygill Kafka's 'A Report to an Academy' with Adorno; S.Corngold The Matter of Memory: On Semblance and History in Richter and Adorno; A.J.Cascardo Faces, Traces: Adorno, Kafka, Richter; M.Redfield Ecce Pinctura: A Note on Betty 's Mastered Irony; S.Melville Facing Betty's Turn; P.de Bolla Index