CONTENTS Preface ix Introduction: Art and philosophy 1 1 Critique of judgment / Immanuel Kant 21 2 Introductory lectures on aesthetics / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 40 3 How the true world finally became a fable : the history of an error : the will to power as art / Friedrich Nietzsche 60 4 Beyond the pleasure principle : Leonardo da Vinci and a memory of his childhood / Sigmund Freud 74 5 The lugubrious game / Georges Bataille 96 6 A small history of photography / Walter Benjamin 102 7 Nietzsche's overturning of platonism : the origin of the work of art / Martin Heidegger 118 8 The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I : of the gaze as object petit a / Jacques Lacan 149 9 Las meninas / Michel Foucault 168 10 Society / Theodor Adorno 178 11 The work of art and fantasy / Sarah Kofman184 12 Camera Lucida : reflections on photography / Roland Barthes 195 13 Giotto's joy : Holbein's dead Christ / Julia Kristeva 205 14 Spurs : Nietzsche's styles / Jacques Derrida 217 15 Hysteria / Gilles Deleuze 228 16 Answering the question : what is postmodernism? / Jean-Franc?ois Lyotard 237 17 Privation is like a face / Giorgio Agamben 250 18 The vestige of art / Jean-Luc Nancy 259 19 Art and philosophy / Alain Badiou 277 20 The janus-face of politicized art / Jacques Ranciere 293 Notes 303 Bibliography 337 Index 345