Alison Ross is Lecturer in Critical Theory in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Australia.

• CONTENTS Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: the aesthetic steering of philosophy 1. The formulation of the problem of presentation in Kant's doctrine of taste 2. Pragmatic anthropology in the third Critique's project of aesthetic presentation 3. Heidegger's reading of Kant and his historicization of relations of presentation 4. 'Technology' and 'art' as relations of presentation in Heidegger's thought 5. Lacoue-Labarthe: aesthetic presentation and the figuring of the political 6. Nancy: touching the limits of presentation Conclusion: the path of presentation Notes Bibliography Index

"Alison Ross has written a fascinating and commendable study." - Jason M. Wirth (Notre Dame Philosophical Review) "Ross goes to impressive lengths to make their differences (productively) clear." - Thomas O. Haakenson (H-Net Reviews) "In this compelling study, Alison Ross persuasively elaborates a new version of the claim that Kant's aesthetic theory underlies the most radical innovations of modern European philosophy. In focusing on the idea of 'presentation' as the joining of meaning and sensuous matter, Ross has discovered a theme that orients the fundamental gestures of Heidegger's philosophy as emphatically as it does his French followers. This book will prove indispensable for future discussions of the aesthetic formation of critical philosophy." - J.M. Bernstein (New School for Social Research)

Alison Ross is Lecturer in Critical Theory in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Australia.

• CONTENTS Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: the aesthetic steering of philosophy 1. The formulation of the problem of presentation in Kant's doctrine of taste 2. Pragmatic anthropology in the third Critique's project of aesthetic presentation 3. Heidegger's reading of Kant and his historicization of relations of presentation 4. 'Technology' and 'art' as relations of presentation in Heidegger's thought 5. Lacoue-Labarthe: aesthetic presentation and the figuring of the political 6. Nancy: touching the limits of presentation Conclusion: the path of presentation Notes Bibliography Index

"Alison Ross has written a fascinating and commendable study." - Jason M. Wirth (Notre Dame Philosophical Review) "Ross goes to impressive lengths to make their differences (productively) clear." - Thomas O. Haakenson (H-Net Reviews) "In this compelling study, Alison Ross persuasively elaborates a new version of the claim that Kant's aesthetic theory underlies the most radical innovations of modern European philosophy. In focusing on the idea of 'presentation' as the joining of meaning and sensuous matter, Ross has discovered a theme that orients the fundamental gestures of Heidegger's philosophy as emphatically as it does his French followers. This book will prove indispensable for future discussions of the aesthetic formation of critical philosophy." - J.M. Bernstein (New School for Social Research)

Alison Ross is Lecturer in Critical Theory in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Australia.

• CONTENTS Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: the aesthetic steering of philosophy 1. The formulation of the problem of presentation in Kant's doctrine of taste 2. Pragmatic anthropology in the third Critique's project of aesthetic presentation 3. Heidegger's reading of Kant and his historicization of relations of presentation 4. 'Technology' and 'art' as relations of presentation in Heidegger's thought 5. Lacoue-Labarthe: aesthetic presentation and the figuring of the political 6. Nancy: touching the limits of presentation Conclusion: the path of presentation Notes Bibliography Index

"Alison Ross has written a fascinating and commendable study." - Jason M. Wirth (Notre Dame Philosophical Review) "Ross goes to impressive lengths to make their differences (productively) clear." - Thomas O. Haakenson (H-Net Reviews) "In this compelling study, Alison Ross persuasively elaborates a new version of the claim that Kant's aesthetic theory underlies the most radical innovations of modern European philosophy. In focusing on the idea of 'presentation' as the joining of meaning and sensuous matter, Ross has discovered a theme that orients the fundamental gestures of Heidegger's philosophy as emphatically as it does his French followers. This book will prove indispensable for future discussions of the aesthetic formation of critical philosophy." - J.M. Bernstein (New School for Social Research)