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Part 1 Memorial aesthetics - Kant's "Critique of Judgement": judgementwithout knowledge; imperative beauty?; the antinomy of autonomousaesthetics; the question of reflective judgement; beauty and the labourof mourning; indeterminacy and metaphysics. Part 2 The genius of being- Heidegger's" The Origin of the Work of Art": overcoming aesthetics;great art and genius - on being exemplary; genius, community andpraxis; art and technology; earth, world and alterity - the polis asart; aesthetic alienation. Part 3 The deconstructive sublime -Derrida's "The Truth in Painting": art, history and language; paintingwithout truth; there is painting; interrupting metaphysics; framingwithout end of pure beauty; framing the sublime; sublimity or tragicpolitics? Part 4 Constellations of concept and intuition - Adorno's"Aesthetic Theory": reinscribing aesthetics - modernism, autonomy andsynthesis; synthesis, illusion and non-identity; without purpose; art,technology and nature. Part 5 Old gods ascending - disintegration andspeculation in "Aesthetic Theory": rationalization, differentiation andcategories; disintegration, sacrifice and truth; truth orcommunication?; truth and speculation; speculation, art and politics.Aesthetic alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno