Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modernism and the Crisis in Aesthetics
1. Hermeneutics and the Modern Work of Art
Section1. Gadamer's Interpretation of Kant: The Perils of Subjectivity
Section 2. Heidegger's Poetic Ontology: Art as the Truth of World
Section 3. Hermeneutics after Structure: Rethinking Modernist Time
Section 4. Vattimo's Understanding: History in Postmodern Hermeneutics
2. Deconstruction and the Modernist Text
Section 1. Derrida's Passage beyond Kant: The Silent Space of Language
Section 2. Deconstruction after Heidegger: "Double Reading" in "Restitutions"
Section 3. Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis: Toward the Other in Language
Section 4. Lyotard's Postmodern Turn: Legitimacy and the Missing Trace
3. Archeology and the Modernist Poetics
Section 1. Eliot's Postsymbolist Inter-Text: Hamlet and the
Voices of Irony
Section 2. Eliot/Pound as Epic Poets: Dante and the Site of Translation
Section 3. In Search of Joyce's Ulysses: From Discourse to Semiotics
Section 4. Yeats and the Poetic Occasion: History in the Signs of Writing
4. Criticism and the Modernist Inter-Text
Section 1. Modernism as the "Completion" of Aesthetics
Section 2. Deconstruction as an Ethical Hermeneutic
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