EKBERT FAAS is Professor of Humanities and Graduate English at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has published very widely as both critic (e.g. Shakespeare's Poetics, Cambridge, 1986), biographer (Robert Creeley: a biography) and novelist (The Revolutionist and Mengele's Friend).

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Plato's transvaluations of aesthetic values; 2. Proto-Nietzschean opponents to Plato; 3. Late Antiquity, Plotinus, and Augustine; 4. Augustine's Platonopolis; 5. The Middle Ages; 6. The Renaissance; 7. The Renaissance Academy, Ficino, Montaigne, and Shakespeare; 8. Hobbes and Shaftesbury; 9. Mandeville, Burke, Hume, and E. Darwin; 10. Kant's ethicoteleological aesthetics; 11. Kant's midlife conversion; 12. Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx; 13. Marx's Nietzschean moment; 14. Heidegger's 'destruction' of traditional aesthetics; 15. Heidegger contra Nietzsche; 16. Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Derrida; 17. Différance, Freud, Nietzsche, and Artaud; 18. Derrida's mega-transcendentalist Mimesis; 19. Postmodern or Pre-Nietszschean? Derrida, Lyotard, and de Man; 20. The Postmodern revival of the aesthetic ideal; Afterword.

'This extensively researched and outspoken book by Ekbert Faas gives aesthetic theory a decisive push in its move from the head into the body, as it were, and in so doing opens aesthetics to a wide array of new approaches from the direction, broadly speaking, of the life sciences and neuroscience … With its overview of the new kinds of aesthetic-neuroscientific-evolutionary approaches, it is a must for those interested in these interdisciplinary ventures that are no doubt before us.' The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms

EKBERT FAAS is Professor of Humanities and Graduate English at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has published very widely as both critic (e.g. Shakespeare's Poetics, Cambridge, 1986), biographer (Robert Creeley: a biography) and novelist (The Revolutionist and Mengele's Friend).

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Plato's transvaluations of aesthetic values; 2. Proto-Nietzschean opponents to Plato; 3. Late Antiquity, Plotinus, and Augustine; 4. Augustine's Platonopolis; 5. The Middle Ages; 6. The Renaissance; 7. The Renaissance Academy, Ficino, Montaigne, and Shakespeare; 8. Hobbes and Shaftesbury; 9. Mandeville, Burke, Hume, and E. Darwin; 10. Kant's ethicoteleological aesthetics; 11. Kant's midlife conversion; 12. Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx; 13. Marx's Nietzschean moment; 14. Heidegger's 'destruction' of traditional aesthetics; 15. Heidegger contra Nietzsche; 16. Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Derrida; 17. Différance, Freud, Nietzsche, and Artaud; 18. Derrida's mega-transcendentalist Mimesis; 19. Postmodern or Pre-Nietszschean? Derrida, Lyotard, and de Man; 20. The Postmodern revival of the aesthetic ideal; Afterword.

'This extensively researched and outspoken book by Ekbert Faas gives aesthetic theory a decisive push in its move from the head into the body, as it were, and in so doing opens aesthetics to a wide array of new approaches from the direction, broadly speaking, of the life sciences and neuroscience … With its overview of the new kinds of aesthetic-neuroscientific-evolutionary approaches, it is a must for those interested in these interdisciplinary ventures that are no doubt before us.' The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms

EKBERT FAAS is Professor of Humanities and Graduate English at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has published very widely as both critic (e.g. Shakespeare's Poetics, Cambridge, 1986), biographer (Robert Creeley: a biography) and novelist (The Revolutionist and Mengele's Friend).

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Plato's transvaluations of aesthetic values; 2. Proto-Nietzschean opponents to Plato; 3. Late Antiquity, Plotinus, and Augustine; 4. Augustine's Platonopolis; 5. The Middle Ages; 6. The Renaissance; 7. The Renaissance Academy, Ficino, Montaigne, and Shakespeare; 8. Hobbes and Shaftesbury; 9. Mandeville, Burke, Hume, and E. Darwin; 10. Kant's ethicoteleological aesthetics; 11. Kant's midlife conversion; 12. Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx; 13. Marx's Nietzschean moment; 14. Heidegger's 'destruction' of traditional aesthetics; 15. Heidegger contra Nietzsche; 16. Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Derrida; 17. Différance, Freud, Nietzsche, and Artaud; 18. Derrida's mega-transcendentalist Mimesis; 19. Postmodern or Pre-Nietszschean? Derrida, Lyotard, and de Man; 20. The Postmodern revival of the aesthetic ideal; Afterword.

'This extensively researched and outspoken book by Ekbert Faas gives aesthetic theory a decisive push in its move from the head into the body, as it were, and in so doing opens aesthetics to a wide array of new approaches from the direction, broadly speaking, of the life sciences and neuroscience … With its overview of the new kinds of aesthetic-neuroscientific-evolutionary approaches, it is a must for those interested in these interdisciplinary ventures that are no doubt before us.' The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms